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Bargaining with Spiritual Powers

The Hidden Art of Spiritual Transformation
While the spiritual world may or may not be real, the way humans have bargained with these powers have many common features.

How to Sit Zazen (meditation)

Fundamentals of Zen
An instructional video on how to achieve the correct posture and perform the correct mudras for Rinzai Zen meditation, finishing with instructions on how to count the breath.

How to Bow

Fundimentals of Zen 
The bow is an essential part of Zen training the teaches us how to surrender through the intelligence of the body, a crucial ingredient for Zen training and a necessary skill to experience awakening.

Extract | The Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Irmgard Schloegl

Book Extracts
If there is still an  ‘I’ (or ego) then there is no point in trying to deny it. What then, is the correct approach to empty the heart of ‘me’?

Bankei’s ‘Unborn’

The Gateway Talks
If the natural state of mind is the Buddha mind why don’t we recognise it?

Latest Articles

Audio Talks

Bankei’s ‘Unborn’

Records of the Transmission of the Lamp Vol. 2: Da'an's exchange with...

Whose Song Do You Sing?

Practice

The Story of Sanakavasa | Part I

The way to Buddhahood 
What is this ‘great comfort’ that causes the remarkable transformation of the heart’?  How do we come to realise it? The Zen Gateway’s resident teacher, Martin, dives into this subject but be warned this is not an easy read and a few attempts may be needed to help it sink in.

Cultivating being in the body and working with the emotional household

Exercises in Mindfulness
To create the mind-body connection we have to empty the heart, to empty the heart we need to fully come into the body.

The Long & Short of It

Exercises in Mindfulness
While we tend to look at things in terms of good or bad, better or worse, light or dark, this separation of one thing vs another is what creates the delusion of 'me'.

The Five Hindrances: 5 | Skeptical Doubt

Exercises in Mindfulness
'The Great Ball of Doubt’ is one of 3 great requirements of Zen, yet skeptical doubt is a hindrance to mindfulness and meditation. How can we differentiate between the two?

The Five Hindrances: 4 | Worry and Flurry

Exercises in Mindfulness
By creating a subtle shift in awareness, we can begin to ease some of the worry and anxiety in our lives.

Magazine

Bargaining with Spiritual Powers

The Hidden Art of Spiritual Transformation
While the spiritual world may or may not be real, the way humans have bargained with these powers have many common features.

Extract | The Wisdom of the Zen Masters by Irmgard Schloegl

Book Extracts
If there is still an  ‘I’ (or ego) then there is no point in trying to deny it. What then, is the correct approach to empty the heart of ‘me’?

Extract | Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei by...

Book Extracts
After pushing his body too far in the pursuit of insight, a young Master Bankei finds himself on the verge of death when something miraculous suddenly happens.

The Limits of Human Will

The Hidden Art of Spiritual Transformation
In the quest to rid the culture of old superstitions, we may have lost an important way of interacting with the unconscious.

Extract | The Five Houses of Zen by Thomas Cleary

Book Extracts
This Book Extract looks at the history of early Buddhism in China and it’s symbiotic development with Chinese spiritual traditions of the time.

Buddhism

Dhammapada Verse 280

Verses from the Dhammapada
When Zen practice becomes ‘lazy’ it doesn’t mean we need to make an effort to be more productive. How does laziness appear in the training and how can we use it as means for transformation.

The Perfume Feast

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
Why does the ‘taxing’ nature of our world make it possible to achieve Buddhahood in one lifetime? Find out in this week’s episode of the Vimalikirti Sutra.

The Dharma Door of Non-duality

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
Bodhisatva’s gather from all four corners of the universe to explain how to reach the ‘door of non-duality’ and how to step through it.

The Family of the Tathagatas

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
The Buddha committed murder in one of his previous lives. How could committing such a heinous act help deliver beings into full Buddhahood?

Sariputra Wants a Chair and Gets a Throne

The Vimalakīrti Sūtra
In this episode the essence of what the Zen masters taught is revealed.

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