Mindfulness
Meditation
Zen practice
Jul 10, 2022
Martin Goodson

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

Gateway Talks

There is a quiet a spaciousness that already exists within us, but how do we find it?

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Unpacking Desire

A talk about desire and what the Buddha means in the Second Noble Truth.
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Podcast: A Passage from the Diamond Sutra (1)
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The Three Temptations of Māra

A Rohatsu Week Talk
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Introduction to The Four Foundations of Mindfulness Scripture

Gateway Talks
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The Four Foundations of Mindful Awareness: Body

Gateway Talks
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The Four Foundations of Mindful Awareness: Mindfulness of Dharmas

Dharma Talks 
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness Awareness: Sensation

A Dharma Talk
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The Four Foundations of Mindful Awareness: Mind

Dharma Talks
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Master Sessan’s Three Tips for Zen Training

The Gateway Talks
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Form Practice in Zen Training

The Gateway Talks
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Ceasing of Notions

The Gateway Talks
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Dogen’s Falling Flowers

The Gateway Talks
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The Ever-Turning Wheel | Part 1

Gateway Talks
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Master Taian and the Old Gentleman

Gateway Talks
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Whose Song Do You Sing?

Gateway Talks
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Bankei’s ‘Unborn’

The Gateway Talks
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The Knower, The God of Buddhism

The Gateway Talks
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Just Be Your Ordinary Selves

Gateway Talks
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Throwing Oneself Into Fire to Avoid Being Downed

The Gateway Talks
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Nothing Further To Seek is Attaining the Dharma

The Gateway Talks
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Shishi and the Knife

Gateway Talks
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What do I really want?

The Gateway Talks
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Rest the Heart

Gateway Talks
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Rinzai’s 'look for him before you'

Gateway Talks
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Master Rinzai's medicine for anxiety

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Death’s Three Messengers

Gateway Talks
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Further reading

Getting Beyond Light and Shade

Gateway Talks
Master Rinzai exhorts us to focus our attention on liberation and awakening and not to get distracted by the world.

How to sit Zazen | Zen meditation

A tutorial for Zazen, mediation Zen style

Transcending Mindfulness: 6 | Deeper Shadow

Why does it seem as if we are not in control of our mind? Jamie and Martin discuss 'the shadow' in Zen practice and Psychology.

The Three Types of Zen Students

Gateway talks
We look at the three different classes of Zen students and why the teaching methods of the Zen masters can sometimes seem so bizarre.