‘All the evil Karma created by me from of old,

Out of beginningless greed, anger and delusion,

Committed with body, speech and thought,

Of all this I now make full and open repentance.’

In this podcast:

•   Introduction to some of the chants that are chanted in Zen Temples and monasteries and what they are about.

•   How to understand the Repentance Sutra we must understand something about Karma and how the Buddha saw the existence of all beings.

•   The connection with Karma to agrarian culture and why it is such a useful symbol.

•   How the present is created by the past, just as the future is created by the present and why Karma is not Fate.

•   Cycles of time as different to linear ‘one-off’ time.

•   How intentional actions of body, speech and mind are the true agents because of the link to desire and grasping.

•   The difference between repentance and guilt.

•   It isn’t enough to repent from unskilful actions.