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    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 3: Praise and Blame, Good/Bad Reputation (Transcript) Paid Member

    By Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 3: Praise and Blame, Good/Bad ReputationOften how we act is in order to receive approval from people. When we're small children, often when we receive approval from our parents, and from our teachers, and then, gradually, from society in general, and our friends, and our employers. As we grow older, normally, we try--even if we are rebelling, say, a teenager against a family--it's so we will get the approval of our contemporaries. We always want somebody to approve. You know, very few people really wish to be totally estranged from the human race. Even if we consider ourselves revolutionaries, in rebellion against the established order, we nonetheless conform to whichever group we have affiliated ourselves with.  More »
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    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 2: Gain And Loss (Transcript) Paid Member

    By Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
    Eight Worldly Concerns – Jetsunma Tenzin PalmoWeek 2 – Gain and Loss More »
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    Week 1: Overview (Transcript) Paid Member

    By Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
      Eight Worldly Concerns – Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Week 1 – Overview   "Good morning to everybody. It is a good morning, it is the first time we have seen the skies since we got to New York.  More »
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    Green Koans 45: The Perfection of Wisdom in One Letter Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    CASE #45:    The Perfection of Wisdom in One Letter Homage to the Perfection of Wisdom!Thus have I heard. At one time the Lord dwelt at Rājagriha, on Vulture Peak, together with a large congregation of monks, and with many hundreds of thousands of niyutas of kotis of Bodhisattvas. At that time the Lord addressed the Venerable Ananda, and said: “Ananda, do receive, for the sake of the wellbeing and happiness of all beings, this perfection of wisdom in the letter A.”Thus spoke the Lord. The Venerable Ananda, the large congregation of monks, the assembly of the Bodhisattvas, and the whole world with its gods, men, asuras and gandharvas rejoiced at the teaching of the Lord. More »
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    Green Koans Case 44: On Killing Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    CASE #44:    On KillingGasan instructed his adherents one day: “Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism.”BACKGROUND:Gasan     Gasan Jōseki (1275–1366) was a Japanese Soto Zen master. A disciple of Keizan Jokin, his disciples included the great Rinzai master Bassui Tokushō. More »
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    Green Koans Case 41: The Meaning of Suffering Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    CASE #41:    The Meaning of SufferingShakyamuni asked, “What is wisdom?” and when no one could answer, added: “It is the ability to perfectly understand and patiently accept the truth of suffering.”BACKGROUND:Perfectly understand        To understand a thing holistically, from beginning to end, rather than merely in terms of its parts—the latter constituting only knowledge.Patiently accept    To accept without reservation—that is, without any attempt to alter the reality of a given phenomenon.The meaning of suffering        Refers to the foundational teaching of Buddhism—the Four Noble Truths: More »