Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast
616 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsThis podcast presents weekly updates from the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo including talks from Sunday service, sesshin, and other events.
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Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 1 of 3)
March 23, 2008 03:59 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 20th, 2008. This workshop begins with a historical overview of Bodhidharma's time and the teachings ascribed to him as they relate to other spiritual teachings of the day. After this, Chikyo begins working with the text: "There are many avenues for entering the Way, but essentially they all are of two kinds: entering through Principle and entering through Practice..." - Bodhidharma's Two Entrances and Four Pr...
Who Took My Head?
March 19, 2008 12:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBKaren Zuihan Weik offers a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on January 16, 2008. "There once was a beautiful young girl who loved nothing more than to gaze at her reflection in the mirror. Every morning she would get up and look and she was very well pleased with herself. One morning, however, she looked in the mirror, but she didn't see her reflection..." For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of ...
Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart
March 15, 2008 12:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBKaren Zuihan Weik offers a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on January 9, 2008. "Opening the space, what I really want to do is connect with you, connect with your heart. And have all of our hearts connect with one another, and the beauty of this silence, and this breath, and this vast and spacious moment without beginning, and without end. This is where I want to live with you..." - Karen Zuihan Weik For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit tole...
Perfect Like Vast Space
February 26, 2008 02:30 - 44 minutes - 41 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on December 19, 2007. "The Way is perfect like vast space / where nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess. / Indeed, it is due to our choosing to accept or reject / that we do not see the true nature of things." -Seng T'san, Faith Mind For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of the Hermitage Heart Sangha, online at hermitageheart.org.
Obstacles to Practice (part 3 of 3)
February 11, 2008 02:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation entitled, "Obstacles to Practice," given at the Toledo Zen Center on December 2, 2007. "There are four basic ways that a bodhisattva will guide or help or engage sentient beings to the purpose of helping to relieve suffering. The first one is called Giving, the second one is Kind Speech, the third one is Beneficial Action, and the fourth one is called Identity Action." For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The To...
Obstacles to Practice (part 2 of 3)
February 06, 2008 03:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation entitled, "Obstacles to Practice," given at the Toledo Zen Center on December 2, 2007. "Typically, what are taught as being the primary challenges or the main difficulties have to do with the six realms. In the center of those realms, there are three poisons that are providing the gravity that's holding these beings in these various realms of suffering. What those three poisons are called are Greed, Anger, and Ignorance." For more information about the...
Obstacles to Practice (part 1 of 3)
February 01, 2008 02:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation entitled, "Obstacles to Practice," given at the Toledo Zen Center on December 2, 2007. "Today, our mission is to talk a little bit about the things that might get in the way of maintaining a spiritual practice; now that we have a sense of what the practice is, what kind of things arise that actually get in the way and obstruct and hinder us in that effort; and then some solutions. What can we do to help that?" For more information about the Toledo Zen ...
Being the Teachings, Practice Zazen
January 11, 2008 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on November 28, 2007. "For reasons as varied as the people who have them, we have a really hard time letting ourselves be. We find it almost impossible to just not be so aggressive with ourselves.... If you are sitting on that cushion and you have some subtle or overt aggressive gaining agenda... it's just a matter of time before you give the whole endeavor up. And probably you'd be better served to give it up, if t...
Giving
January 04, 2008 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a talk and discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on November 21, 2007. "From Master Dogen's Bodhidharma Shisoho: 'Giving means non greed.' This has to do with not just a physical thing.... In the dharma, the giving can be vastly more encompassing than material things. 'Giving means non-greed. Non-greed means not to covet. Not to covet means not to curry favor.... It is to give away unneeded belongings to someone you don’t know, to offer flowers blooming on a distant mou...
Have No Preferences
December 21, 2007 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThis talk and discussion was led by Jay Chikyo Weik at the Toledo Zen Center on November 14, 2007. The great way is not difficult / for those who have no preferences / When love and hate are both absent / everything becomes clear and undisguised / Make the smallest distinction however / and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart / If you wish to see the truth / then hold no opinions for or against anything / To set up what you like against what / you dislike is the disease of the mind / ...
The Four Noble Truths (part 3 of 3)
December 12, 2007 13:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation on the Four Noble Truths, given at the Toledo Zen Center on November 11, 2007. This is the third podcast of a three-part series. "The second truth is that there is a cause for that [suffering]. There's a very specific thing that creates that sense of unsatisfaction. It's not just the way things are, actually. There's a reason why that's the way the experience communicates to us. And to make it as simple as we can, the cause of that suffering is basicall...
The Four Noble Truths (part 2 of 3)
December 05, 2007 13:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation on the Four Noble Truths. This presentation was given at the Toledo Zen Center on November 11, 2007. "One thing that will help make this talk a little more real, more helpful for you, is if you bear in mind that what we're talking about here is your own experience of your life. It's not an abstract.... It's not some story about how the universe came to be or anything like that. It's talking about how it is when you wake up in the morning; what it feels ...
The Four Noble Truths (part 1 of 3)
November 28, 2007 13:00 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a presentation on the Four Noble Truths. This presentation was given at the Toledo Zen Center on November 11, 2007. "Buddhism itself is a really large worldwide religion; there are many different facets and approaches. The Buddha himself taught for something like forty years, and he taught different things to different groups of folks.... The kinds of things that we're going to cover today would be included by any of the schools of Buddhism that exist, and there are m...
Expressing True Nature
November 21, 2007 00:48 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBThe following mondo was presented by Jay Chikyo Weik at Shobu Okugyo Aikido retreat at Farm & Wilderness Center in Vermont on November 2, 2007. "So, what is it about? ...There are many different routes and different practices and different techniques... but, basically, they all lead to expressing your true nature." Chikyo wishes to acknowledge Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi and his Big Mind process, which influenced a portion of this presentation. For more information about the Toledo Zen Cent...
Living Zen: Awakening the Joyful Heart
November 06, 2007 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a talk entitled, "Living Zen: Awakening the Joyful Heart." This introductory talk was presented at the Toledo Zen Center on October 27, 2007. "So then [the Buddha] sat under a tree, and started to actually practice what we now know as zazen, sitting zen. In that process, he made a radical shift in his way of perceiving himself and the universe and everything around him. It's that shift in perception that has come to be called enlightenment, or awakening." For more in...
Study Yourself
October 25, 2007 22:00 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBJay Chikyo Weik offers a Dharma Discourse and leads a Dharma Discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on October 24, 2007. "What the Dharma does is get into the heart of that 'I'. Who is the 'I' that believes this? Who is it that's experiencing this feeling? (Suzuki) Roshi points out that the point of the practice is not to create some deep feeling, some religious feeling, some spiritual feeling.... What is it that the practice is doing? The practice is helping us to study ourselves." For more i...