Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast
629 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 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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Hui-Neng: The Platform Sutra (part 2 of 3)
June 07, 2008 12:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBJay Rinsen Chikyo Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on March 16, 2008. "Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp, there is light; if there is no lamp, there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this." — Hui-Neng For more information...
Hui-Neng: The Platform Sutra (part 1 of 3)
June 01, 2008 22:40 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBJay Chikyo Rinsen Weik leads a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on March 16, 2008. "Oftentimes in spiritual teaching, there is a great attempt to deny any kind of shadow, or any kind of difficulty, and it's important to acknowledge it.... It makes the teachings more alive and full and complete and real, but also real honest and very direct. The historical context has a direct influence on what these teachings are, and that's important to know and to acknowledge and to understand." ...
This and That?
May 14, 2008 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBJay Rinsen Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on March 12, 2008. "The tiny is the same as the large, once boundaries are forgotten." -Relying on Mind, Seng-ts'an This talk works with some of the differences between Taoist teachings and those of Zen. 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.
The Virtue of Non-Doing
May 10, 2008 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBJay Rinsen Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on March 5, 2008. "The wise have nothing to do, while the unwise tie themselves in knots." -Relying on Mind, Seng-ts'an This talk works with some of the similarities of Taoist teachings with those of Zen. 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.
Don't Turn Away.
May 07, 2008 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBJay Rinsen Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on February 27th, 2008. "The Supreme Way by nature is all embracing. Not easy, not difficult. But quibbling and hesitating, the more you hurry the slower you go. Holding on to things wrecks your balance, inevitably throwing you off course. But let everything go, be genuine, and the essence won't leave or stay. Accept your nature, accord with the way, and stroll at ease, trouble free." -Relying on Mind, ...
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 3 of 3)
April 20, 2008 03:59 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on February 17th, 2008. "There is no need to seek the truth - just put a stop to your opinions! Dualistic constructs don't endure, so take care not to pursue them. As soon as positive and negative arise, the mind is lost in confusion. The two exist because of the one, but don't cling to oneness either..." For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of th...
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 2 of 3)
April 16, 2008 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on February 17th, 2008. "Mind has the totality of space: nothing lacking, nothing extra. It's just selecting and rejecting that make it seem otherwise. Don't pursue worldly concerns, don't dwell passively in emptiness; in the peace of absolute identity, confusion vanishes by itself. Suppressing activity to reach stillness just creates agitation..." For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.o...
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 1 of 3)
April 12, 2008 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on February 17th, 2008. "The Supreme Way is not difficult; it just precludes picking and choosing. Without yearning or loathing, the Way is perfectly apparent, while even a hairbreadth difference separates heaven and earth. To see the Way with your own eyes, quit agreeing and disagreeing. The battling of likes and dislikes - that's the disease of the mind..." For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit ...
The Ultimate Truth is Beyond Words.
April 10, 2008 02:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on February 13th, 2008. "The Ultimate Truth is Beyond words. Doctrines are words, they are not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions; they are no different from things that appear in your dreams at night..." -Bodhidharma's Bloodstream Sermon. 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 hermi...
Our Nature is the Mind, and the Mind is our Nature.
April 06, 2008 03:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on January 30th, 2008. "Our Nature is the Mind, and the Mind is our Nature. This nature is the same as the mind of all buddhas. Buddhas of the past and future only transmit this mind. Beyond this mind, there is no Buddha anywhere..." -Bodhidharma's Bloodstream Sermon. For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of the Hermitage Heart Sangha, on...
You Ask, That's Your Mind. I Answer, That's My Mind.
April 03, 2008 02:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a talk and leads a discussion at the Toledo Zen Center on January 23rd, 2008. "Everything that appears in the three realms comes from the mind, hence the Buddhas of the past and future teach mind to mind, without bothering about definitions." "But if they don't define it, what do they mean by Mind?" "You Ask, That's Your Mind. I Answer, That's My Mind..." -Bodhidharma's Bloodstream Sermon. For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledoze...
Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 3 of 3)
March 30, 2008 03:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 20th, 2008. "Entering through practice refers to four all-encompassing practices: the practice of requiting animosity, the practice of accepting one's circumstances. The practice of craving nothing, and the practice of accord with the Dharma." 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....
Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 2 of 3)
March 26, 2008 12:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBJay Chikyo Weik presents a retreat workshop at the Toledo Zen Center on January 20th, 2008. "Entering through practice refers to four all-encompassing practices: the practice of requiting animosity, the practice of accepting one's circumstances. The practice of craving nothing, and the practice of accord with the Dharma." 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.o...
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...