From the OzZen Australian Ordinary Mind Zen school founded by Dr Andrew Tootell.
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In this talk I am going to share some self-reflections on the metaphor of awakening from the self-centred dream. Self-reflection means I simply ask myself a question to investigate and reflect upon my own experience. I am not suggesting that the understanding that I develop is necessarily the same as what you would come up with. But if we all participate in self-reflection we can then engage in…
This talk is about working with Right Effort in everyday life and noticing the tendency to want to control and force outcomes. Seeing how this strategy of our core beliefs to control life, is a form of clinging and creates resistance and suffering. We explore the possibility of moving towards flow states where we pause and check in with our inner wisdom and trust and not take everything so…
On receiving transmission of the precepts in the denkai ceremony, it is customary in our tradition, that the recipient gives a dharma talk acknowledging their teachers and the teaching path they feel called towards.
On receiving transmission of the precepts in the denkai ceremony, it is customary in our tradition, that the recipient gives a dharma talk acknowledging their teachers and the teaching path they feel called towards.
This dharma talk explores how the Zen teaching of “not two, not one” offers a middle way for relationships by holding together intimacy and difference, love and fear, and oneness and individuality. It suggests that spiritual practice and honest relationship both invite us to become intimate with the protective patterns that arise from fear, while trusting that love, grounded in safety, awareness,…
This dharma talk reflects on the meaning of denkai transmission as a deep commitment to receive, embody, and pass on the Zen precepts within sangha life. It explores transmission not simply as ceremonial authority, but as the living expression of compassion, responsibility, and relationship in everyday life, while honouring both continuity with tradition and the unique ways each practitioner…
This talk explores how Zen practice is supported by a felt sense of safety in three interconnected ways: having a secure home or practice environment, learning to feel safe within one’s own body and mind, and co-creating a trustworthy relational community. Drawing on attachment theory and polyvagal theory, it suggests that spiritual practice is not separate from our human vulnerability, but…
This nondual wisdom is the realisation that this is it. To me this is the meaning of realisation, awakening and enlightenment. To be enlightened is to love what is unconditionally. To say yes to everything. It’s all okay. But as human beings we struggle to say yes to everything. And this is it too!
I take refuge in Buddha. I take refuge in Dharma. I take refuge in Sangha. In this talk invite you all to contemplate what the three Buddhist refuges mean to you on a personal level. To do this, I present three different perspectives on how the refuges (and the other precepts) have been understood from the Zen Buddhist tradition I belong to: 1. The Literal Perspective. 2. The Relative or…
In this talk, we explore dependent arising: our deep interconnections in time and space with all existence. Deeply realising this, brings us to see the emptiness of self and to lose our fear of loss and even death. We look at engaged Buddhism and through poetic verse practice kinship and kindness in a novel way.
