Dharma talks by Koun Franz at Thousand Harbours Zen in Halifax, NS. If you find these talks beneficial, please consider joining Thousand Harbours Zen or making a donation at https://thousandharbourszen.com/support. Your support makes the practice and teachings available to others. Thank you.
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On how pain can bring us into the present. (Koun Franz; August 20, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel. Post-production by Tod Nyokai.
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. The third is "to work to produce a buddha during this life." (Koun Franz; August 6, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube channel. Post-production by Tod Nyokai.
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. In this talk, a look at the first: cultivating the mind of awakening. (Koun Franz; July 2 2 , 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel. Post-production by Tod Nyokai.
In "The Way of the Buddhas" (Shōbōgenzō Butsudō), Dōgen recommends five practices. The second: "Next, we should deeply revere the three treasures of buddha, dharma, and sangha." (Koun Franz; July 9, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel. Post-production…
On retreat, a talk about how we hold someone we see as an enemy versus how we hold a baby. (Koun Franz; June 22, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen YouTube Channel. Post-production by Tod Nyokai.
Case #105 of Dōgen’s Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; June 18, 2024): Yunyan asked Daowu, “How does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion [Avalokiteśvara] use so many hands and eyes?” Daowu said, “It’s just like a person in the middle of the night reaching back in search of a pillow.” —from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, by John Daido Loori and Kazuaki Tanahashi You can…
Our temple, Sensouji, has received official recognition as a temple by the Soto Zen School in Japan. Here, a talk about what it means for us to belong to something else: a sect, a school, a tradition, a lineage. (Koun Franz; June 4, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours…
When we sit in zazen, we’re waiting for the bell; when we notice that feeling, we notice we’re always waiting for something. What if we weren’t? (Koun Franz; May 21, 2024) You can support Thousand Harbours Zen and learn more about our practice by visiting thousandharbourszen.com; talks are also available on the Thousand Harbours Zen podcast. Post-production by Tod Nyokai.
Case 93 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; May 7, 2024): Shenshan was sewing when Dongshan said, “What are you doing?” Shenshan said, “I am sewing.” Dongshan said, “What is sewing?” Shenshan said, “Each stitch follows the other.” Dongshan said, “If my companion of twenty years says so, I guess there is a point.” Shenshan said, “What would you say, Elder?” Dongshan said, “Each stitch is like…
Case 76 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo (Koun Franz; April 16, 2024): Dagui was once asked by a monastic, “What is the Way?” Dagui said, “No-mind is the Way.” The monastic said, “I don’t understand it.” Dagui said, “It’s good to understand not-understanding.” The monastic said, “What is not-understanding?” Dagui said, “It’s just that you are not anyone else.” —from The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master…
