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TEISHO John Tarrant Roshi POISON AND JOY October 17, 1992 Center for Seven Generations Occidental, California The title of today's talk is "Poison and Joy". Please sit comfortably. In the great work that we do what eventually appears is a great fire or light in us that we realize was always there and touches all things with its joy, but we always begin the work in darkness, I think. Buddha, I'm sure, was not the first to observe that there is something very unsatisfactory about life a lot of the time. He made it the first principle of his teaching saying that you cannot escape from suffering. But then he said, "But there is an end...

The following are notes for the Jisha about interview procedure & times. Sosan (pronounced SHOSAN), happens Day 1, 4 and 7 during sesshin. It is done strictly in dojo order, Jisha tapping each person on the shoulder, taking about 6 at a time. Jisha sits at head of line, and hits bell for everybody during sosan, whereas at other times, Jisha only hits bell for first person. To start sosan, or any block of interviews, teacher rings bell, Jisha replies with an accelerando, teacher rings again, then Jisha rings 2 open bells. Jisha indicates that first in line actually waits on verandah edge with shoes on to save time crossing to hojo. Jis...

The Supreme Way is not difficult If only you do not pick and choose. Neither love nor hate, And you will clearly understand. Be off by a hair, And you are as far apart as heaven from earth. If you want it to appear, Be neither for nor against. For and against opposing each other -- This is the mind's disease. Without recognizing the mysterious principle It is useless to practice quietude. The Way is perfect like great space, Without lack, without excess. Because of grasping and rejecting, You cannot attain it. Do not pursue conditioned existence; Do not abide in acceptance of emptiness. In oneness and equality, Confusion vanishes of i...

(translation in progress) Eternal satori is included, and rests only in the practice of the moment. Zazen means to practice that which cannot be explained. *** During zazen bonnos, monen, appear. Most people think that zazen is to put an end to illusions, to thoughts. This is a mistake. During zazen, sometimes thoughts, bonnos arise, and sometimes they do not arise. When you sleep, thoughts do not arise. When you sleep in zazen, you don't think at all. *** You must be beyond good and evil, good luck and bad luck, happiness and unhappiness, true and false. As formless, they are ungraspable. *** Everyone wants to obtain the merits of r...

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[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP or COOMBSQUEST gopher on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU or ANU Soc.Sci.WWW Server at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html] The document's ftp filename and the full directory path are given in the coombspapers top level INDEX file] [This version: 30 March 1994] ------- This material is republished from the March 1994 issue of GASSHO, a Buddhist electronic newsletter, published by DharmaNet International, P.O. Box 4951, Berkeley, CA 94704-4951, a not-for-profit organization. This text addresses some of the most fundamental and delicate religio...

[This document can be acquired from a sub-directory coombspapers via anonymous FTP or COOMBSQUEST gopher on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU or ANU Soc.Sci.WWW Server at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html] The document's ftp filename and the full directory path are given in the coombspapers top level INDEX files] [This version: 22 March 1994] HEART TO HEART: ZEN AND RELIGION: THE ROOTS AND THE SHAPE An un-dated teisho, most likely delivered to an English speaking, Christian audience in the mid- or late 1980s, made available to Sydney Zen Center in a xeroxed form. This text addresses some of the most fundamental and delicat...

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