Sep 29, 2021
In this Teisho, given on Sept. 12th, 2021, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 55: Dogo's "I Would Not Tell You." In Zen (as in any true spiritual tradition), we are asked to see into the Great Matter of life and death for ourselves directly. Answers from those who have gone before will not...
Sep 21, 2021
In this Teisho, given on Sept. 11th, 2021, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 54: "Ummon Stretches Out His Hands." The path of Zen is the path of intimacy. What is it to be intimate with all things, beyond conception of what is and is not intimacy?
Sep 13, 2021
In this Teisho, given on September 5th, 2021, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: "Jiaoan's Sand in the Eye." All spiritual religious practice asks that we invest ourselves deeply into something larger than ourselves. In Zen training, we utilize the traditional forms to help shift the small-thinking mind out...