# Shakyamuni Buddha

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184: Surangama Sutra

In the introduction to “The Surangama Sutra, A New Translation” by the Buddhist Text Translation Society, the section on “The Reasons for the Teaching” explains six reasons for this particular sutra, the title translating to something like, "heroic march or journey":   1)    The first is the import…

Mike Reads the Heart Sutra

Mike gives some historical context about the Heart Sutra. Notes on The Heart Sutra Historical Context - Up To The Fourth Council This is our first episode in our series on Mahayana Sutras, starting with the Heart Sutra. I’ll start by giving some historical context, starting with the traditional, or…

Why go to Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land and not other Pure Lands

Among the infinite Buddhas and infinite Pure Lands, why does Shakyamuni Buddha repeatedly encourage us to seek rebirth in Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land? Because Amitabha Buddha made 48 Great Vows specifically to save ordinary beings like us who are still trapped in samsara (especially the 18th vow). …

Shadeless Trees

Greetings Friends, We are moving through this wonderful collection of encounters with Buddhist Women found in the book The Hidden Lamp for our Summer Read. This week we met Keizan Zenji and Mokufu Sonin engaged in the dialogue below: Hidden Lamp Case 20: Sonin’s Shadeless Tree Master Keizan Jokin…

TORYO ITO— Living Zen

In this episode of Living Dharma, Shoukei Matsumoto sits down with Toryo Ito, a Rinzai Zen monk and vice-abbot of Ryosokuin, a temple in the Gion district of Kyoto with six hundred years behind it. He has led more than two hundred thousand people in zazen, and has opened the temple’s rooms to conte…

Podcast | Finding Manuland: The Atlas, Episode Five

The Harness Logic: Journeys and Papers Feed Each Other The journeys and the papers in the Finding Manuland Atlas series feed each other, and the Atlas grows out of the exchange: Atlas Intro Episode 2, Episode 3, and Episode 4. A journey grounds a paper. A real place, object or photograph gives the …

Dawn Dojo

When we sit in the early morning we sit with all of the ancestors in our tradition, reaching all the way back to Shakyamuni Buddha himself. This talk was given at the conclusion of 108 days of morning practice, in honour of the morning star and our capacity to wake up together with all beings.