The Open Heart Zen Sangha: Resources
Thich Nhat Hanh: Full Length Dharma Talks on Video
- When You Breathe You Can Already Celebrate Life
- This is the final Dharma talk offered by Thay in the Together We Are One Retreat at Deer Park Monastery on the North American Tour, on September 11th, 2011. Thay shares compassion, love, and great understanding: "Understanding of suffering allows compassion to arise, and the energy of compassion can be very healing. You feel much better after having understood your own suffering. And your own suffering reflects somehow the suffering of the world. That is why once you have understood your own suffering, it is much easier and easier to understand his suffering, her suffering. And when you are able to see the suffering in him and in her you're no longer angry."
- Thich Nhat Hanh: compassion and suffering
- Thich Nhat Hahn in an interview from Whispers on the Wind.
- Thich Nhat Hanh ◦ The Nature of Things ◦ Stonehill
- A wonderful almost 2 hour program that includes a powerful dharma talk on birth and death.
Tara Brach: Full Length Dharma Talks on Video
- Tara Brach - Stepping Out of Time
- http://www.tarabrach.com/video.html: We spend much of our life on our way somewhere else, driven by the sense that something is missing or wrong. This talk explores the suffering that arises from our addiction to busyness and "doing," and the healing, loving and wisdom that arise when we take refuge in presence."
- The Buddha's Spiritual Awakening: A Myth For Us All!
- From http://www.tarabrach.com/video.html "In this telling of the Buddha's story, we find archetypes that reveal a universal path of awakening and freedom. We explore how each of us has the potential to realize the loving and radiant awareness that is our source."
Video Talks
- Jon Kabat-Zinn: Compassion and Mindfulness
- Jon Kabat-Zinn tells us why being mindful can help us unlock our compassionate side. This was part of a talk put on by UC Berkeley's Greater Good.
- Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Leading an extended session at Google HQ.
- Joseph Goldstein: Letting Go of Expectations & Craving
- Excerpt from a dhamma talk given in 2008 by the Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein. He talks about expectations, desires and related mind states and how Buddha taught that as we learn to let go of them we come back to the Natural Wisdom of Awareness.
- Charlotte Joko Beck
- From the DVD "Nothing Special."
- Tara Brach "Power"
- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
- A great Zen teacher.
- Zen Master Seung Sahn
- Another wonderful Zen Teacher. From the documentary "Wake up! On the Road with a Zen Master".
- Zen Master Bon Soeng
- A terrific interview with the guiding teacher of the Empty Gate Zen Center.
- Eckhart Tolle
- From The Flowering of Human Consciousness
- Amit Goswami
- Background on his theory of Quantum Physics & Consciousness.
- Amit Goswami
- In Part 2, Dr. Goswami answers the question as a Quantum Physicist "Why Do We All Feel Separate?"
- When You Breathe You Can Already Celebrate Life
- This is the final Dharma talk offered by Thay in the Together We Are One Retreat at Deer Park Monastery on the North American Tour, on September 11th, 2011. Thay shares compassion, love, and great understanding: "Understanding of suffering allows compassion to arise, and the energy of compassion can be very healing. You feel much better after having understood your own suffering. And your own suffering reflects somehow the suffering of the world. That is why once you have understood your own suffering, it is much easier and easier to understand his suffering, her suffering. And when you are able to see the suffering in him and in her you're no longer angry." He goes on to share about right view and how it can free us from notions of being and non-being. "If God is the ultimate He transcends both the notion of being and non-being. You cannot talk about the birth of God or the death of God. You cannot talk about the being of God or the nonbeing of God. Notions such as birth and death, being and non-being, coming and going, cannot be ascribed to God. In fact it cannot be ascribed to the flame or to the cloud. The true nature of things is the nature of no-birth and no-death, no coming no going, no being and no non-being." He finishes the talk discussing what is right action.
Organizations
- Delaware Valley Zen Center
- First Unitarian Church of Wilmington, Delaware
- We practice on the second floor in the Brunner Chapel.
Books
Podcasts
- Zencast
- Since 2005 we have been sharing one inspiring Dharma talk every Sunday with friends around the world.
- Dharma Seed
- Incredible resource of absolutely free dharma talks by some wonderful teachers (e.g., Joseph Goldstein) in the Vipassana tradition.
- Thich Nhat Hanh Radio
- A massive archive of audio dharma talks by Thay.
Meditation Supplies
- DharmaCrafts
- For 30 years, the Buddhist community has relied on DharmaCrafts for quality meditation supplies. We make it easy to create a tranquil meditation room in your home with our exclusive line of meditation cushions, Buddhist statues, shoji screens, tatami, altar tables, incense, and more.
- Zen Mountain Monastery Store
- Welcome everyone. The Monastery Store is the on-line catalog of Dharma Communications, the not-for-profit educational arm of Zen Mountain Monastery and the Mountains and Rivers Order. Our mission is to support your spiritual practice at home. We recognize that it is difficult to maintain a vital practice away from a teacher or a community and we provide these products and services to offer inspiration and guidance along the way.
Blogs
- Cheri Huber's wonderful practice blog
- DharmaDots
- Amazing resource of 30 or 40 meditation/Buddhism/mindfulness blogs that is updated daily with new entries.