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Hosted by Unknown Host · Buddhism · EN · 24 episodes
Sensei Richard von Sturmer has a long history in Zen: from 1993 to 2003 he lived and worked at the Rochester Zen Center, a Buddhist community in upstate New York, then in 2004, back in New Zealand, he co-founded the Auckland Zen Centre along with Roshi Amala Wrightson. In 2024 he was sanctioned as a Zen teacher. He has given many talks at the Centre, and some of them are collected here. Richard-sensei is also a writer and poet. Seven collections of his writing have been published including: A Network of Dissolving Threads (1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (2005), Book of Equanimity Verses (2013), This Explains Everything (2016), Postcard Stories (2019), Resonating Distances (2022) and Walking With Rocks, Dreaming With Rivers : My Year In The Waikato (2023).
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Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer
<p>This koan takes the form of a folktale. An ancient teacher gives the wrong answer regarding cause and effect and must live 500 lives as a fox.</p><p></p><p>Text: Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan by Steven Heine</p><p>Of the Same Root: Animals and Our Relationship with them by Philip Kapleau.</p>
Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer
<p>This is the third in a series of koans centred on the natural world. The koan is Case 38 in the Mumonkan</p><p>Books used in the teisho:</p><p>Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andy Ferguson and The Gateless Barrier by Robert Aitken.</p>
Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer
<p>This is the second in a series of koans centred on the natural world. The koan is Case 37 in the Mumonkan, Zhaozhou's Cypress Tree in the Courtyard.</p><p>Sources: Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek by Annie Dillard and Two Zen Classics by Katsuki Sekida.</p>
Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer
<p>This is the first in a series of koans centred on the natural world. The koan is Case 46 in the Blue Cliff Record.</p><p>Sources: Zen's Chinese Heritage by Andy Ferguson and A Step Away from Paradise by Thomas Shor.</p>
Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer
<p>Main references:</p><p>Nine Lives by William Dalrymple</p><p>The Secret Life of Flies by Erica McAlister</p><p>Ichi Tantei: talks by Tangen Roshi.</p>
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