Podcasts about shinshu roberts

Rev. Shinshu Roberts continues the discussion started last week by Daijaku Roshi about Zazen. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Shinshu-March-25-More-on-Zazen-Zoom-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2023/03/more-on-zazen-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Dogen’s fascicle Shoji (Birth-Death) -which we chant weekly at Ocean Gate Zen Center – a primary Zen Buddhist teaching about being fully engaged in this moment. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Shinshu-Feb-18-Shoji-MP3-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2023/02/shoji-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts shares her response to the eulogy delivered by Rev. Al Sharpton at the funeral of Tyre Nichols last week, discussing the Zen teaching of putting effort into our practice for the benefit of the greater good. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Shinshu-Feb-4-Climbing-the-Mountain-MP3-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2023/02/climbing-the-mountain/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts continues teaching about the life of our Soto lineage holder from Japan, Zen Master Eihei Dogen. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Shinshu-Jan-14-Life-of-Dogen-Part-2-mp3-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2023/01/life-of-dogen-part-2-2/feed/ 0

Using a teaching of Dogen's from the Eiheikoroku, Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Solstice as a time for reflection, transformation and renewal. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Shinshu-Dec-24-Solstice-MP3-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/12/solstice-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts continues her lecture series in this fifth part on “Inmo” (Suchness) from Eihei Dogen's ShoboGenzo. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Shinshu-Dec-3-Inmo-Suchness-Part-5-MP3.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/12/inmo-suchness-part-5-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts continues her lecture series in this fourth part on “Inmo” (Suchness) from Eihei Dogen's ShoboGenzo (there is almost 30 seconds of silence before talk begins). https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Shinshu-Nov-5-Inmo-Suchness-Part-4-MP3Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/11/inmo-suchness-part-4-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts continues her lecture series in this third part on “Inmo” (Suchness) from Eihei Dogen's ShoboGenzo. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Shinshu-Oct-22-Immo-Part-3-Audio-MP3.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/10/inmo-suchness-part-3/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts teaches on the Three Bodies of the Buddha, referencing the koan of Dongshan's Dharma Bodies from Dogen's 300 Koans; also found as Case 98 “Dongshan's ‘Always Close’” in the Book Of Serenity. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Shinshu-Sept-2-Three-Bodies-of-Buddha-Audio-COMPRESSED.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/09/the-three-bodies-of-buddha-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Dōgen's fascicle “Immo” (Suchness) encouraging us to fully engage with each moment of our lives, including our suffering… reality as it is (Nyoze). https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Shinshu-Sept-3-Immo-COMPRESSED-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/09/immo-suchness-2/feed/ 0

In this talk about the Four Noble Truths, the foundational teaching of the Buddha, Rev. Shinshu Roberts encourages us to look closely at our minds, our suffering and how we practice with both. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Shinshu-July-16-4NTs-Compressed-audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/07/the-four-noble-truths-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Dōgen’s Zuimonki 1-13. In this Soto Zen teaching, Dogen encourages us to go beyond our discriminative thinking and Shinshu expresses how this practice helps cultivate gratitude for that which we don’t understand. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Shinshu-May-21-Dogens-Zuimonki-Compressed-audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/05/dogens-zuimonki-2/feed/ 0

In this lecture, Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Dōgen's fascicle, Gyōji (Sustained Practice), in which he teaches that unsurpassed sustained practice is the way, encouraging us to respond to the totality of what surrounds us. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Shinshu-May-7-Gyoji-Compressed-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/05/gyoji/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts gives a talk about what our “practice” is as students of Soto Zen Buddhism. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Shinshu-April-23-What-is-Soto-Zen-Practice-Compressed-Audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/04/what-is-soto-zen-practice/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses this text that will be chanted for Buddha’s Birthday as the sangha prepares to celebrate together. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Shinshu-April-9-Buddhas-Birthday-Compressed-audio.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/04/seeing-the-buddha-right-now/feed/ 0

Discussing the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, Rev. Shinshu Roberts shares teachings from Dogen to help us reflect on how to live each moment as if there is no past or future, grounding ourselves in our current experience, even though it may be quite complicated. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Shinshu-March-12-Passage-audio-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/03/passage-2/feed/ 0

Reflecting on a 1968 lecture from Suzuki Roshi about New Years, Rev. Shinshu Roberts encourages us to meet every moment as new, to cultivate the mind of a new student, practicing with renewed feeling. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Shinshu-Jan-1-New-Years-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2022/01/new-years-day-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses Winter Solstice as a time to find ourselves open to transition and change. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shinshu-Winter-Solstice-Audio-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/12/winter-solstice-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses a familiar Buddhist teaching of the group of blind men and the elephant, reminding us that building a story based on subjective experiences is often the root of our suffering. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Shinshu-Seeking-the-Elephant-Nov-6-audio-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/11/seeking-the-elephant/feed/ 0

On the day of the annual Segaki Ceremony, Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses the Hungry Ghosts and how “every flicker and blaze” provides us an opportunity to awaken. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Shinshu-Hungry-Ghosts-October-30-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/10/hungry-ghosts-2/feed/ 0

Rev. Shinshu Roberts discusses the path of the postulant as a sangha member today has a ceremony marking his entry into a period of priesthood discernment. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Shinshu-The-Path-of-the-Postulant-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/10/the-path-of-the-postulant-2/feed/ 0

Shinshu Roberts, Dharma Talk, Saturday 02 October 2021, Austin Zen Center

https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Precept-8-Bodhi-Cere-July-3-2021-compressed.mp3 This is a continuation of several talks on the meaning of the Bodhisattva Ceremony by Rev. Shinshu Roberts.  Soto Zen’s Bodhisattva Ceremony ends with a recitation of the Pure Precepts each with a commentarial verse. This talk explores the meaning of precepts from the position of the relative as well as the universal. https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/07/the-ten-precepts-in-the-bodhisattva-ceremony-number-8/feed/ 0

This Dharma talk by Shinshu Roberts is an exploration of how we re-open after Covid restrictions are lifted while honoring the different comfort levels of sangha members. Dogen's Bodaishatta-Shishobo (For Elements of a Bodhisattva's Social Relations) is used a a template for this lecture. https://www.oceangatezen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Negitiating-post-covid-Bodaisatta-Shishobo-June-12-2021-compressed.mp3 https://www.oceangatezen.org/2021/06/reopening-ocean-gate-after-covid/feed/ 0

We live in a Buddha-field that has delusion, greed, and hate and we should strive to overcome this by entering the Bodhisattva path. We do this to enact more and more helpful energy to heal this Buddha-field.

Rev. Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Rev. Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, founder of San Francisco Zen Center. She holds the appointment of International Dharma Teacher in the Japanese Soto Zen School. She is the author Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Uji, (Wisdom Publications, 2018)/ Rev. Shinshu’s writing has also appeared in BuddhaDharma and Lion’s Roar. You can find out more by visiting the website for the Ocean Gate Zen Center at: https://www.oceangatezen.org/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is hosted by Ian White Maher. https://www.theseekerstable.com/ Sit, Breathe, Bow is sponsored by the Online Sangha of the International Kwan Um School of Zen https://kwanumzenonline.org  

In her new book, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Shinshu Roberts focuses on the practical study of the inner self and perception of all phenomena through the famously complex work of Dogen Zenji, “Uji” (or being-time). In doing so, she illuminates aspects of how we perceive the present reality before us with great nuance, kindness, and articulation. To tackle such a document with the elegance and understanding that Shinshu Roberts puts forth is an achievement in itself. Her approach leads one to a more subtle understanding of one of the great texts on self discovery and understanding. Shinshu Roberts gives us a wise and wonderfully patient guide to one of Dogen’s most important and enigmatic texts. Approaching complex topics with sincerity and ease, she shows just how much care and work went into crafting the subtle wisdom found in Dogen’s words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Shinshu Roberts focuses on the practical study of the inner self and perception of all phenomena through the famously complex work of Dogen Zenji, “Uji” (or being-time). In doing so, she illuminates aspects of how we perceive the present reality before us with great nuance, kindness, and articulation. To tackle such a document with the elegance and understanding that Shinshu Roberts puts forth is an achievement in itself. Her approach leads one to a more subtle understanding of one of the great texts on self discovery and understanding. Shinshu Roberts gives us a wise and wonderfully patient guide to one of Dogen’s most important and enigmatic texts. Approaching complex topics with sincerity and ease, she shows just how much care and work went into crafting the subtle wisdom found in Dogen’s words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Shinshu Roberts focuses on the practical study of the inner self and perception of all phenomena through the famously complex work of Dogen Zenji, “Uji” (or being-time). In doing so, she illuminates aspects of how we perceive the present reality before us with great nuance, kindness, and articulation. To tackle such a document with the elegance and understanding that Shinshu Roberts puts forth is an achievement in itself. Her approach leads one to a more subtle understanding of one of the great texts on self discovery and understanding. Shinshu Roberts gives us a wise and wonderfully patient guide to one of Dogen’s most important and enigmatic texts. Approaching complex topics with sincerity and ease, she shows just how much care and work went into crafting the subtle wisdom found in Dogen’s words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Shinshu Roberts focuses on the practical study of the inner self and perception of all phenomena through the famously complex work of Dogen Zenji, “Uji” (or being-time). In doing so, she illuminates aspects of how we perceive the present reality before us with great nuance, kindness, and articulation. To tackle such a document with the elegance and understanding that Shinshu Roberts puts forth is an achievement in itself. Her approach leads one to a more subtle understanding of one of the great texts on self discovery and understanding. Shinshu Roberts gives us a wise and wonderfully patient guide to one of Dogen’s most important and enigmatic texts. Approaching complex topics with sincerity and ease, she shows just how much care and work went into crafting the subtle wisdom found in Dogen’s words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her new book, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji (Wisdom Publications, 2018), Shinshu Roberts focuses on the practical study of the inner self and perception of all phenomena through the famously complex work of Dogen Zenji, “Uji” (or being-time). In doing so, she illuminates aspects of how... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices