Fusatsu: Refrain From Unwholesome Action

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

Zen Mountain Monastery, 3/14/2019

This Fusatsu talk invites us to reflect deeply on Dōgen’s teaching from the Spring Ango study fascicle: “Refrain from unwholesome action. Do wholesome action. Purify your own mind. This is the teaching of all buddhas.” Shugen Roshi explores how all actions (positive, negative, and neutral) are unborn, undefiled, and are reality manifest in various ways. Study of our thoughts, words, and actions with an undivided heart offers insight to understanding intentions, desires, and karma. Refraining from unwholesome action is how is “the power of practice immediately actualized” which Dōgen describes.

Fusatsu: Reverence

November 08 · · atonement, fusatsu, renewal of vow, reverence

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/8/2018

Hojin Sensei, in a talk given during a renewal of vows ceremony, speaks about six forms of reverence: training, heedfulness, hospitality, and reverence for the buddha, dharma, and sangha.