From Australian Zen teacher Dr Andrew Tootell.
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Meditation: Opening To Love, by Jack Wicks
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Meditation: Opening To Love, by Jack Wicks by Andrew Tootellעל ידי Andrew Tootell
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Awakened awareness is not about special experiences – it is about recognising the simplest form of conscious experience that is available to everyone. Joko called it “Simple Mind”, Shunryu Suzuki called it “Beginners Mind” or we could simply call it awareness of awareness or “Pure Awareness”.We could say that the purpose of meditation, both silent …
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Naming our experiences by Louise Shinsho
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This guided meditation offers a chance to gain clarity around our thoughts and emotions. Taking a few deep breaths, we can name our experiences. Then we gain an opportunity to fully experience them without being overwhelmed by them. We can then move on the investigate them if it feels safe to do so. Remembering to nurture ourselves by coming back t…
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This session gives an introduction to the Buddha’s first discourse on Turning the Wheel of the Dharma. In this discussion we focus on the four truths or practices.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Three Types Of Zazen
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In this guided meditation Sono introduces three types of Zazen:Mindfulness of a mental object;Mindfulness of the field of all objects; andJust-Sittingעל ידי Andrew Tootell
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This session gives an introduction to why it is important to study philosophy and an overview of the course.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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The Voice From The Heart, and the backlash to reconciliation
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In this talk I reflect on the “Voice from the Heart”, why the referendum lost and what has to happen next. It provides a brief historical background to the Voice and it includes some reflections on the One and the Many from a Zen perspective and applies the concept of “spiritual bypassing” at the collective level when a nation denies the truth of i…
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Our original nature can be described as Awareness or Heart-Mind. This Awareness that we are, which ultimately constitutes our original nature, has a number of essential qualities. As an introduction to this guided meditation, I discuss the four faces of Universal Love. In Buddhism they are called the Four Brahma Viharas (divine dwellings): In the l…
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Meditation: Deep Listening, by Louise Cranny
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This talk guides us through a journey of embodying the connections we have with our place here …the earth, the elements, and the beings we share life energy with. Exploring the fundamental Buddhist truths that everything is connected and everything is impermanent. Being present with the emotions that arise and coming to the spaciousness that allows…
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Meditation: Meeting The Way, by Jack Wicks
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This meditation guides you from the experience of your breath to some old zen parables. The first story is a re-telling of “A Parable” from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki. Two koans are featured, both are from The Gateless Gate by Koun Yamada. These are, Case 30 “Mind is Buddha”, and Case 36 “Meeting a Man Who Has Accomplished…
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This guided meditation was taught by Gurdjieff to his students. Through each round of body sensing we are guided into self-remembering – the “I am” of awareness.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Appreciate this life, by Sono
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This guided meditation is all about finding or recognising and then stabilising in your essential nature, your inner “treasury”. I have titled the meditation “Appreciate this Life” after the book by the same title by Maezumi Roshi. Even though we cannot “see” our essential nature we can simply be, knowingly, our essential nature. We need to recogni…
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Joshu(Peter Thompson) founder of the Wombat Sangha in Sydney gives a introduction to the importance of Yoga Nidra practice and how it complements our Zen practice.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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ZAZEN YOGA NIDRAThis guided meditation integrates zazen and yoga nidra. Both zazen and yoga nidra are gateways into the subjective sense of the body and ultimately the realisation of self as nondual awareness.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Joshu (Peter Thompson) is a founding member of the Sydney Zen Centre and a founder of the Wombat Sangha based in Sydney. In this talk Joshu develops a founding narrative for contemporary Zen practice based upon Evolution. Joshu says, “An important part of the story and mystery of our evolution and being here is the existential reality of alienation…
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This talk is continuing our conversation about nonduality. One of the core dualities we are trained into is subject and object duality. The theme of this talk – recognising our essential self as awareness – and some of the experiential exercises are taken from a book called “Standing as Awareness” by the nondual philosopher Greg Goode. Last month I…
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This guided meditation leads us into the non-duality of Simply Being through the gateless gate of silence.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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The goose is out! Suffering and the end of suffering part 3
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This talk, based on an old koan, continues our exploration of psychological or mind-generated suffering and the ending of this suffering through seeing how psychological suffering is always synonymous with getting caught in conventional duality of “me” and “not me” and not seeing from the alternative perspective of unbounded awareness.Here is the o…
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Two practices for ending suffering
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This talk continues with the theme suffering and the ending of suffering. It introduces two complementary practices for ending suffering: self-inquiry and nonseparation.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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In our OzZen sangha, when receiving the precepts, recipients also give a Jukai talk, reflecting on their experience of studying the precepts in the monthly study group over the past year. Recipients are encouraged to personalise their experiences.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Tonight, we will discuss the practice of “taking refuge” as it relates to the question of suffering and the ending of suffering. During discussion I want us to clarify the difference between psychological suffering and what we might describe as our natural emotional responses that arise from being creatures who become attached to each other. I don’…
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Meditation: Ceaseless change turns the wheel of life
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How do we find constancy amid constant change? When we let go of attachment to form: attachment and aversion, we find our freedom in the formless field of benefaction.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Form and The Formless
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If we are attached to form: body, feelings, perceptions, personality, as night follows day, we are going to suffer. Liberation from suffering is found through the gateway into the formless.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Practicing Non-Attachment to Desire
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The middle way practice of non-attachment to desire is not to give-in to desire or to repress desire. We allow desire to naturally arise and pass away, without clinging. Sometimes can do this and sometimes we can’t. Yet this is our practice.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Activating the seeds of mindfulness, by Louise Cranny
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Like a weed, suffering seems to grow regularly and crosses our paths frequently.Often it is mildly annoying and occasionally it becomes troublesome and painful.Although suffering is inevitable, it is possible to activate the seeds of awareness by practicing the first eight of the Buddha’s foundations of mindfulness. Here we prime the ground for suf…
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Meditation: Can You Find Yourself?
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Bodhidarma sat facing the wall. The second patriarch [Shenguang, later called Huike], standing in the snow, cut off his arm and said, “Your disciple’s mind is not yet at peace. I beg you, Master, give it rest.”Bodhidharma said, “Bring your mind to me; I will put it to rest.”The patriarch said, “I have searched for the mind but have never been able …
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“Each moment, Life as it is, the only Teacher”.In our tradition, we regularly acknowledge “Life” as it is as being our only teacher, but how often do we really appreciate how astonishing it is to be alive? This guided meditation is all about awakening to this wonder of being alive and truly appreciating our life, just as it is, here and now.…
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Core Beliefs and the Self-Centred Dream
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Core Beliefs and the Self-Centred Dream by Andrew Tootellעל ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Kindness and Self-Compassion, by Louise Cranny
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We can only truly be open and loving when we are truly kind to ourselves.Here we explore some ways of bringing an inner smile into our lives and to observe how being compassionate brings happiness to both ourselves and others.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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In this talk I return to the question, what is enlightenment? I begin with a working definition of enlightenment as a developmental process rather than a one-off event (or series of events). I then explore two primary lines of development: “know thyself” and “returning home” or “original OK-ness”.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Sitting with Suffering, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
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In this meditation Rhys leads us through an exploration of sitting with suffering because, as Rhys states, this is a lot of what sitting is. For all of us, for a fair bit of the time, this is what we’ll be doing when we practice Zazen: we’ll be sitting with some form of suffering, of discomfort, of dis-ease. Sometimes this suffering will be gross a…
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Meditation, Holding the self with love, by Jed Blore
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This meditation focuses on the dance between being a separate self, bounded by the body, occupying a particular space-time point, and a self completely interdependent, depending on our environment, and our relationships. Dancing between the two, we hold these two seemingly paradoxical positions with love and compassion.…
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Meditation: I Am Mountain Part 2, by Pingala Walsh
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In this second enchanting, guided meditation, Pingala explores again the mysterious heights and depths of the presence of mountains.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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This meditation starts with a reading of the Wild Swans at Coole by WB Yeats as an introduction to the contemplation of “mujo” or impermanence. We then segue into a contemplation of finding our way home in the world.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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In this talk I share some understandings of enlightenment that have in the context ongoing dialogue with Joko Beck through her books and Barry Magid as my teacher. I begin my discussing two common curative fantasies of what enlightenment is. I then share one understanding of enlightenment that is found in both Joko Beck and Barry Magid - what I wil…
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Meditation: Attending to the World
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This guided meditation directs our attention to the quality of our attention to our experience. How our attention is uncovering reality. Zazen is a kind of experiential research into our experience of self and world that can be shared with others to arrive at common understandings. Attention can be understood as a form of taking care of ourselves a…
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In this talk I introduce the proposal that we all must discover what enlightenment means to us. Like the historical Buddha, we must be a lamp unto ourselves, not accepting any authority other than the authority of our own experience refined in the context of dialogue with dharma friends.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Self-acceptance, by Jack Doshin Wicks
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Most people, whether long-term meditators or not, engage in some kind of judgemental, negative, self-talk. We may not even be fully conscious of how we criticise ourselves and reject certain parts of ourselves. We are so used to doing it that we may not even know we are doing it. Sometimes it can be loud and sometimes very quiet and ubiquitous in t…
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Meditation: I Am Mountain Part 1, by Pingala Walsh
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In this enchanting guided meditation, Pingala invites us to experience ourselves as a Mountain.על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Knowing How you Feel - The Vedanas or Feeling Tones, by Louise Cranny
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Whatever you experience may be looked at more deeply by acknowledging the feeling tone. Is it pleasant, unpleasant or neutral? Contact with the world through our senses generates a sensation. Just noticing without judging, this tonality really influences our life. Can we feel both pleasant and unpleasant at the same time? Does Neutral have a negati…
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Meditation: 8 Wordly Winds, by Louise Cranny
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Outside the worldly winds are raging. Inside is peaceful and calm. Where are you when the winds blow? When we accept life as it is, right now, without complaining or trying to grasp for more, we come to peace and spaciousness. We come to a freedom, where we are more capable of both inner and outer change. Seeing the 8 worldly winds of the human con…
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Meditation: The alternative practice principles
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No longer caught in the self-centred dream.I have given up seeking,Content just to beWith whatever this moment brings.This guided meditation is a contemplation on the alternative practice principles.A common error is often to take up practice as a means to an end, we often fall into the trap of thinking we practice in order to obtain enlightenment.…
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This guided meditation continues our contemplation on the unity of boundlessness (Buddha) and form (Dharma) and the harmonising of this unity (Sangha).על ידי Andrew Tootell
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Meditation: Take the backward step
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In this guided meditation I explore the three phases of zen meditation practice. Moving from focusing on an object, through to open awareness and finally objectless meditation (or shikantaza or silent illumination) or what Dogen called “taking the backward step” where all duality between observer and observed dissovlnes completely.…
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The three treasures and the precepts
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In this talk I focus on the three treasures and the three pure precepts and how an understanding of these precepts are essential to applying the ten grave precepts within the context of the koans of everyday life. The three treasures are the expression of the intrinsic nature or essential nature that the ten grave precepts are expressions of.…
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Meditation: Health through welcoming all of our selves, by Dr Jed Blore
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We are always in the middle of life. Cultivating awareness of this most basic of facts can help to heal the damage that often arises from judging parts of our selves and our experiences. For example, every human has a desire for pleasantness and a desire to be free from pain. Judging this basic desire can do subtle violence to ourselves, banishing …
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Meditation: Not-knowing, by Jack Wicks
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In this guided meditation, Jack Wicks, an OzZen facilitator, takes us on a journey through the practice of not-knowing. Not-knowing is a zen approach to seeing our lives more clearly and liberating us from suffering. Not-knowing means seeing through our tendency to believe that our thoughts are always an accurate and helpful description of reality.…
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Meditation: Seeking And Resisting
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In this guided meditation we define psychological suffering as the activity of seeking and resisting. In the first phase of the meditation we pay attention to the different ways we seek to escape from this moment or resist being this moment. In the second phase we explore the two basic practices that resolve this activity – the practice of attentio…
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John LennonIn this talk we explore the secret of peace and happiness – t…
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Meditation: Waking From The Dream
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In this guided meditation we go on a tour of the wheel of awareness and distinguish phenomenal consciousness from meta-consciousness. We then explore how we get lost in the normal process of dissociation called, getting caught in thoughts and then demonstrate how the technique of thought labelling is an example of meta-consciousness in action. The …
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