Dharma Talks

The koan of Mu is the first classic exchange in the tradition. It may sound a little stale until we feel this monk’s desperation: “Does a dog like me have Buddha nature?” Like us, the student is full of uncertainty, despair and self-doubt. We are encouraged to take Joshu’s “No” in with the whole body and mind, to become Mu.

A koan gets us off the bleachers of our life. It pushes us out of our comfort zone and into the game, saying "discover something." We have to rely on something deep and intrinsic the thinking mind can't grasp, and trust in our own awakening. If we come out of the other side of a koan, we might be roughed up a bit, but we are lighter, more free, and more alive.

In the dark, the darkening of the mind The mind that is spent of its thoughts and stories And the silence envelopes you Something alive...

In this last talk on the Diamond Sutra, Seido speaks to the misunderstanding of the teaching of emptiness or shunyata that things that...

Seido talks about the five themes the return over and over in the Prajna Paramita sutras including the vow to have one’s life serve life,...