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Wisehearted™
Weekly Dharma Talks by Dan Shiro Burrier and guest speakers at Prajna Heart Zen Center. Prajna Heart is a Zen Buddhist Training Center (and an official affiliate of Yokoji Zen Mountain Center) with a physical presence in Los Angeles and a digital online community everywhere. Join us at phzc.org. Previous talks can be found on YouTube and at phzc.org
Episodes
15 episodes
Beyond what we know. (Or can even imagine.)
Working with Case 65 of the Blue Cliff Record, "A non-Buddhist questions the Buddha," Shiro leads the sangha in a discussion of words and no words, is and is not, and the technology of Zen. How do we go beyond what we know, beyond our own imagi...
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Season 4
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Episode 152
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59:07
I woke up this morning feeling so good
In this talk about inspiration, Akasha Burrier pushes the community to accept the responsibility of being awake, to take zen into every moment of our lives, and to show our colors to the world. Sangha members in return share inspiring mom...
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Season 4
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Episode 151
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49:23
Never alone even while alone
It is said that Buddha, right at the moment of his birth, took seven steps and said, "I alone am the world honoured one." In this free-ranging talk, Shiro works with cases 2 and 57 of the Blue Cliff Record, "Joshu's Supreme Way" and "Nondiscrim...
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Season 4
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Episode 150
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58:04
Zen for the Holidays : Dropping expectations and raising context
In this dharma talk from Dec 19th, 2021, Shiro talks about taking Zen home for the Holidays, often into non-Buddhist surroundings, traditions and ceremonies. Working line by line with the Meal Gatha, Shiro talks about holding Zen as a context f...
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Season 4
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Episode 149
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1:05:20
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Will We Step Up? How to nurture a 300-year-old tree.
Shiro on the importance of nurturing the 300-year-old tree that is Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, our practice and our lives. Following Tenshin Roshi's talk on the passing of Baigaku Junyu Roshi, Shiro uses the koan "Obaku's Eaters of Dregs" to ex...
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Season 4
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Episode 148
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40:58
Tenshin Roshi: On the passing of Baigaku Junyu Osho
In this talk on the second day of the passing of Baigaku Junyu Osho (Maezumi Roshi's Brother), Tenshin Roshi discusses this benefactor's massive contributions to Zen Buddhism in the West, his unflagging support of Yokoji Zen Mountain Center thr...
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Season 4
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Episode 147
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38:22
Who needs enlightenment?
Shiro and the Sangha discuss Case 62 of the Book of Equanimity, "Beiko's No Enlightenment." Can we, should we, could we chase down enlightenment? What exactly does that mean? In this talk and discussion we look at how art, music, accounting, te...
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Season 3
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Episode 146
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1:02:29
Diligence & Enlightenment : Many Thanks to the Sangha
Beginning with Case 86 in the Book of Equanimity, "Rinzai's Great Enlightenment," Shiro and the Sangha discuss the folly of chasing after enlightenment as something new to be acquired or attained. Who is the enlightened one? Where...
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Season 3
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Episode 145
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1:10:18
Too much Zen and Bowing at Doorknobs
What to do after Sesshin, or after any period of intense training or focus? Rest. In this episode, Shiro works with Case 23 of the Blue Cliff Record, "The Summit of Mystic Peak," and looks at how we move, work, live, play, laugh, love, cry and ...
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Season 3
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Episode 144
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59:35
Emancipate Yourselves from Mental Slavery : Lauri Akasha Burrier
In this week's episode, Prajna Heart Zen Center co-founder Lauri Akasha Burrier talks about words, the power of words, and how we can use them (or not) to free ourselves from the shackles of our minds, from forces both internally and externally...
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Season 3
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Episode 143
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1:06:17
A Good Day @ Yokoji
In this talk, delivered on the second day of the Fall 2021 Beginner's Mind Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, Shiro talks about the fundamental point of Zazen, linking basic breath practice and counting of the breath to the Four Noble Truth...
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Season 3
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Episode 142
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1:11:33
The Precious Mirror
Continuing the discussion of intimacy with self, other and all things, Shiro shares the Precious Mirror Samadhi Sutra and invites us all to first look in the mirror, then look up and out, then look back at the mirror. Who is seeing through thes...
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Season 3
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Episode 141
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57:00
Intimacy with all things
What happens when we go deep with our Zazen, developing the ability to concentrate on something as small as an atom, a particle of dust? Shiro and the sangha of Prajna Heart Zen Center explore what it means to go in to go out, to become intimat...
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Season 3
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Episode 140
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56:13
Monkey in the Middle
With the six senses as recognized by Zen Buddhism--sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell and mind--all providing input, who exactly is it receiving the feed? Who is that monkey in the middle. Shiro and the sangha of Prajna Heart Zen Center have s...
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Season 3
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Episode 139
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49:48
Taste the Thought. (And put the mind to rest.)
Shiro and the Sangha explore the relationship between the usual 5 senses as we know them (sight, taste, touch, sound and smell) and the mind. Can you taste your thoughts? Find peace? Put your mind to rest? Beginning with Case 41 of the Mumonkan...
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Season 3
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Episode 138
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55:45