Dharma talks by Koun Franz at Thousand Harbours Zen in Halifax, NS. If you find these talks beneficial, please consider joining Thousand Harbours Zen or making a donation at https://thousandharbourszen.com/support. Your support makes the practice and teachings available to others.
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Episode 256: THZ 256 - Speaking and Hearing
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A talk on Case 12 of Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo Koun Franz; Jan. 17, 2023
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THZ 255 - Community
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Episode 254: THZ 254 - Awe in the Mundane
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From a retreat held on Earth Day, a talk on taking how we look at “nature” and applying it to ordinary stuff. (April 22, 2023; Koun Franz)
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At the start of the year, a return to the basics of the practice. Koun Franz; January 4, 2022
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Episode 252: THZ 252 - You're Where You Need to Be
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THZ 252 - You're Where You Need to Be
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Episode 251: THZ 251 - What is Now the Time For?
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THZ 251 - What is Now the Time For?
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Episode 250: THZ 250 - Zen is Not About Zen
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THZ 250 - Zen is Not About Zen
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Episode 249: THZ 249 - The Wisdom to Know the Difference
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THZ 249 - The Wisdom to Know the Difference
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Episode 248: THZ 248 - Practice Like a Thief
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THZ 248 - Practice Like a Thief
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Episode 247: THZ 247 - Getting Trapped By Right Intention
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THZ 247 - Getting Trapped By Right Intention
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Episode 246: THZ 246 - What About Passion?
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THZ 246 - What About Passion?
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Episode 245: THZ 245 - Zazen is Colourless and Transparent
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THZ 245 - Zazen is Colourless and Transparent
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Episode 244: THZ 244 - Meeting Death in Everyday Life
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THZ 244 - Meeting Death in Everyday Life
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THZ 243 - Five Remembrances
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Episode 242: THZ 242 - Equanimity and Congruence
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THZ 242 - Equanimity and Congruence
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Episode 241: THZ 241 - No Secular World in Buddhadharma
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No Secular World in Buddhadharma
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Episode 240: THZ 240 - Zen Practice as Form
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Episode 239: THZ 239 - Resolute Stability
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Episode 238: THZ 238 - Let Yourself Break Open
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THZ 238 - Let Yourself Break Open
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Episode 237: THZ 237 - Desire vs Attachment
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THZ 237 - Desire vs Attachment
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Episode 236: THZ 236 - Lean in to Letting Go
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Episode 235: THZ 235 - Nanquan, The Cat and Us
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Episode 234: THZ 234 - When It All Seems Too Big
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THZ 234 - When It All Seems Too Big
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THZ 233 - Sangha We Make
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Episode 232: THZ 232 - Knowing Ourselves as Animals
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THZ 232 - Knowing Ourselves as Animals
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Episode 231: THZ 231 - Mindfulness, Concentration and Superman
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THZ 231 - Mindfulness, Concentration and Superman
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Episode 229: THZ 229 - Spiritual Confidence
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Episode 228: THZ 228 - Those Who Are Able to Let Go
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We may not be able to let go of our preferences, but we can learn to let go.
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Episode 227: THZ 227 - Make an Altar of the World
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What are we capable of offering? Everything. And it starts now, where you are.
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Episode 226: THZ 226 - Where Jizo (and we) Can Go
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Jizo can go anywhere—including to hell. Where can we go? Where are we afraid to go?
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Episode 225: THZ 225 - The Power of Asking Questions
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The Buddha started with a question. Dogen started with a question. What's yours?
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Episode 224: THZ 224 - We Vow to Mature Into the Awakened Way
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A re-examination of the fourth bodhisattva vow: "The awakened way is unsurpassable; I vow to embody it.".
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Episode 223: THZ 223 - We Vow to Learn Infinite Skillful Means
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A re-examination of the third bodhisattva vow: "Dharma gates are infinite; I vow to enter them."
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Episode 222: THZ 222 - We Vow to Cut Through Kleshas
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A re-examination of the second bodhisattva vow: "Delusions are inexhaustible; I vow to put an end to them."
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Episode 221: THZ 221 - We Vow to Free Us All
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A re-examination of the first bodhisattva vow: "Beings are countless; I vow to free them all."
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Episode 220: THZ 220 - Don't Stop There (Racism and the Bodhisattva Path)
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In the face of injustice, don't let compassion be an endpoint. Don't let not-knowing be an endpoint. Move, somehow—that's what a bodhisattva does.
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Episode 219: THZ 219 - For As Long As Space Endures
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On Shantideva's Prayer, and what it means to commit to something—to really commit—forever.
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Episode 218: THZ 218 - Ritual is How We Hold the World
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Those who are staying at home right now may find themselves falling into little rituals meant to make things feel regular, and safe; in this practice, ritual is something else.
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Episode 217: THZ 217 - Does a Virus Have Buddhanature?
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Does Covid-19 have buddhanature? Do you? Why do we even ask things like that?
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Episode 216: THZ 216 - Can You Feel Yourself Falling?
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Dogen likened the spiritual life to the experience of falling off a horse. Can you feel it happening?
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Episode 215: THZ 215 - When It Feels Like Too Much
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It can feel like it's all too much, too much to hold. We need to look at that.
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Episode 214: THZ 214 - The Three Treasures are Teflon (Tenth Precept)
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On the tenth precept, "Not defiling the three treasures." The three treasures are just fine, but still, we forget who we are in relationship to them.
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Freedom—the freedom we want (perhaps especially in the age of social distancing), and the freedom we already have.
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Episode 212: THZ 212 - Fearlessness is Generosity
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Fearlessness is one of the four types of generosity. Why? And how do we get there?
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Episode 211: THZ 211 - The Practice of Not Touching Your Face
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A simple act of refraining, like not touching your face in a pandemic, can be both a practice of mindfulness and an act of generosity.
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Episode 210: THZ 210 - Everything is Old, Everything is New
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Buddhism offers what looks like two contradictory ways of meeting our mind in each moment. But maybe we can hold both.
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Episode 209: THZ 209 - Act Like You're Dying
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If you knew you were dying, how would that change how you see others? Because you are.
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Episode 208: THZ 208 - The Intoxication of Anger (Ninth Precept)
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On Precept 9 (not indulging in anger)—it doesn't say there aren't good reasons to feel anger, just that we should learn not to be seduced by it.
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Episode 207: THZ 207 - Offer It All Up (Eighth Precept)
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On Precept 8 (not withholding dharma assets), clinging vs. letting go, and realizing what you're capable of giving.
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