Feb 7, 2025
This teisho was given by the Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi at the Buddhist Temple of Toledo on December 8, 2023. Rinsen Roshi discusses how seeing into the emptiness of the five skandhas (form, sensation, perception, mental reaction, consciousness) awakens us to the true reality of things.
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Jan 30, 2025
This teisho was given by the Reverend Jay Risen Weik Roshi at the Buddhist Temple of Toledo on December 5, 2023. In this talk, delivered on the first day of Rohatsu, Risen Roshi teaches on the nonself, calling on us to give meticulous attention to our experience moment by moment.
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Jan 23, 2025
This Teisho was given by the Reverend Karen Do’on Weik Roshi at the Buddhist Temple of Toledo on Nov 3, 2023. In this talk Do’on Sensei discusses the 27th case from the Mumonkan (aka The Gateless Gate) known as Not Mind, Not Buddha.
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Jan 16, 2025
This Teisho was given by the Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi at the Buddhist Temple of Toledo on June 28, 2023. In this talk Rinsen Roshi explores the Blue Cliff Record (Heikiganroku) Case 69 - Nansen's Circle. Rinsen Roshi invites us to contemplate this koan on learning different ways of seeing the world. Roshi asks us...
Jan 9, 2025
This Dharma Talk was given by the Reverend Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi at the Buddhist Temple of Toledo on November 12, 2023. Rinsen Roshi discusses how aspects of Zen practice such as ritual, meditation, and retreat can enable us to find stillness and learn how to skillfully and usefully respond to the wild and frenetic...