How to work with persistent, troublesome thoughts by tracing them back to their roots, seeing that no matter how convincing, thoughts are inherently empty.
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Continue to explore the Buddha’s instructions for practicing with persistent and troublesome thoughts.
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What do we do with a thought that's stubbornly compelling, one that we can’t—or don't want to—let go of?
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An excerpt of the OMS course led by Zuisei Goddard on the foundational Mahayana text, the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra uses the language and imagery of poetry and myth to set forth radical teachings that turned the traditional understanding of the Buddha’s dharma on its head.
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What gets in the way of seeing clearly? Inevitably, it’s our own thoughts—thoughts of greed, anger, and delusion. Learning to work with these thoughts
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The trouble of suffering always emerges from ignorance. But ignorance of what exactly?
Read MoreThe trouble of suffering always emerges from ignorance. But ignorance of what exactly?
Read MoreWhen things happen that we cannot control, we can always choose how to respond. This is the path to liberation.
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How we create our own karma.
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A talk on the kind of faith needed to practice Zen
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Jukai ceremony at Ocean Mind Sangha. Listen and join in as OMS students formally commit to lives guided by the ethical teachings of Buddhism with their teacher Zuisei and the sangha
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A teaching on the eight worldly winds: all the ways we chase and run away and the antidotes to this endless cycle.
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What happens when we turn the mind around to look at itself?
Read MoreHow to make practice intimate and personal, from intention to dedication, one precious and perfect whole.
Read MoreThe contemplative life as a gate to liberation
Read MoreThe power of karma to affect both our past and present actions
Read MoreHow do we realize and express the next buddha as sangha? How do we help each other wake up?
Read MoreHow to take responsibility for our harmful actions, consistently and with compassion.
Read MoreIn Fusatsu, renewal of vows ceremony grounded in the moral and ethical teachings of Buddhism, we take refuge in the Three Treasures. Not to seek shelter from the world, nor to measure it in
Read MoreBased on OMS’s study of Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method by Rebecca Li, Zuisei traces the origins of “just sitting”
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