Archive for the Video Category
Published November 11th, 2008
Below is a video of Tassajara monastery with scenes from both recent and early years. Included is both footage of Tassajara’s daily activities and of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi teaching. Some of Suzuki’s teaching here was in a prior video published to this blog. However, the video below includes more of the talk as well as [...]
Published November 8th, 2008
The video below is of the San Francisco Zen Center sewing room where head sewing teacher, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, discusses the history of sewing robes in our tradition.
Published October 15th, 2008
For those interested in the relationship between the sciences and Buddhist practice, linked here is a lecture by Harvard Professor Anne Harrington, entitled Eastern Brains: Probing the Partnership Between Buddhism and the Brain Sciences, that is pretty interesting.
Dr. Harrington discusses the relationship between neuroscience, cognitive science, and Buddhism in the first lecture of the Religious and [...]
Published September 24th, 2008
At 6:30pm on October 1st and 2nd, The Vilcek Foundation will be holding two screenings of The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin, a film about a 95-year-old, female Buddhist priest in Japan. A synopsis of the story follows:
Teijun Ogawa, a proud and rare niso (female priest) of Japanese Shingon Buddhist Sect, dies after telling her story to [...]
Published September 23rd, 2008
The Hindu Business Line had an interesting piece, Give Buddhist Economics a Try, which attempts to address the current financial situation from one possible Buddhist perspective by referring back to E.F. Schumacher’s work, Buddhist Economics, in the early 1970s.
Published July 7th, 2008
Below are three parts of a short documentary, entitled Zen Buddhism: Chop Wood, Carry Water. The documentary is from a series known as Quiet Mind: Meditation for Real Life. In it, Norman Fischer, who will be reading from his new book at Brooklyn Zen Center this Wednesday, discusses many aspects of Zen Buddhist practice. I found it to [...]
Published May 28th, 2008
Jae pointed out that YouTube had this rare footage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi near the end of his life, giving a talk on the Sandokai (Merging of Difference and Unity.) This video is from San Francisco Zen Center and has been on their website for sometime. But thanks to Jae, we can now embed it [...]
Published May 26th, 2008
Along with Eiheiji, Sojiji is one of the two main temples in the Soto Zen tradition. Here is a simple, nice video of life at Sojiji. You may recognize some of the practices as our own at Brooklyn Zen Center.
Published May 13th, 2008
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about the insights she gained around the nature of self while experiencing her own stroke. Text from source:
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions [...]