Nice series of four talks from the Upaya Zen Center, featuring Kazuaki Tanahashi, Peter Levitt, Roshi Joan Halifax, Henry Shukman, and Natalie Goldberg on the life, poetry, and dharma of the great Zen master Dogen.During this unique weekend, through his passion for poetry, practice, painting, and interpretations, renowned Dogen translator, Kazuaki Tanahashi explores being a clumsy student of a great master. Poet and Zen Teacher, Peter Levitt, touches the heart of practice through Zen Master Dogen’s life and work. Roshi Joan plays with directly not understanding Dogen. Writer Natalie Goldberg gets us to sit, write, walk in the spirit of Dogen. This gathering is a celebration of the completion of a fifty year translation project guided by Kaz Tanahashi, and recently published by Shambhala Publications. It includes a calligraphy dedication to Dogen with a gold calligraphy of Dogen’s “Circle of the Way.” There will be a book signing by the translators, and a showing of the extraordinary film “Zen: The Life of Dogen.”Here are the podcasts:
5-6: Joan Halifax, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Natalie Goldberg, Henry Shukman, and Peter Levitt: Exploring the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Part 1 of 4)
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5-7: Peter Levitt: Exploring the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen Hidden and Revealed (Part 2 of 4)
Recorded: Saturday May 7, 2011This episode features Sensei Peter Levitt, who shares Dogen’s role in his poetry. Sensei Levitt expounds on the truth of intimacy in practice and art, bringing the heart of Dogen’s writing to our own creative process.
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5-7: Natalie Goldberg: Exploring the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen Hidden and Revealed (Part 3 of 4)
Recorded: Saturday May 7, 2011Natalie Goldberg offers her great depth of writing experience in this talk and exercise. “If you want to meet Dogen you have to sit, because in sitting the world opens. . . and his writing is coming out of that big world.”
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5-7: Kazuaki Tanahashi: Exploring the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen Hidden and Revealed (Part 4 of 4)
Recorded: Saturday May 7, 2011In the final episode of this series, Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi analyzes selected readings from his new translation of the Shōbōgenzō. Sensei shares the history of Dogen’s life, and what drove him to write the masterwork still treasured nearly eight centuries after its creation.
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