Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

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From Australian Zen teacher Dr Andrew Tootell.

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2021
Meditation: Waterfalls
Avalokiteshvara, clearly saw all five skandhas are empty, freeing us from all identification as a separate self and thereby releasing us from all anguish and distress. From the perspective of emptiness this body and mind is like a waterfall. A waterfall is not a thing but rather a name for a process of happening. Our name and date of birth are just conventions. Just like we cannot distinguish where the waterfall begins and ends we cannot distinguish when Andrew begins and ends. Andrew doesn’t appear and disappear, he is just a convenient fiction.
July 18, 2021
37 min
Living Without Walls
The focus of today’s talk is part three of the heart sutra: The Bodhisattva Path. Sattva means being and bodhi means awakened. So, a bodhisattva is an awakened being or a being which aspires to awaken. In the first part of the heart sutra, Shariputra is asking Avalokiteshvara to teach him prajnaparamita. Prajna is wisdom and paramita means perfect or beyond. So prajna paramita is the perfection of wisdom or wisdom beyond wisdom and Avalokiteshvara simply teaches him the wisdom of emptiness. Prajna can also be broken down into pra, meaning “before” and jna, meaning “to know”. Therefore, prajnaparamita is what comes before knowing – what is it that comes before knowing – what was your original face before you were born? Before I can know, I have to be. Being comes before knowing. What is it that is prior to thinking? What does it mean to take refuge in prajnaparamita?
July 18, 2021
58 min
Meditation: What Is Thinking?
The meditation has three parts. In the first part we will inquire into the question: who or what is thinking the thoughts? In the second part, we will inquire into how thoughts turn into stories and how we can become captive of those stories. In part three, we explore the crucial distinction between thoughts and experiencing the reality of what is.
July 13, 2021
36 min
Meditation: Endings And The Fertile Void, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Both Zen and psychotherapy involve bringing awareness to endings, though they do this in different ways. Psychotherapy normally focuses on the big endings in our lives – finishing a job, a relationship breakup, losing a loved one – and can highlight our personal patterns of ending, patterns often developed to help us to avoid the pain of loss. Zen practice points to endings at more of a micro level: ending as a feature of impermanence; the moment-to-moment passing away of all things. This guided meditation explores endings at both the macro and micro levels.
June 29, 2021
47 min
Simply Being
The Direct Path is the path of nonduality. It is found in all religious traditions. In Hinduism it is found as Advaita-Vedanta or Kashmir Shaivism; In Islam it is found as the way of the Sufi; in Christianity it is found in mystics like Meister Eckhart; in Buddhism it is found in Chan/Zen and Mahamudra and Dzogchen. We can say, it is simply being.
June 20, 2021
37 min
Taking Refuge
When we become Buddhists, we first make atonement and then we take refuge in the Triple Gem: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. These are the first three of the 16 precepts – without these there is no Buddhism.
June 6, 2021
38 min
Meditation: Letting Go of Structure, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
This meditation considers the wisdom of relatively unstructured meditation practices, as are taught in the Ordinary Mind tradition. How do we show up when there is no obvious goal, when there are no detailed guidelines, and when there is no clear right or wrong way of doing things? How do we configure ourselves in an unstructured space? This meditation explores how unstructured practice ultimately leaves us with nothing but a mirror reflecting our own image.
June 1, 2021
18 min
Interview with Elisabeth Barrett on Gurdjieff and Joko Beck
This interview continues the exploration of the common ground between the teachings of Gurdjieff and Joko Beck. It begins with a brief biography of Elisabeth’s journey with the Gurdjieff teachings. The interview then stays on practice issues such as waking up through self-observation and self-remembering and non-identification. It also clarifies the meaning of no-self and Self in Zen teaching.
May 23, 2021
53 min

About the podcast Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

From Australian Zen teacher Dr Andrew Tootell.

Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

About the podcast Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

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Meditation: Waterfalls

Living Without Walls

Meditation: What Is Thinking?

Meditation: Endings And The Fertile Void, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson

Simply Being

Taking Refuge

Meditation: Letting Go of Structure, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson

Interview with Elisabeth Barrett on Gurdjieff and Joko Beck

About the podcast Andrew Tootell's OzZen Podcast

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