Norman speaks on the koan on The Insentient at the Headlands Institute. This is the same talk given the first day of the Loon Lake Sesshin 2010 - November 7 which was not recorded at that time due to a recording error.

This is a substitution talk given at the Headlands Institute of the first talk given at the Loon Lake Sesshin 2010 on The Insentient koan.

Norman gives the second talk to the Loon Lake 2010 Sesshin on a second koan regarding The Insentient.

Norman gives the eighth and final dharma talk of the Santa Sabina Sesshin 2011 on "The Lion's Roar and The Four Wives".

Nornman gives a talk on The Meaning of Love.

Norman gives his second talk on The Mind is Hard to Control to the Mar de Jade December Sesshin.

Norman gives the fourth talk to the Samish Island 2012 Sesshin on The Old Woman and the Pure Land (Emila Heller commentary).

Shuso Florence Caplow talks on The Old Woman's Relatives to the Santa Sabina 2012 Sesshin.

Norman gives the sixth talk at the Koan workshop at Tassjara on "The One Who Is Not Busy" followed by a guided meditation. This case can be found in the Book of Serenity Case 21 edited by Thomas Cleary.

A beautiful essay by Susan Moon about vision and her father's blindness.

A very important sutra that includes material on perception and consciousness. The complete version of the sutra offered here as a text file was downloaded from the Buddhist Text Society. It is also available at the Gold Buddha Monastery website.

"This is a difficult piece I wrote for "enough" a poetry journal published especially in protest of the bombing of Afghanistan. While its point is difficult, and maybe too extreme, I think it is an interesting piece and says some things that are important to me."

Do sectarian differences between schools of Zen really mean any thing? Zoketsu suggests we re-consider the roots of our Zen Buddhist tradition.

Sometimes when I get far afield with my practice, as I can too easily do, I have to bring myself back. I am doing a million things – there is poetry, my family, household chores; I am reading the bible, or science- it is all very interesting. But then I have to stop myself and ask, what am I doing? Where is my anchor, my home? What’s my basic commitment?

"When your life is ending how will you be free?" Zoketsu discusses practice in the light of our living and dying.

Zoketsu introduces the emptiness teachings of the Vajracheddika Prajna Paramita Sutra, also known as the Diamond Sutra.

Zoketsu continues an exploration of the essential emptiness of phenomena, as taught in the Diamond Sutra, with a discussion of the practice of renunciation.

Drawing on Zhaozhou's reminder to wash our bowls, Zoketsu explores the Zen approach to the material world.

Another recommended Santideva text, translated by B. Alan Wallace and Vesna A Wallace.

Detailed and technical but lucid and reliable. For those who want to delve into abhidharma.

Thay’s usual simple, clear, and poetic treatment.

Wonderful collection of personal essays on the body in practice.

Talks on the Five Hindrances on the Four Immeasurables by one of Zoketsu’ s beloved teachers.

In this introduction to "Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation," a collection of Dogen's writing compiled and translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi, Zoketsu assesses the work and central message of Dogen-zengi.

More Dogen, but with an emphasis on meditation practice as theme. Lengthy introduction by Zoketsu.

A sophisticated and essential discussion of Buddhism from a feminist perspective.

Conze was a great scholar. His translations, especially of the Prajna literature (see Topic 9, Emptiness Teachings), remain standard after more than forty years. This book is his classical discussion of the basics of Buddhist psychology and philosophy. The reader must be patient with his quirky and supercilious style, which is great fun once you get used to it.