Dana and Sila Paramitas (Generosity and Ethical Conduct) are the first and second of the Six Paramitas or Perfections

Four Unlimited Abodes 3 - Equanimity

Four Unlimited Abodes 2 - Joy

Four Unlimited Abodes 1 - Compassion

Talk given to Makor Or Jewish community on Readings from the Torah

Talk to Makor Or Jewish community on Our Lives a Garment

Koan on "Yun-men's Dried Shitstick" as found in case 21 of the Mumonkan or Gateless Barrier. This koan challenges us to put aside dogma using a turning word to turn the heart and mind around.

Koan on "Sound of the Bell" as found in case 16 of the Mumonkan or The Gateless Barrier. This Koan speaks of everything disappearing into the sound of the bell, the universe, buddha nature, yet Yun-men continues and just puts on his robe.

Koan on "Beyond Speech and Silence" or "Equality and Differentiation" as found in case 24 of the Mumonkan or The Gateless Barrier. This is also known as "Feng-hsueh: Equality and Differentiation". This Koan speaks of the world of silence and the world of speech, oneness and differentiation. Or,this may be more a matter of perception.

A series of talks on the Mindfulness Sutra (Part Three)

General description of the sixteen Bodhisattva precepts and a Bodhisattva. Description of the three levels of precepts: the literal, the compassionate, and the koan level.

Discussion of the first three precepts: I take refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha

Norman discusses his relationship with his teacher, Sojun Weitsman. The remaining thirteen precepts are discussed: the three bodhisattva precepts, which are called the three pure precepts, and the ten grave precepts.

Zoketsu reflects on gratitude as a natural way of living given the essential incredible fact that we and our world actually exist. " All my life I have been contemplating a question of Heidegger’s that has always struck me as strangely profound: why is there something, why not rather nothing?"

... Aun si has memorizado todos los sutras, no puedes utilizarlos.

In this talk delivered to an international conference of Buddhist teachers, Norman suggests several questions concerning the life of Buddhism in western culture with the attitude that it is best not to be in a rush to find answers. "Without questioning there is something to defend, and where there is something to defend trouble and suffering are not far behind."

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

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

Another recommended Shantideva text, by the Dalai Lama and the Padmakara Translation Group

A secondary text for the philosophically/academically minded: Academic discussion of Dogen’s use of the koan tradition

An exhaustive and eye-opening history.

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

Teachings by a contemporary, female Japanese Soto Zen teacher and priest

Zen teacher Robert Aitken’s thorough-going translation of and commentary on the 48 koans of the Mumonkan.

In this profound and beautiful sutra, translated here by Robert Thurman, Vimalakirti, a layman, teaches the Mahayana doctrine of emptiness.

Explorations of many Sanskrit and Chinese sutras and the role, image, and position of women and women’s practice in those texts.