Exploring the dynamic teaching of Hakuin in The Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn (CPB).
- Teacher: Ed Lube
- Teacher: Dosho Port
The endeavor to negotiate the Way consists in discerning all things in view of enlightenment,
and putting such a unitive awareness into practice in the midst of the revaluated world.”
– Dogen
Overview
This program is designed for practitioners living at home who yearn to realize and actualize the great matter of birth and death. We acknowledge the difficulty of following through with our practice aspirations in the midst of daily life and the truth that this very bind can be a dharma gate. This program is intended to support you in this entanglement.
The Vine of Obstacles Zen requires commitment to ongoing awakening and the capacity to carry out daily practice alone. It also requires regular meetings with Dosho via Zoom and email. Our primary avenues for cultivating verification are daily zazen (integrating earnest-vivid sitting and koan introspection), study, and engagement in the world.
Intended outcomes
Process
Fees for new participants
Two options:
Application or more information
Contact Dosho at doshoport@gmail.com for more information and for an application.
Exploring the dynamic teaching of Hakuin in The Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn (CPB).
This forum highlights the most important aspect of Vine work - making it real. What I envision is for all of us to share (mostly) positive (moslty) personal experiences of engagement to provide encouragement to each other that this path can be verified.
This workshop has resources for beginners and more "advanced" students. You are invited to play into it.
This is a foundational course for Vine of Obstacles Zen, the recommended starting point in study (along with the Zazen Workshop).
“The Heart Sutra is a great torch that lights the darkest road, a swift boat that ferries us across the sea of suffering,” said Fa-tsang.
This course is designed to help you pick up the torch and enter the boat.
We will use Red Pine's The Heart Sutra: The Womb of the Buddhas and Hakuin's Acid Comments on the Heart Sutra.
In this course we will study Dogen's "Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance," developing fluency in giving, kind speech, beneficial action, and identity action.
This course offers thirty poems by three Japanese Zen masters - Dogen, Ikkyu, and Ryokan. Students will take one poem each day, write a brief reflection on the poem, and compose a poem in response that matches the structure of the original.
Dogen wrote Buddha Nature in 1241 – a decade after Guidelines for Studying the Way and Genjokoan – during an explosion of spiritual expression.
The structure of this course will be similar to the Genjokoan course. Buddha Nature has thirteen koans with commentary. Each case has one central case and a number of checking questions that explore different aspects of the koan and are pulled from each of the paragraphs in Dogen’s commentary.
This course offers an in depth exploration of Dogen's Zazenshin and includes important scholarly work on the fascicle, careful examination of Dogen's commentary, as well as koans and checking questions. Students will usually enter this course following the Buddha Nature course.