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Malcolm Martin: Ordinary Mind UK | ONLINE
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Zen Dharma talks given by Malcolm Martin for Ordinary Mind UK Online. As well as discussing the fundamentals of Zen practice in general and Ordinary Mind in particular, subjects include commentaries on the teaching of Joko Beck and Barry Magid, as well as classic Zen texts and the philosophical and ethical foundations of our practice. What does it mean to say 'the spiritual is political?'
Sangha!
Sitting together is central to developing out practice: it’s far from impossible sitting on your own, but the experience of sangha offers a deep extra dimension, which has made it one of the traditional 3 jewels of Buddhist practice.
A sangha centred on Zoom has new opportunities and challenges, and the Ordinary Mind perspective itself offers us a fresh sense of what Sangha can be, as well as highlighting some potential problems.
How can we deepen and enrich our practice of sangha together in a way that fits, for each of us, our own ordinary ‘life as it is’?
If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at the foot of each page.
A sangha centred on Zoom has new opportunities and challenges, and the Ordinary Mind perspective itself offers us a fresh sense of what Sangha can be, as well as highlighting some potential problems.
How can we deepen and enrich our practice of sangha together in a way that fits, for each of us, our own ordinary ‘life as it is’?
If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at the foot of each page.
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Ordinary Mind (Is The Way) VIDEO
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Why did Joko Beck choose one of the best-known koans from the Gateless Gate as the name of her school? Just how ordinary is our Ordinary Mind? 'Nothing special'...do we really believe this? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal but...
Ordinary Mind (Is The Way) AUDIO VERSION
zhlédnutí 142Před dnem
(For technical reasons, this Dharma Talk is audio only.) Why did Joko Beck choose one of the best-known koans from the Gateless Gate as the name of her school? Just how ordinary is our Ordinary Mind? 'Nothing special'...do we really believe this? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the ...
The Dogen Matrix
zhlédnutí 208Před 14 dny
'We are all already Buddhas!' - nice! Or... we all have Buddha Nature... yes, but what do we mean by this, and where does the idea come from? Our Ordinary Mind practice depends on us staying with the 'right here, right now', rather than looking to a supposed higher reality. Are we willing to do this? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely depen...
Why Does All This Matter?
zhlédnutí 154Před 21 dnem
What difference do Buddhist concepts such as 'Emptiness', or 'Ultimate and Conventional' make to my my experience of my life, right here, right now? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at the foot of each page.
The Ultimate Truth!
zhlédnutí 387Před měsícem
If 'Emptiness' is a dangerous idea, the solution is to understand that emptiness is itself 'empty', by which we don't mean 'unreal' or 'non-existent.'. In fact as the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna (himself sometimes described as the 'Second Buddha' ) shows, a world of 'real' fixed, separate things is impossible, and in order for there to be anything at all, for there to be causality and cohere...
Emptiness of Emptiness Part 1
zhlédnutí 174Před měsícem
What happens when a key Buddhist concept gets misunderstood? The Dharma is often described as 'poisin', and the Buddha reminds us that there is a right and a wrong end to pick up a poisonous snake (always by its head!). 'Emptiness' is perhaps the most poisonous of all ideas - but what goes wrong in our understanding, and where does it lead? 'A Dharma Safety Talk'. If you have found this talk he...
Election Special
zhlédnutí 71Před měsícem
Is casting your vote a 'spiritual' practice? Is spiritual practice political? How do 'my' problems relate to the problems of 'the world'? Is it 'ok' to have preferences: likes and dislikes? And what when it REALLY matters? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ord...
Judgement
zhlédnutí 62Před měsícem
We take it for granted that we need to be ’non-judgemental’ in our practice, but what do we actually mean? And how does that relate to the judgements in life we do or need to make? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at th...
Minding Our Gap
zhlédnutí 51Před 2 měsíci
For the diverse individuals who make up our sangha, with Juneteenth in mind! Last week I explored the gap we feel between 'life as it is' and my life as I want it to be as both the problem AND the solution. So what about when this gap is a manifestation of misogyny, racism, ableism and the other ills of our society? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we ar...
Readings: 7 Desire and Intimacy, PART 2
zhlédnutí 56Před 2 měsíci
A reading of the second part of Malcolm's commentary on the Third Zen Precept: Desire and Intimacy. We don't always want what we want to want, nor do we always want to want what we do want!.... This second part looks at 'Gender' as one aspect of the domination of Mastery, in relation to sexual harming. How do we Bear Witness to this, as individuals, as a society? If you have found this talk hel...
Mind The Gap
zhlédnutí 73Před 2 měsíci
Is the gap I feel between 'my life as it is' (or perhaps...my life as I think it is?) and my life as I want it to be a problem or the solution? How should we best 'mind' it? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at the foot ...
Mumonkan Case 26
zhlédnutí 83Před 2 měsíci
Two monks roll up a blind - 'one of them gains, the other loses' ...what's going on? Case 26 from the Mumonkan (the Gateless Gate) , that also figures as Case 27 from the Book of Equanimity/Serenity. If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the ...
Wanting What I Want
zhlédnutí 159Před 2 měsíci
I don't always want to want what I want, and I don't always want what I want to want... Funny business this desire! Are we the helpless victim of our hormones and passions, or is it more complicated than this? And how does this figure in our actual relationships? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can do...
Freedom
zhlédnutí 67Před 2 měsíci
What does 'freedom' mean to us? How might the Dharma offer us freedom from fear? And what about the 'freedom TO' develop our capabilities and possibilities? If you have found this talk helpful, please consider supporting our work: we are entirely dependent on your contributions. You can donate through the OMUK website at: www.ordinarymind.uk using the PayPal button at the foot of each page.
Hogen's Hair's Breadth: Book of Equanimity Case 17
zhlédnutí 89Před 3 měsíci
Hogen's Hair's Breadth: Book of Equanimity Case 17
Thank you for showing the nuances and depth of judgement. It's easy to fall prey of easy and shallow understanding of much deeper concepts and ideias, I'll keep watching your videos in hopes of learning something. Thank you.
Very interesting salad words.
Thank you!
Thank you for the teachings.
wee see you malcolm. peace, love and tacos, brother ❤
I really enjoyed this video! Because I am addicted to the feeling of emptiness 🤔 and I am wondering if meditation can help me drop the paradoxical adrenaline fuelled search to give life meaning while attempting to bear witness to the emptiness I seek? Strange concept.
Greetings from Finland. I like listening to Buddhist teaching (dharma). Some people call it Zen. It is very relaxing to me. First I listened to Thic Nhat Hanh (Vietnam). I am a Christian by identity (Finnish Lutheran). Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) was a king in India. It depends where Buddha originates from, depending of whom you ask. Some people say Buddha was from Nepal. In ancient times, kings were practicing wisdom. Siddharta Gautama (Buddha) shares some resemblance with the old Jewish King Solomon. He was very wise and rich. King Solomon ruled in ancient Israel according to Christian tradition. In Siddharta Gautamas time (600 BCE), kings were commonly competing in wisdom. Buddhism is 600 years older than Christianity. Peace. 1Kings 4:29 (Douay-Rheims Bible) And God gave to Solomon wisdom, and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, as the sand that is on the sea shore. 30 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians; 31 And he was wiser than all men: wiser than Ethan, the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Dorda, the sons of Mahol, and he was renowned in all nations round about.
Loved 😍 this. Straight from the hip. Thanks for posting 📫!
Thanks Malcolm 😊
Thank you. I really got a lot from this.
Just to add: mass shootings have a greater association with Antidepressant use (and withdrawal) than with alcohol.
Great talk thanks Malcolm 🙏
Who else thought this was gonna be a cover of the pink Floyd song
William Blake had a nice phrase: “mind forged manacles.”
Thank you 🙏
This was a very interesting talk, thank you Malcolm 🙏 Glen
Thanks Malcolm 😊
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Thanks for the Kusen and greetings from Berlin! 🙏
Thank you Malcolm…always good to see and hear you again…………….Kate in Australia……🕉️
Thank you Malcolm! I was reflecting on your comment about the tension on the realization of death - eventual death - but also the unknown time of it. We seem to be living 'in the gap' of these two realities. A funny memory came floating up of a past trip to London and using 'The Tube' to get into town from Heathrow. The automatic voice warning of "MIND THE GAP" coming over the intercom and printed on the floor tiles - reminded that perhaps this is a suggestion for use all! LOL! "Minding the Gap" is a powerful meditation and mantra for sure - that goes beyond safely using 'The Tube' - A metaphor nested in another metaphor perhaps? Thanks for getting my rusty brain moving! :-)
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