The Zen Masters on Mind | Bodhidharma, Huineng, Huang Po & the Ten Oxherding Pictures | Audiobook

The Zen Masters on Mind | Bodhidharma, Huineng, Huang Po & the Ten Oxherding Pictures | Audiobook Twelve centuries of Zen, in the words of its own masters: from Bodhidharma, the Indian monk who brought the teaching to China, through the great Chan masters of the Tang dynasty, to the Zen masters of medieval and early modern Japan. Here are some of the most treasured texts of the tradition: Faith in Mind (Hsin Hsin Ming), the Song of Enlightenment (Shodoka), teachings from Huineng’s Platform Sutra, the dialogues of Mazu and Shitou, Huang Po’s sermon on the One Mind, and the Ten Oxherding Pictures, the classic map of the path from seeking to awakening, and back into the world. If you come to these texts from the Upanishads or Advaita Vedanta, you may find them strangely familiar. When Faith in Mind reaches for a word for ultimate reality, it finds only two: “Not two.” These selections were translated by D. T. Suzuki in his Manual of Zen Buddhism (1935), now in the public domain, and have been lightly adapted for reading aloud. The Platform Sutra and the Mazu and Shitou material are excerpts, as given in Suzuki’s anthology. Contents (timestamps to follow soon) 00:00 Introduction 02:45 Sengcan — Faith in Mind (Hsin Hsin Ming) 16:49 Yongjia — Song of Enlightenment (Shodoka) 52:16 Bodhidharma — The Twofold Entrance to the Way 1:02:18 Huineng — from the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 00:00 Yongjia — Song of Enlightenment (Shodoka) 00:00 Mazu and Shitou — Two Great Masters of the Tang 00:00 Huang Po — The Sermon on the One Mind 00:00 The Japanese Zen Masters — Daiō, Daitō, Kanzan, Musō 00:00 Hakuin — Song of Meditation (Zazen Wasan) 00:00 The Ten Oxherding Pictures More from The Inner Archive The Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra & Metta Sutta: https://youtu.be/zPA6RdIVq6s The Buddhist Texts playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcwLjrQs7BKY Images: Public domain paintings from the Chinese and Japanese ink-painting traditions, including works by Ma Yuan, Xia Gui, Liang Kai, Muqi, Shūbun, Sesshū, Sesson, Hasegawa Tōhaku, Kanō Tan’yū, Hakuin Ekaku and Tōrei Enji. Courtesy of the open-access collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of Wikimedia Commons. The Ten Oxherding Pictures are attributed to Tenshō Shūbun (15th century), Shōkokuji, Kyoto. The Sixth Patriarch Cutting the Bamboo, by LIang Kai, from the Tokyo National Museum, Japan.  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. #Zen #ZenBuddhism #Bodhidharma #HuangPo #Oxherding