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Dharma talk from day 4 of Rohatsu Sesshin at Clouds in Water Zen Center. December 5, 2023. Presentation of Couplets 12-22 of the Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi (Hōkyō Zanmai 宝鏡三昧). 如臨寶鏡 It is like facing a jewel mirror; 形影相覩 form and image behold each other - 汝不是渠 you are not it, 渠正是汝 in truth it is you. 如世嬰児 Like a babe in the world, 五相完具 in five aspects complete; 不去不來 it does not go or come, 不起不住 nor rise nor stand. 婆婆和和 “Baba wawa”- 有句無句 is there anything said or not? 終不得物 Ultimately it does not apprehend anything 語未正故 because its speech is not yet correct. 重離六爻 It is like the six lines of the illumination hexagram: 偏正回互 relative and ultimate interact - 疊而為三 piled up, they make three, 變盡成五 the complete transformation makes five. 如荎草味 It is like the taste of the five-flavored herb, 如金剛杵 like a diamond thunderbolt. 正中妙挾 Subtly included within the true, 敲唱雙舉 inquiry and response come up together. 通宗通塗 Communing with the source, travel the pathways, 挾帶挾路 embrace the territory, and treasure the road.

A Dharma Talk given on October 1, 2023 at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, MN

A talk on integrating South Asian devotional practices and Zen. Given at the Austin Zen Center on July 16, 2022.

Koji speaks on first the physicality of Zen meditation and then on the ultimate purpose of Zen practice.

A Dharma Talk given on February 20, 2022 at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, MN

An online class taught by Koji through the Austin Zen Center on March 2nd, 2021 about the three turnings of the Dharma with special emphasis on the four noble truths, dependent origination, and what they have to do with zen meditation.

This talk was given by Koji at the Austin Zen Center on Feb 8th, 2020.

This talk was given by Koji at the Austin Zen Center of February 1st, 2020.

This talk was given by Koji on January 4th, 2020 at the Austin Zen Center.

This talk was given by Koji at the Austin Zen Center on November 17, 2018.

This talk was given by Koji at the Austin Zen Center on July 21st, 2018

This talk was given by Koji at the Austin Zen Center on January 27th, 2018