Teachers and Visiting Lecturers - Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Ekai Koramatsu Osho

lectures held at

Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Contacts @ Kagyu E-Vam Buddhist Institute
Office
673 Lygon Street (Between Pigdon and Park Streets),
Carlton North, Victoria, 3054.
Phone: 61-3-9387 0422
Fax: 9380 8296
email: e_vam@smartchat.net.au
Website: http://www.evaminstitute.org.au

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Contacts @ Maitripa Contemplative Centre
Suellen Fuller
528 Myers Creek Road,
Healesville Victoria, 37777.
Phone: 61-3-5962 6167

Biodata:
Ekai Korematsu Osho is Abbot and Teacher of Jikishoan Zen Buddhist Community in Melbourne. He has been practicing and teaching Zen Buddhism over 30 years. He received dharma transmission from the late Ikko Narasaki Roshi, who was Abbot of Zuioji Monastery and Vice-Abbot of Eiheiji Soto Head Monastery, in 1986. He teaches in Japan and India for Antioch University's Buddhist Study Abroad Program annually.

Introduction to Shikantaza (Just Sitting)
Introductory talk

Zen Master Dogen's First Teaching and Concept of Shikantaza

November 1 & 2 2002

This program is intended to introduce the three essential forms of Zen practice and to explore the concept of Shikantaza (Just Sitting). Practice is most important to the Zen tradition. In the Soto Zen School, the method and practice of zazen, immovable seated meditation, have been transmitted orally from teacher to student and also transmitted literally through the two texts Fukanzazengi and Gakudoyojinshu written by Zen Master Dogen, 13th century.

Recommended reading: Fukanzazengi (The Way of Zazen Recommended to Everyone) by Eihei Dogen Zenji.

Introduction to Shikantaza (Just Sitting)
Saturday November 2 2002
3 tapes

a) Introduction and Practice of Zazen (sitting meditation) and Kinhin (walking meditation) - 10am to 12 noon
b) Talk on Practice Points for Engaging in "Shikantza" One hour of Zazen and Kinhin practice - 2 to 4 pm

Introduction to Dogen Zen
Buddhist Summer School 2001
4 tapes

Zen master Dogen brought the Soto line of Zen teachings to Japan during the thirteenth century. He established Koshoji, the first Zen Monastery of Japanese Soto Buddhism. The core of his teaching is meditation, namely 'Zazen', immovable seated meditation. Study of Buddhist teachings is important but it was not enough for Dogen. He was one to emphasize meditation practice more than anything else; practice is not limited to sitting meditation alone but it extends to all other activities as the unfolding of Zazen practice in daily life. The ones of practice and enlightenment was all that mattered to Dogen.

ORYOKI: THE PRACTICE OF THE EATING BOWL (lectures)
23 September 2000
3 tapes

The eating bowls now in use in Zen monasteries have been used by monks in China and Japan for over one thousand years. Called "oryoki" these bowls are part of Buddhist traditions of giving and non-attachment.

In Japanese, the formal phonetic spelling is "ooryooki" which consists of three symbols:
OO, the receiver's response to the offering of food
RYOO, a measure, or an amount to be received
KI, the bowl.

The term oryoki refers not just to the food carrying vehicle, but to the practice and giving of the recipient.

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Last Updated: 10 April 2003