Teisho: Awakening Bodhicitta, Seeking Your Heart's Inmost Desire
4/30/202636 min
This is a teisho – like a cross between a Dharma Talk and guided meditation. Teisho are sometimes called "encouragement talks," and they are meant to help listeners connect with the Dharma in the spaciousness and silence of zazen. Teisho are not about explanations or the imparting of information, and they generally are not recorded. They are offered spontaneously, just for the moment, just for those listening. Although you may not be sitting zazen while you listen to this episode, I thought I would offer you a teisho as if you are.
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First 90 secondsDomyo Burk· Host0:00
[gentle piano music] Welcome to the Zen Studies Podcast. I'm Domyo Burk. Thanks to new members of the podcast who are supporting my work: Adam from Coon Rapids, Minnesota, Steven from Boston, Massachusetts, Robert from London, England, Harry from Silver Spring, Maryland, and Malin Joy from 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. So this episode is a teisho, Awakening Bodhicitta: Seeking Your Heart's Inmost Desire. A teisho, if you haven't listened to one of mine before, is like a cross between a Dharma talk and a guided meditation. So last week, I led a sesshin, or a silent Zen retreat, and participants participated in a 24-hour schedule of zazen, and chanting, and silent work, and formal meals, and rest. And once a day, I offered a teisho, and te means to offer or put forth, and sho means to recite or proclaim.