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Consumerism and the Precepts

Taigen Leighton Green Gulch Farm – September 9, 2001 Those of us who are dharma teachers in the Zen Center lineage, and all the people who live at Green Gulch and practice here, and all of you who come for Sunday morning dharma talks as well, are all involved in...

Bodhichitta: The Mind of Awakening

Taigen Leighton Hartford Street Zen Center – September, 1997 I feel very honored to be sitting up here in the temple of my dear old friends and teachers, Issan and Zenshin Philip Whalen. Over the years I’ve only had a few occasions to come here, but they...

Liberation and Eternal Vigilance

Taigen Leighton Green Gulch Farm – July 3, 1994 [Note: This Dharma Talk was given in 1994, eight years before it is going on this website. Yet amid the dangers and threats of ever-expanding war we now face, Jefferson’s remarks about eternal vigilance to...