Writings and Articles

Author Reverend Doshin Kusan Suffering, Sadness and Anguish  21/3/21 The talk today will be about suffering. Buddhism is about working with suffering and finding a way out of suffering. The Four Noble Truths; one of the first talks the Buddha gave after his enlightenment throws light on the real issues of suffering and how to […]

Australia Day 26th January 2018 “Zen Buddhist’s Compassion and Wisdom in Australia” by Ku San Roshi Australia Day is a day to celebrate our past and is a day to help us find our future. Zen Buddhism is based on compassion and wisdom. When we look closely at what Australia and Australians are, and how […]

“The Five Remembrances” Foreword by Ku San The “Five Remembrances” are part of the liturgy of Sotoshu Zen. It is recited during the daily liturgy on sesshin and zazenkai and at our ordinary brief sitting days at Soto Zen temples. The English translation is very direct yet provides an understanding of the true nature of […]

Author Ku San Roshi,  Forest Way Zen A Paper on Zen Buddhism, Ethics and Ecology: One Person’s Look at the World of Change Needed to Find Solutions to Climate Change. This is a paper on my struggle to find a way out of Climate change, something that will allow me to make my decisions based […]

Author Barry Ku San This paper is not intended to be definitive in its treatment of the concept of Dependent Arising. Much of what you will find here comes from my own experiences during meditation and I have written this paper to help people new to Zen to begin to understand how they are trapped in […]

Barry Farrin [email protected] Mindfulness, Psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism Introduction This talk draws on my personal experience as a Zen Buddhist student and teacher and my work as a psychotherapist working mainly in palliative care, cancer care, grief and loss, anxiety, stress and depression.  I have practiced meditation since the mid seventies and began training in psychotherapy in 1978 and in the ten years until 2009 I was active in palliative […]

Zen Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation in Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain and Anxiety States by Barry Farrin, Forest Way Zen Care Introduction.  This short article will explore the use of mindfulness meditation in helping people with chronic pain, chronic illness, arthritis, cancer, other life- threatening issues and carer issues. This paper looks at the rationale and process of mindfulness meditation in controlling and mediating emotional issues […]

This is the revised and edited Teisho that was given on the last day of a five-day sesshin on the 6th May 2018. It was compiled very early in the morning, while meditating alone in the Zendo, before any students arrived. I can’t remember the exact sequence that it was given. Some of it is […]