"What is Soto Zen? " - With Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton (SUB. SPA)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki, Carving the Divine TV is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts of Buddhism and the history of Buddhism so that when viewers finally watch Carving the Divine they will get the maximum value of the documentary. In this special episode, we will have a Soto Zen priest, Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton to discuss about the basic concept of Soto Zen Buddhism.
We will ask some important questions, such as:
1. What is your personal definition of Zen?
2. What is the Soto school? What is unique about it?
3. What is zazen (sitting meditation)? How does it benefit people? Through zazen, do we achieve enlightenment?
4. What is the brief history of Soto zen?
5. Who is Dogen?
6. What is koan for Soto?
7. What is genjokoan?
8. What has been your own experience with butsuzo (Buddhist statuary)? How does Soto feel about butsuzo?
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Taigen Dan Leighton is a Soto Zen priest and Dharma successor in the lineage of San Francisco Zen Center, and also an authorized teacher in the Japanese Soto School. He is now Teacher of the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate temple in Chicago. Taigen trained extensively in Japan as well as in California, living in Kyoto for two years. He is an author, scholar, and translator, who teaches online at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, from where he has a Ph.D. Taigen is the author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression, providing background for many of the Buddhist images. His other books include Visions of Awakening Space and Time and Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry. He is co-translator of a number of Zen texts including Dogen’s Extensive Record and Cultivating the Empty Field. Taigen now works to develop accessible practice and training programs in Chicago area through Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. See: [www,.ancientdragon.org].
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Thank so much for sharing this! I am reading the Three Pillars of Zen by Phillip Kapleau and am always searching for more information regarding Soto Zen and really enjoyed this post! Thank you and hope I see more here in your channel....
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Thank you for sharing. I am undertaking Jukai and Ango this week and any teachings I can receive are very appreciated.
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Sounds terribly confused.
Welcome to the world of zen!
@@CarvingTheDivine Its not Zen that's confused...its Leighton himself. He knows perfectly well that he's not supremely enlightened just by plunking himself down in Lotus posture. Progress on the path happens both gradually and suddenly...but it isn't called a 'path' for nothing.
@@Teller3448 For the record, your own ego is a problem. That’s not rudeness, just honesty. I’ve never cared one iota if another person is “enlightened” or not; it’s absurd to worry about it or try to call someone out based on your own uninformed opinion of them. You don’t know him nor do you know if he’s enlightened or not, so why is your opinion on that subject relevant? If you’ve any humility you’d admit that that’s the truth. It’s just words. Leighton was a asked a specific question and he gave a specific answer...based on decades of study and experience that I would wager far outstrip yours or mine.
@@TodayFreedom "For the record, your own ego is a problem."
You dont know what the problem is because...as you say...you are not even interested in enlightenment. This is something you have in common with the majority of Buddhist priests, who live in an insulated world of mandatory agreement with prevailing authority. This is called 'the religion business' where advancement is based on obedience...not attainment.
@@Teller3448 Don’t misquote me: I’m not interested in someone else’s enlightenment nor judging it. You come across as an exceptionally judgemental person....you must be a saint.