Vertaald door Rob Geleijnse. Dank u Rob! Leer en español Read in English Dit interview verscheen voor het eerst in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Ik wil, namens Sweeping Zen, Trycicle en Rafe Martin hartelijk bedanken voor ... Continue Reading »
Gracias Xavier Mesquida para traducir! Esta entrevista apareció publicada por primera vez en Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Me gustaría agradecer a Tricycle y Rafe Martin por dar permiso a Sweeping Zen para volver a ... Continue Reading »
Leer en español Read in Dutch This interview first appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. I'd like to thank Tricycle and Rafe Martin for giving Sweeping Zen permission to republish. Rafe Martin was born into the ... Continue Reading »
This piece first appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. I’m heading north on Interstate 390 to Rochester, New York, after a great October day of riding twisty rural back ... Continue Reading »
A talk from sesshin by Rafe Martin At the moment of enlightenment, after the Buddha-to-Be’s six years of exhaustive effort, going the limit, trying and trying with all he had, Mara appears before him ... Continue Reading »
By Rafe Martin Reprinted from the Fall 2004 edition of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly. Republished by permission of Melvin McCloud, editor at Buddhadharma and Shambhala Sun. My Zen teacher Roshi Philip Kapleau, died peacefully on ... Continue Reading »
A talk given by Rafe Martin at a Jataka sesshin, Casa Zen, San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan 10, 2011. Adapted by him from his book – Endless Path: Awakening within the Buddhist Imagination: ... Continue Reading »
When is a tiger not a tiger? When is a mountain more than a mountain? What is the sound of one hand clapping? The stories of this collection come from the Zen Buddhist tradition-- from tales ... Continue Reading »
Here's a new set of links to The Toledo Zen Center's site -- "Drinking Gourd" where they just posted a talk by me (The Black Hound Jataka) and a Q&A panel discussion after ... Continue Reading »
Here's a new set of links to The Toledo Zen Center's site -- "Drinking Gourd" where they just posted a talk by me (The Black Hound Jataka) and a Q&A panel discussion after ... Continue Reading »
This is a piece of mine called, "Car Bodhisattvas." I used a portion of it recently in a sesshin talk I gave at the Vermont Zen Center's Oct. 2010 at a working person's jataka ... Continue Reading »
Upaya Paramita — Perfection of Compassionate Skillful Means By Rafe Martin – from Endless Path: Awakening in the Buddhist Imagination – Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life. (North Atlantic Books, 2010.) This is ... Continue Reading »
The jataka tales—stories of the Buddha’s past lives (in both human and animal form)—were first said to have been told by the Buddha himself 2,500 years ago. Five hundred and fifty ... Continue Reading »
Rafe Martin is an internationally known storyteller and award-winning author whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek and USA Today. Rafe has appeared in thousands of schools, libraries, ... Continue Reading »
Rafe Martin (born 1946) is an internationally known storyteller and award-winning author whose work has been featured in Time, Newsweek and USA Today. Rafe has appeared in thousands of schools, libraries, festivals, and ... Continue Reading »
Established in 2009 as a grassroots initiative, Sweeping Zen is a digital archive of information on Zen Buddhism. Featuring in-depth interviews, an extensive database of biographies, news, articles, podcasts, teacher blogs, events, directories and more, this site is dedicated to offering the public a range of views in the sphere of Zen Buddhist thought. We are also endeavoring to continue creating lineage charts for all Western Zen lines, doing our own small part in advancing historical documentation on this fabulous import of an ancient tradition. Come on in with a tea or coffee. You're always bound to find something new.