"The Original Frontier" by Taiun Micheal Elliston, Abbot
Taiun Michael Elliston, Abbot ASZC, is currently preparing a compilation of his talks and discourses, to be published under the title “The Original Frontier”. Please check here for preview chapters as they become available.

 

 
Contents

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Introduction

“You can talk all day and never make them understand”

01.  The Four Noble Truths

02.  Another Zen Book?

03.  Intimations of Mortality from Early Childhood

04.  Exploring the Original Frontier

05.  The Three Treasures

 

A. Community

“You and me — communication”

01.  Right Conduct

02.  Sangha-Nature

03.  Community in Conflict

04.  Contemporary Zen

05.  Protocol as Dharma-Gate

06.  Clothes of Enlightenment

07.  Who Needs It?

08.  Encouraging Zen

09.  Observing Precepts          

 

B. Teaching

“We teach each other Buddhism”

01.  Right Discipline

02.  Dharma-Nature

03.  Why Soto Zen

04.  The Heart of Wisdom

05.  Teaching Zen

06. Learning Zen

 

C. Practice

“Your enlightenment will be greater than Buddha’s”

01.  Right Wisdom
02.  Buddha-Nature
03.  Meeting Buddha in Person
04.  Zen Meditation is Not
05.  Falling Asleep Staying Awake
06.  Doing and Non-doing
07.  Approaching Singularity
08.  Buddha’s Zen

 

D. Implications
“Do it your way”

01.  Abortion

02.  Addiction

03.  Creativity

04.  Crime

05.  Economics

06.  Education

07.  Family

08.  Belief

09.  Guilt

10.  Karma

11.  Killing

12.  Murder

13.  Opinion

14.  Peace

15.  Politics

16.  Rebirth

17.  Self

18.  Sex

 

 

 
Preview Chapters from "The Original Frontier"

Introduction Search

The Four Noble Truths
1/1/2004
...The Four Noble Truths, in brief, declare and define the existence, origin or cause, cessation, and the path leading to cessation, of suffering...

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Another Zen Book?
1/1/2004
"Some people are very proud of their understanding"

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Intimations of Mortality from Early Childhood
1/1/2004
...The most memorable parts of my formative years were spent on a small farm in southern Illinois with my immediate family, and in the Missouri Ozark mountains with my maternal grandparents, over the summers...

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EXPLORING THE ORIGINAL FRONTIER
1/1/2004
...Maybe I will come to the Zen Center with you...

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THE THREE TREASURES (Triloka)
1/1/2004
I take refuge in Buddha, the fully awakened one; I take refuge in Dharma, the compassionate teachings; I take refuge in Sangha, the harmonious community;

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Stream-Enterer
1/1/2004
Study the Way

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© 2005 Zenkai Taiun Michael Joseph Elliston, Abbot, Atlanta Soto Zen Center.  All rights Reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.  Teachers at established Zen Centers and accredited institutions of higher learning are hereby permitted to distribute photocopied excerpts accompanied by this copyright to their students, for purposes of education only.