Dealing With Distractions And Building Concentration - Zen Talk With Daizan Roshi

In this talk, Zen teacher Daizan Roshi discusses how to deal with distractions in our meditation practice, and how to cultivate deeper concentration. He follows the advice of the Buddha, who said (as recorded in the Dhammapada), "The mind is fickle and flighty - it flies after fancies wherever it likes and is difficult indeed to restrain. But it's a great good to control the mind - a mind self-controlled is a source of great joy."

Reviews

Every so often, I feel the need/desire to go back to square one with my practice. I always learn something new. This talk helped me reorient and think about my practice in new ways. I appreciate your insight.

Thank you very much for encouraging me to focus more. It‘s a great talk with good examples.

Very clear explained. Thank you. I loved the comparison of the mind with a fish which is outside the water agitating its whole body because it has lost its center, in this case the water. Our mind may be agitated like that in big cities as well. Meditating on one point brings us clarity and calms the mind kindly. __/ __

Very useful

To the point and emphatically delivered😃 Thank you Daizan🙏🙏🙏