Dharma Night - The Zen Masters Series



			The lineage of Sufi Ruhaniat International, founded by Murshid Samuel Lewis, is blessed to have a deep strain of Buddhist transmission woven into its heart. Both Nyogen Senzaki and Sokei-an Sasaki were of the same direct lineage as Soyen Shaku who introduced Buddhism to America at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.

Nyogen Senzaki was on the West Coast and Murshid Sam learned to perfect his skills in meditation and unraveling koans with him. Sokei-an Sasaki was a Zen teacher in New York City whom Samuel Lewis met in 1931. It was from him that he received the Dharma Transmission. Sasaki's method was soul-to-soul communication, a meeting in the Buddha nature that is present but un-awakended in most of us.

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Table of Contents for Dharma Night Classes

Each recording contains the full class as presented, including the silent meditation periods for those who wish to follow along with the actual pace of the classes. With most meditation periods placed at the end of a track, one has the option to skip forward without missing the other teachings. The audio recordings may be downloaded to be listened to and the video recordings will play on YouTube.

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In September and October of 2018, Murshid Wali Ali presented six more general
Dharma Night Classes, with Buddhist and other Dharma tradition teachings mixed with Sufi practice as well:
Classes 67-69 | Classes 70-72

There were few, if any, writings of Sokei-an available during Murshid Sam's lifetime. Now available, Wali Ali used this inspiring material as the basis for this series of classes. Texts used in these classes include:

Original Nature: Zen Comments on the Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra
by Sokei-an Sasaki

The Zen Eye: A Collection of Zen Talks
by Sokei-an Sasaki

Eloquent Silence: Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters
by Nyogen Senzaki

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

Holding the Lotus to the Rock: Autobiography of Sokei-an, America's First Zen Master
by Michael Hotz

Prajna Paramita Hridaya Sutra
translated by Namtrul Rimpoche

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