Podcasts by Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)
Dharma talks by senior teachers, including Sensei John Pulleyn, Sensei Donna Kowal, and Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The Rochester Zen Center was founded in 1966 by Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of 20th century Zen classic, The Three Pillars of Zen.
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The Precepts: Beyond Pride and Perfection from 2023-11-25T19:03:10
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated Transcript
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Teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck #2 from 2023-11-03T19:17:20
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on the teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck (Part 2). ...
Teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck #1 from 2023-11-02T19:12:11
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on the teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck (Part 1). ...
Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart #4 from 2023-11-01T19:08:18
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 4). Sourc...
Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart #3 from 2023-10-31T19:05:02
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 3). Sourc...
Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart #2 from 2023-10-30T18:59:22
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 2). Sourc...
Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart #1 from 2023-10-29T18:58:26
November 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 1). Sourc...
Coming to the Path Talk by Ven. Kanji Argetsinger from 2023-10-22T15:16
Coming to the Path Talk by Ven. Kanji Argetsinger.Automated Transcript
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Establishing and Sustaining Zen Practice from 2023-10-15T16:39:42
Practice and our lives are not two. Insight comes when the thinking mind falls silent. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
Shoyoroku (Book of Serenity) #89, “Dongshan’s ‘No Grass’” from 2023-09-30T02:32:16
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.Listen
Teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck #3 from 2023-09-29T02:27:26
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Be...
Teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck #2 from 2023-09-28T02:28:46
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Be...
Teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck #1 from 2023-09-27T02:30:56
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Be...
Teachings of Zen Master Foyan from 2023-09-26T02:26:18
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Zen Master Foyan. Sources: Z...
Teachings of Zen Master Yuanwu from 2023-09-25T02:27
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Zen Master Yuanwu. Sources: ...
Work Practice from 2023-09-17T15:44:26
How to engage your practice in the midst of activity, whether it involves manual work or intellectually-demanding tasks. Resources: Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks...
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Working With Obstructions in Our Zazen from 2023-09-10T15:53:20
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Reading from Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunarat...
Meditation: Why Bother? from 2023-09-09T15:45:20
September 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Meditation: Why Bother? Developing the Right Attitude. Read...
Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau: Mumonkan #38“A Buffalo Goes Through a Window” from 2023-08-20T22:17:15
From October 1975 Sesshin, Day 1. A commentary on the koan and the teacher- student dynamic. Played on Founder’s Day – August 20, 2023. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau.Listen
Mumonkan #11,“Joshu and Two Hermits” from 2023-07-28T18:33:24
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
“Zen Essence”#2 from 2023-07-27T18:21:54
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
A commentary on Zen Essence, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. ...
“Zen Essence”#1 from 2023-07-26T17:29:54
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
A commentary on Zen Essence, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. ...
Ta Hui and“Swampland Flowers”#3 from 2023-07-25T17:21:36
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
A commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Ma...
Ta Hui and“Swampland Flowers”#2 from 2023-07-24T17:14:37
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
A commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Ma...
Ta Hui and“Swampland Flowers”#1 from 2023-07-23T16:37:17
July 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Roshi Kjolhede begins this teisho with biographical highlights of Zen...
Beyond Duality from 2023-07-16T14:38:01
When we let go of all the ways we discriminate between self and other, we open up to the suffering of all beings, and to the transformative power of love. Sources: Anthony De Mello, The Way to L...
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Coming to the Path Talk by Bill Lindenfelser from 2023-07-09T15:49:39
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The Black Lives Matter Flag–To Hang Or Not to Hang? from 2023-06-19T14:57:47
Comments about the Center’s Board of Trustees recent decision not to display the Black Lives Matter flag (or other non-Dharma-symbol flags) on the Arnold Park building. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjol...
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #6 from 2023-06-16T16:27:01
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on dialogues between Bankei and students (Part 2). Source:...
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #5 from 2023-06-15T16:18:52
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on dialogues between Bankei and students (Part 1). Source:...
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #4 from 2023-06-14T16:13:38
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Bankei’s public talk delivered during a training period...
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #3 from 2023-06-13T16:09
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Bankei’s public talk delivered during a training period...
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #2 from 2023-06-12T16:00:18
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the life of 17th-century Japanese Zen Master Bankei Yot...
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei #1 from 2023-06-11T15:53:36
June 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the life of 17th-century Japanese Zen Master Bankei Yot...
Equanimity and Compassion from 2023-06-04T16:03:46
Two of the four Brahma-viharas. Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.Automated Transcript
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Taking the Precepts: An Introduction from 2023-05-21T14:39:21
How do we embody the Precepts in our everyday lives? An overview of morality in Zen and the RZC’s Taking the Precepts Ceremony. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal.Listen
Discovering Awe in Just This from 2023-05-14T14:32:19
Exploring the intersection between Zen practice and neuroscience on our capacity for experiencing awe in ordinary activities. Commentary on Dacher Keltner’s “The Quiet Profundity of Everyday Awe...
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Not Too Hard, Not Too Soft: Finding the Sweet Spot in Practice from 2023-05-07T16:19:09
May 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Question: Should I try or should I not try? Do I apply effort in pract...
Making the Most of Each Moment of Sesshin from 2023-05-06T15:59:21
May 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
How to make the most of chanting, talks, and personalized instruction d...
The Dalai Lama and the Boy from 2023-04-27T19:16:12
Bodhin-roshi’s comments on the controversy surrounding the February video of “the Dalai Lama and the boy.” (Correction: the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, not 1951 as was stated in the talk.) Ta...
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Instructions to the Cook from 2023-04-23T14:40:52
A look at Master Dogen’s treatise ‘Instructions to the Cook,’ with reflections on my own experiences as a cook, particularly at the Zen Center, as well as on work practice in general. Dharma Tal...
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Coming to the Path Talk by Rebecca Gilbert from 2023-04-16T14:45:35
The layering of suffering. Coming to the Path Talk by Rebecca Gilbert.Automated Transcri...
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Stop Fixing Yourself from 2023-04-09T14:38:07
Further exploration of practice off the mat. (Continuing the theme of the teisho of February 19, 2023.) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
Mumonkan #13, Tokusan Carries His Bowls from 2023-03-31T16:49:09
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Mumonkan #13, Tokusan Carries His Bowls. Teisho by Sensei John Pull...
Illuminating Silence #5 from 2023-03-30T16:46:17
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master...
Illuminating Silence #4 from 2023-03-29T16:39:53
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master...
Illuminating Silence #3 from 2023-03-28T16:36:05
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master...
Illuminating Silence #2 from 2023-03-27T16:30:20
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master...
Illuminating Silence #1 from 2023-03-26T15:36:53
March 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master...
A Buddhist View of Non-violence and the War in Ukraine from 2023-03-21T16:22:12
Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Automated Transcript
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Skillful Effort, Skillful Concentration from 2023-03-19T14:36:47
Zen practice is a method, not a technique. As a result, practice can sometimes feel frustrating since there’s no step-by-step instruction manual telling us “Exactly What to Do.” (Nor will there ...
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Practicing with Our Whole Being from 2023-03-05T17:19:07
We’re socially conditioned to lead with the head, however Zen is not a mental activity. How do we get our practice into the body-mind? Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal.Listen
Blue Cliff Record #21“Chimon and the Lotus.” from 2023-02-25T20:11:43
February 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Blue Cliff Record #21 “Chimon and the Lotus.” Teisho by Sense...
“Attaining the Way”by Master Sheng Yen from 2023-02-24T20:06:51
February 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of ...
“Subtle Wisdom”by Master Sheng Yen #2 from 2023-02-23T20:01:29
February 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultiv...
“Subtle Wisdom”by Master Sheng Yen #1 from 2023-02-22T18:01:40
February 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultiv...
Practice Off the Mat from 2023-02-19T15:37:24
Zen practice has the potential to change our lives for the better. So what are we doing when we’re not facing a wall? (See also the teisho Stop Fixing Yourself.) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.<...
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It’s OK to Suffer from 2023-02-12T17:02:47
The usual human response to trouble and uncertainty is anxiety and resistance. How can we learn to live wholeheartedly with things as they are? Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
Coming to the Path Talk by Jonathan Hager from 2023-02-05T17:14:06
A senior student speaks candidly about his time at the Center, including his intense efforts to stay with Zen practice through severe depression and cancer. Coming to the Path Talk by Jonathan H...
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Marsha Linehan and Radical Acceptance from 2023-01-29T16:46:45
Marsha Linehan is the creator of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) which was the first form of psychotherapy proven effective for suicidal people with personality disorders. Her work was driven...
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“Song of Mind”by Sheng Yen, Part 2 from 2023-01-13T20:18:45
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
“Song of Mind”by Sheng Yen, Part 1 from 2023-01-12T20:14:22
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
“Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away”by Ajahn Chah #4 from 2023-01-11T20:11:11
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachi...
“Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away”by Ajahn Chah #3 from 2023-01-10T20:07:43
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachi...
“Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away”by Ajahn Chah #2 from 2023-01-09T20:03:43
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachi...
“Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away”by Ajahn Chah #1 from 2023-01-08T19:56:03
January 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachi...
Zen and Religion from 2022-12-18T15:54:47
Separating Dharma from Dogma. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated Transcript
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The Privilege of Being Present at Transitions from 2022-12-04T19:40:12
Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Automated Transcript
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Working with the Urge to Consume from 2022-12-04T14:34:48
Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal.Automated Transcript
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The Precepts, Part 2: The Ten Cardinal Precepts from 2022-11-26T14:29:26
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated Transcript
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Thanksgiving Advice from 2022-11-23T20:08:15
Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Automated Transcript
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The Precepts, Part 1: The Three Poisons, Repentance, The Three Refuges, and The Three Pure Precepts from 2022-11-13T15:17:59
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated Transcript
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Hekiganroku #86, Ummon’s“Everybody has their own light” from 2022-11-04T14:12
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Description: What is my light? Why can’t I see it? How do I s...
The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 5 from 2022-11-03T14:32:53
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Description: Zen practice is experiential — we each have to f...
The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 4 from 2022-11-02T14:28:46
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Description: Pride in our good deeds reinforces our sense of ...
The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 3 from 2022-11-01T14:19:35
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Description: A master once said, “The taste of Zen is pain in...
The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 2 from 2022-10-31T14:10:15
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Description: Practising right where we are. Source(s): Meetin...
The Teachings of Maurine Stuart-roshi 1 from 2022-10-30T14:42:15
November 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Description: Biographical material Source(s): Meetings with R...
Zen Destruction and Aspiration from 2022-10-09T14:41
How Zen practice deconstructs the self while the Dharma nourishes the Self, with a commentary on the koan “Linji’s Blind Donkey”. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Blue Cliff Record #53,“Hyakujo and the Wild Duck” from 2022-09-30T14:37:23
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #2 from 2022-09-29T14:35:01
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Master Bassui from Mud and Water (trans. by Arthur Braverman) #1 from 2022-09-28T17:32:37
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Master Bassui from The Three Pillars of Zen from 2022-09-27T14:29:06
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Master Foyan from Instant Zen: Waking Up In the Present (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #2 from 2022-09-26T14:25:29
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Master Foyan from Instant Zen: Waking Up In the Present (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #1 from 2022-09-25T14:19:06
September 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Teacher Authorization from 2022-09-18T13:47:41
A look at the sanctioning next month of Donna Kowal and at my stepping aside, featuring Case 40 in the Mumonkan, “Kicking Over the Water Bottle.” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Faith: Passages from“And There Was Light”by Jacques Lusseran from 2022-09-11T13:55:55
September 2022 2-Day Sesshin, Day 2
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.Listen
The Teachings of Empty Cloud (Xu Yun) followed by Q&A from 2022-09-10T13:52:04
September 2022 2-Day Sesshin, Day 1
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.Listen
OK with Things as They Are from 2022-08-21T15:34:40
By trying to wall off the inevitable pain we encounter, we make it hurt more and last longer. Acceptance and practice show us another way. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
Teisho by Roshi Kapleau: Hekiganroku #38,“Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal” from 2022-08-14T15:05:33
From December 1979 Sesshin, Day 7. Played on Founder’s Day – August 14, 2022. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Listen
Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #3 from 2022-07-29T14:42:58
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #2 from 2022-07-28T14:40:44
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) #1 from 2022-07-27T14:38:47
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #3 from 2022-07-26T14:36:27
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #2 from 2022-07-25T05:33:22
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen: Kokushi, Muso (trans. by Thomas Cleary) #1 from 2022-07-24T14:38:59
July 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Seeing Into Space, Seeing Into Mind from 2022-07-17T15:04:12
The images revealed by the Webb Telescope will vastly extend our knowledge. Wisdom, however, grows from looking inward. Who is seeing that projection of the mind we call the universe? Teisho by ...
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Zen Buddhism–Religion, or Not? from 2022-07-10T14:45:02
The book Buddhism, by Smith and Novak, identifies six aspects of religion. How many fit with Zen? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Forbearance: the Third Paramita from 2022-06-19T16:25:46
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.Automated Transcript
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Shoyoroku # 14,“Attendent Huo Serves Tea” from 2022-06-11T14:53:18
June 2022 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Mumonkan # 9,“Daitsu Chisho Buddha” from 2022-06-10T14:50:31
June 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
The Practice of Zen by C.C. Chang #2 from 2022-06-09T14:48:39
June 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
The Practice of Zen by C.C. Chang #1 from 2022-06-08T14:46:41
June 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Listen
Learning to Want What We Have from 2022-04-17T15:29:48
Advice from a 21st century Stoic. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated Transcript
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Coming to the Path Talk by Jeanette Prince-Cherry from 2022-04-10T20:27:05
The leader of the Louisville Zen Center and a Rochester Zen Center staff member, gives her account of coming to the Dharma and to the Center. Coming to the Path Talk by Jeanette Prince-Cherry.
March 2022 Sesshin, Day 7: Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Joko Beck from 2022-04-02T14:33:21
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 6: Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Joko Beck from 2022-04-01T14:30:51
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 5: Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Joko Beck from 2022-03-31T14:30:35
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 4: Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Guo Gu from 2022-03-30T14:30:30
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 3: Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Guo Gu from 2022-03-29T14:30:52
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 2: Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Guo Gu from 2022-03-28T14:30:04
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March 2022 Sesshin, Day 1: Silent Illumination: A Chan Buddhist Path to Natural Awakening by Guo Gu from 2022-03-27T14:30:31
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Practice and the Inner Critical Voice from 2022-03-20T14:35:31
Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.Automated Transcript
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Ups and Downs of Practice from 2022-03-13T13:30:59
Cultivating Openness and Awareness in the face of habit energies that pull us in the other direction. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
Ukraine and Russia: What Would Buddha Do? from 2022-03-10T18:44:15
Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Automated Transcript
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Russia Invades Ukraine from 2022-03-06T15:30
With Russia’s invasion the world has changed. Facing up to uncertainty and suffering. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Listen
February 2022 Sesshin, Day 4: Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts’an’s Classic by Master Sheng Yen from 2022-02-26T15:15:06
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February 2022 Sesshin, Day 3: Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts’an’s Classic by Master Sheng Yen from 2022-02-25T15:15:12
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February 2022 Sesshin, Day 2: Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts’an’s Classic by Master Sheng Yen from 2022-02-24T15:15:24
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February 2022 Sesshin, Day 1: Faith in Mind: A Commentary on Seng Ts’an’s Classic by Master Sheng Yen from 2022-02-23T15:15:24
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Zen and the Body (Part 2) from 2022-02-13T21:29:41
Working with the body and attitudes towards the body in Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automate...
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Zen and the Body (Part 1) from 2022-02-06T17:46:24
Body awareness as a key to Zen practice. A teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated transcript
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Advice From a Zen Fool from 2022-01-31T18:00:18
A"CoronaCast"by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.Automated transcript
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Restlessness from 2022-01-23T17:16:38
The compulsive and unsettled tenor of modern life was diagnosed well over 300 years ago by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal who wrote,"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to...
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January 2022 Sesshin, Day 7: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui from 2022-01-15T15:47:31
OnSwampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui,(trans. by J.C.Cleary). A teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
January 2022 Sesshin, Day 6: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui from 2022-01-14T15:35:11
OnSwampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui,(trans. by J.C.Cleary). A teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
January 2022 Sesshin, Day 5:“Being Dharma”by Ajahn Chah from 2022-01-13T15:26:42
OnBeing Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachingsby Ajahn Chah (trans. by Peter Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
January 2022 Sesshin, Day 4:“Being Dharma”by Ajahn Chah from 2022-01-12T15:17:40
OnBeing Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachingsby Ajahn Chah (trans. by Peter Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Listen
January 2022 Sesshin, Day 3:“Everyday Zen: Love and Work”by Charlotte Joko Beck from 2022-01-11T14:35:03
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated transcript
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January 2022 Sesshin, Day 2:“Nothing Special: Living Zen”by Charlotte Joko Beck from 2022-01-10T22:45:26
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January 2022 Sesshin, Day 1:“Nothing Special: Living Zen”by Charlotte Joko Beck from 2022-01-09T22:45:12
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Faith, Doubt, Determination from 2021-12-19T13:47:16
The three essentials of Zen practice. A teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.Automated transcript
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CoronaCast: December 18 from 2021-12-19T00:46:17
Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede's latest podcast episode: a blur of change.Automated transcript
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December 2021 Sesshin, Day 2: Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi from 2021-12-12T17:22:53
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November 2021 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #16,“The Sound of the Bell” from 2021-11-13T17:36:16
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September 2021 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan # 17,“The National Teacher Calls Three Times” from 2021-10-01T14:41:56
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Letting Go of Fear-Based Strategies from 2021-09-19T15:36:34
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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Like individuals, all nations and worlds pass. By fully facing this, with daily practice we can breathe life and even joy into our lives.Listen
Anatta: The Teaching of Not-Self from 2021-08-16T00:31:03
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July 2021 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #4,“Tokusan Carries His Bundle” from 2021-07-30T16:31:02
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Untangling the Knots, Engaging with the Practice from 2021-07-18T17:31:31
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Ordinary Mind is the Way, Case 19 in the Mumonkan from 2021-06-29T16:29:56
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Juneteenth and the Work of Ultimate Liberation from 2021-06-20T18:45:38
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June 2021 Sesshin, Day 4: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois from 2021-06-08T17:24:15
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June 2021 Sesshin, Day 3: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois from 2021-06-07T17:20:19
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June 2021 Sesshin, Day 2: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois from 2021-06-06T17:08:01
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No Teachers, No Students, Nothing To Be Taught from 2021-05-30T20:53:15
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May 2021 Sesshin, Day 2: “The Third Turning of the Wheel: A Conversation with Joanna Macy” from 2021-05-09T20:52:40
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May 2021 Sesshin, Day 1: World as Lover, World as Self by Joanna Macy from 2021-05-08T20:48:32
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The Illusion of Human Identity from 2021-04-25T22:36:01
The Heart Sutra (Prajna Paramita) reminds us that none of the five skandhas (constituents of personhood) have any substantiality to them. To cling to any imagined identity, then, is to invite su...
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April 2021 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2021-04-07T14:03:32
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Embracing Nothingness–But In What Way? from 2021-02-21T17:21:46
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The Long Game: Persistence and Working With a Teacher from 2021-02-08T00:40:21
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Sangha Sculpting Sangha from 2021-01-24T17:17:55
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #14,“Ummon’s Teaching in Reference to Oneness” from 2021-01-15T20:43:43
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 6: Teachings and Life of Zen Master Hakuin from 2021-01-14T20:37:28
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 5: Teachings and Life of Zen Master Hakuin from 2021-01-13T20:35:19
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 3: Teachings and Life of Zen Master Hakuin from 2021-01-11T20:32:22
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 2: Teachings and Life of Zen Master Hakuin from 2021-01-10T20:30:28
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January 2021 Online Sesshin, Day 1: Teachings and Life of Zen Master Hakuin from 2021-01-09T20:26:17
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National Crisis, National Opportunity from 2021-01-03T20:47:19
Atlantic writer George Packer sees the new year as a “plastic hour,” a rare chance for the U.S. to transform sickness and dysfunction into renewal. This mirrors the catalytic potential of person...
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Working with an Untrustworthy Brain from 2020-12-27T17:32:03
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Pandemic Time Melting and Freezing from 2020-12-20T19:00:50
2020 put many of us in a time warp that will run well into 2021. What’s going on, really? And how does daily Zen practice help us ride the waves?
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December 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2: Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein from 2020-12-13T20:36:41
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Enlightenment and Siddhartha from 2020-12-06T19:13:02
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A look back at the waves–and people’s reactions to them–in the last pandemic, so remarkably similar to today.
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Jukai–the Ceremony of Taking the Precepts from 2020-11-28T16:54:07
A look at the several elements of the ceremony. The ten cardinal precepts are examined in the context of the “five trials” of 2020: the pandemic; its financial consequences; the intensifying eff...
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Presidents and the Flux of Character from 2020-11-15T16:32:31
Biden and Trump are dramatically different in character, but they have in common, with us, the True Self that is No-self. And all of us are continuously evolving and devolving through the world ...
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November 2020 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) from 2020-11-11T16:36:12
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Looking at the intersecting national crises of 2020 as an opportunity for us to evolve, reading from a July column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
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October 2020 Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku) from 2020-10-05T14:06:19
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Even If the World Is Ending, So What? from 2020-09-20T15:16:38
The situation in the U.S. and around the world may be more bleak than ever. But consider: as individuals we manage to carry on with the very bleakest of futures: our own certain death. Rather th...
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September 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2: Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soko Morinaga from 2020-09-13T18:06:34
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Dharma talk by John Pulleyn: Looking at ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) as presented by Russ Harris in his book, The Happiness Trap, and how it fits with Zen practice.
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Whatever adversities we white people have suffered in our lives, structural racism isn’t one, and in that sense, at least, we’ve been privileged. We might deny having that advantage, or distance...
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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field from 2020-07-31T20:36:09
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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 3, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field from 2020-07-30T20:34:02
“You must be broadminded, whole, without relying on others.” Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Poi...
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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field from 2020-07-29T20:30:42
The bright, boundless field — what is it? “Degrading situations” and how to avoid pursuing them. Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen D...
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July 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Master Hongzhi’s Cultivating the Empty Field from 2020-07-28T20:26:45
The life of Master Hongzhi Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991
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A treatise on enlightenment and practice by the Tang dynasty Chan master, a disciple of the great Ma Tsu.
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East-West Cultural Contrasts and the Pandemic from 2020-07-19T22:13:51
The U.S. is faring much worse with the coronavirus than the East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, where people also are much more agreeable to wearing face masks. These differences may be se...
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Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: Learning patience in the face of our unwillingness to be with things as they are.
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The Life and Teaching of Peace Pilgrim from 2020-06-28T15:45:43
After dedicating herself to social service for five years, the woman who would later identify herself only as Peace Pilgrim had a spontaneous awakening while walking in the woods. Then she spent...
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The pandemic and its massive economic consequences, when laid atop accelerating climate change, presents a perfect storm of suffering. But with the understanding that there is an Intelligence be...
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June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 4: Blue Cliff Record #29,“It Goes Along with Everything Else” from 2020-06-11T18:25:58
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June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2020-06-10T18:18:52
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 2: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2020-06-09T18:16:56
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2020 Online Sesshin, Day 1: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2020-06-08T18:13:06
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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CoronaCast: June 4 from 2020-06-04T19:00:25
This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha.
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100,000 Deaths and Our Cities in Flames from 2020-05-31T16:03:32
The pandemic shoved the unsurpassable threat of climate change out of the news, and now the outbreak of demonstrations in cities all over the country has seized our attention. Today we memoriali...
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CoronaCast: May 28 from 2020-05-28T18:59:43
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.
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Pandemics: A High-Altitude View from 2020-05-24T21:18:15
An overview of history’s most devastating pandemics, and a look at the timelessness of Camus’ The Plague.
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CoronaCast: May 13 from 2020-05-13T15:32:24
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.
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The Zero Point Turned Inside-Out from 2020-05-10T17:56:27
There is just this, here, now. That is our freedom. Yet we can live it while acknowledging our interdependence with others, being grateful to those before us and around us while also responsible...
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Giving Up to Live Fully from 2020-05-03T22:50:21
How much might the fear of losing oneself–of not being–drive our longing to leave home even during a pandemic? The denial of death and the craving for life: two sides of one coin. (Contributions...
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Following a Schedule During Quarantine from 2020-05-02T22:47:47
Dharma talk by Trueman Taylor: Advice from an astronaut and others on maintaining a consistent schedule. Also: excerpts and comments from Roshi Robert Aitken’s book Encouraging Words.
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CoronaCast: April 30 from 2020-04-30T18:15:48
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.
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Outrage and the Pandemic from 2020-04-26T14:17:56
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: Staying in touch with our shared humanity rather than indulging in outrage and separation.
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CoronaCast: April 23 from 2020-04-23T18:29:27
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.
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CoronaCast: April 15 from 2020-04-15T20:41:41
Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.
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Blue Cliff Record #87:“Medicine and Sickness Correspond to Each Other” from 2020-04-12T16:27:18
Instead of engaging the coronavirus simply on a “war” footing, can we see ways in which it is educating us–right now? A pandemic reveals the consequences of our misuses of the natural world and ...
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CoronaCast from Roshi: April 9 from 2020-04-09T15:33:36
As the pandemic and social isolation stretch on, Roshi speaks again to the Sangha from his kitchen table.
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Blue Cliff Record #3:“Baso’s Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha,”Sensei Amala Wrightson from 2020-04-05T06:48:06
A teisho by Amala-sensei, recorded in Auckland on March 10 and played in the Rochester zendo on April 5.
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Covid Solitude, Dislocation, and Dis-illusionment from 2020-03-30T00:17:56
In his 2010 book The Active Life, acclaimed educator Parker Palmer cites three opportunities for painful growth that any of us are likely to face during our life: disillusionment, dislocation, a...
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CoronaCast from Roshi: March 26 from 2020-03-26T11:32:59
As the pandemic ramps up, with isolation in place, Roshi speaks to the Sangha from his kitchen table.
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Impermanence and the Virus from 2020-03-22T21:24:27
The current crisis can help us develop a more immediate awareness of the Buddha’s fundamental teaching and encourage us to find our refuge in opening to life as it is. – Dharma talk by John Pul...
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Human Contradictions Exposed by the Pandemic from 2020-03-15T13:34:59
Covid-19 is highlighting human contradictions: the dilemma of social distancing vs. social solidarity, as well as the tension between our ignoble reactions (e.g., panic hoarding) and our noble r...
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Preparing Ourselves for the Coronovirus for the Sake of Others from 2020-03-08T13:25:14
A Mahayana take: it’s not just about “me” and “my.” Also, some words about worry, stress, and anxiety.
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February 2020 Sesshin, Day 4, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) from 2020-02-29T14:00:31
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn
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February 2020 Sesshin, Day 3, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) from 2020-02-28T13:58:42
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February 2020 Sesshin, Day 2, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) from 2020-02-27T13:55:17
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February 2020 Sesshin, Day 1, John Pulleyn: Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) from 2020-02-26T13:50:56
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn
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Solitude Misused: So Near, Yet So Far Away from 2020-02-23T15:22:40
The amazing case of the 21st-century “Hermit of Maine (The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel),” whose 27 years of complete seclusion, in which he survived through burglaries, is not remot...
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Coming to the Path Talk by Dené Redding from 2020-02-09T16:44:18
A Sunday talk about coming to the Dharma and to the Center.
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The Dharma of Driving from 2020-01-26T22:09:09
Everyday driving as a practice field for mindfulness and a test of non-reactivity and other Buddhist values.
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Twenty-eight Benefits of Meditation from 2020-01-19T18:03:12
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #23,“Hofuku Points to Myohocho” from 2020-01-11T16:44:02
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 6: The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary) from 2020-01-10T16:42:27
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 5: The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary) from 2020-01-09T16:40:43
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 4: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2020-01-08T16:38:57
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 3: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2020-01-07T16:37:12
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 2: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2020-01-06T16:35:22
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2020 Sesshin, Day 1: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2020-01-05T16:32:24
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Nuturing Self-control Through the Social Emotions from 2019-12-29T14:19:35
A presentation of studies suggesting that gratitude, compassion, and decent pride are features of morality that foster self-control and perseverance more than do will-power and grit.
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Out With the Old, In With–What? from 2019-12-15T18:06:27
Stepping back to look at the massive national and global changes we’re living through. All bets are off, yet we have Zen practice to help us ride the process and transform crisis into opportunit...
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December 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) from 2019-12-08T16:33:06
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
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December 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) from 2019-12-07T16:24:18
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
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Jukai and the Internet from 2019-11-30T14:08:55
An overview of today’s ceremony of Receiving the Precepts, with a look at how the Internet adds further challenges in upholding the Ten Cardinal Precepts.
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The Buddhist Precepts in the Context of Environmentalism from 2019-11-17T14:01:11
With our annual ceremony of Receiving the Precepts (Jukai) coming up, here Roshi applies those precepts to the growing threat of climate change and how we might reduce the harm we are inevitably...
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Shoyoroku #32,“Yangshan’s‘Mind and Environment’” from 2019-11-09T16:01:32
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2019-11-08T15:59:33
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2019-11-07T15:58:08
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2019-11-06T15:56:35
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) from 2019-11-05T15:54:57
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) from 2019-11-04T15:53:05
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November 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) from 2019-11-03T15:43:41
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn:“Get Over Yourself” from 2019-10-27T13:01:22
Working to disarm the self.
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Philip Kapleau: Planting Seeds While Trailing Vines from 2019-10-20T15:04:02
A report on the Duke University conference celebrating the installation of Roshi Kapleau’s archives. Roshi Bodhin focuses on the unique challenges Kapleau faced–and we continue to face–in adapti...
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 7, Amala-sensei: Ziyong’s Ship of Compassion from 2019-10-05T15:54:41
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 6, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat from 2019-10-04T15:52:43
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 5, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat from 2019-10-03T15:51
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat from 2019-10-02T15:48:55
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 3, Amala-sensei: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat from 2019-10-01T15:46:02
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 2, Amala-sensei: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman from 2019-09-30T15:38:44
Teachings of Maurine Stuart
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October 2019 Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman from 2019-09-29T15:33:10
Teachings of Maurine Stuart
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Zazen As Pure Science Experiment from 2019-09-22T13:34:07
The dichotomy of science and religion, empiricism and direct experience, falls apart in the practice of Zen. Curiosity, wonder, investigation–these are the essentials of both science and the mys...
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What If Global Warming Is Irreversible? from 2019-09-15T12:44:09
If it is, how would that change our behavior? Each one of us will die someday anyway, so how do we work with that? Jonathan Franzen presents the worst-case scenario, but then there are other poi...
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September 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students, by Robert Aitken from 2019-09-07T15:28:21
Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka
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Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau, November 1976 Sesshin, Day 5: Mumonkan #8“Keichu’s Cart” from 2019-08-18T13:30:39
Teisho by Roshi Philip Kaleau, played on Founder’s Day – August, 18, 2019.
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Global Buddhism: A Display of Emptiness from 2019-08-11T12:33:36
Based on a 2017 Tricycle article by Kurt Spellmeyer: “Globalism 3.0: The Secret to World Harmony Isn’t Oneness. It’s multiplicity.”
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #80,“Joshu’s“A Newborn Baby”” from 2019-08-03T13:27:10
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #10,“Sozan and Poor Seizei” from 2019-08-02T13:26:41
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) from 2019-07-31T13:26:12
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) from 2019-07-30T13:24:55
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) from 2019-07-29T13:21:38
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Chanting as Zen Practice from 2019-07-28T13:20:23
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Zendo Air Conditioning and Won Buddhism from 2019-07-21T14:52:43
First Half: Our recent efforts to cool the zendo in sweltering weather. Second Half: Won Buddhism, a Korean strain of the Dharma.
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The Blindness of Other-ist Views from 2019-06-23T14:33:50
Conceptualizing people of conflicting political views or of different race, ethnicity, or gender as “other” leads us to more easily react with hostility to what they say, especially in the anony...
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #44,“Kasan’s‘Beating the Drum'” from 2019-06-15T17:34:42
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #7,“Joshu’s‘Wash Your Bowl'” from 2019-06-14T17:33:31
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) from 2019-06-13T17:32:20
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) from 2019-06-12T17:31:07
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) from 2019-06-11T17:29:03
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) from 2019-06-09T15:50:48
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Practice and Faith Nourishing Each Other from 2019-06-02T14:28:07
In Zen, faith grows through practice experience, even as faith sustains practice. They co-evolve continuously, sustaining each other. This is Hakuin’s “oneness of cause and effect,” out of which...
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Coming to the Path Talk by Sudama Ngo from 2019-05-26T12:38:48
Sudama, an ordained priest at the Center, gave this account of coming to the Dharma and coming to the Center. For more of her story, see these two Zen Bow articles: https://www.rzc.org/wp-conte...
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Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka,“Responding and Resilience in Parenting” from 2019-05-12T18:54:45
Based on a New York Times article “Which is Better; Rewards or Punishments? Neither” by Heather Turgeon. It describes a middle way of engaging with children, essentially based on responding out...
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Conspiracy Theories: Why Believe Them? from 2019-04-28T17:50:09
Recently we’ve seen conspiracy theories gaining wider currency in our country, which is just the latest surge in a long history of such theories. What spawns such ideas, and why do so many peopl...
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Where Christ and Bodhidharma Meet from 2019-04-21T12:59:08
An Easter Sunday look at apophatic theology, the Christian view of God as essentially unknowable or ineffable, which also insists that human language is inadequate to describe God. This insight ...
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #2,“Hyakujo’s Fox”Part 2 from 2019-04-06T18:05:31
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #2,“Hyakujo’s Fox”Part 1 from 2019-04-05T18:04
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) from 2019-04-04T18:02:29
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel) from 2019-04-03T17:58:24
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel) from 2019-04-02T17:56:58
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel) from 2019-04-01T17:55:30
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Bankei Zen (trans. by Peter Haskel) from 2019-03-31T17:42:41
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Friendship: A Remedy for Cultural Disruption and Loneliness from 2019-03-17T19:03:18
Those who perpetrate mass shootings such as the one in New Zealand last week are often “loners.” But more people than ever in our country and elsewhere, while more “connected” than ever via soci...
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The Value of Getting Lost from 2019-03-10T15:06:46
Losing our bearings in the world, either literally or figuratively, can provoke anxiety, but it also opens us to new vistas. Zazen at its best draws us into this state of wonder-ing, where we ha...
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March 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Everyday Zen, by Charlotte Joko Beck from 2019-03-03T15:58:24
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
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March 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Everyday Zen, by Charlotte Joko Beck from 2019-03-02T15:51:16
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor
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Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal, “Dharma and Depression–Part 2” from 2019-02-17T15:47:02
Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal
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Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn:“Why Buddhism Is True” from 2019-02-10T13:32:41
Commentary on the book, Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright – a look at Buddhism from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology.
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Secular Creeds as Substitutes for Religion from 2019-01-27T16:28:01
In his article “America’s New Religions,” Andrew Sullivan argues that all of us–conservatives, liberals, and even atheists–have our “religions”: belief systems, ideologies, or tribal affiliation...
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #6,“The Buddha Holds Up a Flower” from 2019-01-12T19:03:19
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #5,“Kyogen’s Man Up a Tree” from 2019-01-11T19:00:53
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 5: Blue Cliff Record #61,“Fuketsu’s One Particle of Dust” from 2019-01-10T18:59:40
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 4: Discourse of Master Hsu Yun from The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C.Chang) from 2019-01-09T18:54:32
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Master Hakuin–Selected Writings ( trans. Yampolski) from 2019-01-08T16:45:02
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 2: Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. Arthur Braverman) from 2019-01-07T14:51:56
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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January 2019 Sesshin, Day 1: Short Autobiographies of Two Chinese Zen Masters from 2019-01-06T14:44:04
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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The Zen Poetry of Ryokan from 2018-12-16T16:22:31
Ryokan was an eccentric 18th-century enlightened Zen hermit-monk who is still beloved in Japan for his poetry. In this collection of his verses, One Robe, One Bowl, he captures both the beauty ...
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December 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook from 2018-12-08T13:33:38
Dharma talk by John Pulleyn
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December 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook from 2018-12-07T13:48:44
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn
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December 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings, by Ajahn Chah from 2018-12-05T13:45:17
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn
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Mumonkan #32,“A Non-Buddhist Questions the Buddha” from 2018-12-02T17:10:24
A non-Buddhist comes to awakening before the Buddha, sitting in silence, while his longtime disciple Ananda, standing in attendance, remains dumbfounded. How notions of identity can bind us. Who...
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Jukai, Buddhist (Non-)Identity, and the Power of Vows from 2018-11-24T18:21:25
The ceremony of Jukai (Taking the Precepts) is basically an initiation into the Dharma. To be a Buddhist is to commit to aligning oneself with what is real–direct experience, not thoughts. It is...
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #48,“Kempo’s One Road” from 2018-11-10T18:39:11
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Shoyoroku #20,“Dizang’s‘Most Intimate’” from 2018-11-09T18:23:38
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-11-08T18:57:58
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-11-07T18:56:36
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-11-06T18:55:11
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary) from 2018-11-05T18:53:29
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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November 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary) from 2018-11-04T18:42:54
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Commentary on texts from the first Zen Masters.
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Miaozong’s Dharma Encounter, Amala-sensei from 2018-10-28T15:32:30
Throughout much of history women’s bodies have been viewed as impure and dangerous by prevailing androcentric cultures, west and east, and unfortunately there still are many examples of this att...
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Caring, Engaging, Voting from 2018-10-14T19:26:49
The minimal response we can offer our descendants, who are under more threats than ever, is to vote. This is a contemporary way to “enter the marketplace with helping hands,” the ultimate stage ...
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 7, Amala-sensei: Satsujo Overcomes Hakuin from 2018-10-06T18:02:33
”Before the tongue has moved the teaching has finished” — but take care — short of full awakening there is still work to do.
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 6, Amala-sensei: Chiyono’s No Water No Moon from 2018-10-05T17:57:10
Being willing to let things fall apart
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 5, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen&Others) from 2018-10-04T13:34:31
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 4, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen&Others) from 2018-10-03T13:33:21
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 3, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen&Others) from 2018-10-02T13:32:20
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 2, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen&Others) from 2018-10-01T13:28:47
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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October 2018 Sesshin, Day 1, Amala-sensei: Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism (by Master Sheng Yen&Others) from 2018-09-30T13:17:21
Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson
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Blue Cliff Record #55,“Dogo’s‘I Won’t Say'” from 2018-09-23T19:10:47
The relative nature of the terms “living” and “dead,” and how one monk’s struggle with them led him to enlightenment.
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Integrating Life and Practice: Women’s Voices–Eryl Kubicka from 2018-09-09T19:10:18
A Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka on the second day of the September 2018 two-day sesshin.
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Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau, June 1975 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #36“Goso’s‘No Words or Silence'” from 2018-08-19T16:36
Recording of a teisho given by Roshi Philip Kapleau on the last day of the June 1975 sesshin and played on Founder’s Day, August 19, 2018.
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Our Marvelous Microbiome: A Web of Mutual Causation from 2018-08-12T14:26
How our concepts of individual self-identity and linear causality are being dissolved by the wondrous workings of our gut microbes. Readings from I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong.
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Shoyoroku #13,“Linji’s‘Blind Donkey'” from 2018-08-04T14:45
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede from the July/August 2018 sesshin. Commentary on a koan from The Book of Serenity.
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Blue Cliff Record #18,“The National Teacher’s Seamless Monument” from 2018-08-03T14:42
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede from the July/August 2018 sesshin. Commentary on a koan from the Blue Cliff Record.
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-08-02T14:39
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-08-01T14:37
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-07-31T14:36
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-07-30T14:31
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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July/August 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C.&T. Cleary) from 2018-07-29T14:29
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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The Latest Scandal in American Buddhism from 2018-07-22T14:03:09
A look at the sexual misconduct, widely disclosed this month, of the head of Shambhala International, one of the major Tibetan Buddhist lineages, and the fallout in that Sangha.
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Blue Cliff Record #67,“The Great Bodhisattva Fu Lectures on the Diamond Sutra” from 2018-06-16T18:48
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #19,“Ordinary Mind is the Way” from 2018-06-15T18:45
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-06-14T18:41
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: Zen Essence (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-06-13T18:39
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-06-12T18:38
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-06-11T18:35
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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June 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-06-10T18:33
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Roshi: Reclaiming Our Resilient Spirit from 2018-06-03T18:25
Teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Roshi: Reclaiming Our Resilient Spirit
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Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn:“Working with Habits” from 2018-05-13T12:31
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn:"Working with Habits"
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Fear and Avoidance As the Engines of Risk-Taking Behavior from 2018-05-06T12:43
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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The Tyranny of Convenience, the Allure of What’s Easiest from 2018-04-29T11:56
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal,“Dharma and Depression” from 2018-04-22T18:12
Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal,"Dharma and Depression"
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 7: Mumonkan #46,“Step Forward From the Top of a Hundred-Foot Pole” from 2018-04-14T19:06
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 6: Mumonkan #28,“Ryutan Blows Out a Candle” from 2018-04-13T19:01
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 5: The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C. Chang) from 2018-04-12T18:59
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 4: The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C. Chang) from 2018-04-11T20:21:31
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 3: The Practice of Zen (trans. C.C. Chang) from 2018-04-10T20:27:22
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 2: Instant Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-04-09T20:30:10
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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April 2018 Sesshin, Day 1: Instant Zen (trans. T. Cleary) from 2018-04-08T20:32:23
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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The Wisdom of Tofu Roshi from 2018-04-01T20:35:45
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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