Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

Episode 328: All Problems Can Be Solved When They Are Small

Interdependent origination: suffering globally and personally.

Episode 327: Bearing Witness Is Bodhi

The non-outflow of the six perfections. The Six Perfections (or Pāramitās) are the core practices of the bodhisattva path.

Episode 326: Tracks Of The Ox,

A willful nature is hard to tame.  A tangle of thorny bushes: the faint murmur of running water. But here and there are footprints—is this the right path?

Episode 325: The Stone Lions Roar

The first Picture of the 10 Ox Herding Pictures and cultivating the way through the practice of meditation.

Episode 324: The Non-Outflow Way

Sitting with sore legs.

Episode 323: Jumping Out Of The Nest And Taking Flight

Zazen is intimacy and freedom.

Episode 322: Don’t Make

The simple, difficult teaching. Don’t make Zazen; just sit.

Episode 321: Zen Stick Crafted By Beavers

Interdependent Origination: Universal Sacredness.

Episode 320: Not Two!

Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch says, “one day a shopkeeper ordered a load of firewood brought to his store. After he took the delivery and paid me, I walked toward the doo

Episode 319: Is Life a Problem To Solve?

Attempting to be the problem solver is the source of anger.

Episode 318: The Middle Way

The three principles of practicing the Middle Way.

Episode 317: The Zen Circle And The Path

You have never lost it. Why are you seeking it?

Episode 316: A Wind Knot Tangle

What causes the tangled messes we find ourselves in? How do you untangle the mess?

Episode 315: Practice Is Never Ending

 What keeps us coming back to our practice? Experienced practitioners respond to the question in this podcast. 

Episode 314: Fathers Day - letting go of deluded views

What is your original face before your father was born?

Episode 313: The Fish Are Happy

Silence on a retreat and Kongans, what do they have in common?

Episode 312: Only Go Strait and Never Give UP

The immeasurable and the relative.

Episode 311: Getting To Know Self

Our practice is getting to know ourselves, which is forgetting the self, and being actualized by all dharmas.

Episode 310: Where is the OX?

Here, our essential self is compared to an ox. We seek the ox, grasp it, tame it, and finally the self which has always been seeking becomes completely one with the ox. B

Episode 309: The Eagle And The Mouse

We all have mothers; motherhood and Buddhahood are not different, yet not not different.