Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

Episode 330: The Actuality Of Reality

Without a map, how does the monarch butterfly migrate through reality? Beyond definition lies the actual reality of our lives.

Episode 329: No Dogma, No Drama

Transmitting the Dharma. How many minds do you have?

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.