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One Hundred Foot Pole - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this New Year Dharma talk, Kisei reflects on the Zen koan of stepping from the top of the hundred-foot pole, exploring what it means to move from insight into lived...
Traveler, There Is No Road - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores the inner disturbance that drives spiritual practice and the ways mistaken perception, fixed beliefs, and self-image shape our suf...
Turning Problems into Wisdom - Hogen Roshi
In this opening talk of a series, Hogen introduces the Dharma as a practical path for transforming life’s challenges into wisdom, compassion, and clarity. Drawing on t...
The Way of The Bodhisattva - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this talk, Kisei explores the Bodhisattva path as a life oriented toward love for the world and responsiveness to suffering. Drawing on Mahayana teachings, Shantide...
The Doors of Liberation - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores love, yielding, and aimlessness as essential dimensions of Zen practice. Beginning with love as the ground of awakening—from kindn...
Dew on the Rose - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
This talk explores the Buddhist teaching of impermanence as the foundation of liberation and ethical living. Reflecting on the meaning of a “new year,” it examines how...
When Effort Becomes Intimacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this opening retreat talk, Jogen explores the nature of effort in zazen, describing practice as a living, responsive correction of the mind’s continual drift from i...
Gathering the Heart - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this opening sesshin talk, Jogen welcomes practitioners into the deep work of gathering the heart and aligning with true nature through the simple, demanding forms ...
The Fluid Heart of the New Year - Hogen, Roshi
In this New Year’s talk, Hogen reflects on impermanence as the ground of freedom, showing how the fluid, flickering nature of body, mind, and world makes transformatio...
Appreciate Your Life - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Drawing on the teaching “Appreciate Your Life” from Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Jomon weaves together the Zen story of Gensha with the lives and insights of Carl Rogers, Jon...
Frictionless Mind - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk on the Faith in Mind chant, Jogen explores acceptance, frictionlessness, and the deeper wisdom that lives beneath ordinary discriminating thought. He refl...
Where the Next Step Lands - Hogen Roshi
In this closing sesshin talk, Hogen reflects on faith not as belief, but as the lived courage to step into the unknown moment by moment. He speaks of karma as an unfol...
Tipping the Water Bottle - Chozen, Roshi
In this Rohatsu sesshin talk, Chozen reflects on awakening, silent mind, and the constructed personality that both protects and confines us. Drawing on the Buddha’s ow...
The Many Faces of Joy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen reflects on joy not as something to be manufactured, but as a natural expression that arises when we stop getting in the way of our own experience....
Before The Tightening - Hogen, Roshi
What is here before the mind contracts around thought, identity, or effort? This talk points to the moment prior to grasping—where awareness is open, unconfined, and q...
Vast Space, No Lack - Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Kodo reflects on Faith in Mind as a teaching on living with uncertainty and relinquishing judgment, comparison, and fixed views. Drawing on Dōgen, early ...
Exploring Space - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this wide-ranging talk, Jogen explores spaciousness as a direct and liberating dimension of Zen practice, drawing from his own experience and from Zen and Dzogchen ...
Awakening and Non-Thinking - Chozen, Roshi
In this Rohatsu Sesshin talk, Chozen reflects on the meaning of awakening—not as a one-time event, but as an ongoing opening into reality beyond self, time, and concep...
Rohatsu: The Buddha’s Awakening - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this Rahatsu talk, Jomon tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama’s path to awakening, tracing his journey from royal luxury through extreme asceticism to the discover...
Practicing with Seasonal Depression - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen responds to a request to explore Zen practice in relation to seasonal affective disorder and low-level depression, while distinguishing these exper...