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Courage To Be Afraid- Working Our Edges- Jogen Sensei
Drawing on the eleventh-century yogini Machig Labdron's uncompromising slogans—confess your hidden faults, approach what repels you, help those you think you cannot he...
The Timeless in Direct Experience- Hogen Roshi
This talk is a teaching on the ageless, ever-present awareness beneath our changing thoughts and circumstances. Drawing on the Mangala Sutta, this talk explores how re...
Our Inseparability From The Natural World- Zen Teacher Jomon
Drawing from an annual outdoor meditation retreat , this talk explores how sitting in silence among deer, mosquitoes, and fallen apples can reveal our inseparability f...
Making Peace with Your Inner Critic - Zen Teacher Jomon
This talk explores the inner critic as a habitual pattern of thought, emotion, and body sensation—not a fixed truth- as well as offering practices of self-compassion.
This Heart is Mirrored Everywhere- Jogen Sensei
By stepping out and seeing the noisy marketplace of endless consumption and self-fixation, we align with a source that never loses its luster. Living from this allows ...
The World Lies To Us- Jogen Sensei
This talk emphasizes that by alertly seeing through life's illusions—rather than chasing temporary worldly comforts or getting caught in abstract spiritual concepts—we...
Serenity Is a Stance Not a State- Jogen Sensei
When you sit and look for the self you never find it — just thoughts, feelings, space and energy — and this talk traces how that discovery becomes practical liberation...
Looking for Something Dependable - Hogen Roshi
The Buddha said he kept looking for real stability and kept reaching for things that couldn't provide it — and this talk uses a dying biohacker, the nature of vow, and...
Joyful Mind, Grandmother Mind, Magnanimous Mind: Dogen's Three Hearts of Practice - Bansho Sensei
Drawing on Dogen's instructions for the monastery cook, this talk unpacks three orientations that Dogen considered essential to wholeheartedly engaging the way — the h...
This Is Not Mine- Not-Self and Thoughts That Moved In Without Paying Rent- Bansho Sensei
Walking through the Buddha's discourse on the five aggregates — form, feeling, perception, thought, consciousness — this sesshin talk asks a deceptively simple questio...
Right Now It's Like This: Practicing Honestly with Heat, Sweat, and a Wandering Mind- Bansho Sensei
Borrowing Ajahn Sumedho's simple phrase as its anchor, this sesshin talk invites practitioners to stop arguing with their experience — the drowsiness, the pain, the re...
The Diamond Sutra, a Tea Lady, and the Freedom of Not Knowing - Zen Teacher Jomon
The Diamond Sutra says there is no such thing as x, it is only called x — and this talk traces what that teaching looks like when it stops being a concept and starts b...
Dharma Travels: Meeting the Extended Family of Western Zen- Zen Teacher Jomon
From a Gen X teachers conference in Virginia to a White Plum Asanga gathering in the Dutch wheat fields, this talk traces a month of encounters with the living, ever-e...
Dancing and Singing with Shakyamuni- Zen Teacher Jomon
Starting from Maezumi Roshi's question — what prevents you from seeing yourself as constantly dancing and singing with the Buddha? — this talk uses the koan of Mu and ...
The Eternal Child, The Old Man and Spiritual Commitment - Jogen Sensei
Using the Jungian archetypes of the eternal child and the wise elder, this talk maps the tension between following inspiration wherever it leads and committing deeply ...
How To Be A Mystic In The City- Jogen Sensei
Jogen offers five categories for living a mystical life right in the middle of it — microdosing stillness, staying connected to the tender fleetingness of existence, l...
According to Me: Opinions About Reality Keep Us From Living It- Hogen Roshi
Drawing on the Mangala Sutta's teaching on gratefulness and a recent pilgrimage to 400-year-old Soto Zen monasteries in Japan, this talk by Hogen Roshi traces how the ...
Trusting Your Sense of the Divine - Jogen Sensei
This talk addresses people who know or have known a natural sense of the sacred — and who may have set it aside when they entered a formal tradition — arguing that wha...
Yes, Yes, Yes - Hogen Roshi
In this talk onn self-sufficiency, impossible decisions, and turning failure into wisdom, Hogen Roshi argues that true liberation isn't a state we achieve and protect ...
Free From What? - Hogen Roshi
Sparked by a Fourth of July celebration, this talk cuts through the cultural fantasy that freedom means getting what you want — and points instead toward the Buddhist ...