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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...
Rahatsu: 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...
Relationship, Refuge, and the Faith in Mind - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen explores how the teachings of Affirming Faith in Mind illuminate the way we meet family, conflict, and connection—especially during the holiday sea...
Difference Without Division: Working with Comparing Mind - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores the human habit of comparing ourselves to others—and to imagined versions of ourselves—through the lens of the classic Zen text Affirming ...
Identity Action and Gratitude - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jōmon explores the deep connection between gratitude, generosity, and Dōgen’s teaching of identity action—acting together as one body. Through reflection...
The River That Holds Us - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this sesshin talk, Jōgen invites practitioners to turn directly toward the living fabric of experience with wonder and open-handedness. Reflecting on the Kesa verse...
What We Turn Our Attention To - Hogen, Roshi
In this sesshin talk, Hōgen Roshi reflects on the heart of practice through the teachings of the Xin Xin Ming. He emphasizes that “what we turn our attention to become...
Generosity Without Separation - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon explores the first of the Bodhisattva’s four embracing actions—generosity—and how giving becomes boundless when we drop the sense of separation bet...
Connecting With Family This Thanksgiving - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores how our relationships—especially with family—can become genuine fields of practice. He challenges the assumption that practice only happen...
Interrupting The Trance of "Not Enough"- Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, we explore the Zen poem often translated as Inscribing Trust in the Heart or Affirming Faith in Mind. The teaching points to a profound realization: the ...
Freedom from the Disease of the Mind - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen Roshi explores the Zen chant Affirming Faith in Mind, showing how its guidance is rooted in direct, present-moment experience. He emphasizes that t...
Inscribing Trust in the Heart - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen Sensei explores the opening stanzas of Affirming Faith in Mind, illuminating what the poem calls “the Great Way”—life itself, unobscured by picking...
The Great Way Is Easy If You Just Feel Your Toes - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen Roshi explores the opening line of Affirming Faith in Mind—“The Great Way is easy”—and shows how quickly the mind complicates even the simplest ins...
Longing That Cures - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen Sensei explores the paradox of longing—the pain and medicine of our deepest yearning. Drawing from Dōgen, the Faith in Mind poem, and ancient teach...
The Great Way and The Hundred Grass Tips - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In the second week of the Ango practice period, Jomon Sensei reflects on verses from Affirming Faith in Mind—“The Great Way is without limit, beyond the easy and the h...
The Desire to Go Beyond - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk Jogen Sensei introduces Affirming Faith in Mind as a mirror for practice and a reminder that the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult. Moving through t...