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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...
Longing for the Ancient Way - Hogen, Roshi
In this opening talk of 2025 Ancient Way Sesshin, Hogen Roshi introduces the Affirming Faith in Mind chant—an ancient poem pointing to non-dual awareness and the ease ...
The Moon in the Bucket - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this episode, Kisei Sensei explores Koan 25, Nyozin’s Pale Moon of Dawn, and Koan 33, Bodhidharma’s Flesh, examining how Zen teaching passes through time, poetry, a...
Letting the Way Be Invisible - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon Sensei continues the autumn Ango practice period by exploring passages from the ancient Zen poem Affirming Faith in Mind. Through multiple translat...
The Right Thought of Letting Go - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
Jogen explores the Buddha’s teaching of right thought. Through vivid metaphors and down-to-earth humor, he invites us to notice what we hold onto that tethers us to un...
Mirror Mind: Seeing the Self Clearly - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this episode, Kisei explores the unique Zen practice of mirror meditation at Tokeji, a thirteenth-century Japanese convent. Practitioners sit before a mirror, askin...
Embracing Your Darkness - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores the Zen practice of embracing our darkness—not as something negative to overcome, but as the ungraspable, untamable side of human life. He...
Karma, Intention, and the Seeds We Plant - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon introduces the Japanese Buddhist holiday Ohigan, celebrated at the equinox as a time to honor the ancestors and reflect on the paramitas—the perfec...
What Is True? Inquiry and Impermanence - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen Roshi shares insights from a recent workshop at the monastery integrating Zen practice with Byron Katie’s method of inquiry. He explores how questi...
The Godess' Transformations - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this talk, Kisei shares Case 58 from The Hidden Lamp, drawn from the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, where the goddess playfully transforms Shariputra to reveal the truth of non...
Protecting Your Brightness - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen reflects on what it means to protect the innate brightness of the heart-mind. He describes this luminosity not as a metaphor for “choosing happines...
Living in Vow, Finding Peace - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this Jizō Sesshin talk, Jomon explores the poem Peaceful Life by Dainin Katagiri Roshi, opening it as a doorway into the mystery of vow. She reflects on how we ofte...