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Motivation and Aspiration on the Path to Awakening - Bansho Green, Zen Teacher
In this talk Bansho discusses vow and aspiration on the spiritual path. What is it that brings us to practice? It's less about what we want to be, but instead how we a...
The Quiet Power of Worrying Less - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this episode, we explore the difference between concern and worry, and how spiritual practice can free us from the endless cycle of anxious thoughts. Through storie...
Life As Pilgrimage: Old Woman of Mount Wutai - Kisei Sensei
This talk explores the koan “The Old Woman of Mount Wutai,” a story that opens up questions about pilgrimage, practice, and how wisdom often appears in ordinary forms....
Familiar Life, Fresh Eyes - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
This episode explores the Zen teaching that “not knowing is most intimate.” Through story, reflection, and real-life retreat experience, we look at how beginner’s mind...
Love 100K Times - Kisei Sensei
This episode explores metta, the practice of lovingkindness, as a way of meeting life with warmth and care. Through stories, teachings, and reflection, we look at how ...
The Radiance of Metta - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk we explore the Buddhist heart practice of metta—a boundless, radiant wish for the well-being of all beings, including ourselves. Through meditation, refle...
The Beauty Gate - Jogen Sensei
This episode explores how moments of beauty can interrupt our mental habits and reconnect us with presence. Whether it’s light through leaves, a piece of music, or the...
Beyond Labels - Hogen Roshi
This talk explores the Buddhist teaching of signlessness, including the fact that who we are cannot be reduced to fixed categories or identities. Drawing on Thich Nhat...
As If Love Was the Point- Jogen Sensei
This episode explores how we can live from a place of love, even when we don’t feel like we’ve earned it. We talk about the pressure to be perfect, the feeling of not ...
Metta is Like the Sun - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk Jomon dicusses the practice of metta, Loving-Kindness. She uses the analogy of metta being like the sun. This talk was given as the 4th talk of the 2025 ...
Are You a Soul Mate of the Buddha? - Hogen Roshi
In this talk Hogen continues his talks from Thich Naht Hanh's Art of Living book. In this talk, Hogen explores the Kalama Sutta and Thich Nhat Hanh’s reflections on ho...
Karma, Time & Deep Self Respect - Jogen, Sensei
In this episode, Jogen explores the nature of karma as our participation in creating the world, moment by moment. Using vivid metaphors like sending postcards to our f...
The Labyrinth of Love - Jogen Sensei
This is the third talk of the 2025 Metta Sesshin at GVZM. In this talk, jogen explores the boundless nature of the heart and its deep entanglement with mind, body, an...
The Mystery of Loving - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
This is the second talk of the 2025 Metta Sesshin at GVZM. In this talk Jomon discusses love and appreciation. What do these words really mean, and how to they relate ...
Universal Friendliness - Jogen Sensei
This talk was given during the 2025 Loving-Kindness Sesshin at GVZM. This is the first talk of the sesshin. In this talk Jogen discusses Loving-Kindness in general and...
Is Consciousness True Self? - Jogen Sensei
In this talk Jogen replies to a number of questions from practitioners during the Heart of Wisdom Wednesday night program on June 4 2025. Some questions include: Why i...
The Evolution of Something into Everything Else - Hogen Roshi
This is the fifth talk in a series on the Art of Living By Thich Naht Hanh. Hogen dicusses what he calls the physics of reality. He discusses impermanence and how it c...
Call Me By My True Name - Hogen Roshi
This talk is the fourth talk in a series on Thich Naht Hanh's book The Art of Living. In this talk Hogen continues to discuss chapter 1 of the book. He talks about our...
The Light of Zazen - Bansho Green, Zen Teacher
This talk was given by Bansho during Ancestors Sesshin 2025 on the fourth day. This talk is about "Yunmen's Light" Koan, and many other topics about practicing when de...
A Hug From The Ancestors - Kisei, Sensei
How are we connected to the zen ancestors? To our biological ancestors? This practice is loving, and we are supported by all those who have come before us. This talk w...