Episodes
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Learning from History: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (10/10/2026)
Recorded on October 10, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY This talk considers the PISAB principle of Learning from History and its connection to Zen practice—specifically, the discipline of studying ourselves. Sarah Sensei explores ways we can engage with both our personal histories...
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Emergent Buddha-nature, Emergent Awakening: Dharma Talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (09/12/2026)
Recorded on September 12, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY Welcoming the sangha back after the August break, Charlie Korin Pokorny, BZC Dharma Teacher, explores awakening through the teachings of 13th-century Sōtō Zen founder Dōgen. Themes include Buddha nature as a dynamic,...
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Vigorously Compassionate Self-Scrutiny: Audio Dharma Talk: Sarah Dōjin Emerson (9/26/2026)
Recorded on September 26, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY This talk considers what is the relationship between how we investigate and inquire into ourselves, and how we show up with compassion in the world. The BZC Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the…
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Audio Dharma Talk: Charlie Korin Pokorny (7/25/2026)
Recorded on July 25, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY The BZC Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If these teachings have benefited your life, please consider supporting the program with a donation (suggested $2-7/episode, or whatever…
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“What Do You Call the World?” – Practicing with the Expanding and Contracting of our Life of Care: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (7/11/2026)
Recorded on July 11, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY Sarah Sensei begins with an invitation to become aware of one’s body, asks those present, “What do you want or need that brought you here?”, and collects individuals’ responses. Sarah’s dharma talk considers the koan “Dizang...
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 5 (2016/05/22)
Please take care, and practice this song, this Samadhi song, for the welfare of this world. And listen to the teachings that you working on this Samadhi yourself is transforming beings. We are not doing this just to transform our self, were doing it to transform all beings. But working on our…
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Reflections on Resistance and Pipeline 3 (2021/06/12)
Reflections on Resistance and Pipeline 3: a share by Yoko Ohashi and Koan Anne Brink
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2021/06/19)
Our being in the world – and our karmic orientations in everything that is happening – is what makes the world around us what it is.
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Audio dharma by Spring Washam (2018/03/28)
In order to get free in this human life we have to meet these parts that are really broken at times. They are not broken out of hatred. They are broken out of a lack of love.
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Dharma talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2020/10/24)
Practice is taking that step time and time again and slamming again and again into the reality that the world is not built for me, around me, by me alone. That my story is just that – a story. And that there is a reality that I am a part of, that other beings are a part of, and would not happen...
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2020/10/03)
Sometimes that Buddha ancestral connection is represented between a teacher and a student – which Dogen talks a lot about – but it can be represented by our relationship to the Buddhas and ancestors we don’t see right in front of us, that we know came before us. And so we speak to them about what...
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Dharma talk by Alan Senauke: The Dharma of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2017/01/14)
We sit together, and in that sitting together we carry our individual practice. But also there is no distinction among us, we are sitting together. And together we are actually supporting each other’s practice. We are not sitting in a cave by yourself, we are sitting right next to each other.…
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Dharma talk by Teah Strozer (2016/10/22)
To live by vow. To live by not your conditioned mind, but to live with intention. Beyond the little selflessness. To live by vow, is to live as the universe. This is practice realization.
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Dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2018/11/03)
When we come together and sit, then we are supporting each other. And this is a interesting practice, to think that the person sitting next to me is practicing dying. And that when someone is stuck — we use that word when someone is stuck in their conditioning — that part of that stuckness is the...
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Dharma talk by Rebecca Li (2017/09/23)
The Bodhisattva path is a counterintuitive approach. It’s a method to help us let go of this obsession over ourselves. This is very different from our usual mode of operation, if you think about it. That is why it feels counterintuitive, and it can take a really long time for us to really...
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Dharma talk by Gaelyn Godwin and Taiga Ito (2020/11/07)
In the way of the Buddha, karma is always in the background. It’s like the little key that unlocks all these teachings. When you kind of understand that, as I’m sure many of you do, when we understand that karma is such an important teaching, it unlocks all these teachings. This is the teaching…
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Dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2020/11/21)
This darkness, this mystery of who we are, and how we are together, and how we are being influenced all the time, is to be honored and to be listened to, and is necessary for our wholeness.
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Dharma talk by Teah Strozer (2016/06/18)
When we work on ourselves deeply enough, when we really are in touch with our own fundamental openness of heart, which really is there, the love that we have for ourselves and other people comes from a place of unconditioned openness. That is what you feel, tremendous gratitude – for every single...
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Audio dharma by Kosen Greg Snyder (2018/09/29)
When we talk about karma, it’s a way of talking about causality or cause and effects, specifically in human life, in human moral life. It’s the effect we cause on the world through our intentions – through our volition, through our will. And the Buddha was clear that when we are looking at the...
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Dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2020/10/31)
[We can think of] these arising traumas, these beings as I like to think of them, as survival strategies of our ancestors. So fear, anxiety, anger, rage, or joy – these are blood memories. And we all have them, we all carry them. And if we can open them up, see and work with them, we can…
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Dharma talk by Ian Case (2020/10/10)
In whatever way Buddhas are directing their attention, their abiding and dwelling happens there.
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Audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2019/10/05)
I think that this gender work is very important for us, it’s a real big doorway, and very deep.
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2020/05/02)
I would suggest a mind that is awake, and that settles, and that finds love, joy, and ease in precariousness, so that we can be with each other, and love each other, and support each other. In very real, concrete meaningful ways.
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Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2021/02/13)
How do we work through our pain, through our numbness? How do we regain a sense of aliveness?
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Audio dharma by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2016/02/27)
We really need human beings that are devoted to the difficult spiritual path required to release the full light of love into the world.
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Audio dharma by Teah Strozer (2016/05/07)
We can cultivate this sense of great expansive unconditioned love. That allows us to meet the difficulty in life without turning away and without getting caught.
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Audio dharma by Ian Case (2020/02/29)
For me the most powerful things the vows do are because of their impossible nature — they are humbling. They have a kind of leveling effect. In the face of this impossible vow, I’m one person in a community. So there is an aspect of confession in that vow, of acknowledging our humanness and our...
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Audio dharma by Laura O’Loughlin (2018/02/24)
We are training ourselves – in our bodies, in our minds, through the practice, through the teachings – to make it more likely that in a moment of suffering, in a moment of threat, that we will be able to have an intention to, and maybe some sort of capacity to respond to courageous connection,...
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Audio dharma by Teah Strozer (2016/07/02)
This is our practice, the practice of love, the practice of intimacy. That’s why we offer a relationship with a teacher, and we offer sangha, so we can work this way with each other.
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Audio dharma by Kosen Greg Snyder (2018/10/07): Sesshin Day 3
We deeply desire to be in accord with the natural functioning of life, with dependent co-arising, with the way things interact and support each other, without these false senses of separation. That is what our heart and our lives desire in the deepest sense.
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Audio dharma by Kosen Greg Snyder (2018/10/06): Sesshin Day 2
Sometimes you sit down – or I sit down – because there is fear. But that is still a fearless choice to face your fear, to understand your fear. Bodhisattva can have fear, but does not live from fear. Fear is not the source of Bodhisattva activity.
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Audio dharma by Kosen Greg Snyder (2018/10/05): Sesshin Day 1
The Bodhisattva vow of living for the liberation of all beings, even before my own, to raise up in the heart the liberation of all beings — this is the most powerful interrupter and lover of karma. This vow turns everything toward karma.
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Audio BZC audio dharma episode by Ian Case (2019/11/23)
In the sensation of the low-grade heartbreak there is gratitude, appreciation, grief and sadness. How can I cultivate the space in my life for a low-grade heartache, that I think is necessary to engage in Bodhisattvic activity? It’s an uplifting grief that sustains us and that can keep us in the...
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 1 (2016/05/18)
Everything you do is an opportunity. Everything you say, every gesture you make, every thought that arises in your mind. All of those are opportunities – each one is an opportunity to take care of this Samadhi that has been given to you.
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 2 (2016/05/19)
The Samadhi is the teaching of Suchness. The Samadhi is intimate communion. The Samadhi is Buddhas and Ancestors. Buddhas and ancestors are the Samadhi. Buddhas and Ancestors are that teaching. Buddhas and Ancestors are intimate communion. Bodhisattvas want to live in that intimate communion…
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 3 (2016/05/20)
The beings who have this wish and commitment – to realize perfect understanding for the welfare of all beings – when those beings enter into Samadhi, their vow goes with them. So in that sense, the Bodhisattva Samadhi (or what I would call zazen) – I consider the zazen that I am recommending and...
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2016 Rohatsu Sesshin by Reb Anderson: Day 4 (2016/05/21)
The focus of the Bodhisattva Samadhi is the Bodhisattva wish, the Bodhisattva aspiration: to make Buddhas for the welfare of the world. And then there is that aspiration, you can also, in a sense, vow and commit to that aspiration. So the aspiration, and the commitment of the aspiration, is at…
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder: Sandokai – part 2 (2018/08/08)
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Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin: Sandokai – part 3 (2018/08/09)
The BZC audio dharma talks are offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If you would like to support BZC, please visit the “Giving” section of our website.
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder: Sandokai – part 4 (2018/08/10)
The BZC audio dharma talks are offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If you would like to support BZC, please visit the “Giving” section of our website.
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Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin: Sandokai – part 5 (2018/08/11)
The BZC audio dharma talks are offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If you would like to support BZC, please visit the “Giving” section of our website.
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Audio dharma talk by Kosen Greg Snyder: Sandokai – part 5 (2018/08/11)
The BZC audio dharma talks are offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If you would like to support BZC, please visit the “Giving” section of our website.
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Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2020/04/11)
This teaching [of impermanence] thrusts us into realization. Most of us may think of impermanence as something that is solid for a while and then it decays and goes away. We think of impermanence as a kind of temporary permanence. But it isn’t.
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Audio dharma talk by Shokuchi Deirdre Carrigan (2020/05/09)
There’s always been suffering in the world – nothing new. But these days, I think, we are given the gift to notice it more. We also have the gift of noting that pretty much everybody in the world is kind of suffering right now. There always are, but we don’t notice it. And now we have this gift…
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Audio dharma talk by Ian Case (2020/05/16)
I would like to mention a practice I learned from Dr. T. (a professor at Union Theological Seminary), that he termed the “hospitality of receiving.” […] In this practice, it is possible to meet one another with an attitude of openness and humility, as opposed to a colonialist mode of domination…
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Audio dharma talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2020/02/19)
Along with dukkha and the dust of our delusion, there is love and kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. And this is where our Zen practice really begins.
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Audio dharma talk by Laura O’Loughlin (2020/06/06)
How can we become a community that fosters awakening to these systems of harm, in our bodies and between us? I want to understand how we can go beyond a fragile superficial harmony in our community to be a better community, to be truly anti-racist. To tear apart what we have to tear apart, to…
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Audio dharma talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2020/02/22)
One day you may be serving food. One day you may be ringing a bell. It’s all the same. It’s all about doing that practice together with intention and with, dare we say, love. And it’s about getting in each other’s way. And it’s about knowing when to move. And knowing when to say the appropriate...
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Audio dharma talk by Teah Strozer (2020/04/25)
I have hope because I think the virus has actually caught our attention. I have hope because it has stopped us in our tracks. I have hope that maybe this time we will rethink our relationship to the Earth, to this living miracle. […] That maybe we can live in gratitude for this gift of life.
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Audio dharma by Kosen Greg Snyder (2020/07/11)
I have been thinking about waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night. It’s my first vow of the day to liberate all beings and it’s my last thought at the end of the day to vow to liberate all beings? And can I try to encourage that in myself? […] Because we know the suffering of the...
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