Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

Episode 258: Repose and Bliss

Release Date: 3/17/2025

Duration: 12 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: “Bodhisattva Samadhi” is Repose and Bliss.

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Episode 257: The message of Zen, overcoming stupidity

Release Date: 3/11/2025

Duration: 16 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: How ordinary stupid people cause great suffering.

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Episode 256: Life’s Trauma And Liberation

Release Date: 3/3/2025

Duration: 13 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.

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Episode 255: The Heart of Perfect Wisdom

Release Date: 2/24/2025

Duration: 19 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: The lion’s roar.

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Episode 254: Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea

Release Date: 2/18/2025

Duration: 11 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…

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Episode 253: The Primordial Darkness of Ignorance

Release Date: 2/6/2025

Duration: 11 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?

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Episode 252: A Safe Space

Release Date: 1/27/2025

Duration: 9 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description:  What does it mean to be fearless? 

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Episode 251: Zen Is Life, Not A Hobby Or Pastime

Release Date: 1/21/2025

Duration: 15 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Hitching your Ox to the post of Emptiness.

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Episode 250: Relaxing In What Is

Release Date: 1/10/2025

Duration: 8 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description:  Opening the hand of thought. 

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Episode 249: The Cosmic Mudra of Zazen

Release Date: 1/6/2025

Duration: 14 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Zazen (Zen meditation), Awakening, and Buddhahood are no different.

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Episode 248: Seeking Validation

Release Date: 12/19/2024

Duration: 8 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: You are a unique expression of the universal.

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Episode 247: Here We Are!

Release Date: 12/13/2024

Duration: 8 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description:  "One's presence makes for a good present" 

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Episode 246: Wind Blows, Old Songs End, New Ones Begin

Release Date: 12/8/2024

Duration: 7 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: The Song of Liberation.

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Episode 245: Attached to Name & Form, Talks with Chong An Sunim at OZS, part 2

Release Date: 11/22/2024

Duration: 32 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: This part is two of three sessions at Ordinary Zen Sangha in November 2024 with Zen Master Chong An Sunim and Abbot Will Rauschenberger.

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Episode 244: Dharma and Karma, Talks with Chong An Sunim at OZS, part 1

Release Date: 11/21/2024

Duration: 120780 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: This part is one of three sessions at Ordinary Zen Sangha in November 2024 with Zen Master Chong An Sunim and Abbot Will Rauschenberger.

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Episode 243: Dark Times Ahead, Stars Will Shine

Release Date: 11/8/2024

Duration: 22200 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: What can we rely on in times like these?

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Episode 242: The Relative and Absolute, is it different or not?

Release Date: 11/1/2024

Duration: 59880 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description:  A OZS sangha member asks: "Is there, or is there not, a balance between our absolute expansive selves and our relative selves that outflow into the world?" 

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Episode 241: Certainty in Uncertainty

Release Date: 10/27/2024

Duration: 24540 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: The transcendence of ever changing circumstances.

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Episode 240: Have you lost your way?

Release Date: 10/1/2024

Duration: 58620 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Today’s talk is about an exchange between Zen Master Seung Sahn and a student, from the book “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha”. 🙏

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Episode 239: Illuminating Dangerous Times

Release Date: 9/16/2024

Duration: 43560 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Don’t believe anything you think…

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Episode 238: Inquiry, what is this, who am I?

Release Date: 9/4/2024

Duration: 36840 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: “Thinking is just thinking, it is not who I am”.

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Episode 237: Undeniable Suchness of Being

Release Date: 8/31/2024

Duration: 21660 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Inquiry into “What is this?”

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Episode 236: Forest Bathing

Release Date: 8/20/2024

Duration: 59820 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Exploring Nature is exploring our nature.Benevolence is fearlessness.

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Episode 235: Koans 101

Release Date: 8/15/2024

Duration: 42540 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: Will gives an intro to Koans (Kongans) in this Dharma Talk.

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Episode 234: Letting Go Is Freedom

Release Date: 8/13/2024

Duration: 77880 Mins

Authors: Will Rauschenberger

Description: What are we letting go? Are we falling into the same hole over and over?

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Episode 233: Ordinary Zen Practice

Release Date: 7/28/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Getting to know ourselves.

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Episode 232: Asking The Correct Question In Zen?

Release Date: 7/23/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: How do I know my mirror is reflecting clearly?

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Episode 231: Where You Put Your Foot Down

Release Date: 7/15/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: This first Podcast of July 2024 summates my June 2024 trip to Europe.

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Episode 230: Chewing Without Chewing Anything

Release Date: 5/26/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Leap directly to the Tathagata’s realm. Chew without chewing anything, walk without walking anywhere.

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Episode 229: Tea Cup

Release Date: 5/16/2024

Duration: 7 Mins

Description: Exploring an exchange between two Zen Masters.  From 208 Kongans – compiled by Chong An Sunim, Original Light Zen Temple.

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Episode 228: Awareness Practice, getting to know ourselves

Release Date: 5/2/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Conceptualization perpetuates suffering.

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Episode 227: Causality

Release Date: 4/11/2024

Duration: 13 Mins

Description:  Accepting causality and letting go of the discriminating mind. 

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Episode 226: Our Burden’s Are Empty

Release Date: 3/30/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Realizing emptiness allows us the freedom to put down what burdens us.

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Episode 225: The Luminosity of Mahayana Mind

Release Date: 3/14/2024

Duration: 4 Mins

Description:  Coming off an all-day meditation workshop... 

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Episode 224: Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower

Release Date: 3/5/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Not Two!

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Episode 223: enlightenment

Release Date: 2/23/2024

Duration: 12 Mins

Description: enlightenment, how far away is it?

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Episode 222: Chopping Wood, Carrying Water

Release Date: 2/11/2024

Duration: 11 Mins

Description: The perfection of wisdom and suchness

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Episode 221: The Authentic View

Release Date: 2/2/2024

Duration: 16 Mins

Description: ‘Don’t know mind’ is being authentic.Includes an audio clip from an Audiobook "101 Zen Stories" by Paul Beck on Audible.

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Episode 220: Where Is Your Home?

Release Date: 1/30/2024

Duration: 14 Mins

Description: Breath, coming and going, life.

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Episode 219: The Medicine of Together Action

Release Date: 1/29/2024

Duration: 10 Mins

Description: Buddha’s prescriptions or remedies, also called expedient means, as they apply to Zendo etiquette.

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Episode 218: The Gateless Gate Of Your Own Mind

Release Date: 1/22/2024

Duration: 27 Mins

Description: The path of enlightenment…

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Episode 217: What Are We Doing?

Release Date: 1/15/2024

Duration: 13 Mins

Description: In today’s Dharma Talk, we ask the question “What is it we are doing?”

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Episode 216: Stop Reasoning!

Release Date: 1/13/2024

Duration: 9 Mins

Description: It neither is nor isn't. Already you see, you hear...

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Episode 215: Karmic Aggravations

Release Date: 1/10/2024

Duration: 20 Mins

Description: The Perfection of Patience and our Karmic makeup, the phenomenal experience, the vibrational music of our lives.

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Episode 214: A New Years Message

Release Date: 1/1/2024

Duration: 8 Mins

Description:  The past is gone, everything changes, and nothing is permanent except One. 

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Episode 213: Leting go is freedom

Release Date: 1/1/2024

Duration: 23 Mins

Description: Letting go is walking in the footsteps of Buddha. Let it be what it is, letting go is letting go of a diluted view.

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Episode 212: The Dreamscape Master

Release Date: 12/20/2023

Duration: 17 Mins

Description: What’s real and what isn’t?Just this One Mind, This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. – Huang PO

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Episode 211: December Darkness and the Perfection of Wisdom

Release Date: 12/8/2023

Duration: 26 Mins

Description:  Zen is the secret right in front of you, letting your Light shine. 

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Episode 210: Great Inquiry

Release Date: 11/28/2023

Duration: 15 Mins

Description: Zen Meditation - Sitting like a hen on her eggs. Awakening to our Buddha Nature.

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Episode 209: True Thanksgiving Is Everyday

Release Date: 11/23/2023

Duration: 6 Mins

Description: As expressed by the three jewels and the Bodhisattva path.

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