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Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer

Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer

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Talks by Sensei Richard von Sturmer is a religion podcast hosted by Sensei Richard von Sturmer. It has 23 episodes, with the latest published February 2026.

Sensei Richard von Sturmer has a long history in Zen: from 1993 to 2003 he lived and worked at the Rochester Zen Center, a Buddhist community in upstate New York, then in 2004, back in New Zealand, he co-founded the Auckland Zen Centre along with Roshi Amala Wrightson. In 2024 he was sanctioned as a Zen teacher. He has given many talks at the Centre, and some of them are collected here. Richard-sensei is also a writer and poet. Seven collections of his writing have been published including: A Network of Dissolving Threads (1991), Suchness: Zen Poetry and Prose (2005), Book of Equanimity Verses (2013), This Explains Everything (2016), Postcard Stories (2019), Resonating Distances (2022) and Walking With Rocks, Dreaming With Rivers : My Year In The Waikato (2023).

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2026-02-10 Nature Koans 3: Wu-tsu's Buffalo Passes Through the Window

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2025-11-04 Nature Koans 2: The Cypress Tree in the Courtyard

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2025-08-05 Nature Koans 1: Jingqing's Sound of the Raindrops

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2025-02-25 Ahimsa and Insects

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2024-11-26 The Nature of Mara

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2024-10-15 Zen and Character Part One (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-10-27 Zen and Character Part Two (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-09-09 Teachings of Nagarjuna 2 (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-09-08 Teachings of Nagarjuna 1 (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-09-03 Dharma Ancestors: Daiun Sogaku Harada Roshi (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-07-09 Questions of King Milinda (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2024-04-24 Life and Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2023-11-19 After the Final No There Comes a Yes (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2023-10-22 Encouragement and Praise (Sensei Richard von Sturmer)

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2022-11-08 Zen and Nature Part Three (Richard von Sturmer)

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2022-10-25 Zen and Nature Part Two (Richard von Sturmer)

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2022-04-12 Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha (Richard von Sturmer)

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2022-10-11 Zen and Nature Part One (Richard von Sturmer)

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2021-03-30 Grass and Weeds (Richard von Sturmer)

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2006-07-02 Three Turning Words (Richard von Sturmer)

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2012-09-0 Tsu Tong Po and his Poetry (Richard von Sturmer)

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2018-04-24 Time in Zen (Richard von Sturmer)

23

2019-10-08 Entangling Vines (Richard von Sturmer)

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