All Episodes

Be Easily Satisfied

It’s a Good Day to Lose.

Open reality: Hope in the Midst of the Polycrisis

Zazen is ultimate trust and ultimate relaxation

Even at dawn, the truth isn’t revealed”: Wansong’s impact on Soto Zen

Queer Ancestors: Zen Wisdom and Community

Dogen’s Extensive Record and American History

Shuso: Leadership as a caring practice

Thoroughly Ragged Practice

Shuso Talk 3: The Koan of Don’t Know

Buddhist Practices of Compassion and Resonant Care

Shuso Talk #2: On Zazen

Equanimity and Transition

Practices That Flower Into Garlands of Beneficial Blessings

Merit, Bodhisattvas, and the Enmei Juku Kannon Gyo

Fundamentally Zazen is a Caring Practice

Practice Commitment: Closing The Gates

David Chadwick and Suzuki Roshi’s Lineage

Zhaozhou Meets Two Hermits

Encouragement to Practice Completely

What Do You Call the World?

Rigidity and Self-Delusion in Practice

Considering the Activities of Zazen

Zhaozhou’s Wash Your Bowl

Appropriate Response

Tanto Talk

Unpacking the Heart Sutra

Rohatsu sesshin – Day 5 – Tenzo Turning the Wheel of Dharma

Rohatsu sesshin – Day 4 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma

Rohatsu sesshin – Day 3 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma

Rohatsu sesshin – Day 2 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma

Rohatsu sesshin – Day 1 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma

Bendowa – Embracing Dogen’s Endeavor of the Way

Dragon-bodhisattvas Practicing the Precepts

Priest Ordination

Huayan and Zen Precepts

The Changing Role of the Precepts in Soto Zen Practice

Sejiki Ceremony Preview

Upagupta – Part II, Using The Ground To Get Up

Dragons report on the Branching Streams Gathering

The Spiral That Reconnects

Upagupta Part 1 – Are You Leaving Home Physically or Mentally?

Beginning the Bodhisattva Path and Generosity

Opening To Big Mind

Generosity That Goes Beyond

Nanquan Points At A Peony

Patience Paramita

Scholar Talk: Dependent Arising and Why Everything Matters

We Reflect On The Effort….All Beings Support Each Other

The 2nd Paramita,“Ethical Conduct”

Great teacher Issan’s skillful means

Not one not two: Sangha Strength

Ancestors convey how to answer a call

Practice Period: Continuing Effort Without Desire

Practicing with Joko Beck in the 1990s

Suffering and skillful means

Emperor Wu Meets Bodhidharma Face-to-Face

This is not a Tanto Talk

Great Ancestor Darlene Cohen takes on suffering

Blanche Hartman: Willing to be just this one

The Two Truths – The Practice Realization of Zazen

Blanche Hartman and the effort of daffodils

Joko Beck’s Compassion arising and melting reactivity

Practice Period 2025 – Joko Beck

Dongshan and the Five Positions

Deep Listening

Genjokoan

Zazen and the Hamster Wheel

Parinirvana Day

Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi

Caring with the Breath

Moving with the Breath

Reflecting on 50 Years of Zazen

Breathing into the new year

Remembering Abbot Hozan Alan Senauke

Composure

Shakyamuni Sees the Morning Star

Awakening under a tree

Mending rips and tears

Dogen’s Painting of a Rice Cake

Returning to the ground of this moment

Compassion and boundless ambiguity

Consistent Practice

Wrap-up of Dogen’s Expressing the Dream Within the Dream Seminar

The Dharma of Welcoming

Delight in the difficulty of practice!

The bodhisattva precept ceremony (jukai) as community harvest

In Anticipation of Jukai

Reflections on the Five Remembrances

Shanavasa – A Teacher Disciple Dialogue

Engaged Buddhism

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

Gassho: Joining palms is dynamic bodhisattva activity

You Are Here

Releasing the compassion body, planting the treasure seed

Ordinary Mind Is the Way

Maylie Scott’s Prayer to Guide the Bodhisattva’s Response

The Equal Ground of Zazen

Responding to the Request of the Present Moment

Guiding Teacher Transition Ceremony – hogetsu

Guiding Teacher Transition Ceremony – Taigen

Now, What?

Peeking Behind the Facade Seeking the Source

Taigen Leighton Final Dharma Talk (as guiding teacher)

Hongzhi and the Mysterious Pivot

Hongzhi and Meditation on Space (and Time)

Hongzhi and Settling within

Zen Ongoing Balancing

Return to the Source and the Backward Step

All Beings are my Ancestors

Guidepost for Silent Illumination