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Awakening Streams: The One River Zen Podcast — 66 episodes
David Hume’s Zen: Escaping the "Faint Copies" of Reality | Mumonkan Case 19
Right and Wrong — The Zen Koan of Mayoku Thumping His Staff (Book of Equanimity Case 16)
Book of Equanimity Case 21 — Ungan Sweeps the Ground
Daitsu Chishō — Mumonkan Case 9
Keichū Makes Carts — Mumonkan Case 8
The 200-Millisecond Gap: Free Will, Karma, and Zen
You Don’t Become Free — You Stop Pretending | A Zen Teaching from Shōyōroku 97
The Garuda Trap: How to Master Karmic Momentum and Sustain Presence
The Stream of Unhindered Life: Compassion, Koans, and the Unstoppable Function
Shōyōroku Case 19 | Ummon’s Mount Sumeru — A Zen Koan on Meeting the Obstacles of Mind
Zen Kōan on Ego and Original Nature — Mountains, Rivers, and the True Will
Hōgen's Hair's-Breadth: Shōyōroku Case 17
Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage | Part Four
Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage | Part Three
Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage | Part Two
Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage | Part One
Hyakujo's Fox | Mumonkan Case 2
Where'd You Get this Dust?
Let the Dust Settle | Shōyōroku Case 33
The Radiant Thread of Being | Shōyōroku Case 67
The Taste of the Ordinary: Beyond Buddhas and Ancestors | Shōyōroku, Case 78
Stop Trying to Understand, and See | Shōyōroku Case 80: Ryuge Passes the Chin Rest
Walking in Daylight | Hekiganroku Case 41
Right Here. Now What? | Sensei Sōen Michael Brunner | Hekigan-roku – Case 23
Taming the Monkey Mind: Shōyōroku Case 72 – Chuyu’s Monkey
Go Straight On: Seeing Through Illusion | Mumonkan Case 31
Seeking Meaning and the Empty Search | Blue Cliff Record Case 20
The True Person of No Rank: Breaking Free from the Illusion of Self
Chanting the Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo: A Path to Boundless Life
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Universe | Mumonkan Case 36
The Hand That Moves: Zen and the Nature of True Compassion
The Gateway of Mu | Mumonkan 1
Sweeping out the Dust, Finding the Buddha | Shōyōroku 68
Joshu meets Wittgenstein: Beyond Knowing, Into Being | Shōyōroku 57
Timeless Abundance: The Wine of This Moment
Seeds of Sorrow–Harvest of Joy
Carl Jung Meets Master Zuigan: The Dialogue Within
Sozan Shows Heidegger the Way
Obedience to Reality: Letting Go of Ego and Resistance
Embracing Every (Mis)step
Put It Down: Embracing Compassion Beyond Judgment
Responding to the Call: Finding Freedom in Discipline
Awakening the Master Within: Breaking Free and Leading the Way
Seeing Beyond Concepts: Embracing Life’s Boundless Mystery
Knock Down the Flagpole: Letting Go of Expectations and Awakening to Life
Wandering in the Mountains: Living Fully
Embracing the Present: Letting Go of Stories and Finding Compassion
Practice as if Your Life Depends on It | Shōyorōku Case 32 | Kyōzan's State of Mind
Surrender | Shōyorōku Case #59 | Seirin’s Deadly Snake
Daring Greatly | Mumonkan Case #46 | Stepping from the Top of a Pole
Finding the Way | Mumonkan Case #19 | Ordinary Mind is the Way
Banzo's Sword | Shaseki-shu Case #91 | The Taste of Banzo's Sword
In Living Color | Shoyoroku Case #6 | Baso's White and Black
What Loving-kindness? | Shasekishū Case #6 | No Loving-kindness
Working With the Flow | Hekiganroku Case #80 | Joshu's Newborn Baby
Freedom from Other | Hekiganroku Case #57 | Joshu's Nondiscrimination
The Path is the Goal | Shaseki-shu Case #37 | Publishing the Sutras
Beyond Ideas | Mumokan Case #29 | Not the Wind, Not the Flag
Opening to Life | Hekiganroku Case #43 | No Cold or Heat
Seeing Beyond | Mumonkan Case #31 | Joshu Sees Through an Old Woman
Let Go and Live! | Mumonkan Case #38 | A Buffalo Passes Through a Window
Taking the Plunge | Life Beyond Regret
Dying the Great Death | Book of Equanimity Case #63, Joshu Asks About Death
Is that (really) so? | Book of Equanimity Case #36, Master Ma is Unwell
Life Beyond the Self | Blue Cliff Record Case #36, Roaming the Mountains
Am I Dreaming? Blue Cliff Record Case #40, Nansen's "This Flower"