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Buddhist Temple of Toledo Podcast — 738 episodes
Letting Emptiness Carry You (BOE Case 57)
Every Step Is Home: Practicing In the Moment Regardless of Circumstances
The Preciousness of Keeping Custody of the Mind
Full Contact with the Entire Catastrophe **Room Echo Present**
Home All Around Us
Letting the Weight Settle (BCR Case 98)
Practice Aware
Every Step Home
Wisdom And Love As Intentional Practice
Bringing Our Practice Forward In The Fire
Blue Cliff Record Case 80 - Joshu's Newborn Baby
With a heart of Bodhicitta: Making monastaic vows
Practicing in the Midst of the Storm
Being Okay With Thusness, Asking for Help, and Prayer
Feet on the Path to Awakening (Bohdi Day)
Blue Cliff Record Case 83: Yun Men's Ancient Buddhas and the Pillar
Why Practice?
Who Are You?
Liberation Through The Four Immeasurables
Examining What Is Beyond Difficult or Easy: Realizing the Gift Of the Moment
Perfect Enlightenment Stands Upon the Impossible
The Basis of Sickness
Pulling The Thread Of Sesshin
Vimalakirti Sutra Chapter 7: The Goddess
Blue Cliff Record Case 52: Chao Chou Lets Asses and Donkeys Cross + Sayings of Layman P'ang
Through fear, Fearlessness
Great Compassion of the Bodhisattva
Not Knowing Is Universal Love
A Sense of The Coming Year for 2026 (Abbot's Annual Address)
Blue Cliff Record Case 8 Part 2: Suigan's Eyebrows
Blue Cliff Record Case 8: Suigan's Eyebrows
Blue Cliff Record Case 6: Yun Men's Every Day Is a Good Day Part 3
Find Your Peak
Blue Cliff Record Case 6: Yun Men's Every Day Is a Good Day (Part 2)
Blue Cliff Record Case 6: Yun Men's Every Day Is a Good Day
Blue Cliff Record Case 5 - Hsueh Feng's Grain of Rice
Blue Cliff Record Case 4 - Deshan Carrying His Bundle
Blue Cliff Record Case 3 - Master Ma Is Unwell
This Precious Human Life
Blue Cliff Record Case 2 - The Ultimate Path Is Without Difficulty
Dwelling Peacefully with Discomfort
Abiding in the Bardo of Life
What Happens At Death: The Bardo State
What Happens At Death
Blue Cliff Record Case 1 - The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths
Reflections on Summer Practice
The Buddha's Final Teaching
Bring Forth the Mind that Abides Nowhere
Go Get Some Water
Mumonkan Case 1 - Joshu's Dog
Mumonkan Case 1.2 Pt 1 - Joshu's Dog
Mumonkan Case 48 - Kempo's One Way
Mumonkan Case 47 – Tosotsu's Three Barriers
Mumonkan Case 46 – Stepping Forward from the Top of a Pole
Mumonkan Case 45 – Who is That One?
Mumonkan Case 44 – Basho and a Stick
Mumonkan Case 43 - Shushan's Short Bamboo Staff
Mumonkan Case 42 - Manjushri's Woman In Meditation
Mumonkan Case 41 - Bodhidharma Puts the Mind to Rest (Part 2)
Mumonkan Case 41 – Bodhidharma Puts the Mind to Rest (Part 1)
Mumonkan Case 40 - Kicking Over the Sippy Cup
Mumonkan Case 39 – Unmon and a Mistake in Speech
Mumonkan Case 38 Part 2 - A Buffalo Passes Through A Window
Mumonkan Case 38 Part 1 - A Buffalo Passes Through A Window
Mumonkan Case 37 – The Oak Tree in the Front Garden **Room Echo Present**
Mumonkan Case 36 – Meeting a Person of the Tao Along the Way
Mumonkan Case 35 - Seijo's Soul is Separated
Mumonkan Case 34 - Wisdom Is Not The Tao
Mumonkan Case 33 – No Mind, No Buddha
Mumonkan Case 32 – The Buddha Responds to an Outsider
Mumonkan Case 31 – Joshu Sees Through an Old Woman
Mumonkan Case 30 – Mind is Buddha
Mumonkan Case 29 – Not the Wind, Not the Flag
Do Not Take This Precious Opportunity for Granted
Reflections On a 21st Century Hermitage
Mumonkan Case 28 - Ryotan's Name Echoed Long
Being Friendly with Nots
Seeing the True Reality of Things
Realizing the Nonself
Mumonkan Case 27 - Not Mind, Not Buddha
Blue Cliff Record Case 69 - Nansen's Circle
Stilling the Wild Horse
On Samadhi: Being The Peace The World Needs Right Now
Mumonkan Case 26 – Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
Mumonkan Case 25 - The Sermon of the Third Seat
Mumonkan Case 24 - Abandon Words and Speaking
Mumonkan Case 23 – Huineng's "Neither Good nor Evil"
Samadhi (with a Brief Discussion of Dharma Combat)
Mumonkan Case 22 – Kasho and a Flagpole
Mumonkan Case 21 – Unmon's Kanshiketsu
Mumonkan Case 20 – A Man of Great Strength
Mumonkan Case 19 - Ordinary Mind is the Way
Mumonkan Case 18 – Tozan's Three Pounds of Flax
Mumonkan Case 17 - The National Teacher's Three Calls
Mumonkan Case 16 - The Sound of the Bell and the Seven Panel Robe
Mumonkan Case 15 - Tozan's Sixty Blows (*Audio Issues, See Description*)
Mumonkan Case 14 - Nanken Kills the Cat
Mumonkan Case 13 - Tokusan Carries His Bowls
Mumonkan Case 12 - Zuigan Calls Himself "Master"
How Do You Practice When The World Is On Fire?
Dissolving the Self
MN 62 Sutta: The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula (Continued)
MN 62 Sutta: The Greater Discourse of Advice to Rahula
Practicing with Illness and Practicing in Community
The Essence of Zen Practice
The Four Means of Embracing Others
Dogen's Guidelines on Practicing the Way (Paragraphs 2 and 3)
Home Hermitage and Binary Dualism
Loosening the Chains of the Mind
The Clothing of Liberation
Dharmacakra Sutra: Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 28) – The Heart Sutra Question & Answer
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 27) – The Heart Sutra
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 12.5b) – The Home Altar Continued
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 12.5a) – The Home Altar
Mumonkan Case 11 - Joshu Examines the Hermits
Mumonkan Case 10 - Seizei the Poor
Mumonkan Case 9 - Xingyang's Non-Attained Buddha
Mumonkan Case 8 - Keichu The Wheelmaker
A Frank Conversation About Suicide with Rinsen and Gokyo
Blue Cliff Record Case 63/64 - Nansen's Cat and Jōshū's straw sandals
Tanzan's Last Announcement (Death Is No Death)
The Platform Sutra: Transmission and Enlightenment
Blue Cliff Record Case 62 - Master Yunmen's "Within there is a Jewel"
Unmask Yourself
Dogen's Instruction to the Householder - Old Master Tang's "Not Concealed"
Dogen's Instructions for Householder Training (Continued): Studying With a Dharma Teacher
The Stream of Wisdom
Ingredients for Practice
Blue Cliff Record Case 61 - Fengxue's "One Atom of Dust"
Dogen's Instructions for Householder Training (Continued)
Dogen's Instructions for Householder Zen Training
Blue Cliff Record Case 60 - Yunmen's Staff Becomes a Dragon
Trust Yourself, Interrogate Yourself
Zen and the Creative Process: Dogen's Genjokoan
Blue Cliff Record Case 57 – Joshu's 'Nondiscrimination"
Master Yourself, Be Free (Gateless Gate Case 12)
Mumonkan Case 7 - Wash Your Bowls
The Real Miracle
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 26)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 25)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 24)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 23)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 22)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 21)
Distant Dharma - Be the Buddha of Your Gig
Distant Dharma - For Every Season
Distant Dharma - Beautifully Met
Distant Dharma - Chaos and Connection
Distant Dharma - The Center Point
Distant Dharma - Letting Go
Is That So
To Look upon the Awakened and Keep Company with the Wise
Letting Go of Winning and Losing
Live in Joy, Live in Peace
A Cup of Tea
Pebbles along the Way
Finding a Diamond on a Muddy Road
Mumonkan Case 6 - Buddha Holds Up A Flower
Dhammapada Chapter 15: Joy
Mumonkan Case 5 - Xiangyan's Up a Tree pt 2
Mumonkan Case 5 - Xiangyan's Up a Tree Part 1
Light and Dark
Mumonkan Case 4 - The Barbarian Has No Beard
Seeing Into Mountains and Rivers
Bodhidharma's "Clear and Void"
Deep Unconscious Place
Ta Hui's Swampland Flowers - Letter 12
Mumonkan Case 3 - Gutei's Finger pt 2
Jukai - The Tenth Grave Precept: The Way of Not Defaming the Three Treasures
Dharma Talk on Chapter Four of the Dhammapada ("Flowers")
Jukai - The Ninth Grave Precept: The Way of Not Indulging in Anger
Jukai - The Eighth Grave Precept: The Way of Not Sparing the Dharma Assets
Jukai - The Sixth and Seventh Grave Precepts: The Way of Not Discussing the Faults of Others and The Way of Not Praising Myself While Abusing Others
Finding Our Way In
Jukai - The Fifth Grave Precept: The Way of Not Intoxicating Mind and Body
Jukai - The Fourth Grave Precept: The Way of Not Speaking Falsely
"Seated in the Cave of the Heart": On Relating to Our Thoughts
Jukai - The Third Grave Precept: The Way of Not Misusing Sexuality
We Are What We Think: A Dharma Talk on the Dhammapada
Finding a Worthy Friend
Jukai - The Second Grave Precept: The Way of Not Stealing
Jukai - The First Grave Precept: The Way of Not Killing
Jukai - The Third Pure Precept: Actualizing Good for Others
Saving Hungry Ghosts
Jukai - The Second Pure Precept: Practicing the Buddhadharma
Jukai - The First Pure Precept: Cease from Evil
Jukai - The Third Precept: Refuge in Dharma
Mumonkan Case 3 - Gutei's Finger pt 1
On Xiquan's "Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage" and Fully Engaging Our Lives as They Are
Mumonkan Case 2 - Hyakujo and the Fox pt 2
Mumonkan Case 2 - Hyakujo and the Fox pt 1
Dropping the Chain
Mumonkan Case 1 - Joshu's Dog
Inhabiting the Present, Envisioning the Future
Jukai - The Second Precept: Refuge in Dharma
Bowing Down in Speech
Jukai - The First Precept: Refuge in Buddha
Changing Seasons
Cultivating Good Friendship
Social and Communal Harmony: Four Types of Persons
Seat of Practice
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 20)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 19)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 18)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 17)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 16)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 15)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 14)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 13)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 12)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 11)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 10)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 9)
Interview with Dosho Port Roshi: Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 8)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 7)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 6)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part V)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 4)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 3)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 2)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Part 1)
Understanding the Daily Liturgy: The Stages of the Mahayana Path (Introduction)
Which rocks matter?
Introductory Commentary on the Mumonkan Part 2
Introductory Commentary on the Mumonkan Part 1
The Qualities of a True Friend
Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 12: Sariputta's Lion's Roar
Blue Cliff Record Case 57: Nondiscrimination
Blue Cliff Record Case 54: Yunmen Extends Both Hands
Developing Non-disgust
No Water, No Moon
Your Own Particular Mara
Nanduttara
Ango Practice
The Fourth Noble Truth - Part 2
The Fourth Noble Truth - Part 1
Opened Eyes
Alive or Dead?
Life and Death
The Mother of Buddhas
Perceiver of the World's Sounds
Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra
Clearly Illuminating the World
Rengetsu
The Way of Practicing in Our Life
Spring Ango Opening - Women in Zen
The Place of Our Awakening
Same and Not the Same
Sound and Silence
One Interconnected Being
Learn to Cook Good Rice
Commemorating the Buddha's Passing
The Six Realms - Part 2
The Six Realms - Part 1
The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh
Master Joshu's Stone Bridge
Going Back Inside
Making Tea
To Know for One's Self
Tapestry of Practice
More on the Eightfold Path
Spirits and Spirituality
The Eightfold Path
The Gateless Gate: Case 1 - Joshu's Dog
The Third Noble Truth
The Second Noble Truth
The First Noble Truth
The Suffering of Suffering
The Gateless Gate: Case 16 - Yunmen's Sound of the Bell
Liberation and Equanimity Through Non-Clinging
Dedicating the Roots of Goodness
Happiness and Authentic Practice
Not Contained by Six
Awakening is What We Do
Dogen's "Being-Time"
Ta Hui's "Non-Duality"
Don't Pray for Relief
Don't Cling to Stillness
Women and the Dharma
Zen and Religious Practice
Ordination Q&A
Ta Hui's "Enlightenment and Delusion" Part 8
Ta Hui's "Enlightenment and Delusion" Part 7
Enlightenment and Delusion Part 6
Enlightenment and Delusion Parts 4 and 5
Enlightenment and Delusion Part 3
Enlightenment and Delusion Part 2
Spring Ango Close 2021
To Make a Clean Break
Zen Intent
Not Abandoning a Single Thing
Ta Hui's "Nothing to Attain"
Ta Hui's The Mind's Conceptual Discrimination
Ta Hui's "Mindlessness"
Thoughts on Becoming a Zen Student from a Zen Teacher
BCR Case 46: The Sound of Raindrops
To See Things Truly
Never Disparaging
Lotus in Muddy Water
Hakuin and the Solstice High Seat
Discerning Jukai
I Respectfully Urge you
Within Light, Darkness
Amanda Gorman's Brave Enough to Be It
An Interview With Dosho Port Roshi
Year Letting Go Year Welcoming
Bodhi Day
Cause and Effect Return to the Great Reality
The Four Elements
Nice Snow
Interview with Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
Auspicious Moment Pilgrimage
We and Everything We Perceive
The Subtle Source is Clear and Bright
What's a Zen Teacher For?
Words Do Not Convey The Fact
Thoughts Pour Out in Endless Streams
The Mind of the Great Sage
Home Retreat Encouragement Talk
Dogen's Kishin, Roshin, & Daishin
Self-Examination
Blue Cliff Record Case 40 - Nansen's Flower
The Necessity of Retreat
A Flowering Hedge
Boddhichitta
Concentration, Wisdom, Character
An Interview with Rinsen Roshi
On the Use of Storms, Floods and Firestorms
Solstice, Father's Day, and Sutra Study
Sutra Study
Connecting with Ancestors
The Power of Liberation
Morality And Awakening
In A Sandalwood Forest...
Dust in the Wind
Black Lives Matter: A Message from The Buddhist Temple of Toledo
Buddha's Birthday
Always Full and Clear
One Moon
Get to the Root
Coming and Going
Seeing Into The Path
Obstacles as Wise Friends
When Things are Confusing
Alone on the Same Path
Equanimity in the Face of Covid-19
Women of the Dharma
Yung-chia's "Song of Realizing the Way"
Dairyu and the "Dharma-Body"
Questions and Answers
Roaming the Mountains
Living Calmly
It's Your Mind
The Symbol of the Circle
Patience
The Summit of the Mystic Peak
The Meditation Brace
Kyozan's "You Have Not Traveled the Mountains"
The Full Range
Vital Living Practice
Gratitude
Shuso and the Peaceful Dwelling
The Peace Of The Paramitas
The Bodhi Seed
Temple Seal
Yunmen's Sound of the Bell
Enlightened Virtue
Your Effort Matters
Right Here
Living Authentically
Sewing The Robe
Loving Kindness
Breaking Down the Invocation
Not Who You Are But How You Are
See Each Thing
Sitting & Sangha
Investigating Wonder
Atonement
Dharma Combat
Earnest Disciples
Thriving at Sesshin
Expressing the Heart of Mother
Teachers and Students
Buddhist Magic
Swimming Upstream
Not Mind, Not Buddha
Yunmen's "Body Exposed in the Autumn Wind"
Precious Life
Body Practice for Zen Students
When things Are Not Easy
Being Alive
The Iron Grindstone
Practicing Lineage
Being at Home
Ango Art Practice
Ship of Compassion
The Moon
The Summit of the Mystic Peak
Awakening, Acceptance, and The Shoken Robe
The Meditation Brace
Bird Flies; Fish Swims; What About Us?
Stillness and Movement
Familly Awareness
Shoken Acknowledgement Ceremony
Yunmen's Sound of the Bell
Bodhi Day
Kanzeon - the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Spiritual Friendship
The Sound of Raindrops
Fuel for Our Practice
Getting Into the Weeds
The Power of Authenticity
What's in a Name?
Modes of Mind
Hungry Ghosts
Clouds and Water
Sweeping the Leaves
Face what Appears
Meet the World Without Obstruction
Engaging in Practice
What is Transmitted?
Taking Refuge in Buddha & Dharma
The Meaning of Coming From the West
Student of the Dharma
The Seamless Tomb
On the Edge of Ango
Gutei's One-Finger Zen
Zazen and Posture
The Man in The Weeds
Ritual and Expression
The Times in Between
Mother's Day
The Appropriate Comment
Novice Acknowledgement Ceremony
Snow in a Silver Bowl
Body Practice
Taking Refuge
An Upside Down Statement
Hongzhi's Guidepost of Silent Illumination
Gobblers of Dregs
Grief, Loss, and Change
Three Pounds of Flax
Ango Mondo
The Thieving Phoney
Living the Life of Reality
The Practice of Dying
Master Joshu's Four Gates
One Continuous Mistake
The Flower of the Dharma
The Fragrance of Virtue
Suigan's Eyebrows
Do Not Squander Your Life
Ango Opening Comments
Nehan and the Death of the Buddha
The Value of the Sangha
You Are Echo
Every Day Is A Good Day
Wakefulness and Seeing Clearly
Seppo's "A Grain of Rice"
Bodhi Day and the Story of the Buddha
The Light and the Dark
Tokusan Visits Isan
Wisdom of the Lineage
What Do We Mean By "Practice"?
Heart Song
Special Announcement
Joshu's Supreme Way
What Does It Mean to Live Simply?
How Much is Enough?
The Edge of Your Practice
Shoken
Memorializing Bruce "Jinzan" Green
Encountering Your Life
Wumen's Postscript to the Gateless Gate
Kanzeon Moves In The World
Tending the Garden
The Cloister of Daily Life
Becoming The Way
Wu-Tsu's Buffalo
Seasons of Training
Finding Your True Self
The Buddha's Passing
Radiating Mind
Refuge Opens the Path
Wisdom is not the Tao
At One With the Tao
The Importance of Sesshin
Meeting This Very Moment
The Buddha Responds to an Outsider
Let's Have a Conversation
Bodhi Day
Joshu Investigates an Old Woman
Joshu's Oak Tree
Contemplative Intelligence
How Do You Respond to Hate?
Yunmen's "You Have Misspoken"
The Original Perfection is There
Drop Into the Mystery
Give Yourself to Yourself
Kyozan's Sermon from the Third Seat
Wild Horses
Speech and Silence
Transmitting the One Robe
Sewing the Buddha's Robe
Everyday Activity
Bearing Witness to What Comes Up
Beyond Easy and Difficult
Jumping Off the 100 Foot Pole
All Roads Lead To Zazen
Value The Time
Growing the Compassionate Spirit of Love
Ryutan's Candle
Realizing the Tathāgata's true meaning
Being Together
Zen Politics
Dogen's Genjokoan Winter 2015
Spring Talk 2016
The Song of Zazen and Suffering
Marriage Equality, Tibetan Connections, and Loving Kindness
The Heart Sutra and the Nature of Suffering
Father's Day
Joshu's Mu - Sesshin
Whittling Away and Settling Down
Seng Ts'an's Faith In Mind
Kyogan's Man Up a Tree
Rinsen Responds to the Recent Terrorist Attacks
Days Like Lightning
Anguish and Taking Up the Practice
The Heart of Confusion
Cause & Effect
Meditation and Letting Be
Three Refuges and Being Here
Buddhist Study - Gebser Model
Ego and Self-Deception
Lineage and Open Heart at Great Heartland BTT
Openness Toward Working With Teacher
Spring Ango 2015 - Daily Home Liturgy
Ango Text and Liturgical Practice
The Gateless Gate, Case 4: A Beardless Foreigner
Impermanence - Nature to Die - Former Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins
Gateless Gate: The Finger Koan
Addressing Anger
Authentic Practice
Encountering Basic Practice
Gatha of Atonement
2015 New Year
Harmony of Relative and Absolute
Shobogenzo Sesshin
Shorter Precepts Recitation
Those Who Greatly Realize Delusion are Buddhas - Guidance in Zazen
Diamond Sutra Part 6
Gateless Gate Case 1
Diamond Sutra Part 5
Diamond Sutra Part 4
How Much is Enough?
Diamond Sutra pt3 - The Answer
Earnest Practice
The Diamond Sutra Chapter 2 Part 2
The Diamond Sutra Chapter 2 Part 1
Gateless Gate 1a
Houn Kyogen's Unopened Bowls & The 8 Awakenings of Great Beings
Welcome to Fall Ango 2014
Song of Zazen
About Liturgy
Spring Talk - The Importance of a Teacher
Spring Ango #1
Ango Opening Spring 2014
The Practice of Cold
Are you Big or are you small?
Keep on Progressing
The Intimacy of Not Knowing
Simply Sit, Sit Simply
The Sewing of The Robe
How Do I Be Who I Am?
Rinsen Osho's Denkai Celebration
The Story of The Buddha told on Bodhi Day
The Dharma of Calvin and Hobbes
No Averison to the Myriad
The Heart Sutra and the Practice of Shikantaza 3 of 3
The Heart Sutra and the Practice of Shikantaza 2 of 3
The Heart Sutra and the Practice of Shikantaza 1 of 3
The Heart of the Matter
Giving and Non-Greed.
Moments of Time
Are You In?
Beyond Pure and Impure.
Remembering the Smell of the Deep End of the Pool...
Rinsens Talk on Chinuls Secrets from sep 16 2012
Self Identity with Others, Others Identity with Self
All Dharmas in this Moment
Picking and Choosing
Heroic Spirit with Unhindered Activity
The Three Levels of Dealing With People
Keeping the Light of Practice On
The Hermit of Lotus Peak
Introduction to Zazen with Ed Brown
Gratitude Arising, The Possibility of Freedom
Relentless Practice
Functioning Freely
Creating a Place for Encountering the Dharma
Life and Death, the Great Matter
Trusting Your Life
It's Right in Front of You
Taking Care of Yourself
Twining Vines
Farming with Buddha Mind
Entangled Gourd Vines
The Family Business
Joining With Delusion
House Within Your House
Cool, Dry and at Rest
Illuminating Original Truth
Getting Through the Gate
Working with Anger and the Body
Total Trust
Householder Bodhisattva
Becoming the Buddha of You
James Ford Roshi's Visit to Toledo Zen Center
Arriving Directly
How Ridiculous
Intro to Zazen with Rinsen
Oryoki (Part 2 of 2)
Oryoki (Part 1 of 2)
An Introduction to the Zen Arts
Getting the Tiger's Whisker
Hurting Ourselves
Fa-Yen's Guidelines for the Ch'an School
Who is Your Enemy?
Death Is Not Optional
The Paramita of Compassion with Rafe Martin (part 2 of 2).mp3
The Paramita of Compassion with Rafe Martin (part 1 of 2)
Yun-Men's Staff of Shallow and Deep
So, What Is Zen? Awakening!
Yun-Men's One Vehicle, Isabella's "I Love You, Be You!"
True Hearing, True Sitting.
This One Mind, As It Is.
Letting Go With Both Hands, Take These Four Powers!
The Way is Not Something Which Can Be Studied
Being Liturgy
Utter Relinquishment of Triple Time
Escaping Hindrances?
Bodhisattva Mind, True Action
Waking Up to the Spiritual Life
Making Offerings.
Mind is Like the Void in Which There is No Confusion Nor Evil.
Spontaneous Action
Encountering Huang Po (part 3 of 3)
Encountering Huang Po (part 2 of 3)
Encountering Huang Po (part 1 of 3)
Walking is Zen. Sitting is Zen.
Yung Chia: This Single Perfect Nature
Sheng-yen and the Sutra of Complete Enlightment
Encountering the Ancestors: Po Chu'i (part 3 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Po Chu'i (part 2 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Po Chu'i (part 1 of 3)
The Practice of Atonement
Meticulous Kindness
Better to Seek the Truth Directly
Facing Fear
Pai Chang: Detach From All Things
Pai Chang: Turn All Words Right Around
Encountering the Ancestors: Pai Chang (part 3 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Pai Chang (part 2 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Pai Chang (part 1 of 3)
Han Shan's Fragrant Flower
The Buddhas Peace (After Electing a New President)
Who would guess I'd end up (like this)?
Han Shan's Single Robe
Video: An Invitation from Rinsen
Establishing a Clean Slate
There Is No Other Thing.
Thoughts Don't Originally Exist
What Is It That Is Difficult For You To Accept?
Shih-T'ou's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage (2 of 2)
Shih-T'ou's Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage (1 of 2)
Shih-T'ou: Identity of Relative and Absolute (part 4)
Shih-T'ou: Identity of Relative and Absolute (part 3)
Shih-T'ou: Identity of Relative and Absolute (continued)
Shih-T'ou: Identity of Relative and Absolute
Video: Meticulous Kindness (3 of 4)
Encountering Shih-Tou (2 of 2): The Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage
Video: Meticulous Kindness (2 of 4)
Video: Meticulous Kindness (1 of 4)
Encountering Shih-Tou (1 of 2): The Myriad Things as the Self
Trusting What Can't Be Taken
Zen Practice and the Life Cycle of Religious Tradition
Equanimity
Attachment to Views
The Spiritual Journey
Zen and Creativity
Encountering the Ancestors: Wang Wei (part 3 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Wang Wei (part 2 of 3)
Encountering the Ancestors: Wang Wei (part 1 of 3)
An Interview With Rinsen
Practicing Loving Kindness
Practicing Generosity
Embracing the Not-Knowing
The Way Out Is In
Yung-Chia: Song of Realizing the Way (part 3 of 3)
Yung-Chia: Song of Realizing the Way (part 2 of 3)
Yung-Chia: Song of Realizing the Way (part 1 of 3)
Do No Harm
Mindful of Intention
Aspects of Mindfulness
Accord With The Way
Neither The Erroneous Nor The Correct
Hui-Neng: The Platform Sutra (part 3 of 3)
Hui-Neng: The Platform Sutra (part 2 of 3)
Hui-Neng: The Platform Sutra (part 1 of 3)
This and That?
The Virtue of Non-Doing
Don't Turn Away.
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 3 of 3)
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 2 of 3)
Seng-Ts'an: Relying on Mind (part 1 of 3)
The Ultimate Truth is Beyond Words.
Our Nature is the Mind, and the Mind is our Nature.
You Ask, That's Your Mind. I Answer, That's My Mind.
Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 3 of 3)
Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 2 of 3)
Bodhidharma's "Two Entrances and Four Practices" (part 1 of 3)
Who Took My Head?
Dark to the Mind, Radiant to the Heart
Perfect Like Vast Space
Obstacles to Practice (part 3 of 3)
Obstacles to Practice (part 2 of 3)
Obstacles to Practice (part 1 of 3)
Being the Teachings, Practice Zazen
Giving
Have No Preferences
The Four Noble Truths (part 3 of 3)
The Four Noble Truths (part 2 of 3)
The Four Noble Truths (part 1 of 3)
Expressing True Nature
Living Zen: Awakening the Joyful Heart
Study Yourself