All Episodes

Roshi Philip Kapleau Memorial

Are Bodhisattvas Real?

Impossible Situations: A Buffalo Passes Through the Window

Finding Your Buddha Smile (Final Chapter) - Part 11: A Springtime Stroll

The Birth of The Buddha -- What's it all about?

Finding Your Buddha Smile- Part 10: Beautiful Snowflakes!

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 9: What is the True Me?

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 8: How Do I Find Peace of Mind?

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 7: The Highest Teaching is the Oak Tree in my Front Garden?

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 6: Te-shan Carries His Lunch Bowls: The Last Word

The Buddha’s Parinirvana: Teisho by Roshi Rafe Martin

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 5: Te-shan Carries His Bundle

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 4: Te-shan Carries His Backpack

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 3: The World Honored One Ascends the Teaching Seat

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 2: The Buddha Shows the Path

Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 1: Introduction

On the Precepts (in preparation for New Year's Eve Jukai)

The Buddha's Great Enlightenment

Old Ghosts and Living a Life of Grace -- teisho on the Fox Koan

No Kings, Vows -- Zen and the U.S.A. -- and the conclusion to Hanshan's Autobiography

2025 Jataka Sesshin: The Monkey King

2025 Jataka Sesshin: The Tigress

2025 Jataka Sesshin: Give It All You've Got

2025 Jataka Sesshin: The Black Hound Jataka

Bodhidharma Day and The Oak Tree in the Front Garden

Part 8 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan - Starting with his 70th Year!

Part 7 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 6 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 5 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 4 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 3 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 2 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Part 1 - The Autobiography of Zen Master Hanshan

Who am I?

Zen and Social Responsibility

Peace of Mind?

Philip Kapleau and The History of Zen in the West

The Buddha Is Caught by Desire! Mistakes are Us!

What is the Dharma King's Dharma?

The Birth of the Buddha -- Or -- How Does A Buddha Get Born?

Which is the True You?

Interview with Rafe Martin, courtesy of Simplicity Zen

Oak Tree in the Front Garden

Te-shan Carries his Lunch Bowls

The Buddha's Parinirvana -- and Us!

Te-shan Carries His Bundle. Is he right -- or wrong?

A brief pre-teisho encouragement for practicing -- and living -- in our troubling times.

Te-shan Sets Down His Backpack - Case 28, Gateless Barrier.

What's Zen Really All About?

The Baby's Practice!

Liking Jataka Tales: A Teisho for Entering 2025

The Buddha Holds Up a Flower

The Buddha's Enlightenment and Our Own Zen Practice

The Buddha Leaves Home, (and how this relates to our own Zen practice!)

Realization, Gratitude, Thanksgiving and Healing

Manjusri Fails to Awaken the Young Woman. Is failure "wonderful indeed"?

Shame!

Halloween 2024 -- The Fox Koan and Putting Old Ghosts to Rest

Trying to Satisfy Desire. The Mandhata Jataka.

The Banyan Deer -- a teisho on non-duality and justice

Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind

Zen History -- D.T. Suzuki and the Transmission of Zen to the West

Great Compassion

Part 9 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 8 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 7 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 6 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 5 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 4 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 3 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Part 2 - Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

Tangen Roshi and "Throw Yourself Into the House of Buddha"

The Challenge of Lay Zen Practice and the Essence of Renunciation or "Letting Go."

Oak Tree in the Front Garden!

Anniversary Teisho - Roshi Kapleau

Which is the True Chi'en

A Buffalo Passes Through the Window

The Buddha's Birth -- What does it mean for us today?

A Teisho for Spring: Ch'ang Sha's Stroll

Te-Shan Carries His Bowls

Te-shan Carries His Bundle

Te-shan Sets Down his Backpack

Pilgrimage to Buddhist India: Dharma Talk by Rose Martin

The Diamond Sutra and Being Reviled

The Buddha Ascends the Rostrum

The Buddha's Parinirvana (death) and Us

A Non-Buddhist Questions the Buddha

Our Great Vow

Layman Pang's Snowflakes / A Mind of Winter

Manifesting Suchness - Dogen's Genjokoan

Lay Practice, Continuous Practice

Winter Haiku | The Zen Precepts

The Buddha's Great Enlightenment, Rohatsu Day 3

The Buddha's Teaching, Rohatsu Day 2

The Buddha Leaves Home - Rohatsu Day 1

Dogen's "One Bright Pearl"

Becoming Fully Human in our Tragic Time

Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind

2023 Jataka Sesshin - Day 4: The Gardener Sage

2023 Jataka Sesshin - Day 3: The Buddha as a Child of an Ogre

2023 Jataka Sesshin - Day 2: The Buddha as a Tree

2023 Jataka Sesshin - Day 1: Why Be Human?

Zen Failure, Zen Creativity

Dogen's "Fukanzazengi", Koans, and the Lord of the Rings

Killing a Cat — A Troubling Case

Zen Bodhisattvas: Maitreya - The Dream Within a Dream

Zen Bodhisattvas: Kannon, Bodhisattva of Compassion

Zen Bodhisattvas: Manjusri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom

Zen Bodhisattvas: Bodhisattva of Wisdom and the Young Woman

Zen Bodhisattvas: Manjusri - 3x3 front, 3x3 back