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Endless Path Zendo | Roshi Rafe Martin — 114 episodes
Manjusri Fails!
Meeting Manjusri Bodhisattva of Wisdom Face-to Face
Manjusri -- Bodhisattva of Wisdom
Actualizing Our Gestural Imagination: Telling Stories that Live!
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