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Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast — 265 episodes
I Am Because We Are
Addiction
Influencing and Being Influenced
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Consciousness
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Space/Time
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Air
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Fire
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Water
Mountains and Waters - The Elements - Earth
Wildfire Dharma
Become What You Are
Ordinary Wonder
To Be Free and Fearless
Here I Become Earth
Time in the Garden
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 11/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 10/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 9/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 8/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 7/11
Way Seeking Mind Talk - Kushi Matthew Ramsay
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 6/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 5/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 4/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 3/11
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 2/11
Weekend Retreat with Zoketsu Norman Fischer 2/2
Weekend Retreat with Zoketsu Norman Fischer 1/2
A Field Guide to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 1/11
Reflections on the Pilgrims' Path 3/3
Reflections on the Pilgrims' Path 2/3
Reflections on the Pilgrims' Path 1/3
In the Mango Grove
The Old Way 5/5
April Zazenkai with Dai-i Flo-Rublee 2/2
April Zazenkai with Dai-i Flo-Rublee 1/2
The Old Way 4/5
Way Seeking Mind Talk
The Old Way 3/5
Admirable Friendship - Begin Again
The Old Way 2/5
The Ocean - Mother Of Us All
The Old Way 1/5
On Crooked Cucumbers
Natural Healing
Genzo-e Closing Retreat 2/2
Genzo-e Closing Retreat 1/2
The Poetry of Flowers
The Problem is the Problem
Putting Into Motion Our Awakened Nature
All is Luminous
The Point of Turning Dharma Blossoms
Parinirvana and the Blue Lotus Blossoming in the Fire
Think Beyond Thinking
Dogen Writes for You
Dharma Blossoms Turn Dharma Blossoms
Way Seeking Mind Talk - With Hotei Lee Lourdeaux
Genzo-e Opening Retreat - 2/2
Genzo-e Opening Retreat - 1/2
The Glory of Our Essence - Becoming Yourself - 4/4
Way Seeking Mind Talk - With Shiryū
Contradictory Experiences - Becoming Yourself 3/4
The Gift Economy
Pure Mind and True Nature- Becoming Yourself 2/4
Way Seeking Mind Talk - With Gensei Susu Schnee
Ethics as Exploration - Becoming Yourself - 1/4
Being Intimate With the Half-Known Life
The Granting Way vs. The Grasping Way
Joy as Gift to Give and Receive
All I Want to Give For Xmas Is...
Ancestors To Be - Rohatsu Sesshin 7/7
Grandmother Zen - Rohatsu Sesshin 6/7
Learning to be Supported - Rohatsu Sesshin 5/7
Anger's Entanglement - Rohatsu Sesshin 4/7
Endurance and Humility- Rohatsu Sesshin 3/7
The Awakened Sage - Rohatsu 2/7
Letting Go - Rohatsu 1/7
Foundational Women - Practice Period Week Nine - Wednesday
Inner Practices for Living with Illness - Practice Period Week Eight - Sunday
Skillful Means - Practice Period Week Seven - Sunday
The Dharma of Chores - Practice Period Week Seven - Wednesday
Earth Womb - Practice Period Week Six - Sunday
Zazen is Embodied Curiosity - Practice Period Week Six - Wednesday
Hail to the Never-Despising Bodhisattva - Practice Period Week Five - Sunday
For the Hungry Ghosts - Practice Period Week Five - Wednesday
The Use and Power of the Erotic - Practice Period Week Four - Sunday
The Dharma Gate of Grief - Practice Period Week Four - Wednesday
Enlightened Women - Practice Period Week Three - Sunday
When the Buddha was Wrong - Practice Period Week Three - Wednesday
Who was the Buddha's Mother? - Practice Period Week Two - Sunday
Bringing Zen Home - Practice Period Week Two - Wednesday
Practice Period Opening Weekend (5/5)
Practice Period Opening Weekend (4/5)
Practice Period Opening Weekend (3/5)
Practice Period Opening Weekend (2/5)
Practice Period Opening Weekend (1/5)
Way Seeking Mind Talk - Unmon Jacob Butula
How to Cook Your Life (7/7)
Zazenkai
How to Cook Your Life (6/7)
Making Choices
How to Cook Your Life (5/7)
Special Talk for Labour Day
How to Cook Your Life (4/7)
Camping Dharma
How to Cook Your Life (3/7)
Practicing with Anxiety
How to Cook Your Life (2/7)
Listening to the Wild - Speaking as a Tree
How to Cook Your Life (1/7)
Special Talk for Pride
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 6)
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 5)
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 4)
Practice of the Wild (M&W 2025 sesshin day 3)
Practice of the Wild (M&W sesshin day 2)
Practice of the Wild (M&W sesshin day 1)
Dialogues in a Dream - To Be in the Garden
To Acknowledge and Renew - Fusatsu
Dialogues in a Dream - What is Your Relationship to the World?
Zen Mind, Baby Mind
Dialogues in a Dream - To Read or Not to Read
Seeing our Demons
Dialogues in a Dream - What is Compassion?
The Karma of Words
Dialogues in a Dream - What Would You Ask a Time-travelling Zen Master?
What is this Light that Everyone Has?
Living with Ease in a Crazy World (Training in Compassion - 8/)
Practice Zen, Cultivate Resilience
Zen and Creativity
Seeing Double
The Discipline of Relationships (Training in Compassion - 7/)
Seeds of Life, Seeds of Dharma
When Everything is the Path, Nothing is Left Out (Training in Compassion 6/)
The Great Matter of Birth and Death
Make Practice Your Whole Life (Training in Compassion - 5/)
In the Spirit of Mothers' Day
Transform Bad Circumstances into the Path (Training in Compassion - 4/)
The Way is Easy - Just Avoid Preferences
Inanimate Objects Speak the Dharma
Relative Compassion (Training in Compassion - 3/)
Different Ways of Expressing What it is to be Human
Absolute Compassion (Training in Compassion - 2/)
A ZED talk for Earth Day
Resolve to Begin (Training in Compassion - 1/)
Following the Precepts
Everyday Zen (9/9): Service
Religion's Relevance to Contemporary Society
Everyday Zen (8/9): Boundaries
Everyday Zen (7/9): Choices
Not One Not Two: Art and Practice – a ZED talk by Onsen Kerr
Dogen Intensive: Moon (3/3)
Dogen Intensive: Moon (2/3 - Closing Retreat)
Dogen Intensive: Moon (1/3 - Closing Retreat)
Dogen Intensive: Dreams (4/4)
Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (3/3)
Dogen Intensive: Dreams (3/4)
Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (2/3)
Dogen Intensive: Dreams (2/4)
Dogen Intensive: Going Beyond Buddha (1/3)
Dogen Intensive: Dreams (1/4)
Dogen Intensive: Miracles (3/3)
Dogen Intensive: Miracles (2/3 - Opening Retreat)
Dogen Intensive: Miracles (1/3 - Opening Retreat)
Everyday Zen (6/9): Suffering
Anger and Forgiveness
Everyday Zen (5/9): Ideals
What is Death with Dignity?
Everyday Zen (4/9): Relationships
Truth and Beauty in Hard Times
Everyday Zen (3/9): Feelings
Working With Anger: Practising Patience (2/2)
Working With Anger: Avoiding the Hook (1/2)
Everyday Zen (2/9): What is Practice?
Zen, Karate, and Kiai - ZED Talk with Michael Hare
Everyday Zen (1/9): Love and Work
Taking Vows in a Troubled World
Tribute to Hozan Alan Senauke
Joy
Impermanence and Uncertainty
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (7)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (6)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (5)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (4)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (3)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (2)
Rohatsu sesshin - Living in Indra's Net: the Avatamsaka Sutra and Beyond (1)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (14)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (13)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (12)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (11)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (10)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (9)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (8)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (7)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (6)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (5)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (4)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (3)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (2)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 (1)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 Opening Weekend (Saturday)
Living in Indra's Net - Practice Period 2024 Opening Weekend (Friday)
Teachings (What is Zen? Chapter 7)
Way Seeking Mind Talk with Hofu Louise Day
Everyday Life and Relationships (What is Zen? Chapter 12)
Continuous Practice
Over the Long Haul (What is Zen? Chapter 10)
The Dharma of Fire
Stages of Practice (What is Zen? Chapter 9)
The Dharma of Water
Zen and Art (What is Zen? Chapter 13)
Who do you Work For? A Talk for Labour Day
Awakening (What is Zen? Chapter 4)
Sangha Practice
Beliefs and Ethics (What is Zen? Chapter 6)
Right Livelihood and the Subversive Power of Volunteering
Forms and Rituals (What is Zen? - Chapter 3)
True Compassion
What's the Point of Zazen? (What is Zen? - Chapters 1-2)
How Much is Enough?
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 7)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 6)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 5)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 4 - evening)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 4 - morning)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 3)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 2 - evening)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 2 - morning)
Living the Heart Sutra (M&W sesshin day 1)
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 8)
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 6)
Contemplating Ruins: Ireland and Impermanence
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 5)
A Look at Dongshan's Five Ranks
Perspectives on Zen in North America from Rev. Gyokei Yokoyama
Celebrating Being an Elder
Way Seeking Mind Talk - Hotei Denis Fafard
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 4)
The Journey to Lay Entrustment and Beyond
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 3)
Zoketsu Norman Fischer 2024 weekend retreat (2/2)
Zoketsu Norman Fischer 2024 weekend retreat (1/2)
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 2)
“Meandering to the Centre of Every Place”
Opening the Hand of Thought (Chapter 1)
Finding Our True Home
Opening the Hand of Thought (Intro)
Mothers' Day and the Prajnaparamita
Zen Poetry through the Ages (6/6): Contemporary Poets
Practicing Restraint to Make Room for the World
The Zen Heart of My Creative Practice
The Taste of Silence
Zen Poetry through the Ages (5/6): The Beat Poets
Finding Our Roots in the Soil
Zen Poetry through the Ages (4/6:) Chinese and Japanese Women Poets
Zen Poetry through the Ages (3/6): Haiku
Lovingkindness and Doggie Dharma
Zen Poetry through the Ages (2/6): Classical Japanese Zen Poetry
Renewal, Rebirth, and Redemption
Zen Poetry through the Ages (1/6): Classical Chinese Chan Poetry
The Leap of Faith
The Precepts and Continuous Practice
Way Seeking Mind Talk with Hofu Louise Day
Bodhisattvas Without Borders