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Ocean Mind Sangha — 171 episodes
SWITCH: Working with Difficult Thoughts
Ignorance vs. Love
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: An Introduction to Dependent Origination
Fusatsu: On Karma and Choice
Faith in Zen
Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2025)
The Eight Worldly Winds
What is Mind?
Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods
The Contemplative Life
Past Actions, Present Karma (Diamond Sutra)
Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
The Four Opponent Powers (Atonement Practice)
The Unmaker of Measurement: Fusatsu Talk
Silent Illumination: Shikantaza
When No Thing Works | Buddhist Practice During Crisis
The Practice of Togetherness
A Particular Kind of Joy
Shikantaza: Open Awareness
A Satisfying Life
The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)
Fusatsu Talk: Walking on the Ground of Reality
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Fall 2024 Ango Entering Ceremony
Eight Ways of Cultivating Loving-kindness
Loving-kindness As Our Ground
The Merit of Giving
Sound of the Bell: The Why Behind Things
Noble Silence: Zazen
Learn to Be Satisfied: The Second Bodhisattva Vow Redux
On Living by Vow
Saving All Sentient Beings: The First Bodhisattva Vow Redux
Attaining the Buddha Way: The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow Redux
Mastering the Dharmas: The Third Vow Redux
Sloth and Torpor
Restlessness and Worry
Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
Buddha's Enlightenment
Simplicity
The Practice of Gratitude
Seeing Perfection: Not Speaking of Others
An Amazement: Practicing with Climate Change
The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love
Wanting the Unwanted: Entering Ango
Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2023)
Coming Home
Eight Ways of Looking at Dharma
The Nuts and Bolts of Letting Go
Death by Distraction; Life by Attention
Good Enough Faith
Beyond Fear and Dread
Oryoki (The Wild, Insistent Hunger) • Zazenkai Talk
Buddha's Enlightenment (We Must Have Done Something Right)
I Am Life Entire
What I Speak about when I Speak about Love
From Obstruction to Gate
Instructions on Not Giving Up (aka SWITCH)
How to Be a Noble Friend
Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2022)
Working with Loneliness
Mu: The Ungraspable
Sacred Food
Study Session 5: Opening the Hand of Thought
The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
Liberation Within
Stand on Your Own Two Feet
Loving What Is Rightfully Ours
Creating the World
Study Session 2: Opening the Hand of Thought
Unstoppable
The Unbinding
Precepts: Taking Refuge
Understanding the I
Treasure
The Love Between Parent and Child
Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II
You Can’t Be Yourself by Yourself
Working with Fear
Shikantaza
Devotion
Power of Bow
Understanding Our Mind, Study Session
Transitions
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VIII): Burning
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VII): Living Simply
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VI): Practicing the Pandemic
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (V): Listen to Bring Joy
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (III): the Searching Mind
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (II): Desires
Eight Realizations of Great Beings (I): Impermanence
A Threaded Talk on Impermanence
Journey to Awakening
Possibility
The World Belongs to Those Who Love It
Papañca: Proliferation
Awash with Joy
Being Nowhere
On Loving-Kindness
Love as Prime Mover
Opening into Reality
Not Leaving the Monastery
Pilgrimage
Daring to Ask: Gateless Gate, Case 31, Zhaozhou Saw Through the Old Woman
Sacred Space
Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
Prajna Paramita: The Mother of All Buddhas
Mysticism
Mind at Ease II: Self-liberation
Mind at Ease I: Gateless Gate, Case 41, Bodhidharma’s Ease of Mind
Great Determination: Three Essentials of Zen
Great Doubt: The Three Essentials of Zen
Great Faith: Three Essentials of Zen
Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
Studying The Way with the Body
Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way
After No Comes Yes
Eight Conditions for Wisdom
Free Will and Karma
The Incalculable
The Gift of Fearlessness
Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part Two
Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part 1
Waking
The Call to Contemplation
The Power of Zazen
Silence
Cultivating Wisdom
Avoiding Idle Talk
Not Forgetting Right Thought
Practicing Samadhi
Exerting Meticulous Effort
Equanimity: Enjoying Serenity and Tranquility
Knowing How to Be Satisfied
Having Few Desires
The Eight Awarenesses of Enlightened Beings
Human Action
The Way of Stillness and Silence
Sympathetic Joy (Four Immeasurables)
Equanimity (Four Immeasurables)
I Arise Today
Compassion (Four Immeasurables)
Lovingkindness (Four Immeasurables)
The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 2
The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 1
The Third Bodhisattva Vow
The Second Bodhisattva Vow: Seeing Desire
The First Bodhisattva Vow
The Four Bodhisattva Vows
Giving Paramita
Truthfulness Paramita
Lovingkindness Paramita
Equanimity Paramita
The Five Remembrances
Determination Paramita
Wisdom Paramita
Diligence Paramita
Meditation Paramita
Renunciation Paramita
What You Hold, May You Always Hold
Virtue Paramita
Patience Paramita
Right Concentration: The Noble Eightfold Path
Right Mindfulness
Right Action
Right Livelihood
Right Speech
Right View
Becoming Whole
Deeply Understand Yourself
All the Light We Cannot See