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Ocean Mind Sangha — 170 episodes

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Title
1

Ignorance vs. Love

2

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: An Introduction to Dependent Origination

3

Fusatsu: On Karma and Choice

4

Faith in Zen

5

Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2025)

6

The Eight Worldly Winds

7

What is Mind?

8

Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods

9

The Contemplative Life

10

Past Actions, Present Karma

11

Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha

12

The Four Opponent Powers

13

The Unmaker of Measurement: Fusatsu Talk

14

Silent Illumination: Shikantaza

15

When No Thing Works: Five Stages of Dharma Practice

16

The Practice of Togetherness

17

A Particular Kind of Joy

18

Shikantaza: Open Awareness

19

A Satisfying Life

20

The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)

21

Fusatsu Talk: Walking on the Ground of Reality

22

The Miracle of Mindfulness

23

Fall 2024 Ango Entering Ceremony

24

Eight Ways of Cultivating Loving-kindness

25

Loving-kindness As Our Ground

26

The Merit of Giving

27

Sound of the Bell: The Why Behind Things

28

Noble Silence: Zazen

29

Learn to Be Satisfied: The Second Bodhisattva Vow Redux

30

On Living by Vow

31

Saving All Sentient Beings: The First Bodhisattva Vow Redux

32

Attaining the Buddha Way: The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow Redux

33

Mastering the Dharmas: The Third Vow Redux

34

Sloth and Torpor

35

Restlessness and Worry

36

Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?

37

Buddha's Enlightenment

38

Simplicity

39

The Practice of Gratitude

40

Seeing Perfection: Not Speaking of Others

41

An Amazement: Practicing with Climate Change

42

The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love

43

Wanting the Unwanted: Entering Ango

44

Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2023)

45

Coming Home

46

Eight Ways of Looking at Dharma

47

The Nuts and Bolts of Letting Go

48

Death by Distraction; Life by Attention

49

Good Enough Faith

50

Beyond Fear and Dread

51

Oryoki (The Wild, Insistent Hunger) • Zazenkai Talk

52

Buddha's Enlightenment (We Must Have Done Something Right)

53

I Am Life Entire

54

What I Speak about when I Speak about Love

55

From Obstruction to Gate

56

Instructions on Not Giving Up (aka SWITCH)

57

How to Be a Noble Friend

58

Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2022)

59

Working with Loneliness

60

Mu: The Ungraspable

61

Sacred Food

62

Study Session 5: Opening the Hand of Thought

63

The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa

64

Liberation Within

65

Stand on Your Own Two Feet

66

Loving What Is Rightfully Ours

67

Creating the World

68

Study Session 2: Opening the Hand of Thought

69

Unstoppable

70

The Unbinding

71

Precepts: Taking Refuge

72

Understanding the I

73

Treasure

74

The Love Between Parent and Child

75

Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II

76

You Can’t Be Yourself by Yourself

77

Working with Fear

78

Shikantaza

79

Devotion

80

Power of Bow

81

Understanding Our Mind, Study Session I

82

Transitions

83

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VIII): Burning

84

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VII): Living Simply

85

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VI): Practicing the Pandemic

86

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (V): Listen to Bring Joy

87

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm

88

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (III): the Searching Mind

89

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (II): Desires

90

Eight Realizations of Great Beings (I): Impermanence

91

A Threaded Talk on Impermanence

92

Journey to Awakening

93

Possibility

94

The World Belongs to Those Who Love It

95

Papañca: Proliferation

96

Awash with Joy

97

Being Nowhere

98

On Loving-Kindness

99

Love as Prime Mover

100

Opening into Reality

101

Not Leaving the Monastery

102

Pilgrimage

103

Daring to Ask

104

Sacred Space

105

Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)

106

Prajna Paramita: The Mother of All Buddhas

107

Mysticism

108

Mind at Ease, Part 2: Self-liberation

109

Mind at Ease, Part 1: Waking up to Our Un-ease

110

Great Determination: Three Essentials of Zen

111

Great Doubt: The Three Essentials of Zen

112

Great Faith: Three Essentials of Zen

113

Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds

114

Studying The Way with the Body

115

Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way

116

After No Comes Yes

117

Eight Conditions for Wisdom

118

Free Will and Karma

119

The Incalculable

120

The Gift of Fearlessness

121

Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part Two

122

Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part 1

123

Waking

124

The Call to Contemplation

125

The Power of Zazen

126

Silence

127

Cultivating Wisdom

128

Avoiding Idle Talk

129

Not Forgetting Right Thought

130

Practicing Samadhi

131

Exerting Meticulous Effort

132

Enjoying Serenity and Tranquility

133

Knowing How to Be Satisfied

134

Having Few Desires

135

The Eight Awarenesses of Enlightened Beings

136

Human Action

137

The Way of Stillness and Silence

138

Sympathetic Joy

139

Equanimity (Four Immeasurables)

140

I Arise Today

141

Compassion (Four Immeasurables)

142

Lovingkindness (Four Immeasurables)

143

The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 2

144

The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 1

145

The Third Bodhisattva Vow

146

The Second Bodhisattva Vow: Seeing Desire

147

The First Bodhisattva Vow

148

The Four Bodhisattva Vows

149

Giving Paramita

150

Truthfulness Paramita

151

Lovingkindness Paramita

152

Equanimity Paramita

153

The Five Remembrances

154

Determination Paramita

155

Wisdom Paramita

156

Diligence Paramita

157

Meditation Paramita

158

Renunciation Paramita

159

What You Hold, May You Always Hold

160

Virtue Paramita

161

Patience Paramita

162

Right Concentration

163

Right Mindfulness

164

Right Action

165

Right Livelihood

166

Right Speech

167

Right View

168

Becoming Whole

169

Deeply Understand Yourself

170

All the Light We Cannot See