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Ordinary Mind Zen School, 500 episodes. Page 2 of 5.

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Unconditional and Conditional Worthiness

102

Life is not a problem

103

The Myth of Normal. A critique.

104

Healing not Curing

105

Pleasure and Contentment

106

The Authentic Self

107

Zen and consumer culture

108

The Wisdom Of The Unconscious

109

Zazen - Sitting Meditation

110

The Myth of Certainty

111

This Very Place Is The Lotus Land

112

Being grateful for everything that comes our way

113

Bearing Witness

114

The Storytelling Mind

115

The Ten Zen Precepts. Guidelines for Cultivating Moral Intelligence

116

Samadhi and the Awakened Life

117

Don’t meditate. Just sit!

118

Sesshin Day 5 - Core Beliefs

119

Sesshin Day 4 - The Fully Enlightened Person Falls down a Well

120

Sesshin Day 3 - Coming to our Senses

121

Sesshin Day 2 - Judgement and Assessment

122

Sesshin Day 1 - Birth, Death and the Space Inbetween

123

Clarifying the confusion of thinking and experience

124

Connection is always here

125

Bearing Witness and Stopping Harm

126

The Middle Way and Creative Tension

127

Muddy Water

128

Discipline and Spontaneity

129

Manifesting Simplicity

130

Being just this moment compassions way

131

Each moment life as it is, the only teacher

132

Holding to Self Centred Thoughts exactly the dream

133

Caught in the Self Centred Dream

134

The Banging Door

135

Working with Confused states of Mind

136

Buddhist Ethics

137

Oneness and Differentiation in Relationships

138

The Middle Way

139

Being Walking

140

Practicing with Aging

141

At Home in the Muddy Water

142

Altered States of Consciousness?

143

Zen Peacemakers

144

A Zen Perspective on Karma

145

“Educating the Heart”

146

The Absolute Nature of Emotions

147

No Gain and Maturing in the Practice

148

Humiliation and Violence

149

The Inner War

150

Friendship

151

Sesshin Day 5 - Three Teachings for Everyday Life

152

Sesshin Day 4: Death Meditations

153

Sesshin Day 3: The Virtuous Narcissist

154

Sesshin Day 2: The Scribbly Gum Sutra

155

Sesshin Day 1 The Awakened Life

156

Equanimity in Relationships

157

No Fixed Identity

158

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with us

159

On Having No Worth

160

The Buddhist and the Ethicist. A book review.

161

The Core Belief

162

Grievance and Gratitude

163

Just Falling

164

Breathing - the rhythm of life

165

The Gentle Art of Pausing

166

Self-Centred to Life-Centred

167

The Transformation of Energy

168

The Middle Way

169

The Dharma of Contradictions

170

Zen is Prosocial

171

No hope

172

The Parting Glass

173

Kindness

174

Sesshin Day 5: The Discipline of No Gain

175

Sesshin Day 4: Kicking Over The Water Bottle

176

Sesshin Day 3: The Hardest Teaching

177

Sesshin Day 2: Balancing equanimity and compassion in relationships

178

Sesshin Day 1: A Red Dawn and the Splash of Raindrops

179

Monkey Mind and ADHD

180

Sesshin Day 3: On Not Taking Oneself So Seriously

181

Sesshin Day 2: Beginners Mind and the Heart Sutra

182

Sesshin Day 1: The Stress Response. Relevance To Zen Training And Human Morality

183

Equanimity

184

The Heart Sutra and Beginners Mind

185

Can you do too much therapy? A zen perspective

186

Ignorance

187

Grasping

188

Aversion

189

Competition and Cooperation

190

The Stress Response

191

Neuroethics and Zen

192

Closure Acceptance and Letting Go

193

The Virtue of Being Useless

194

Dilemmas

195

Practicing with Anxiety

196

Concentration and Mindfulness

197

Ignorance and Not Knowing

198

Attachment, Detachment, Non attachment

199

No Fixed States of Mind

200

Rinzai Zen/Soto Zen