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Ordinary Mind Zen School, 500 episodes. Page 4 of 5.

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Sesshin Day 1 - Experiencing life fully

302

Meditation and the Default Mode of Consciousness

303

The Observer - Participant

304

The mango is not stuck on the mango tree

305

Committment To A Practice

306

The Practice of Stillness

307

Zen Temple Lockdown

308

The Mirror Mind

309

Arousing the Desire for Practice

310

Gravitas, Charisma And The Old Tea Lady

311

Covid Lockdown As Dharma Practice

312

Ordinary Wonder - Book Review

313

Dogen’s Zen

314

Waking Up To Indifference

315

Dogen Mystical Realist

316

Zen training and music

317

Letting go of the struggle

318

Zen is Humanistic

319

“Only I alone and sacred”

320

Kicking over the water bottle

321

Being and Doing

322

Be Here Now (revisited)

323

Pointlessness

324

I Am Your Pain

325

Connections

326

Sesshin Day 5: The Dharma Of Breathing

327

Sesshin Day 4: Frozen Views (of Others)

328

Sesshin Day 3: Being an Open Spacious Response in Relationships

329

Sesshin Day 2: Don't Just Observe Impermanence, Be Impermanence

330

Sesshin Day 1: Gratitude

331

The Journey of Forgiveness

332

“An Open Spacious Response To Life.”

333

Self Righteousness

334

Alone and Destitute

335

Anger

336

The Pain of Being Me

337

The Non Judgemental and Discerning Mind

338

Acknowledgement of Country

339

Exaggerated Mannerisms

340

No Story, No View, No Belief

341

Being Attached To Being Non - Attached

342

Rohatsu - What Is Enlightenment?

343

Right Intention

344

Two Kinds of Intelligence

345

Giving And Receiving

346

Hooked!

347

“Is Everything Suffering?”

348

Sesshin Day 2 - The Transformation Of Character

349

Sesshin Day 1 - The Practice Of Patience

350

Old Country Flowing

351

Celebrating the Senses

352

Moral suffering

353

"Mr Duffy Lived A Short Distance From His Body"

354

Envy

355

Sesshin Day 4 - From No Self To Social Self

356

Sesshin Day 3 - Self Absorption And Flow

357

Sesshin Day 2 - Tokusan Carries His Bowls

358

Sesshin Day 1 - The Stubborn "I"

359

Pouring Your Heart Into Each Moment

360

Tokusan and the Old Tea Lady

361

Neither Wind Nor Flag

362

The Delusion of the Ideal Self

363

The True Nature Of Suffering

364

Zen is Relational

365

Kindness Compassion Joy and Equanimity

366

Joy

367

Resistance, Suchness and The Heart Sutra

368

"Exalted And Lowly Is Just A Matter Of Words"

369

The Oak Tree In The Courtyard

370

Joshu Examines The Two Hermits

371

A Non Attained Buddha

372

Tototsu’s Three Barriers

373

Stories

374

Not Knowing Revisited

375

Grasping Mind - Don’t Know Mind

376

Embodied And Disembodied Buddhism

377

Failing Forward

378

Clap - Ding!

379

Less Of Me, More Of The World

380

Existential Boredom

381

Monkey Mind

382

Samadhi Power

383

Being Nobody Going Nowhere

384

Practicing with the Past in the Present

385

Serene in the Cycle

386

Three Chords and the Truth

387

Love and Solitude in the Time of Corona

388

The Coronavirus Retreat

389

Taking False Refuge

390

A Zen Life is an Intimate Life

391

The Wisdom of Nonsense

392

No God, No Governor, No Ego

393

The Third Eye

394

No High or Low

395

For Whom The Bell Tolls

396

Coming Home

397

Bushfires

398

Frustration is Optional

399

The Spark that Lit the Dharma Candle

400

Attachment Detachment and Non attachment