All Episodes
Ordinary Mind Zendo — 219 episodes
How We Go On
The Dharma of the Mahayana is Beyond All Words
Anthony Bourdain Meets Eihei Dogen
The Extraordinary Thing We Cannot Recognize
Living in the Midst of Grass and Weeds
Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage
Dongshan’s Place in Our Tradition and Practice
Do People These Days Have to Attain Enlightenment
On the Last Stanza of the Sandokai
Life in Harmonious Activity of Relative and Absolute
Adding a Verse to Hakuin’s Song of Zazen
Resolution of Sameness and Difference Isn’t Oneness but Intersubjectivity
Our Perspective Imbues the World with Qualities
Impossibly Rare or Can’t Miss
Marv Blaustein Memorial
How Will You Put an End to Delusion
The Meal Gatha
Which is the Abstraction
Friendly Relationship of Wholeness and Separateness
The Performance of Wholeness
Anger
Four Practice Principles and Great Vows for All
Where Are We Going to Find the Meaning of Buddhism
Heart Sutra Part 3
Heart Sutra Part 2
Heart Sutra Part 1
Exotic Herbs or a Blade of Grass
Experiencing, Not Controlling My Experience
Just This
An Ordinary Mind Perspective on Psychedelics
Shaheryar Azhar Denkai Ceremony
Faith in Mind or Smokey the Bear
If We Are Not Homeleavers
Use Practice to Be Honest About Who You Are
This Is How We Miss the Trees for the Forest
Bonds of Love Part 7
Bonds of Love Part 6
Embracing Finitude
Bonds of Love Part 5
If There’s No Solution Is There a Problem?
Bonds of Love Part 4
Where Are We Going?
The Rhinoceros Fan
Bodily Awareness
Bonds of Love Part 3
Bonds of Love Part 2
Bonds of Love Part 1
Why Do We Sit
Non-Avoidance
What Does a Response Do That an Answer Doesn’t
I and Thou Part 5
I and Thou Part 4
I and Thou Part 3
Joshu’s Three Turning Words
Hungry Ghosts
Hyakujo’s Fox
I and Thou Part 2
Reification vs. Recognition
Cutting a Straight Path
Happy for No Reason
Converting Ghosts into Ancestors
It’s All Come to This
The Problem and Its Solution
Curative Fantasies
Student Talk
Student Talk
Sangha and Aristotle’s Flourishing
Growing Up and Waking Up
The Dharma King’s Dharma
Student Talk
The Zen of Emily Dickinson
Jukai Talk
Jukai Talk
You Are Still Here
Blur the Distinction Between Obstacle and Path
Dharma and the Mets
Acceptance and Forgiveness
Intentionality is Non-Separation
Practicing in the Midst of Life
The World of the Happy Man
Tips from Joshu on Avoiding Burnout
Seagulls, Fries, and Our True Nature
Castles Made of Sand
We are Shaped by Our Vows
Two Moons in the Sky
Mutual Recognition
Discussing Memoirs of an American Zen Pioneer
Don’t Separate the Absolute from the Relative
We Always Look in Two Directions
Different Flavors of Giving Up
Pilgrimage
The Nature of Faith
Zazen Serves Up the Whole Spectrum of Experience
Confronting Expectations
Finding My Way to Ordinary Mind
Joko’s Realism About What Practice Can and Cannot Do
The Practice of Finitude
Finding Identity in the Land of the No Self
Will You Recognize the Answer You Were Waiting For
My Own Life is the Koan
Bonsai and How Our Practice Shapes Us
Rohatsu and the Twinkling Star
What is the Enduring Dharma Body
The Self as an Embodied Social Person
How Should We Treat Others
Three Versions of Immersion
Our Ordinary Mind is the Way
Losing Our Selves Part 3
What is the Enduring Dharma Body
The Koan of Life as It Is
Losing Our Selves Part 2
Losing Our Selves Part 1
What Does It Mean to be Free?
The Feeling of Being a Self Won’t Go Away
The Fantasy of the Universal
What Is the Meaning of?
All You Can Do Is What You Must
Dokusan and Its Relation to Our Zen Practice
Examining the Four Noble Truths
The Pure Delight of Simply Serving Rice
We Are Members of Each Other
The Dharma’s Here — There’s Nowhere Else to Look
Your Life Can’t Be Squandered
Life as a Problem, Life as a Koan
There’s No Such Thing as a Clean Slate
What’s Really Going On
Minds, Limbs, Stomachs, and Hearts
Free Will, Neither God nor Billiard Ball
At ZCP Sesshin
At ZCP Sesshin
At ZCP Sesshin
Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha in Our Own Life
The Universal Root and Don’t Know Mind
The Zen of Br’er Rabbit
The Characteristics of Self
What Are the Actual Fruits of Our Practice
Chosha’s Mind Is Limitless
Practice and the Contexualization of Suffering
Tolstoy and the Nature of Suffering
The Body Is Exposed in the Golden Wind
Interconnection Is as Basic to What We Are as Impermanence
Reflecting on Rohatsu, Shakyamuni Goes Home
Neither the Flag nor the Wind
When Making an Axe Handle the Pattern Is Not Far Off
What Is Atom by Atom Samadhi
What to Feed the Fish Who’s Escaped the Net
Intermediate Steps to Non-Separation
The Aristotelian Nature of Buddhism
Max and Barry Discuss Human Flourishing and Buddhism in the West
On Human Flourishing and Buddhism in the West
On Human Flourishing and Buddhism in the West
The Weeds of Separation and the Clearing of Universal Compassion
Being Embedded in the Fabric of Tradition
The Nature of Effort in Practice
Nothing is Hidden: Joshu and the Oil Salesman
Becoming Transparent to Heat and Cold
Buddha Nature Is Both Realization and What is Realized
Resolving Paired Opposites. Duck Rabbit Shifts in the East and West
The Most Wondrous Experience in Zen
A Changing Sangha in a Changing Zendo
Am I a Buddhist?
Killing and Giving Life. The Dual Role of the Teacher
Zen Is a Practice of Letting Things Matter
There Are No Arbiters of Reality
One Moon in the Sky
Four Perspectives on Zen to Hold in Mind
The Boundless Context We Find Ourselves In
What Is a Teacher of Zen
What We Are Is Inseparable From When We Are
Reknitting the Tears in Indra’s Net
You Can Enter Your Life from Any Direction
A Life of Gateless Gates
What Does It Mean to Be Human?
Repotting Unmon’s Withered Tree in the Flow of Life
The Sixth Patriarch Revising the Story of Realization and Transmission
The Sixth Patriarch Model of Practice and Curative Fantasy
Joko’s Enlightenment
You Are Your Body: Max Erdstein Interviews Barry
You are Your Body. Human Nature is Buddha Nature
No Self. The Mirror Doesn’t Come Without the Reflection
The Precepts and Jukai
Snow in a Silver Bowl
Your True Self: Responsiveness and Infinite Responsibility
The Art of Losing
Moment after Moment
Hyakujo's Fox: Your Life in Time and History
Atonement and Acknowledgement in Zen
Not Dismissing Ordinary Life
Making Commitment Real Through Action
Your True Self is Not Deep Inside
Perspectives on the True Self
Our True Self Is Who We Are on the Streets
How I Learned to Show Up and Say Yes
Find a Word of Zen That Is Your Own
Taking Responsibility for What We Have Inherited
Standing in the Spaces
A Review of the Psychoanalytic Zero by Koichi Togashi
What Do Our Vows Mean
Mu: There Is No Gap to Be Bridged Nor Wound to Heal
The Fantasy of Living Outside Time
Dharma Talk
How Is Your Life Supposed to Go
Leyla
Dharma Talk
Dharma Talk
Dharma Talk
Hegel and the Freedom You Find Within Constraint
Dharma Talk
Vulnerability, Attachment, and Dependence Are Not Optional
Enlightenment Is Not Sufficient in Itself
Freedom and Its Betrayal
A Few Words in Honor of the Memory of Jeremy Safran
The Difference Between Compassion and Empathy
You Cannot Conclude an Ought From an Is
Zen and Philosophical Problems
Borrowing, Reforming, and Recreating the Cultural Containers of Zen
What Values are Valorized in the Story of the Buddha’s Birth
What Is It We Need Freedom From and For
What Happens When Our Utilitarian Thinking Meets a Practice That Leaves Everything as It Is