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340 - Five Kinds of Appropriate Longing (1 of 2)

339 – Bright Clarity Appears Before You: Insight When You're "Just Sitting"

338 – Seijo Is Separated from Her Soul: Waking Up from Alienation from Ourselves

337 - Finding the Edge of Your Practice (2 of 2)

336 - Finding the Edge of Your Practice (1 of 2)

335 – Six Useful Lessons from the Buddhist Teachings on Rebirth (2 of 2)

334 – Six Useful Lessons from the Buddhist Teachings on Rebirth (1 of 2)

333 - Buddha Is Like an Old-Growth Tree: Practice as Human Maturation

332 - My Guidelines for Deepening Your Zen Practice

331 - When Confronted with Great Difficulties: Zhaozhou's "Just Right"

330 – Teisho: Awakening Bodhicitta, Seeking Your Heart's Inmost Desire

329 - No Buddhist Bible: A Brief Overview of 2500 Years' Worth of Buddhist Texts (2 of 2)

328 – A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Sangha as Community (2 of 2)

327 – A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Sangha as Community (1 of 2)

326 - No Buddhist Bible: A Brief Overview of 2500 Years' Worth of Buddhist Texts (1 of 2)

325 – Imagine Yourself as a Buddha and Unblock Your Natural Generosity

324 - Yunmen's "Every Day Is a Good Day"

323 – Zazen As Defiant Self-Care

322 – Q&A: Relationships, Cultural "Zen," No-Self, and Confession

321 - How Buddhist is Zen? The Buddha's Teachings Compared to Radical Nondualism

320 – Two Ends of the Spiritual Practice Tunnel: Self-Power Versus Other-Power

319 – Q&A: Universal Life, the Bodhisattva Vow and Monasticism, and Other Traditions

318 – Loving Your Enemies: Extending Metta Does Not Mean Capitulation

317 – Keizan's Denkoroku Chapter 1: Mahakashyapa's Smile

316 – Buddhist Communities and Public Political Stands: A Moral Quandary

315 - Bad Zazen: Not Just an Oxymoron

314 – Q&A: Comfort in the Precepts, Anger at Injustice, and Accidental Kensho

313 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (3 of 3)

312 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (2 of 3)

311 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Learning the Self: This Very Body Is Buddha (1 of 3)

310 - Three Paths: The Value of Monastics, Clergy, and Lay Practitioners in Western Zen

309 - Dana, the Paramita of Generosity: Buddhist Teachings on Giving (2 of 4)

308 – Q&A: Sharing the Dharma with Children, Mindfulness, and a Posture Mistake

307 - Dana, the Paramita of Generosity: Buddhist Teachings on Giving (1 of 3)

306 – Teisho: Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Never Apart from This Very Place

305 - Dharma Foundations: Truths to Rely on No Matter What

304 - Supporting the Zen Practice of People with Physical Challenges (2 of 2)

303 - Supporting the Zen Practice of People with Physical Challenges (1 of 2)

302 – Q&A: Standing Up for What's Right, and Zazen Versus Dissociation and Trance

301 – Teisho: You Have to See Your Nature

300 - One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 6: Trikaya, the Three Bodies of Buddha

299 – Q&A: Revisiting Veganism and Moral Choices, and Questions about Shikantaza

298 – Framing Your Dharma Practice in a Helpful Way

297 – Investigating the Wandering Mind

296 – Q&A: Paramis, Mindfulness, Karma, and Enjoyment

295 - The Power of Equanimity

294 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field 10 - Connecting with the Ineffable, or What Is Most True

293 – Q&A: Veganism, Letting Thoughts Go, and Motivation for Action

292 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field 9 – Bodhisattva Activity: Enacting Vows to Benefit All Beings

291 - Keizan's Denkoroku Lead Chapter: Shakyamuni's "I and All Beings"

290 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Realization: Direct Experience of Reality-with-a-Capital-R

289 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field 6 – Opening Your Heart: Self-Acceptance and Non-Separation (2 of 2)

288 - 10 Fields of Zen, Field 7 – Opening Your Heart: Self-Acceptance and Non-Separation (1 of 2)

287 - A Few Useful Teachings for Tumultuous Times

286 – Ending Dukkha: Taking Care of this Precious Life (2 of 2)

285 – Ending Dukkha: Taking Care of this Precious Life (1 of 2)

284 - Reflections on Continuous Practice and Dogen's "Gyoji" (2 of 2)

283 - Reflections on Continuous Practice and Dogen's "Gyoji" (1 of 2)

282 – Cutting Moral Corners: Is Buddhism Compatible with 21st-Century Life? (2 of 2)

281 – Cutting Moral Corners: Is Buddhism Compatible with 21st-Century Life? (1 of 2)

280 - Stories of My Teachers - A Live Talk*

279 - Talking about Politics as a Buddhist - A Live Talk*

278 - Having a Zen Teacher - An Live Talk*

277 - My Sesshin (2 of 2)

276 - My Sesshin (1 of 2)

275 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Five – Precepts: Transcending Self-Attachment (3 of 3)

274 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Five – Precepts: Transcending Self-Attachment (2 of 3)

273 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Five – Precepts: Transcending Self-Attachment (1 of 3)

272 - Keizan's Denkoroku Chapter 3: Ananda and the Flagpole

271 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Four - Dharma Study: Wrestling with the Teachings (2 of 2)

270 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Four - Dharma Study: Wrestling with the Teachings (1 of 2)

269 - Making a Vow of Inner Nonviolence and Complete Acceptance

268 - Teisho, An Encouragement Talk During Zazen

267 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Three - Mindfulness: Cultivating Awareness Every Moment

266 - What Would the Buddha Say About the Suffering in the World?

265 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Two - Zazen: Our Total Response to Life (3 of 3)

264 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Two - Zazen: Our Total Response to Life (2 of 3)

263 - Ten Fields of Zen, Field Two - Zazen: Our Total Response to Life (1 of 3)

262 - The Value, Care, and Feeding of Dharma Friendships (2 of 2)

261 – The Value, Care, and Feeding of Dharma Friendships (1 of 2)

260 – Ten Fields of Zen, Field One – Bodhicitta: Way-Seeking Mind

259 – Ten Fields of Zen, Introduction – What Is Zen Practice?

258 - One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 6: The Two Truths of Absolute and Relative 2

257 - One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 5: The Two Truths of Absolute and Relative – Part 1

256 - Do Your Own Practice: Spiritual Translation Versus Transformation

255 – The Medicine of Emptiness When Witnessing Suffering and Injustice

254 - Practice is How You Live Each and Every Moment – Part 2

253 - Practice is How You Live Each and Every Moment – Part 1

252 - Reflections on Dogen's "Bussho, The Buddha-Nature" Part 2: Total Existence

251 – Reflections on Dogen's "Bussho, The Buddha-Nature" Part 1: Being

250 - In Zazen We Stop Imposing Ourselves on the World and Meet It Instead

249 - Are the Buddha's Teachings on Renunciation Relevant for Householders? – Part 2

248 - Are the Buddha's Teachings on Renunciation Relevant for Householders? – Part 1

247 - Sangha Challenges: How and Why to Open Up to the Treasure of Sangha – Part 3

Two Episodes Recommended by Listeners

Recommended Episodes on Zazen

Announcement and Recommendation

246 - Sangha Challenges: How and Why to Open Up to the Treasure of Sangha – Part 2

245 - Sangha Challenges: How and Why to Open Up to the Treasure of Sangha – Part 1

244 - Zazen as a Religious Act

243 - The Buddha's Life Story as Archetype and Teaching

242 - Reflections on Sansuikyo, Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra

241 - What Does It Mean to Waste Time?

240 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 4: Buddha-Nature 2

239 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 3: Buddha-Nature 1

238 - Eco-Anxiety and Buddhism – Part 2

237 - Eco-Anxiety and Buddhism – Part 1

236 - Spiritual Inquiry Part 5: Koans and Awakening

235 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 2: Suchness or Thusness

234 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 4: Investigating and Resolving Karmic Issues

233 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 3: Identifying our Karmic Issues

232 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 2: Resistance to Questions and Karma Work Versus Awakening

231 – Spiritual Inquiry Part 1: What Spiritual Questions Are and Why They Matter

230 – The Importance of Bodhi-Mind, or Way-Seeking Mind

229 – One Reality, Many Descriptions Part 1: Emptiness

228 – Skillful Self-Discipline Part 2: Clarity of Purpose and Patient Determination

227 – Skillful Self-Discipline Part 1: Balancing Discipline and Gentleness

226 – How to Relate to Worldly Pleasure as a Buddhist – Part 2

225 – How to Relate to Worldly Pleasure as a Buddhist – Part 1

224 – Human Nature: Why Aren't We Born Enlightened?

223 – Integrating Insights

222 – Confronting the Buddha's Sexist Discourse – Part 2

221 – Confronting the Buddha's Sexist Discourse – Part 1

220 - Being the Only Buddhist in Your Family – Part 2

219 – Being the Only Buddhist in Your Family – Part 1

218 - The Fourfold Bodhisattva Vow Part 3: Entering Dharma Gates & Attaining Buddhahood

217 - The Fourfold Bodhisattva Vow Part 2: Ending All Delusions

216 - The Fourfold Bodhisattva Vow Part 1: Freeing All Beings

215 - We Will Die Soon: Using Impermanence to Motivate Practice

214 - How Do You DO Zazen, Anyway?

213 – Deconstructing Self: Which Aspects Are Fine, and Which Cause Suffering?

212 - The Wisdom of Play

211 - Book Review: Kosho Uchiyama's "Opening the Hand of Thought"

210 - Book Review: Kyogen Carlson's "You Are Still Here"

209 - Book Review: Issho Fujita's "Polishing a Tile"

208 - Nine Benefits of Practice in Difficult Times

207 - Dirt Zendo, Cloud Zendo, One Sangha: Buddhist Community in the Digital Age

206 - Dirt Zendo, Cloud Zendo, One Sangha: Buddhist Community in the Digital Age – Part 1

205 - Motivation for Practice: What Do You Love Most Deeply?

204 - Buddha-Nature: What the Heck is It and How Do We Realize It? Part 2

203 - Buddha-Nature: What the Heck is It and How Do We Realize It? Part 1

202 - Two Truths: Everything is Okay and Everything is NOT Okay at the Same Time

201 – Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 5: Finding What I Was Looking For

200 – Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 4: Enlightenments

199 - Is My Practice Languishing? If So, What Can I Do About It?

198 - Renunciation as an Act of Love

197 – Neither Avoidance nor Identification: Being with the Reality of Painful Situations

196 - Death and the Emptiness of Self: What's the Meaning of Life If You've Got No Soul?

195 - Hongzhi's "Wander into the Center of the Circle of Wonder"

194 - Pain in Meditation 2: Adjustments to Posture and When to Tolerate Discomfort

193 - Pain in Meditation 1: Why the Seated Posture?

192 – The Eight Worldly Winds: Gain, Loss, Status, Disgrace, Praise, Censure, Pleasure, Pain

191 – Contemplating the Future: The Middle Way Between Dread and Hope

190 – Leaping Beyond Fear of Rejection: Giving the Gift of Self

189 – Collecting the Heart-Mind: A Celebration of Sesshin – Part 1

188 - What Does Practice Look Like When Your Country Is Broken?

187 - Lotus Sutra 5: Step Right Up to Get YOUR Prediction of Buddhahood

186 - Making Peace with Ghosts: Unresolved Karma and the Sejiki (Segaki) Festival

185 – 14 Ways to Enliven Your Zazen – Part 2

184 – 14 Ways to Enliven Your Zazen – Part 1

183 – Natural Koans: Engaging Our Limitations as Dharma Gates

182 - Answers to Interview Questions from Eastern Horizon Magazine

181 - Bodhicitta: Way-Seeking Mind, or the Mind of Enlightenment

180 - The Dharma of Staying Calm When Facing Challenges

179 - Inadequacy to Abundance: Rewriting Our Self-Narrative

178 – Declaring War on Global Heating and What That Means to a Buddhist

177 - Unconditional Strength and Gratitude: The Medicine of Suchness

176 - A Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 3: A Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of Despair

175 – A Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 2: Why I Think Buddhism Is Awesome

174 - A Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 1: Conveyor Belt to Death

173 - True Satisfaction: Dogen's Everyday Activity (Kajo) - Part 2

172 - The Profound and Difficult Practice of Putting Everything Down

171 - Five Requirements for Effective Practice with Any Issue

170 - Looking to Buddhism to Support Values and Beliefs We Already Hold - Part 2

169 - Looking to Buddhism to Support Values and Beliefs We Already Hold – Part 1

168 - Is This IT? Dogen's Everyday Activity (Kajo) - Part 1

167 - If You're Not Making Mistakes, You're Not Practicing

166 - The Ceremony of Wesak: Celebrating and Expressing Gratitude for Our Teachers

165 - The Buddhist Moral Precepts as a Practice for Studying the Buddha Way

164 – Gratitude as a Dharma Gate

163 - Lotus Sutra 4: Parable of the Plants - Superior, Middling, or Inferior Beings and the Dharma

162 – Am I a Good Buddhist?

161 - The Parinirvana Ceremony and the Teaching of the Buddha's Dying and Death

160 - Bearing Witness without Burning Out

159 – Active Receptivity in Zazen: Surrounded by a Symphony

158 – Social Strife and the Forgotten Virtue of Decorum

157 – Bodhicitta: The Critical Importance of Dissatisfaction

156 – Ebb and Flow in Buddhist Practice: Cycles of Energy, Inspiration, and Focus

155 - Avatamsaka Sutra - Each One of Us Has Unique Bodhisattva Gifts to Offer - 2

154 - Avatamsaka Sutra - Each One of Us Has Unique Bodhisattva Gifts to Offer – Part 1

153 - Kshanti, The Perfection of Endurance: Life's Not Always a Bed of Roses

152 - Lotus Sutra 3: This Means YOU - The Parable of the Lost Son

151 - The Emptiness of Self and Why It Matters

150 - Zazen as the Dharma Gate of Joyful Ease

149 - Understanding People's Actions Through the Six Realms Teaching

148 – Three Ingredients for a Generous Life in a Crazy World

147 - Loving-Kindness (Metta) Practice as an Antidote to Fear and Anxiety

146 - Respect Even for Terrible People: What Does It Mean?

145 - No Matter What Happens to You, You Have Choice in the Matter

144 - Lotus Sutra 2: Wake Up! The Parable of the Burning House

143 - The Experience of Enlightenment and Why It's for All of Us

142 - Direct Experience Is Liberation: When There Are No Stories, There Is No "You"

141 - The Practice of Vow 2: Choosing the Direction We Want Our Lives to Take

140 – Sustainable Buddhist Practice: Creating Form But Keeping It Flexible

139 - Suchness: Awakening to the Preciousness of Things-As-It-Is

138 - Buddhist Images of Fierceness and Compassionate Anger

137 - Sustainable Bodhisattva Practice when the World is (Literally) on Fire

136 - Grief in Buddhism 2: Some Buddhist Practices Helpful for Facing and Integrating Grief

Mini Episode - A Four "S" Approach to Shikantaza: Sit Upright, Still, Silent, Simply Be

135 - Grief in Buddhism 1: Buddhist Teachings on Grief and the Danger of Spiritual Bypassing

134 - Lotus Sutra 1: What Is Devotion, and How Does It Fulfill the Buddha Way?

133 - Restoring Wonder: Hongzhi's Guidepost of Silent Illumination - Part 2

132 - Restoring Wonder: Hongzhi's Guidepost of Silent Illumination - Part 1

131 – Facing Impermanence? Fortunately, Buddhism Is All About Life and Death

130 – A Buddhist Approach to Practicing with Fear

129 - Why Is Self-Esteem Essential When the Self is Empty?

128 – Taking Action: Getting Out of the House and Helping Others (Crisis Buddhism Part 3)

127 - Crisis Buddhism - Part 2: Bearing Witness

126 - Crisis Buddhism: Sustainable Bodhisattva Practice in a World on Fire – Part 1

125 - Liberation Through Understanding the Five Wisdom Energies

124 - Giving Shape to Our Lives: The Buddhist Practice of Vow

123 – Engaging Our Climate Emergency as a Koan and Opportunity

122 - Meditation Is NOT About Stopping Thoughts

Facing Extinction 2: A Personal Journal (Nov 14-22)

121 – The Practical Value of Awakening to the Absolute Aspect of Reality

120 - Dogen's Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings - Part 5 - Identity Action

119 - Brightening the Mind: Refusing to be Tyrannized by Negative States

Facing Extinction 1: Nov. 3rd - 9th, 2019

118 - Buddha's Teachings 15: Nirvana as the Ultimate Goal of Original Buddhism

117 - Clarifying the Mind Ground According to Keizan's "Zazen-Yojinki"

116 - Do You Need a Zen or Buddhist Teacher?

115 - Dogen's Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings - Part 4 - Beneficial Action

114 - Why Your (Real) Happiness Benefits Others

113 – Clarification: It's Okay to Use Multiple Types of Meditation

2019-09-11 Off-Week Announcement about SFZC Talk

112 - Dogen's "Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings" - Part 3 – Loving Words

111 – You Can't Hold on to Stillness: Practice in Activity

110 - How Understanding Impermanence Can Lead to Great Appreciation

109 - What Does Buddhism Have to Say About Mass Shootings?

108 - Buddha's Teachings 14: The Five Skandhas as Focus for the Practice of Not-Self (Anatta)

107 - Finding and Enacting Our Best Response to the World's Suffering

106 - Dogen's Shishobo: The Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings – Part 2

105 - Dogen's Shishobo: The Four Ways Bodhisattvas Embrace Living Beings

104 – Buddhists: It's Time to Address the Climate Emergency

103 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 3

102 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 3

101 – The Koan of Awakening: Do You Know the Essential Truth Yet, Or Not?

100 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 2

99 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 2

98 – Nine Fields of Zen Practice: A Framework for Letting Practice Permeate Your Life – Part 1

97 – Twelve Pali Canon Suttas Every Buddhist Should Know – Part 1

Off-Week Editorial - It's Not Enough to Respond to What's Right in Front of You

96 - Zazen Pamphlet: Essential (and Brief) Instructions for the Practice of Zazen

95 - Lineage in Buddhism: The Intersection Between the Individual and the Collective Tradition

94 - Buddha's Teachings 13 - The Five Hindrances - Part 3

93 - Buddha's Teachings 12: The Five Hindrances – Part 2

2019-03-15 Off-Week Book Review: Why Buddhism Is True

92 - Buddha's Teachings 11: The Five Hindrances – Part 1

91 – Unethical Buddhist Teachers: Were They Ever Really Enlightened?

90 - Buddhist History 11: Early Indian Buddhism - Stupas and Devotional Practice - Part 2

89 – Buddhist Practice as a Lifelong Path of Growth and Transformation

88 – Nyoho: Making Even Our Smallest, Mundane Actions Accord with the Dharma – Part 2

87 – Nyoho: Making Even Our Smallest, Mundane Actions Accord with the Dharma – Part 1

86 - Samvega and Pasada: Two Buddhist Emotions Indispensable for Practice

85 – I Shouldn't Feel Like This: A Practitioner's Conundrum

84 – Two Paths to Meditative Concentration: Directed Effort Versus Letting Go – Part 2

83 – Two Paths to Meditative Concentration: Directed Effort Versus Letting Go – Part 1

82 - Buddhist History 10: Early Indian Buddhism - Stupas and Devotional Practice - Part 1

81 – Five Steps for Positive Change without Waging War on the Self

80 - Four Foundations of Mindfulness Practice and Similarities in Zen

79 - Buddha's Teachings 10: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

78 – The Ten Oxherding Pictures: Stages of Practice When You're Going Nowhere

77 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 2

76 - Western Zen Grows Up and Faces the Koan of Race – Part 1

75 – Sekito Kisen's Sandokai: The Identity of Relative and Absolute – Part 2

74 – Sekito Kisen's Sandokai: The Identity of Relative and Absolute – Part 1

73 – Is Buddhism Secular, Spiritual, or Religious?

72 – Taking Care of Our Lives: More About the Karma Relationship Side of Practice

71 - Buddha's Teachings 9: The Four Brahmaviharas, or Sublime Social Attitudes - Part 3

70 - Buddhist Practice: Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts and Emotions

69 - The Soto Zen Goal of Goallessness: How to Awaken Without Trying

68 – Relating to Buddhist Teachings 2: Wrestling with the Teachings

67 – Relating to Buddhist Teachings 1: Their Abundance, Diversity & Authenticity

66 - Buddha's Teachings 8: Four Brahmaviharas, or Sublime Social Attitudes - Part 2

65 – Dealing with Fear, Anger, and Hatred as a Buddhist

64 - Shikantaza: Having the Guts to Just Sit and Let Go of Doing Anything

63 - Buddha's Teachings 7: The Four Brahmaviharas, or Sublime Social Attitudes - Part 1

62 - Listener's Questions: Practicing with Mental Illness

61 - Taking Refuge and Precepts: The Significance of Becoming a Buddhist – Part 2

60 - Taking Refuge and Precepts: The Significance of Becoming a Buddhist – Part 1

59 - The Buddha's Teachings Part 6: The Three Poisons as the Root of All Evil

58 - Dogen's Bendowa Part 2: Inconceivable Dharma, Practice, and Realization

57 - Dogen's Bendowa Part 1: What's the Big Deal about Zazen?

56 - Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva and the Power of Compassion

55 - Listener's Questions: Enlightened Behavior, Openings, Chanting, Recommended Books

54 – You Don't Need to Improve or Get Anything to Fulfill the Buddha Way

53 - Buddha's Teachings Part 5: Karma, the Law of Moral Cause-and-Effect

52 - Profound, Practical, Mutable: Dharma Transmission in Zen – Part 2

51 - Profound, Practical, Mutable: Dharma Transmission in Zen – Part 1

50 - Buddhist History 8: Aśoka, First Buddhist Emperor – Facts and Legend Part 2

49 - Buddhist History 8: Aśoka, First Buddhist Emperor – Facts and Legend – Part 1

48 - How to Guide Your Own Meditation Part 2: First-Person Stories

47 - How to Guide Your Own Meditation Part 1: Do Something, Don't Just Fall Asleep

46 - Dogen's Genjokoan Part 5: Birds Fly, Fish Swim, a Zen Master Waves a Fan

45 - The Value of Buddhist Prayer Part 3: Prayer for Personal Transformation

44 - The Value of Buddhist Prayer Part 2: Aid-Seeking If There's No God

43 - The Value of Buddhist Prayer Part 1: Paradox of Prayer in a Nontheistic Spiritual Tradition

42 - Buddha's Teachings Part 4: Right Speech - Factual, Helpful, Kind, Pleasant, and Timely

41 -Dogen's Genjokoan Part 4: Moon in a Dewdrop and Views of the Ocean

40 - Being Beneficial Instead of Right: The Buddhist Concept of Skillful Means

39 - Buddhist History 7: Indian Buddhism After the Buddha - The First 200 Years

38 - The Two Sides of Practice: Samadhi Power and Karma Relationship

37 - Dogen's Genjokoan Part 3: Seeking, Self, and the Matter of Life-and-Death

36 - Buddha's Teachings Part 3: The Noble Eightfold Path

35 - Dogen's Genjokoan: A Verse by Verse Exploration – Part 2

34 - Dogen's Genjokoan: A Verse by Verse Exploration – Part 1

October Break Message

33 – Life of Shakyamuni Buddha Part 4: Further Teachings and Colorful Stories

32 - The Practice of Not-Knowing: Relief, Intimacy, and Ground for Effective Action

31 - Six Realms of Existence Part 3: Hungry Ghost and Human Realms

30 - Six Realms of Existence Part 2: Asura, Beast, and Hell Realms

29 - Six Realms of Existence Part 1: Introduction and the Heaven Realm

Labor Day Message

28 - Q&A: The Teaching of Rebirth and Too Much Thinking During Zazen

27 - The Buddha's Teachings Part 2 – The Four Noble Truths

26 – Work as Spiritual Practice According to Dogen's "Instructions to the Cook" – Part 2

25 – Work as Spiritual Practice According to Dogen's "Instructions to the Cook" - Part 1

24 – Deepen Your Zazen by Not Getting Stuck in Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction

23 - How Buddhists Should Behave: Evolution of the Buddhist Precepts Part 2

22 - How Buddhists Should Behave: Evolution of the Buddhist Precepts Part 1

21 – Sesshin: 24-7 Silent Meditation Retreats

20 - The Heart Sutra Part 2: Line by Line Explanation, Continued

19 - The Heart Sutra Part 1: Introduction to the Most Common Mahayana Text

18 - Zen Forms (Customs and Rituals) and Why They Matter

Life of Shakyamuni Buddha Part 3: First Sermons and Students, and the Early Sangha

Sangha: The Joys, Challenges, and Value of Practicing in a Buddhist Community

To Study Buddhism Is to Study the Self (and Why That's Not Selfish)

Buddha's Teachings Part 1: The Three Marks and the Teaching of Not-Self (Anatta)

What Zen "Acceptance" and "Non-Attachment" Really Are

Life of Shakyamuni Buddha Part 2: Spiritual Struggle, Enlightenment, Teaching, and Death

Life of Shakyamuni Buddha Part 1: Source Texts, and Birth Through Homeleaving

What Is "Zen Practice," Anyway?

Shakyamuni Buddha's Enlightenment: What Did He Realize?

It-with-a-Capital-I: The Zen Version of God

Dharma Talk - Beyond Mindfulness: The Radical Practice of Undivided Presence

Arising of Buddhism Part 2: New Religious Questions and Answers Around 500 BCE

Arising of Buddhism Part 1: Historical and Religious Context in India

Zazen Part 2: How to Deal with Thinking, Stay Engaged, and Maintain a Practice

Zazen (Seated Meditation) Part 1: What Zazen Is and How to Do It

The Three Treasures of Buddhism: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha

How Does Zen Fit Within the Context of Buddhism as a Whole?