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Zen Mind — 156 episodes

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Title
1

What You Already Want (On the Precepts)

2

Just Now is Enough

3

How Practice Takes Shape (The Role of Vow)

4

Make Your Whole Life the Garden

5

This Mind Here Now is Buddha

6

The Mind is Mountains, Rivers, and the Earth

7

Resonance - In Touch with the Root of Compassion

8

Completing the Past in the Present

9

Noticing with Subtlety

10

Timelessness, Change, and Everyday Life

11

Staying in the Zone of Nourishment

12

Receiving and Unfolding (On Right Intention)

13

What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes

14

Freedom Within Limitations - Sesshin Day 3

15

Best of Zen Mind: Stepping Back (and Back In)

16

Best of Zen Mind: No Inside, No Outside

17

Best of Zen Mind: Pause for the Pause

18

Embodied Presence – Why It Matters!

19

Nothing Missing

20

Shot through with Space (Part 3)

21

Shot through with Space (Part 2)

22

Shot through with Space (Part 1)

23

Breathing Through the Whole Body

24

Being Touched By Life

25

The Art of Enough

26

On Alienation and Intimacy

27

The Wisdom and Compassion of Not-Knowing

28

How to Empty the Mind (and Invite Wisdom)

29

Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form

30

Constancy in Practice: Zazen, Views, Relationships

31

Finding Your Energy Body - Sesshin Day 5

32

Unfolding the Path of Practice: Zenki Roshi in Conversation with Nicky Antonellis

33

Undivided Activity (Guided Meditation): Life as It Appears Here Now

34

Undivided Activity (Part 2): Liberation and Actualization

35

Undivided Activity (Part 1): The Buddha Way

36

Everything Is Functioning Together to Create This Moment

37

Committed to Here (Practice Period Opening Talk)

38

Each Moment Is Material for Awakening (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice) - Sesshin Day 7

39

Happiness, Contentment, and Attentional Presence

40

Our Entanglement with Thinking- Sesshin Day 3

41

Stepping Back (and Back In)

42

Transforming Habits and the Rewards of Open Awareness

43

Welcoming Beginner's Mind–A Conversation with Gaylon Ferguson

44

Expressing Buddha Mind through the Precepts

45

The Craft of Habit Transformation

46

How to Mind Your Problems

47

Attention, Openness, and Pace in Daily Life

48

Attention to Attention (Part 2)

49

Attention to Attention (Part 1)

50

What Would A Buddha Do?

51

On Community (Part 2)

52

Pause for the Pause

53

Zen and Focusing as Personal Practice, an interview with Dr. Greg Madison

54

On Community (Part 1)

55

Effortless Effort: Republished from 2022

56

What's Love Got to Do With It? (Sesshin Day 1)

57

On Formal and Daily Practice

58

Genjo Koan (Part 9): Buddha-Nature in Action

59

Genjo Koan (Part 8): Life Is a Bird, Life Is a Fish

60

Genjo Koan (Part 2): Flowers Fall, Weeds Spread

61

Genjo Koan (Part 1): To Complete That Which Appears

62

An Appropriate Way of Life (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice)

63

Continuous Opening

64

Beginning Anew

65

What is Being Authentic?

66

Thorough Practice of the Great Way

67

On Gratitude

68

Zen Ethics

69

No Inside, No Outside

70

Don't Worry, Stay Present

71

An Appropriate Response

72

Ask Me Anything with Zenki Roshi

73

The Every Day Dance of Form and Emptiness (Meaning and Meaninglessness)

74

The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Birth and Death)

75

The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Order and Chaos)

76

The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Introduction)

77

Doing No Harm

78

A Culture of Transformation (in the Age of Ecological Crisis)

79

Every Day Is a Good Day

80

Giving Aliveness to Life

81

Why Bodyfulness?

82

Present, Spacious, Alive

83

Open to Complexity

84

The Moment-to-Moment Path to Being Present

85

Empty of a Separate Self

86

Continuous Practice

87

Good For Nothing

88

What Am I?

89

On Intent and Hope

90

Longing for Resonance

91

Don't Try to Control

92

Liberation and Aliveness

93

The Inmost Request

94

Participating in the Great Mystery

95

What is Wisdom?

96

The Practice of Bodyfulness

97

The Four Gates of Mindfulness

98

Existential Darkness and Everyday Practice

99

The Dharma Gate of Ease and Joy

100

Enlightenment, Practice, Aliveness

101

Taking Your Seat in Emptiness

102

The Body and Mind of the Precepts

103

Big Mind and the Real Purpose of Buddhism

104

What is Buddha?

105

Acknowledging All Your Concerns (incl. the War)

106

The Physical, Energetic, and Mental Posture of Zazen

107

Effortless Effort

108

“Your Problem Will Practice Zazen”

109

Setting Intentions

110

Studying the Way (Part 5)

111

Studying the Way (Part 4)

112

Studying the Way (Part 3)

113

Studying the Way (Part 2)

114

Instructions for Zazen

115

Studying the Way (Part 1)

116

Awareness is the Ultimate Fact

117

Conducting the Orchestra of Mind

118

Modalities of Mind

119

Daily Zazen

120

A Fresh Look at Discipline

121

The Path of Nourishment

122

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 4)

123

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 3)

124

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 2)

125

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 1)

126

Compassion in Disagreement

127

The Precepts and the Three Poisons

128

Focus and Field

129

Just Sitting

130

More Real Than Reality

131

Homeless Home

132

Momentariness, Bodyfulness, Kindness

133

Emotional Freedom

134

Doing Something About Suffering

135

Groundlessness and Vow

136

Not Transcending Our Humanness

137

Racism and the Resonant Body

138

Noticing Without Thinking About

139

The 10,000 Things and I Share the Same Body

140

Momentary and Insubstantial

141

Practicing Impermanence

142

Modalities of Mind (Dealing with the Pandemic)

143

The Two Truths

144

The Five Dharmas

145

Three Bodies of Buddha

146

Non-Self – Inter|Independence

147

Non-Self – Dis|Identity

148

Non-Self – Dis|Continuity

149

Non-Self – Forgetting The Self

150

The Five Skandhas

151

Zazen – Four Gates of Breath Practice

152

Zazen – Uncorrected Mind

153

The Four Noble Truths

154

The Bodhisattva Ideal

155

How Things (Don’t) Exist

156

Harmony With Nature?