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Zen Mind — 160 episodes

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1

Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 2)

2

Studying the Mind Through the Senses (Part 1)

3

Is Zen Buddhist Daoism?

4

Even This Belongs

5

What You Already Want (On the Precepts)

6

Just Now is Enough

7

How Practice Takes Shape (The Role of Vow)

8

Make Your Whole Life the Garden

9

This Mind Here Now is Buddha

10

The Mind is Mountains, Rivers, and the Earth

11

Resonance - In Touch with the Root of Compassion

12

Completing the Past in the Present

13

Noticing with Subtlety

14

Timelessness, Change, and Everyday Life

15

Staying in the Zone of Nourishment

16

Receiving and Unfolding (On Right Intention)

17

What Can Be Relied On When Everything Changes

18

Freedom Within Limitations - Sesshin Day 3

19

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

20

Best of Zen Mind: No Inside, No Outside

21

Best of Zen Mind: Pause for the Pause

22

Embodied Presence – Why It Matters!

23

Nothing Missing

24

Shot through with Space (Part 3)

25

Shot through with Space (Part 2)

26

Shot through with Space (Part 1)

27

Breathing Through the Whole Body

28

Being Touched By Life

29

The Art of Enough

30

On Alienation and Intimacy

31

The Wisdom and Compassion of Not-Knowing

32

How to Empty the Mind (and Invite Wisdom)

33

Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form

34

Constancy in Practice: Zazen, Views, Relationships

35

Finding Your Energy Body - Sesshin Day 5

36

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

37

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

38

Undivided Activity (Part 2): Liberation and Actualization

39

Undivided Activity (Part 1): The Buddha Way

40

Everything Is Functioning Together to Create This Moment

41

Committed to Here (Practice Period Opening Talk)

42

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

43

Happiness, Contentment, and Attentional Presence

44

Our Entanglement with Thinking- Sesshin Day 3

45

Stepping Back (and Back In)

46

Transforming Habits and the Rewards of Open Awareness

47

Welcoming Beginner's Mind–A Conversation with Gaylon Ferguson

48

Expressing Buddha Mind through the Precepts

49

The Craft of Habit Transformation

50

How to Mind Your Problems

51

Attention, Openness, and Pace in Daily Life

52

Attention to Attention (Part 2)

53

Attention to Attention (Part 1)

54

What Would A Buddha Do?

55

On Community (Part 2)

56

Pause for the Pause

57

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

58

On Community (Part 1)

59

Effortless Effort: Republished from 2022

60

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

61

On Formal and Daily Practice

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

An Appropriate Way of Life (Everyday Bodhisattva Practice)

67

Continuous Opening

68

Beginning Anew

69

What is Being Authentic?

70

Thorough Practice of the Great Way

71

On Gratitude

72

Zen Ethics

73

No Inside, No Outside

74

Don't Worry, Stay Present

75

An Appropriate Response

76

Ask Me Anything with Zenki Roshi

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

The Everyday Dance of Form and Emptiness (Introduction)

81

Doing No Harm

82

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

83

Every Day Is a Good Day

84

Giving Aliveness to Life

85

Why Bodyfulness?

86

Present, Spacious, Alive

87

Open to Complexity

88

The Moment-to-Moment Path to Being Present

89

Empty of a Separate Self

90

Continuous Practice

91

Good For Nothing

92

What Am I?

93

On Intent and Hope

94

Longing for Resonance

95

Don't Try to Control

96

Liberation and Aliveness

97

The Inmost Request

98

Participating in the Great Mystery

99

What is Wisdom?

100

The Practice of Bodyfulness

101

The Four Gates of Mindfulness

102

Existential Darkness and Everyday Practice

103

The Dharma Gate of Ease and Joy

104

Enlightenment, Practice, Aliveness

105

Taking Your Seat in Emptiness

106

The Body and Mind of the Precepts

107

Big Mind and the Real Purpose of Buddhism

108

What is Buddha?

109

Acknowledging All Your Concerns (incl. the War)

110

The Physical, Energetic, and Mental Posture of Zazen

111

Effortless Effort

112

“Your Problem Will Practice Zazen”

113

Setting Intentions

114

Studying the Way (Part 5)

115

Studying the Way (Part 4)

116

Studying the Way (Part 3)

117

Studying the Way (Part 2)

118

Instructions for Zazen

119

Studying the Way (Part 1)

120

Awareness is the Ultimate Fact

121

Conducting the Orchestra of Mind

122

Modalities of Mind

123

Daily Zazen

124

A Fresh Look at Discipline

125

The Path of Nourishment

126

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 4)

127

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 3)

128

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 2)

129

Working with Habits/Karma (Part 1)

130

Compassion in Disagreement

131

The Precepts and the Three Poisons

132

Focus and Field

133

Just Sitting

134

More Real Than Reality

135

Homeless Home

136

Momentariness, Bodyfulness, Kindness

137

Emotional Freedom

138

Doing Something About Suffering

139

Groundlessness and Vow

140

Not Transcending Our Humanness

141

Racism and the Resonant Body

142

Noticing Without Thinking About

143

The 10,000 Things and I Share the Same Body

144

Momentary and Insubstantial

145

Practicing Impermanence

146

Modalities of Mind (Dealing with the Pandemic)

147

The Two Truths

148

The Five Dharmas

149

Three Bodies of Buddha

150

Non-Self – Inter|Independence

151

Non-Self – Dis|Identity

152

Non-Self – Dis|Continuity

153

Non-Self – Forgetting The Self

154

The Five Skandhas

155

Zazen – Four Gates of Breath Practice

156

Zazen – Uncorrected Mind

157

The Four Noble Truths

158

The Bodhisattva Ideal

159

How Things (Don’t) Exist

160

Harmony With Nature?