All Episodes

Zen Talking: Soto-Caodong Master Wansong on the Subtle Barrier

Zen Talking: Nice Pants!

Zen Talking: Precepts and Enlightenment, Compass and Conspiracy

Zen Talking: I'll have what the Teacher is Having

Zen Talking:- Bielefeldt: 11 years later

Zen Talking: Meaning and Intention in Zen teachings

Zen Talking: Divorcing Zen from Mahayana

Zen Talking: Zen vs Mindfulness

Zen Talking: What are "Good Zen Manners"?

Zen Talking: More Faith, More Mind, More Robots

Zen Talking: ReadZen in Korea

Zen Talking: Taking a break from Zen study

Zen Talking: Case 17 Book of Serenity, Zen instruction by Soto-Caodong Master Wansong

Zen Talking: Bookstore Crap vs 1,000 years of history

Zen Talking: Am I Enlightened?

Talking Zen Podcast: CBETA Tool - Zen vs Machine

Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Person of the Past

Zen Talking: Recipe from Your Heart

Zen Talking - Absolute Truth

Zen Talking: Zen Barriers

Zen Talking: Zhaozhou and 1,000 hands

Zen Talking: Sutras are trash?

Zen Talking: Mexican Ingeniousness

Zen Talking: Knowledge and Habit Energies

Zen Talking: Sangha for Everybody?

Zen Talking - Sangha, Fear, Mental Health, Ignorance

Zen Talking: Why so famous? r/Zen's most controversial reference

Zen Talking: Linji Teaching... but What is he talking about?

Zen Talking: Nanquan Reincarnated as Bull

Zen Talking: That's no moon... that's Silent Illumination!

Zen Talking: Foyan's Facing It Directly... Facing What?

Zen Talking: Nanquan breaks the precepts

Zen Talking: Poverty and Dependence

Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Nothing Lacking

Zen Talking: Moon Face Buddha - Social Media and Mental Health

Zen Talking: Bodhidharma's Mind and Anxiety Pacification

Zen Talking: Zhaozhou's Bright or Dark

Zen Talking - Eating Grass: Reincarnated Almsgiver's Ox

Zen Talking: Zen's Traditional Violence... which goes a little off topic

Zen Talking: How hard are koans?

Zen Talking: Belly for Zen

Zen Talking: Xuefeng's Grain of Rice

Zen Talking: Zen and Buddhism

Zen Talking: Cause, Effect, and Community

Zen Talking - Don't Misconceive, from Dahui's Shobogenzo

Zen Talking: Falling into Cause and Effect

Zen Talking - May 4 - Lady Zen Master Case 2: Zen is the Best!

Zen Talking - April 26 2025 - Miaozong, Woman As Zen Master - Case 1

Zen Talking - April 12, 2025: Koans: 1,000 years of history about how to survive Tariffs, Trumps, and Turmoil

March 31 2025 - Talking Zen: Translation Error "Picking and Choosing" from Faith in Mind

March 29, 2025 - Talking Zen: Zen's Only Sudden Enlightenment

March 23, 2025 - Cats and Tunafish

March 18, 2025 - Talking Zen: Podcast about Indra building Blade-of-Grass commune

Mar 15 2025 - Tough Guy Zen: Time travel to kill baby Buddha or Hitler

March 14 2025 - Zen Talking, Zen Poetry: A Verse for Prajnatara

March 4 2025 - Transcendental Teachers

March 4 2025 - Book of Serenity Case 3

March 1 2025: Sincerity about Zen

Feb 15 2025 | One Finger Zen

Feb 10, 2025 - Wumenguan: Anwan's 49th Case

Feb 2 2025 - Mazu's Bow Down

Jan 29 - 2025 |

1-12-25 || Zhaozhou's Nice Things We Can't Have

Jan 4 25 || Least Popular Questions

12-28-2024 | Koans - Records of the Winners

12-21-24 || Zhaozhou's birth family

12-19-2024 || Wash Your Bowl (?)

12-14-24 || Dualistic thinking vs Faith-based Dualism

11-25-24 || Wumen's Warnings

11-24-24 || Gateless's Fairwell, Part 2 - Notes from the previous episdoe

11-20 || Wumen's Postscript - No Gates!

11-16-2024 || Xutang 34

11-13-2024 || Gateless's 48: Only Road to Enlightenment (Part 2)

11-10-2024 || Gateless' 48 - Zen is the only Enlightenment, All the religions serve Zen

11-7-2024 || Gateless' 47 - Doushuai's Three Checkpoints

10-10-2024 || Translating Mingben's Fantasy Man

10-12-2024 || Zen Enlightenment: An Absurd List

9-8-2024 || Gateless's 46: From atop a 100 foot pole

10-6-2024 || AMAs and Mental Health

10-4-2024 || Gateless's Case

10-6 || Grading Your Koan Insight with Zen Master Xutang (Case 25)

9-29 || Classifying Koans

09-27 || An AMA about mental health, Zen study, and catching up

9-25-2024 || Gateless's 44: Bajiao's Staff

9-23-2024 || Case 43. The Bamboo Whip

9-17-2024 || Gateless' 42 - Woman comes out of enlightenment

9-16-2024 || What's Enlightenment Like?

9-15-2024 || Capable of Conversation?

9-9-2024 || Free UR Mind w/ Zen Master Buddha

9-6-2024 || Gateless's Case 41: Bodhidharma's Mind Pacification

9-7-2024 || Breakdancing Zen Master

9-3-2024 || Xuefeng's Feathers and Wings, Miaozong's Reposte

8-26-2024 || Gateless's 40: Baizhang, Guishan, and the Purified Bottle

8- 17 - 24 || Yunmen's Reality Staff

8-16-24 || Gateless's 39 - Yunmen's Idle Speech

8-10-24 NO EXPLAIN! - Part 1

8-10-24 NO EXPLAIN - Part 2

8-6-24 || Gatelss's 38: Ox passing through window lattice

8-3-24: Can't Win an Argument? Not Enlightened

7-30 || Wumenguan - Gateless - 37: Cypress Tree in the Front Yard