Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

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Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link...

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Will Rauschenberger, Abbot

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Episodes

Episode 227: Causality

April 11, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.96 MB

Accepting causality and letting go of the discriminating mind.

Episode 226: Our Burden’s Are Empty

March 29, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.98 MB

Realizing emptiness allows us the freedom to put down what burdens us.

Episode 225: The Luminosity of Mahayana Mind

March 13, 2024 00:00 - 4 minutes - 2.44 MB

Coming off an all-day meditation workshop...

Episode 224: Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower

March 04, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 5.19 MB

Not Two!

Episode 223: enlightenment

February 22, 2024 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.99 MB

enlightenment, how far away is it?

Episode 222: Chopping Wood, Carrying Water

February 10, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes - 5.31 MB

The perfection of wisdom and suchness

Episode 221: The Authentic View

February 02, 2024 00:00 - 16 minutes - 7.93 MB

‘Don’t know mind’ is being authentic. Includes an audio clip from an Audiobook "101 Zen Stories" by Paul Beck on Audible.

Episode 220: Where Is Your Home?

January 30, 2024 00:00 - 14 minutes - 7.15 MB

Breath, coming and going, life.

Episode 219: The Medicine of Together Action

January 29, 2024 00:00 - 10 minutes - 5.79 MB

Buddha’s prescriptions or remedies, also called expedient means, as they apply to Zendo etiquette.

Episode 218: The Gateless Gate Of Your Own Mind

January 22, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 13.3 MB

The path of enlightenment…

Episode 217: What Are We Doing?

January 15, 2024 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.7 MB

In today’s Dharma Talk, we ask the question “What is it we are doing?”

Episode 216: Stop Reasoning!

January 13, 2024 00:00 - 9 minutes - 4.36 MB

It neither is nor isn't. Already you see, you hear...

Episode 215: Karmic Aggravations

January 10, 2024 00:00 - 20 minutes - 11.3 MB

The Perfection of Patience and our Karmic makeup, the phenomenal experience, the vibrational music of our lives.

Episode 214: A New Years Message

January 01, 2024 00:00 - 8 minutes - 3.81 MB

The past is gone, everything changes, and nothing is permanent except One.

Episode 213: Leting go is freedom

December 31, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes - 11.5 MB

Letting go is walking in the footsteps of Buddha. Let it be what it is, letting go is letting go of a diluted view.

Episode 212: The Dreamscape Master

December 20, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 8.41 MB

What’s real and what isn’t? Just this One Mind, This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. – Huang PO

Episode 211: December Darkness and the Perfection of Wisdom

December 07, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MB

Zen is the secret right in front of you, letting your Light shine.

Episode 210: Great Inquiry

November 28, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.43 MB

Zen Meditation - Sitting like a hen on her eggs. Awakening to our Buddha Nature.

Episode 209: True Thanksgiving Is Everyday

November 23, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes - 2.92 MB

As expressed by the three jewels and the Bodhisattva path.

Episode 208: Personality Traits Are Empty

November 20, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 11.3 MB

Our personality traits are just grist for the mill.

Episode 207: A Horse With Blinders On

November 14, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 9.37 MB

What is it that we are unable or unwilling to see?

Episode 206: The Gates Of Zen

November 10, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes - 5.21 MB

The vehicle of Buddhas

Episode 205: The Dualism of I, Me, and Mine

November 04, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 3.69 MB

Are you thirsting for a mirage?

Episode 204: Empathy and Compassion Are Not The Same

October 20, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 3.28 MB

There is no giver or receiver with true compassion.

Episode 203: It Is and It Isn't

October 15, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.26 MB

The 360 degrees of the Zen Circle. Hold your perceptions gently like a newborn baby, with wonder…

Episode 202: The Perfection of Patience

October 01, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.55 MB

The Diamond Sutra teaches us about right understanding, right action, and the perfection of patience.

Episode 201: Not Two, the Heart-Mind

September 26, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.37 MB

Beyond duality, living compassionately, the open Heart-Mind.

Episode 200: Fire Poker Zen

September 21, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.45 MB

The Old Lady’s Tea House…

Episode 199: The wonderfully useless practice that can save your life

September 15, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 3.34 MB

Sitting still and meditating can change the trajectory of your life.

Episode 198: A handful of soybeans

September 12, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.67 MB

Will begins the Dharma Talk with a story from 101 Zen Stories on Audible.

Episode 197: Unconditioned Nirvana

September 08, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes - 8.47 MB

The fashionable appropriation of Non-Duality and Mindfulness is just the froth and not the soup!

Episode 196: The Seeking Mind

September 04, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 9.04 MB

OZS Practice Session, good to be back after a month off! Dharma Talk for 9-3-2023

Episode 195: Ancestors of Ordinary Zen

July 10, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes - 9.77 MB

The audio clip from “The Sutra of Hui Neng” in this Dharma Talk was taken from “The Diamond Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Sutra of Hui Neng: Three Key Prajna Paramita Texts from the Zen Tradition”, available as an Audiobook on Audible. It is also available in Print on Amazon.