Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

168 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings

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 178: Non-Violence

March 15, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MB

Anger has no hold on the awakened Heart/Mind.

Episode 177: Beyond This Mind Where Is Buddha?

March 13, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes - 9.88 MB

What are the gates of Zen? Where does liberation take place?

Episode 176: Crazy Old Man In A Wheelchair

March 08, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MB

Spouting Angry words. The Six Perfections in the public square.

Episode 175: Words and No Words

March 01, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutes - 7.6 MB

A non-Buddhist asks Buddha a question.

Episode 174: Is it or isn't it?

February 21, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 9.06 MB

Inner - Outer, is it or isn't it? Zen Stories...

Episode 173: Like Mindedness

February 15, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes - 18.5 MB

Buddha's Mind is expressed through the Diamond Sutra, Mind to Mind.

Episode 172: Fundamental Zen Practice

February 08, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 7.07 MB

The fundamentals of Zen. Why practice meditation?

Episode 171: Life is a burden until it isn’t

February 08, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes - 10.3 MB

Life is a burden, our impressions are based on perceptions, and the cat is dying.

Episode 170: Living in the perfection of wisdom

February 01, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes - 5.88 MB

Understanding impermanence and dependent origination as who we are.

Episode 169: Form is Emptiness – Emptiness is Form

January 25, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 8.78 MB

Buddha taught Non-arising.

Episode 168: Zazen – Meditation is the best exercise

January 24, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 7.4 MB

This Dharma talk is about sitting meditation, accepting change, experiencing compassion, and equanimity.

Episode 167: You Are Loving Kindness

January 14, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.9 MB

Taking out the garbage…

Episode 166: What is Zen and how do you practice it?

January 13, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes - 6.13 MB

Dharma Talk about Ordinary Zen and its benefits.

Episode 165: Celebrating the Rhythms of Darkness and Light

December 26, 2022 00:00 - 10 minutes - 5.09 MB

Look at life with fresh eyes.

Episode 164: Blowing In The Wind

December 15, 2022 00:00 - 10 minutes - 4.83 MB

Just like this

Episode 163: Before Thought

December 06, 2022 00:00 - 7 minutes - 3.81 MB

Episode 162: The Great Treasure

November 28, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 9.46 MB

Where is the treasure to be found?

Episode 161: Embracing Change

November 22, 2022 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.62 MB

Accepting Uncertainty

Episode 160: Saving All Sentient Beings

November 11, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes - 10.2 MB

Episode 159: The Dreamer’s Dream

November 08, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes - 7.24 MB

When you are identified with the dream, you don’t know you are dreaming. If you are not identified with the dream, you know you are dreaming.

Episode 158: Self-Cherishing

October 31, 2022 00:00 - 13 minutes - 6.77 MB

Our attachments... Zen is a direct experience, it is not some ideology or escape from reality.

Episode 157: The Trickster

October 26, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes - 6.37 MB

Trick or treat? Who’s fooling who?

Episode 156: Birthlessness

October 22, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes - 6.93 MB

What are we doing here?

Episode 155: I have no words

October 19, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 8.57 MB

The gift of our Meditation practice.

Episode 154: The Perfection Of Patience

October 18, 2022 00:00 - 9 minutes - 4.97 MB

To practice patience is the ability to endure, and to have forbearance. It is integral to living; without it, we cannot accomplish anything.

Episode 153: Being intimately familiar with all dharmas

October 11, 2022 00:00 - 9 minutes - 5.36 MB

Episode 152: Metta, Loving Kindness in Zen practice

October 10, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutes - 12.3 MB

Episode 151: Brightness And Darkness

October 04, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes - 20.7 MB

The Dharma talk from Sunday 10/2/2022, 4 days after Hurricane Ian. It included a reading from A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo.

Episode 150: Don’t Know

September 23, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 3.48 MB

Don’t Know is ever-present.

Episode 149: The effect of our choices

September 22, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes - 8.93 MB

What is the correct choice? How do you know?

Episode 148: Aspects Of Zen Buddhist Practice

September 13, 2022 00:00 - 11 minutes - 6.43 MB

The compassionate response to Karma. Breaking precepts and vows, killing the ants.

Episode 147: Already You See

September 10, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes - 9.16 MB

No doer and no doing, correct understanding and correct action.

Episode 146: Humanities Crisis

September 06, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes - 8.44 MB

The crisis of humanity, exclusiveness or inclusiveness. Duality, and Non-Duality. Hungry Ghosts and Abundance.

Episode 144: What Is It Like To Be On Retreat?

August 29, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 18 MB

Fran Kaplan shares her retreat experience at the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry in upstate New York. All Day Retreat in Nature, Join Ordinary Zen Sangha for our all-day retreat at Myakka River State Park, Saturday, November 19, 2022!

Episode 145: Direct Experience Versus Thinking

August 29, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 11 MB

Mindfulness is a direct experience of your original nature.

Episode 143: All Meeting Ends In Parting

August 24, 2022 00:00 - 10 minutes - 6.21 MB

The groundlessness of being.

Episode 142: Melting Pot Zen and the Great Way.

August 22, 2022 00:00 - 14 minutes - 8.17 MB

The gateless gate is your own mind, there is no other. How to be free in this moment. What does a good teacher do?

Episode 141: Ram Dass Meets a Koan

August 17, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes - 9.7 MB

Michael Marsicano gives the Dharma Talk on Sunday, August 14, 2022.

Episode 140: Time Travelers

August 08, 2022 00:00 - 8 minutes - 4.82 MB

Dependent origination = A time of reckoning

Episode 139: The Thief In The Weeds

August 05, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes - 3.6 MB

The thief in the weeds is finally subdued. Podcasts of the Dharma Talks at OZS are made possible by listeners like you!

Episode 138: The Mind King

July 31, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 17 MB

“Verses of the Mind King” is attributed to Fu Dashi (a famous Chinese sixth-century Lay Buddhist). The poem, having referred to the Mind King, who, for all his importance, is not evident to the senses, goes on to say: The salt put in water / the glue put in paint – Certainly these are present / But we cannot see their form. The Mind King is also thus / Abiding within the body, Going in and out the (gate of the) face / In response to things, acording to their feelings. Freely and wi...