Sit, Breathe, Bow

Ian White Maher

June 08, 2021 09:00 - 1 minute - 2.97 MB

This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

Rev. Teijo Munnich

June 01, 2021 09:00 - 43 minutes - 60.8 MB

The spiritual practice of sharing the dharma is not a form of entertainment. This is something we do to find out what life is. At the foundation of the practice is dana or generosity.

Rev. Liên Shutt

May 25, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 60.9 MB

When you’re living the precepts, when you’re living according to your values, then meditation becomes much easier because the precepts are the foundation for what it means to do the work of meditation.

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN

March 31, 2021 05:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MB

So many people are chasing after happiness like it is something that can be attained. But happiness comes and goes. How can you be with "what is" in this moment?

Sosan Theresa Flynn

March 25, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

This practice invites us to be vulnerable, open, and intimate. This is incredibly challenging and requires courage, but it also is the only way to look deeply into who we are.

Chimyo Atkinson

March 12, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MB

Living in the dharma allows us to be vulnerable and to connect with the rest of the universe. Practice dismantles the habits of trying to build up the delusions around us.

Dojin Sarah Emerson

March 05, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 31 MB

When we are being choice-full, we are able to live into our values, we can live into the things we care about.

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)

February 23, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 33.5 MB

How can we not be deluded? By investigating the great matter of life and death, we see what our thinking creates. By using the Four Great Vows as a guide we see more clearly how to help.

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

February 12, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 28.2 MB

Practice is doing something with intention. You enter into a moment deliberately. You choose into it. There is a willingness to be here. It is an attitude of mind.

Myozen Joan Amaral

February 02, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

There is a process of growing into our roles as students and as teachers. There is a discipline but also a willingness to play and even provoke as we find a way to live within the tradition and to make it a home of our own.

Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN

January 26, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 35.1 MB

Each of us has a job to do and it depends on what is happening right in front of us. There is a role we play that asks for something specific. What is your job?

Tenku Ruff, Osho

January 12, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MB

The challenges of the pandemic can provide the opportunity for us to see deeply into the many ways that we can connect with others.

Matthew Kozan Palevsky

January 05, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB

Kozan shares his own journey as a priest and activist and how we can use the practice to provide a foundation for our work as people committed to healing our communities.

Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN

December 29, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40.7 MB

What is a great woman? The practice of Zen is about looking inward and seeing who you really are and what this life is about.

Charlie Korin Pokorny

December 22, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Everything is Included Here. Practice isn't about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.

Daigaku Rummé

December 15, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don't make distinctions, don't make differences, and live your life in the present.

Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

December 08, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MB

The essence of faith is not faith in some thing. It is not an object. It is the absence of doubt. When we are truly entrusting in the heart, there is no faith there just is no doubt. Faith is the eyes we are looking through, the ears we are hearing with. It is the doubtless, present awareness that allows what is arising to arise as intimate and worthy of engaging.

Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN

November 24, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

We are constantly trying to distract ourselves from our busy day or an uncomfortable reality. But if we don't make anything or distract ourselves, then our lives are not a problem.

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN

November 17, 2020 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.7 MB

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN, discusses what living in a Zen community can do for your practice. Your zen family will change you for the better, even if you can't see it in the moment. If you have the chance, please try living in community.

Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi

November 10, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MB

Ellen Birx, Roshi, is fully immersed and fully committed to both Zen Buddhism and Christianity. She doesn't collapse either into the other but allows the two paths the full integrity of their truth all the while following them into the ineffable.

Zen Master Dae Bong (Rebroadcast)

November 03, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 34.7 MB

This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded with Zen Master Dae Bong in March of 2019.

Rev. Kokyo Henkel

October 27, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB

How do we balance our practice between the Zen principle of "no-gaining" and the deep and strong aspiration within Mahayana Buddhism to realize awakening for the benefit of all beings?

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN

October 20, 2020 05:00 - 41 minutes - 33.6 MB

When you make the experience of a completely quiet mind, you gain an understanding of what we talk about when we say you can be free. Usually we are just dragged around by our opinions, by our likes and dislikes, but if this stops this then you get an expression of freedom and that is also a different happiness.

Karin Ryuku Kempe

October 13, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MB

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi began practicing Zen in 1971 at the Rochester Zen Center with Philip Kapleau Roshi and later with Toni Packer. In 1997, Karin received jukai from Shishin Wick Roshi, dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, at the Great Mountain Zen Center. She completed her koan training in 2005 with Danan Henry Roshi at the Zen Center of Denver, and served as an assistant teacher until receiving dharma transmission in 2010. Karin also completed her training with Shishin Roshi and recei...

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi

October 13, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MB

Karin Ryuku Kempe, Roshi reminds us there is a danger in the koan path where we can skate through without addressing the basics of becoming a grown-up adult capable of practicing with the precepts with other human beings in an ethical way.

Kotatsu John Bailes

October 06, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 31.5 MB

The power of the bodhisattva is found in the unleashing of the virtue of our lives. The virtue of our lives is the only authority that any of us have. Our practice is to live in a way that is present and compassionate and always working for the weal of all beings.

Rev. Shinshu Roberts

September 29, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MB

We live in a Buddha-field that has delusion, greed, and hate and we should strive to overcome this by entering the Bodhisattva path. We do this to enact more and more helpful energy to heal this Buddha-field.

Shinshu Roberts

September 29, 2020 09:00 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MB

Rev. Shinshu Roberts is co-founder and teacher, with Rev. Daijaku Kinst, of Ocean Gate Zen Center in Capitola, CA. She is a Dharma heir of Sojun Weitsman Roshi, Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center, in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, founder of San Francisco Zen Center. She holds the appointment of International Dharma Teacher in the Japanese Soto Zen School. She is the author Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Uji, (Wisdom Publications, 2018)/ Rev. Shinshu’s writin...

Rev. Kinrei Bassis

September 22, 2020 05:00 - 37 minutes - 68.5 MB

Can you see how the practice is impacting your life? Are you looking to see how you can use the practice to change it? This will give you a good indication of the nature of your practice.