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The Mysterious Source - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
Episode 723
Kisei reflects on the closing stanzas of the Affirming Faith in Mind poem, exploring what it means to trust the heart-mind beyond discrimination and …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Advice To An 18 Year Old Practitioner- Hogen, Roshi and Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Episode 722
In this dialogue, Jogen and Hogen reflect on practice, uncertainty, and how to find direction in life. Hogen shares what he would tell his 18-year-ol…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Turning Problems Into Wisdom pt.2 - Hogen Roshi
Episode 721
In this talk, Hogen reflects on turning problems into wisdom, exploring how fear, beliefs, and fixed stories can become inner prisons—and how practic…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Spell of the World - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Episode 720
In this closing retreat talk, Jogen explores awareness, language, and love as portals into awakening, weaving poetry with Zen teaching to question wh…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
One Hundred Foot Pole - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
Episode 719
In this New Year Dharma talk, Kisei reflects on the Zen koan of stepping from the top of the hundred-foot pole, exploring what it means to move from …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Traveler, There Is No Road - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Episode 718
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores the inner disturbance that drives spiritual practice and the ways mistaken perception, fixed beliefs, and self-i…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Turning Problems into Wisdom - Hogen Roshi
Episode 717
In this opening talk of a series, Hogen introduces the Dharma as a practical path for transforming life’s challenges into wisdom, compassion, and cla…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Way of The Bodhisattva - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
Episode 716
In this talk, Kisei explores the Bodhisattva path as a life oriented toward love for the world and responsiveness to suffering. Drawing on Mahayana t…
4 months ago
The Doors of Liberation - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
Episode 715
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores love, yielding, and aimlessness as essential dimensions of Zen practice. Beginning with love as the ground of aw…
4 months ago
Dew on the Rose - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Episode 714
This talk explores the Buddhist teaching of impermanence as the foundation of liberation and ethical living. Reflecting on the meaning of a “new year…
4 months ago