Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast

Joko Claire Talbot offers the fourth and final talk in our Dharma Seminar on Shunryu Suzuki’s new book Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/dona...

Shiryū talks about faith, queerness and liberation across religious traditions. He dreams of a time when people of different backgrounds can complete each other's sentences. _________________________ A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible th...

Daikan delves further into the writings of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who suggests that whatever you think or see is the teaching of the Buddha, and whatever you do is the practice of the Buddha. We should not rely on some teachings but should reflect on ourselves. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide communit...

Jikai Vicki Turay explores the subtleties of reciprocity and how gift-giving has been viewed throughout Buddhist history. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive of recorded tea...

Dai-i Flo Rublee continues our dharma seminar on the new book Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life “ The way to be yourself is to take care of how you treat yourself including your various desires. This is how you treat your painful legs, how you have good posture, and how you let your breathing be smooth”   Shunryu Suzuki ___________________________________________________________...

In what ways can obstacles and challenges become the path to liberation? How do we best train our mind to see the dharma lessons that surround us? A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you fin...

River Shannon opens our dharma seminar on Shunryu Suzuki’s new book, Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life, with an exploration of precepts and vows as an opportunity to grow awareness of present circumstances. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teach...

Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk to launch the new year: In a world that simmers in a state of answerlessness there is so much we cannot know. Vows help the mystery become our field of practice. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider suppo...

Myosen River Shannon offers insight into koans - what they are and how they are used: as objects of meditation, as sprinkles of pepper and spice on practice, as nourishment for the spiritual embryo, and as a way to point to something of deep importance. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If y...

Myoshin Kate McCandless offers that as we cultivate moment-to-moment awareness, joy can become a practice of survival, solidarity and connection.  _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A ful...

Myoshin Kate McCandless offers the teaching that letting go of self-clinging leads to clear-seeing and non-reactivity, which in turn enables giving generously from our one true heart.  _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work...

For the last talk of sesshin Myoshin Kate McCandless asks: how do we want our lives to flow outwards and onwards, beyond this body and this lifetime? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A...

Shinmon Michael Newton asks: what conceptual things are you holding on to so tightly? Can you call forth the old tea-woman within you?   _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive...

Shuso Myosen River Shannon suggests that affording those around us dignity is bodhisattva action.  “Beings are me. I will take them in hand. […] Mind goes elsewhere, I steadily walk it home […] I willingly enter each threshold. […] The way of wholeness is true, May I belong to it completely.” - Caroline Meister _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made poss...

Myoshin Kate McCandless explores anger as response to threat, asking how we might bring subtlety to the discussion. Can anger, fully experienced, lead to envisioning possibility? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mo...

Shinmon Michael Newton encourages the sangha to not turn away from the opportunity afforded by being on retreat.    “Our practice, whatever it is, is our true teacher. our life is our practice. Our life is our koan. Each one of us learns from our own life. If we listen deeply, if we are involved to the bottom of it, this is our true teacher, this is our most venerable teacher.” Maurine Myoon Stuar...

Myoshin Kate McCandless offers stories, writings and poetry describing  our women ancestors' moments of kenshō (awakening experiences). _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full arch...

Shinmon Michael Newton offers the first dharma talk from Rohatsu at Brew Creek.  “When we can be totally honest with what is happening right now, then we can completely see it. Buddhas come whole.” _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider suppor...

Both Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton share stories about, and teachings from, the women ancestors of Mountain Rain Zen. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archiv...

Zenshin Florence Caplow offers a dharma talk on the dance between chronic illness and Buddhist practice.  _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive of recorded teachings going bac...

Shuso Myosen River Shannon asks: what is it to believe in karma or not? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive of recorded teachings going back over ten years is free and acces...

Shinmon Michael Newton offers insight into the calm readiness of cleaning and of being present to doing exactly what we are doing. What does it mean to do something with total concentration? _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting ou...

Dharma talk by Myoshin Kate McCandless on Jizo Bodhisattva, protector of women, children and travellers. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive of recorded teachings going back...

Shuso Myosen River suggests that using zazen to avoid our bodies or demons is kind-of funny because it’s like hiding from the monster in our closet by going in with it. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrain...

Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk on Dogen and Keizan, and on their support for women disciples. _____________________________________________________________ These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our worldwide community. If you find value in these teachings, please consider supporting our work at mountainrainzen.org/donate . A full archive of recorded teachings going back over...