The Living Zen Podcast

A Thousand Buddhas Don’t Know 06.07.2026 34:28 ↓

From the October 2022 Long Beach Meditation “Mountain Refuge Retreat”

Awareness is the Root Experience of All 29.05.2026 32:27 ↓

The Blue Cliff Record, Case 40, from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.

As You Are. Here. Now. 14.04.2026 36:57 ↓

Case 1 of the Gateless Gate: “Ordinary Mind is the Way” from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.

The Essential Practice of Just Sitting 24.02.2026 51:28 ↓

Case 1 from the Book of Equanimity “The World Honored One Ascends the Platform” from the May 2025 sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center

Pointing to the Human Mind 22.03.2025 44:52 ↓

From the September 2024 7-Day Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center

Trust Your Heart 23.04.2024 41:08 ↓

Return to What is Most Vital

The Heart of the Matter 02.09.2023 46:31 ↓

From the Summer 2023 Beginner’s Mind Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center

This Mysterious Life 08.04.2023 34:26 ↓

From Beginner’s Mind Sesshin, January 2023

The One Behind the Name 11.12.2022 44:34 ↓

You have to break through to this.

The Three Essentials 25.09.2022 48:39 ↓

Great faith, great doubt, and great determination are considered to be three essentials for Zen practice. If any of these essentials are absent, we may not accomplish our aim.

Call and Response 16.01.2022 33:30 ↓

Yes!

The Meaning Finds You 25.07.2021 49:28 ↓

How can it be understood?

How to do Nothing 17.01.2021 44:00 ↓

Doing nothing can be surprisingly difficult.

Feeling the Heat 23.09.2020 42:49 ↓

The Practice of Active Acceptance.

Searching for the Mind 16.05.2020 40:31 ↓

Exploring the island.

The Exploration of Self Nature 31.12.2019 42:37 ↓

Leaping Clear of the Many and the One.

The Role of a Lifetime 30.11.2019 40:04 ↓

Are we really who we think we are?

The Oak Tree 31.10.2019 45:00 ↓

What is the Essential meaning?

Who Is That One? 29.09.2019 44:58 ↓

Who is taking care of who?

The Great Silence 30.08.2019 40:55 ↓

The non-dual principle.

Who’s Understanding is it? 01.08.2019 48:55 ↓

Another person can’t enlighten you.

How To Sit 01.06.2019 43:24 ↓

Sitting all the way down

The True Person Of No Rank 30.04.2019 55:13 ↓

When identities are dissolved, who speaks?

The Most Important Question 03.01.2019 41:27 ↓

Realization beyond words or no words.

Without Deluded Thought 07.12.2018 32:00 ↓

The Sutra of Complete Awakening.