Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks

This talk is from July Sesshin 2024, day 2 at Great Vow Zen Monastery. In this talk Jogen, Sensei discusses the goal of practice as being free with all of the painful habits of mind, rather than the attempt to be free from them.  ★ Support this podcast ★

This is the first talk of the July 2024 Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery. In this talk Myoyu discusses our relationship to the weather as we practice, and many other topics including how our personal practice effects the lives of the people around us. ★ Support this podcast ★

This is a repost from 2022: Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher Sounds Sesshin 2022 Great Vow Zen Monastery 3/19/22

Repost from 2023: Chozen Bays, Roshi Sunday Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 09/03/23 ★ Support this podcast ★

This talk is from Kisei's Monday night online sit through Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. This includes a dharma talk and then a guided Tonglen meditation toward the end. ★ Support this podcast ★

This talk is from Kisei's Monday night online sit through Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in late June 2024. When we take thoughts or beliefs as ultimate truth—divisiveness, conflict or isolation often follow suit. Our thoughts are powerful. And we can actually use this insight to try on other ways of viewing our lives or reality. What happens when we take up a view of unconditional acceptance? Love un...

This talk is from the Great Vow Sunday Public Program on Sunday July 14th 2024.  In this talk Hogen, Roshi discusses the different views one can take in looking at our lives. From a cursory look at our immediate experience things may seem concrete and unchanging, but when looked at closer, it is ever changing and when it arrives, it's already gone. Where do we go from here? ★ Support this podcast...

This talk is from Kisei's Monday evening online sit through Heart of Wisdom in late June 2024. With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together, and then the bottom fell out. Where the water does not collect, the moon does not dwell. --Chiyono How do we hold ourselves with our thoughts? How do we create identity with our beliefs about ourselves? What happens when we see through this function...

A continuation of our last episode with Jogen discussing his "Thinking Zen". Dharma talk given at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple during the Wednesday night sit. Topics in this podcast include: Juneteenth, slavery and how the dehumanization of racism is undergirded by our mind's false 'symbol' making. To what degree are we entangled in flat, mono-dimensional mental symbols? How are they created and sus...

Jogen's talk during the Wednesday night sit at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR. Topics touched on in this episode include: what to do about the frustrating shift from open-hearted, naked awareness to our encultured, dualistic way of thinking/being when we're off of our meditation cushions ? The mind likes to reduce things to a single cause, often to one point of blame for our suffering....

In this podcast Kodo discusses the benefits of functioning in our daily lives with a beginners mind. Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher Sunday Public Program  Great Vow Zen Monastery 07/09/2024 ★ Support this podcast ★

Hogen Bays, Roshi  Rohatsu Sesshin 2020 Great Vow Zen Monastery December 2020 ★ Support this podcast ★

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Monday Evening Online Heart of Wisdom Talk May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★

Chozen Bays, Roshi  Sunday Public Program  Great Vow Zen Monastery 6/30/2024 ★ Support this podcast ★

A talk on appropriate response in a series of talks on engaged buddhism given by Kisei, Sensei in her weekly online sit with Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple ★ Support this podcast ★

Sunday Program on June 23, 2024. A talk from Jogen, Sensei given to the public, but focused towards the residents at Great Vow Zen Monastery.  ★ Support this podcast ★

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei - online dharma talk with Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple on April 22, 2024. ★ Support this podcast ★

A conversation with Kodo Conover, talking a bit about her life story, her path of practice and her relationship to ZCO. This conversation took place on June 7, 2024. ★ Support this podcast ★

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR on May 15, 2024.  ★ Support this podcast ★

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR on May 8, 2024.  ★ Support this podcast ★

09/09/2024 Sunday Program Talk following the Gen X Buddhist Teachers Sangha annual meeting at Great Vow. ★ Support this podcast ★

Dharma talk by Kisei Costenbader, Sensei during an online program in May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★

Dharma Talk by Kisei Costenbader, Sensei from an online program in May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★

06/02/2024 Patrick Bansho Green, Zen Teacher during the Sunday Program Talk at Great Vow Zen Monastery  ★ Support this podcast ★

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei and Patrick Bansho Green on 05/19/2024 Closing talk of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery  ★ Support this podcast ★