Each week leading Buddhist teachers share life experiences and insights to help guide your meditation practice as well as your life off the cushion.


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This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won&#39;t have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

Ian White Maher

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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. Teijo Munnich

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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.

Rev. Liên Shutt

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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 &#34;what is&#34; in this moment?

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN

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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.

Sosan Theresa Flynn

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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.

Chimyo Atkinson

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

Dojin Sarah Emerson

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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.

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)

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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.

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

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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.

Myozen Joan Amaral

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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?

Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN

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

Tenku Ruff, Osho

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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.

Matthew Kozan Palevsky

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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.

Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN

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Everything is Included Here. Practice isn&#39;t about finding the perfect situation, it is about welcoming what is present and not making it wrong.

Charlie Korin Pokorny

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Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don&#39;t make distinctions, don&#39;t make differences, and live your life in the present.

Daigaku Rummé

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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.

Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

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We are constantly trying to distract ourselves from our busy day or an uncomfortable reality. But if we don&#39;t make anything or distract ourselves, then our lives are not a problem.

Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN

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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&#39;t see it in the moment. If you have the chance, please try living in community.

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN

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Ellen Birx, Roshi, is fully immersed and fully committed to both Zen Buddhism and Christianity. She doesn&#39;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.

Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi

Each week leading Buddhist teachers share life experiences and insights to help guide your meditation practice as well as your life off the cushion.