Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link... Thank you for listening, Will Rauschenberger, Abbot
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Episode 240: Have you lost your way?
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Today’s talk is about an exchange between Zen Master Seung Sahn and a student, from the book “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha”. 🙏
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Episode 239: Illuminating Dangerous Times
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Don’t believe anything you think…
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Episode 238: Inquiry, what is this, who am I?
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“Thinking is just thinking, it is not who I am”.
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Episode 237: Undeniable Suchness of Being
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Inquiry into “What is this?”
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Exploring Nature is exploring our nature. Benevolence is fearlessness.
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Will gives an intro to Koans (Kongans) in this Dharma Talk.
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Episode 234: Letting Go Is Freedom
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What are we letting go? Are we falling into the same hole over and over?
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Episode 233: Ordinary Zen Practice
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Getting to know ourselves.
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Episode 232: Asking The Correct Question In Zen?
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How do I know my mirror is reflecting clearly?
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Episode 231: Where You Put Your Foot Down
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This first Podcast of July 2024 summates my June 2024 trip to Europe.
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Episode 230: Chewing Without Chewing Anything
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Leap directly to the Tathagata’s realm. Chew without chewing anything, walk without walking anywhere.
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Exploring an exchange between two Zen Masters. From 208 Kongans – compiled by Chong An Sunim, Original Light Zen Temple.
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Episode 228: Awareness Practice, getting to know ourselves
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Conceptualization perpetuates suffering.
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Accepting causality and letting go of the discriminating mind.
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Episode 226: Our Burden’s Are Empty
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Realizing emptiness allows us the freedom to put down what burdens us.
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Episode 225: The Luminosity of Mahayana Mind
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Coming off an all-day meditation workshop...
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Episode 224: Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower
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Not Two!
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enlightenment, how far away is it?
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Episode 222: Chopping Wood, Carrying Water
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The perfection of wisdom and suchness
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‘Don’t know mind’ is being authentic. Includes an audio clip from an Audiobook "101 Zen Stories" by Paul Beck on Audible.
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Breath, coming and going, life.
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Episode 219: The Medicine of Together Action
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Buddha’s prescriptions or remedies, also called expedient means, as they apply to Zendo etiquette.
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Episode 218: The Gateless Gate Of Your Own Mind
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The path of enlightenment…
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In today’s Dharma Talk, we ask the question “What is it we are doing?”
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It neither is nor isn't. Already you see, you hear...
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The Perfection of Patience and our Karmic makeup, the phenomenal experience, the vibrational music of our lives.
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The past is gone, everything changes, and nothing is permanent except One.
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Letting go is walking in the footsteps of Buddha. Let it be what it is, letting go is letting go of a diluted view.
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Episode 212: The Dreamscape Master
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What’s real and what isn’t? Just this One Mind, This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. – Huang PO
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Episode 211: December Darkness and the Perfection of Wisdom
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Zen is the secret right in front of you, letting your Light shine.
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Zen Meditation - Sitting like a hen on her eggs. Awakening to our Buddha Nature.
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Episode 209: True Thanksgiving Is Everyday
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As expressed by the three jewels and the Bodhisattva path.
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Episode 208: Personality Traits Are Empty
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Our personality traits are just grist for the mill.
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Episode 207: A Horse With Blinders On
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What is it that we are unable or unwilling to see?
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The vehicle of Buddhas
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Episode 205: The Dualism of I, Me, and Mine
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Are you thirsting for a mirage?
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Episode 204: Empathy and Compassion Are Not The Same
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There is no giver or receiver with true compassion.
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The 360 degrees of the Zen Circle. Hold your perceptions gently like a newborn baby, with wonder…
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Episode 202: The Perfection of Patience
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The Diamond Sutra teaches us about right understanding, right action, and the perfection of patience.
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Episode 201: Not Two, the Heart-Mind
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Beyond duality, living compassionately, the open Heart-Mind.
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The Old Lady’s Tea House…
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Episode 199: The wonderfully useless practice that can save your life
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Sitting still and meditating can change the trajectory of your life.
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Episode 198: A handful of soybeans
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Will begins the Dharma Talk with a story from 101 Zen Stories on Audible.
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Episode 197: Unconditioned Nirvana
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The fashionable appropriation of Non-Duality and Mindfulness is just the froth and not the soup!
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OZS Practice Session, good to be back after a month off! Dharma Talk for 9-3-2023
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Episode 195: Ancestors of Ordinary Zen
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The audio clip from “The Sutra of Hui Neng” in this Dharma Talk was taken from “The Diamond Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Sutra of Hui Neng: Three Key Prajna Paramita Texts from the Zen Tradition”, available as an Audiobook on Audible. It is also available in Print on Amazon.
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Episode 194: Right Action – Taking Care Of Self
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The Six Paramitas (Generosity, Morality, Patience, Diligence, Meditation, and Wisdom) are the actualization of Right Action.
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Can you have different emotional states and be calm at the same time? Dharma Talk by Sangha member, Serena Olsen.
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What are the aspects of our practice that deal with difficulty? They are: Don’t Know, Don’t Make, and How can I help?
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Episode 191: Our Meditation Practice
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This Dharma Talk gets down to the basics of our practice, sitting on the cushion.
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