Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks
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New podcasts every Tues, Thurs and Sat. Here you can find talks from various teachers involved with the Zen Community of Oregon. We share talks from our retreats, as well as our different weekly offerings between Great Vow Zen Monastery and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. Zen Community of Oregon's purpose is to express and make accessible the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha’s teachings, as transmitted through an authentic, historical lineage. To support and maintain Zen Buddhist practice in order to realize and actualize our Buddha nature in everyday life. For more information, please visit zendust.org.
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The Heart of the Diamond Sutra - Hogen, Roshi
Hogen offers a simple, practical reading of the Diamond Sutra: help others, be generous, and act with humility. He explores how kindness and generosity can become an ongoing practice, expanding our capacity to …
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Hogen offers a simple, practical reading of the Diamond Sutra: help others, be generous, and act with humility. He explores how kindness and generosity can become an ongoing practice, expanding our capacity to meet even difficult people and situations with greater compassion.
★ Support this podcast ★Keeping the Flame Burning - Bansho Green, Sensei
Bansho explores bodhicitta—the awakening heart and the aspiration to awaken for the benefit of all beings—as the sustaining force of Zen practice. Through the interplay of wisdom and compassion, Bansho invites …
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Bansho explores bodhicitta—the awakening heart and the aspiration to awaken for the benefit of all beings—as the sustaining force of Zen practice. Through the interplay of wisdom and compassion, Bansho invites us to see through the illusion of separation and carry our practice into everyday life, meeting each moment and each person with an open, awakening heart.
★ Support this podcast ★The Three Pillows of Zen - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher
Shonin explores three interconnected aspects of Zen practice through teachings from Maezumi Roshi: samadhi, forgetting the self, and actualization. With the image of three soft pillows, the talk offers an …
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Shonin explores three interconnected aspects of Zen practice through teachings from Maezumi Roshi: samadhi, forgetting the self, and actualization. With the image of three soft pillows, the talk offers an encouraging view of practice as a gradual process of settling the mind, becoming absorbed in life as it unfolds, and allowing the Dharma to express itself naturally in how we live.
★ Support this podcast ★The World Is More Than We Imagine - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Jomon explores the Diamond Sutra and its invitation to loosen our grip on fixed ideas about ourselves and the world. Through the simple example of a cup of tea, stories of Zen teachers, and reflections on …
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Jomon explores the Diamond Sutra and its invitation to loosen our grip on fixed ideas about ourselves and the world. Through the simple example of a cup of tea, stories of Zen teachers, and reflections on habitual thought, Jomon invites us to meet life with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to let go of what we think we know.
★ Support this podcast ★A Mind Open to Wonder - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Jogen explores how Zen practice can restore our capacity for wonder and gratitude, even amid life’s difficulties and disappointments. Through meditation and inquiry inspired by the Diamond Sutra, he introduces …
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Jogen explores how Zen practice can restore our capacity for wonder and gratitude, even amid life’s difficulties and disappointments. Through meditation and inquiry inspired by the Diamond Sutra, he introduces samadhi (steady, open awareness) and prajna (insight) as ways to loosen habitual patterns of thought and experience the world with fresh eyes.
★ Support this podcast ★Chanting Our Way to Wholeness - Hogen Roshi
Hogen explores how chanting the Buddha’s name can loosen our sense of separation and help us reconnect with the fullness of our experience. Through wholehearted practice, we gradually awaken parts of ourselves …
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Hogen explores how chanting the Buddha’s name can loosen our sense of separation and help us reconnect with the fullness of our experience. Through wholehearted practice, we gradually awaken parts of ourselves that have been buried or excluded, finding greater clarity, compassion, and intimacy with the world around us.
★ Support this podcast ★Awakening Is Already Here - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher
This talk explores stories of awakening from Japanese women Zen practitioners, showing how moments of insight can reveal the Buddha nature present in all of life. Through the koan Mu, the oxherding pictures …
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This talk explores stories of awakening from Japanese women Zen practitioners, showing how moments of insight can reveal the Buddha nature present in all of life. Through the koan Mu, the oxherding pictures, and Dogen’s teachings, Shonin reminds us that practice is not about chasing a special experience, but about returning to this moment again and again until our whole lives become the practice.
★ Support this podcast ★The Crucible of Practice - Bansho Green, Sensei
Bansho explores Zen practice through the image of fire, which can both destroy and transform, forging us through the challenges of being human. Drawing on Dogen’s teachings, he invites us to meet grief, anger …
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Bansho explores Zen practice through the image of fire, which can both destroy and transform, forging us through the challenges of being human. Drawing on Dogen’s teachings, he invites us to meet grief, anger, change, and uncertainty with intimacy rather than trying to escape them, and to listen for the Dharma within our own experience.
★ Support this podcast ★The Teachings of Dipa Ma - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher
Dipa Ma’s life offers a powerful example of how meditation can transform suffering into concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. Drawing on her teachings, this talk explores the importance of committing to a …
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Dipa Ma’s life offers a powerful example of how meditation can transform suffering into concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. Drawing on her teachings, this talk explores the importance of committing to a practice, meeting difficulties with patience, letting go of the stories we tell ourselves, and discovering that awakening is possible in any circumstance. Her journey reminds us that the ancient way is always available, right here in the midst of our everyday lives.
★ Support this podcast ★Karma and Freedom - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Jogen continues his exploration of karma, focusing on how habitual actions and desires can shape our lives and lead us away from ultimate peace. He explores atonement, the cultivation of skillful actions, and …
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Jogen continues his exploration of karma, focusing on how habitual actions and desires can shape our lives and lead us away from ultimate peace. He explores atonement, the cultivation of skillful actions, and ultimately the possibility of becoming free from karmic patterns by resting in awareness and responding from a deeper place of choice.
★ Support this podcast ★Patience In Practice - Bansho Green, Sensei
Bansho explores patience as one of the six paramitas, a practice that helps us meet ourselves, others, and the changing circumstances of life with presence and curiosity. Through meditation and everyday …
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Bansho explores patience as one of the six paramitas, a practice that helps us meet ourselves, others, and the changing circumstances of life with presence and curiosity. Through meditation and everyday relationships, patience becomes less about waiting for things to change and more about learning to respond with wisdom, compassion, and steadiness.
★ Support this podcast ★The Shape of Karma - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Jogen explores karma as the ongoing relationship between our actions, habits, and experience, emphasizing that practice gives us freedom in how we respond to the results of past actions. Drawing on the Buddha’s …
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Jogen explores karma as the ongoing relationship between our actions, habits, and experience, emphasizing that practice gives us freedom in how we respond to the results of past actions. Drawing on the Buddha’s teachings, including the Salt Crystal Sutta, he invites us to meet difficult patterns with greater awareness, spaciousness, and curiosity.
★ Support this podcast ★Don't Expect Applause - Bansho Sensei
Threaded through this talk by Bansho Sensei is the tension between wanting recognition for helping others and the practice of "not expecting applause." It frames true generosity as releasing the need to be …
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Threaded through this talk by Bansho Sensei is the tension between wanting recognition for helping others and the practice of "not expecting applause." It frames true generosity as releasing the need to be thanked or acknowledged. It distinguishes ordinary impatience (wanting the red light to change) from a deeper "Dharma patience" of truly being with others and with our own discomfort.
★ Support this podcast ★Give Life to Life - Hogen Roshi
Centered on the idea of "futuring" or craving, this talk by Hogen Roshi examines how the mind actively shapes an infinite, formless world into a narrow personal story through wanting. It suggests liberation …
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Centered on the idea of "futuring" or craving, this talk by Hogen Roshi examines how the mind actively shapes an infinite, formless world into a narrow personal story through wanting. It suggests liberation comes from noticing this shaping process rather than being unconsciously driven by it.
★ Support this podcast ★Slipping Beneath the Difficulty - Hogen Roshi
This talk by Hogen Roshi explores craving as the mind's habitual grasping — "I want, I want" — and how it quietly generates most of our dissatisfaction. It contrasts two retreat experiences, agony and freedom …
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This talk by Hogen Roshi explores craving as the mind's habitual grasping — "I want, I want" — and how it quietly generates most of our dissatisfaction. It contrasts two retreat experiences, agony and freedom, to show that both can lead to the same insight once we stop resisting and sink beneath the thought.
★ Support this podcast ★Avoiding Foolish Ways - Hogen Roshi
This talk by Hogen Roshi unpacks a traditional chant on "blessings" by redefining the word away from divine reward and toward human capacity. It centers on discernment — recognizing foolish paths to happiness …
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This talk by Hogen Roshi unpacks a traditional chant on "blessings" by redefining the word away from divine reward and toward human capacity. It centers on discernment — recognizing foolish paths to happiness versus wise ones — and treats association with wisdom as something actively built, not passively found.
★ Support this podcast ★A Whole Forest Within You - Kisei Sensei
Using poetry, koans, and personal story, this talk paints practice as a slow accumulation of intimacy with the world — with fear, with joy, with the earth itself. It closes on the idea that these encounters …
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Using poetry, koans, and personal story, this talk paints practice as a slow accumulation of intimacy with the world — with fear, with joy, with the earth itself. It closes on the idea that these encounters don't disappear when we leave formal practice; they continue quietly shaping how we sit, dream, and live.
★ Support this podcast ★Remembering How to Come Home - Kisei Sensei
This talk Kisei explores practice as homecoming — returning to a natural ease we knew as children but lost through striving and adulthood. A folk tale and the Buddha's own reflections before awakening sre …
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This talk Kisei explores practice as homecoming — returning to a natural ease we knew as children but lost through striving and adulthood. A folk tale and the Buddha's own reflections before awakening sre explored forgetting and remembering as central to the spiritual path.
★ Support this podcast ★Listen With Your Eyes - Kisei Sensei
This talk explores what it means to listen beyond the ears — to the earth, to silence, to a mind not bound by self and asks whether the boundary between "sentient" and "insentient" is one we've simply mistaken …
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This talk explores what it means to listen beyond the ears — to the earth, to silence, to a mind not bound by self and asks whether the boundary between "sentient" and "insentient" is one we've simply mistaken for the truth.
★ Support this podcast ★Sipping From Many Flowers - Jogen Sensei
Reflecting on today's overwhelming availability of spiritual teachings from every tradition, this talk asks whether sampling freely across lineages creates confusion and explores how practice is a rhythm of …
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Reflecting on today's overwhelming availability of spiritual teachings from every tradition, this talk asks whether sampling freely across lineages creates confusion and explores how practice is a rhythm of deconstructing our misperceptions of self and world, and reconstructing ourselves toward compassion, embodiment, and ease.
★ Support this podcast ★What the River Says: on Vocation and Calling- Hogen, Roshi
This talk explores vocation not as a career choice but as a calling that arises from deep within the heart. The speaker weaves in poetry from William Stafford, David Whyte and others to illustrate how a life of …
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This talk explores vocation not as a career choice but as a calling that arises from deep within the heart. The speaker weaves in poetry from William Stafford, David Whyte and others to illustrate how a life of meaning flows from staying connected to an inner current rather than external trappings.
★ Support this podcast ★I'm a Thing! : How Craving Dreams Us Into Lumps- Hogen, Roshi
The Tanha Sutta's core teaching, Hogen explains, is that craving turns the fluid, ever-changing experience of being alive into a fixed identity — "I am this," "I am that" — which then must be defended and …
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The Tanha Sutta's core teaching, Hogen explains, is that craving turns the fluid, ever-changing experience of being alive into a fixed identity — "I am this," "I am that" — which then must be defended and reinforced. This talk explores this as an attempt to become a solid "thing" and how that goes against reality itself, making us smaller and more fearful rather than secure.
★ Support this podcast ★The Weaver That Chokes the World: on Grasping Thoughts- Hogen, Roshi
This talk explores the observation that craving turns ordinary desire into compulsive thinking, creating a tangle of self-concepts — "I am a failure," "I am a success" — that we then mistake for fixed truths. ★ …
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This talk explores the observation that craving turns ordinary desire into compulsive thinking, creating a tangle of self-concepts — "I am a failure," "I am a success" — that we then mistake for fixed truths.
★ Support this podcast ★What's the Hurry? - Bansho Sensei
This talk explores patience (kshanti), one of the six Paramitas in Mahayana Buddhism, as an essential practice in a culture built for instant gratification and constant phone-driven distraction. Bansho …
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This talk explores patience (kshanti), one of the six Paramitas in Mahayana Buddhism, as an essential practice in a culture built for instant gratification and constant phone-driven distraction. Bansho distinguishes true patience from mere "waiting," framing it instead as fully meeting the present moment without needing it to be different.
★ Support this podcast ★Not Personal, Permanent, or Perfect: The Three Dharma Seals- Zen Teacher Jomon
This talk on reflects on the Five Remembrances — that we are of the nature to age, get sick, die, and be separated from loved ones — as a practice for living wisely rather than in denial. Rather than being …
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This talk on reflects on the Five Remembrances — that we are of the nature to age, get sick, die, and be separated from loved ones — as a practice for living wisely rather than in denial. Rather than being purely somber, these reflections are offered as a way to "sweeten the deal," deepening appreciation for the present moment and one's relationships.
★ Support this podcast ★Good in the Beginning, Good in the Middle, Good in the End -Zen Teacher Jomon
This talk explores how the ups and downs of a single sitting period mirror the larger arc of a retreat or an entire life of practice. Drawing on the image of a snake in a bamboo tube, a long marriage and …
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This talk explores how the ups and downs of a single sitting period mirror the larger arc of a retreat or an entire life of practice.
Drawing on the image of a snake in a bamboo tube, a long marriage and retreat as a modern rite of passage, they explore how difficulty, doubt, and disillusionment aren't failures but essential parts of deepening commitment.
★ Support this podcast ★Courage To Be Afraid- Working Our Edges- Jogen Sensei
Drawing on the eleventh-century yogini Machig Labdron's uncompromising slogans—confess your hidden faults, approach what repels you, help those you think you cannot help—this talk explores how genuine spiritual …
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Drawing on the eleventh-century yogini Machig Labdron's uncompromising slogans—confess your hidden faults, approach what repels you, help those you think you cannot help—this talk explores how genuine spiritual growth requires more than acceptance.
★ Support this podcast ★The Timeless in Direct Experience- Hogen Roshi
This talk is a teaching on the ageless, ever-present awareness beneath our changing thoughts and circumstances. Drawing on the Mangala Sutta, this talk explores how recognizing (not manufacturing) this ground …
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This talk is a teaching on the ageless, ever-present awareness beneath our changing thoughts and circumstances. Drawing on the Mangala Sutta, this talk explores how recognizing (not manufacturing) this ground allows the mind to remain unshaken "beyond all sorrow."
★ Support this podcast ★Our Inseparability From The Natural World- Zen Teacher Jomon
Drawing from an annual outdoor meditation retreat , this talk explores how sitting in silence among deer, mosquitoes, and fallen apples can reveal our inseparability from the natural world ★ Support this podcast ★
Making Peace with Your Inner Critic - Zen Teacher Jomon
This talk explores the inner critic as a habitual pattern of thought, emotion, and body sensation—not a fixed truth- as well as offering practices of self-compassion. ★ Support this podcast ★
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