This show is going on hiatus. I have taken a new job out west and I just won't have the time to keep it up. This has been a life-changing experience and I am so grateful to all of you.

Rev. Teijo Munnich

Jun 1st, 2021 43m 54s

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. Liên Shutt

May 25th, 2021 43m 59s

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.

Koen Vermeulen, JDPSN

Mar 31st, 2021 37m 32s

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 "what is" in this moment?

Sosan Theresa Flynn

Mar 25th, 2021 37m 1s

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.

Chimyo Atkinson

Mar 12th, 2021 39m 42s

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.

Dojin Sarah Emerson

Mar 5th, 2021 38m 7s

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

Zen Master Bon Shim (Aleksandra Porter)

Feb 23rd, 2021 41m 10s

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.

Rev. Liên Shutt

Feb 19th, 2021 44m 13s

We have a sense of harm because we realize that the wholeness has been torn. The practice is to return to the wholeness that is inherent in us and in life.

Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Feb 12th, 2021 34m 39s

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.

Myozen Joan Amaral

Feb 2nd, 2021 40m 3s

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.

Lizzie Coombs, JDPSN

Jan 26th, 2021 37m 51s

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?

Tenku Ruff, Osho

Jan 12th, 2021 39m 45s

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

Matthew Kozan Palevsky

Jan 5th, 2021 42m 32s

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.

Bàrbara Pardo, JDPSN

Dec 29th, 2020 43m 58s

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.

Charlie Korin Pokorny

Dec 22nd, 2020 38m 4s

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

Daigaku Rummé

Dec 15th, 2020 41m 10s

Your life is Zen. If you try to make your life Zen, then you are adding something. Don't make distinctions, don't make differences, and live your life in the present.

Adam Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Dec 8th, 2020 44m 54s

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 hea

Knud Rosenmayr, JDPSN

Nov 24th, 2020 35m 22s

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

Jiri (George) Hazlbauer, JDPSN

Nov 17th, 2020 32m 58s

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't see it in the moment. If you have the chance, please try living in community.

Ellen Jikai Birx, Roshi

Nov 10th, 2020 39m 52s

Ellen Birx, Roshi, is fully immersed and fully committed to both Zen Buddhism and Christianity. She doesn't collapse either into the other but allows the two paths the full integrity of their truth all the while following them into the ineffabl

Zen Master Dae Bong (Rebroadcast)

Nov 3rd, 2020 36m 53s

This is a rebroadcast of an episode recorded with Zen Master Dae Bong in March of 2019.

Rev. Kokyo Henkel

Oct 27th, 2020 39m 22s

How do we balance our practice between the Zen principle of "no-gaining" and the deep and strong aspiration within Mahayana Buddhism to realize awakening for the benefit of all beings?

Rev. Kokyo Henkel

Oct 27th, 2020 39m 22s

Rev. Kokyo Henkel began practicing Zen in 1990 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo has also been practicing with the Tibetan Dz

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN

Oct 20th, 2020 41m 18s

Arne Schaefer, JDPSN, began practicing in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition — Diamond Way — in 1990. But in 1992, he sat a two-day retreat with Zen Master Seung Sahn in Berlin and has practiced with the Kwan Um School ever since. In April 2010, Arne