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 ...
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Rinzan Pechovnik is the head priest and primary teacher at No-Rank Zendo, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Community in Portland, Oregon. His Dharma talks explore various aspects of Rinzai Zen Buddhist practice, spirituality and religion. He emphasizes practice as a means to develop and cultivate a tender open-heartedness that allows a deep engagement with a troubled world. http://www.norankzendo.org
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Working with The Inner Critic - Chozen & Hogen Bays, Roshi and Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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This talk was given at the end of our summer 2024 inner critic workshop at Great Vow Zen Monastery. Hogen Roshi, Chozen Roshi and Jogen Sensei sit together and discuss working with the inner critic in this unique style of talk. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Zen and Stillness - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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This talk is from July Sesshin 2024 at Great Vow Zen Monastery, Day 3. In this talk Jogen discusses immersion in the flow of life, stillness, language and many other topics in this sesshin dharma talk. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Within There Is A Jewel - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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This talk was given during Kisei's Monday evening online sit with Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR in July 2024. Within there is a Jewel: Emplacement and Your Dream for the World About a thousand years ago, a Zen teacher named Yunmen said to their community: Within heaven and earth, through space and time, there is a jewel, hidden inside …
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To Be Free With, Not Free From - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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In this Teisho, given on July 15th, 2024, the third day of No-Rank Zen Temple's Summer Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 34 of the Hekiganroku: Kyozan's "You Have Not Visited Rozan." There are different ways to investigate the question "Where are you from?" Zen training teaches us to delve beyond the relative into the depths of our ineffible origi…
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No One Said This Would Be Easy - Myoyu Voekel, Novice Priest
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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The World Needs More Listeners - Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
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This is a repost from 2022: Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher Sounds Sesshin 2022 Great Vow Zen Monastery 3/19/22By Zen Community of Oregon
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Diving Into Impermanence - Chozen Bays, Roshi
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Repost from 2023: Chozen Bays, Roshi Sunday Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 09/03/23 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Engaged Buddhism, World Wound + Tonglen - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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In this Teisho, given on June 9th, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: Ziyong's Earth. We reach out to the world in an effort to connect. To do this, we must open up to the mystery and wonder of all things.By Rinzan Pechovnik
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The Bodhisattva Vow and Collective Liberation - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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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 t…
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The Infinite Facets of Our Lives - Hogen Bays, Roshi
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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. …
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Chiyono's No Water, No Moon - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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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 ourselv…
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A Zen of Thinking Pt. 2 - Undoing The Dehumanizing Function - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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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-dimens…
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A Zen of Thinking Pt.1 - Imagining Intricacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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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 cau…
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The Benefits of A Beginner's Mind - Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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The Mystery Of Zen Practice - Hogen Bays, Roshi
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Hogen Bays, Roshi Rohatsu Sesshin 2020 Great Vow Zen Monastery December 2020 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Monday Evening Online Heart of Wisdom Talk May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Is This A Good Day or A Bad Day? - Chozen Bays, Roshi
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Chozen Bays, Roshi Sunday Public Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 6/30/2024 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Engaged Buddhism: Appropriate Response - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Buddha's Rollercoaster- Upheavals In Meditation Practice - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei - online dharma talk with Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple on April 22, 2024. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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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 ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Living Our Life As Zen Training pt.2 - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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Jogen Salzberg, Sensei at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR on May 15, 2024. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Living Our Life As Zen Training - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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Jogen Salzberg, Sensei at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR on May 8, 2024. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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In this Teisho, given on April 21st, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines case 26 of the Hekiganroku: Hyakujo Sits on the Great Sublimne Peak. Zen often seems like a practice of quietude, but the peak is abustle with life. What is it to be alone on it?By Rinzan Pechovnik
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Gen X Conference and The Precepts - Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
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09/09/2024 Sunday Program Talk following the Gen X Buddhist Teachers Sangha annual meeting at Great Vow. ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Within Darkness There is Light - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Dharma talk by Kisei Costenbader, Sensei during an online program in May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Taming the Ox - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Dharma Talk by Kisei Costenbader, Sensei from an online program in May 2024 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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How To Have A Settled Heart - Patrick Bansho Green, Zen Teacher
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06/02/2024 Patrick Bansho Green, Zen Teacher during the Sunday Program Talk at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Ancestors Sesshin Closing Talk - Kisei, Sensei and Bansho, Zen Teacher
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei and Patrick Bansho Green on 05/19/2024 Closing talk of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Living At A Distance - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei 05/18/2024 Talk 5 of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Not Knowing Is Most Intimate- Patrick Bansho Green, Zen Teacher
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Patrick Bansho Green, Zen Teacher on 05/17/2024 Talk 4 of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Hekiganroku: The Master of Rengehō's Staff
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In this Teisho, given on April 18th, 2024, the sixth day of No-Rank Zendo's Spring Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 25 of theHekiganroku: The Master of Rengehō's Staff. Spiritul practice asks us to be our best selves. So what use is so-called "enlightenment?" Though we can see into the deep nature of our existance, how do we carry it forth?…
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What Is the Purpose of Your Pilgrimage? - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei 05/26/2024 Sunday Program at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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No Cold or Heat - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei 05/16/2024 Talk 3 of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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The Messiness of Being Human - Bansho Green, Zen Teacher
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Bansho Green, Zen Teacher- 05/21-2024 - Talk 2 of Ancestors Sesshin 2024 at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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The Road of Buddha Ancestors - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei 05/14/2024 Talk 1 of Ancestors Sesshin at Great Vow Zen Monastery ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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What is This Moment Asking of You- Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
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Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher Sounds Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 3/17/22 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Vast is the Robe of Liberation - Chozen Bays, Roshi
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Chozen Bays, Roshi Sunday Morning Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 03/27/2022 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Jogen Salzberg, Sensei The Phoenix of True Nature Sesshin 2021 Great Vow Zen Monastery 02/18/21 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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All Life is Inter-Related - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Sunday Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 01/17/21 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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The Dharma Is Not Objective - Hogen Bays, Roshi
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Hogen Bays, Roshi Rohatsu Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 12/05/22 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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Lama Lekshe Sunday Public Program Great Vow Zen Monastery 5/05/2024 ★ Support this podcast ★By Zen Community of Oregon
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In this Teisho, given on April 7th, 2024, the third day of Chobo-ji's Spring Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 20 of the Hekiganroku: Ryuge asks Suibi and Rinzai. What is the meaning of life. From one perspective, we can find no meaning ... yet what is it that speaks to us of the profound meaning-fullness of life.…
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