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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.
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- 1 weeks ago27 min
Mind Abiding No Where - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this talk, Kisei explores the Buddha's teaching on how we should practice if we truly seek liberation, as offered in the Diamond Sutra. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 1 weeks ago32 min
Celebrating The Poetry Of Zen - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
Poetry has a way of cutting to the heart of our lives, and expressing the inexpressible. In this talk Kisei explores the styles of poetry used in the Zen tradition, from poems of enlightenment, to death poems, to capping phrases and poems of deep intimacy--poetry invites us into this living moment, and graces our lives with the mystery. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 1 weeks ago30 min
Encounters with the Stone Woman - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
During this talk Kisei explores the line from the Mountains and Rivers sutra, "a stone woman gives birth to a child at night", and entertain our own encounters with the stone woman, and what she may have to teach us. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 3 weeks ago35 min
Nuts and Bolts of Meditation- Jogen, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen frames the entire practice — regardless of specific method — as the conscious, intentional use of attention. The core of the talk breaks meditation down into two complementary skills: staying, which is the ability to keep attention where you want it and non-clinging, which is recognizing that body, mind, and experience are largely just happening on their own without needing to be controlled or possessed. The talk closes by noting that love, devotion, and curiosity can all be brought into practice, but staying and non-clinging remain the fundamental nuts and bolts. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 3 weeks ago39 min
Emotional Avoidance in Zen - Jogen, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen Sensei makes a distinction between detachment (checking out), non-attachment (neither clinging nor pulling away), and fearless intimacy (meeting experience without any strategy at all), arguing that the ideal of the serene, unruffled practitioner can seduce people into using practice to avoid their emotions rather than meet them. The talk closes by noting that psychological inquiry and meditation practice aren't opposites — sometimes a recurring feeling needs honest examination, and the goal isn't a sanitized, emotion-free self but something more like becoming a conductor through whom life moves freely. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 3 weeks ago20 min
Practicing Honestly- On the Mangala Sutta Pt 2 - Hogen, Roshi
This talk on the Mangala Sutta includes the importance of responding to life's circumstances with a calm, clear mind; the idea that each person has a unique set of skills and talents worth developing with intention and integrity; and the value of staying open to learning rather than assuming you already know. It closes with a distinction between speech that flatters people's existing beliefs (what algorithms do) versus speech that is genuinely inclusive and connects people to something larger than their own perspective. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 3 weeks ago32 min
Compulsion Could Arise In Wisdom - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Jomon contemplates the teachings of Dogen Zenji's Eight Realizations Of a Great Being. She touches on how our minds give us a surprisingly inaccurate picture of reality and how paying honest attention — rather than chasing, clinging, or arguing — is the actual practice. ★ Support this podcast ★
- 4 weeks ago35 min
The Way We Do This Thing We Do- Perfection of Effort - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this informal talk, Jogen Sensei explores the Buddhist “perfection of effort” (virya) as a subtle, deeply personal process of aligning one’s life with what the heart genuinely longs for, rather than forcing oneself through rigid discipline or external standards. He argues that all effort is already “perfect” because effort learns from itself over time, and that true practice is less about becoming someone better than about continually realigning with the awakened nature already present within us. The talk concludes by emphasizing the balance between self-effort and “other power” — support from community, teachers, and life itself — encouraging practitioners to continue steadily, sincerely, and compassionately on the path. ★ Support this podcast ★
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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.
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