Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)
Dharma talks by senior teachers, including Sensei John Pulleyn, Sensei Donna Kowal, and Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The Rochester Zen Center was founded in 1966 by Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of 20th century Zen classic, The Three Pillars of Zen.
Latest episodes
Jun 5, 2021 • 47min
“An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois #1
June 2021 Sesshin, Day 1 Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript
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May 30, 2021 • 56min
No Teachers, No Students, Nothing To Be Taught
A look at the teacher-student relationship generally, with a focus on the implications of it at the RZC now that Roshi and John Pulleyn-sensei will both be giving dokusan and formally accepting students. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript
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May 16, 2021 • 56min
The Middle Way
The Buddha’s Way to freedom. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript
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May 11, 2021 • 32min
CoronaCast: May 11
Roshi’s weekly podcast: Languishing and Ambivalence. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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May 9, 2021 • 50min
“The Third Turning of the Wheel: A Conversation with Joanna Macy”
May 2021 Sesshin, Day 2 Reading and commentary on excerpts from an interview with Joanna Macy that explores the Buddha’s teaching of dependent co-arising, nothing exists apart from anything else. (Source: Dharma Rain, edited by Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala Publications, 2000) Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript
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May 8, 2021 • 51min
“World as Lover, World as Self” by Joanna Macy
May 2021 Sesshin, Day 1 Reading and commentary on excerpts from Chapter One. Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript
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Apr 25, 2021 • 44min
The Illusion of Human Identity
The Heart Sutra (Prajna Paramita) reminds us that none of the five skandhas (constituents of personhood) have any substantiality to them. To cling to any imagined identity, then, is to invite suffering. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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Apr 20, 2021 • 22min
CoronaCast: April 12
Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s weekly podcast. Come On In–the Water’s Fine! Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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Apr 18, 2021 • 52min
Impermanence
A look at one of the Buddha’s three characteristics of existence. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn.
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Apr 7, 2021 • 49min
“Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang” #2
April 2021 Sesshin, Day 5 Commentary on Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
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