Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks
Zen Community of Oregon
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.
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.
Episodes
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Aug 10, 2024 • 39min
Working with The Inner Critic - Chozen & Hogen Bays, Roshi and Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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.
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Aug 8, 2024 • 49min
Zen and Stillness - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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.
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Aug 6, 2024 • 30min
Within There Is A Jewel - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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 WorldAbout 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 the mountain of form. Pick up a lamp and go into the Buddha Hall, take the triple gate and bring it on the lamp.This talk explores this vital koan through the practices of mountain sitting, connecting to place and honoring our own dream (or vow) for the world.
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Aug 3, 2024 • 49min
To Be Free With, Not Free From - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
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.
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Aug 1, 2024 • 31min
No One Said This Would Be Easy - Myoyu Voekel, Novice Priest
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.
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Jul 30, 2024 • 48min
The World Needs More Listeners - Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
This is a repost from 2022:
Laura Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Sounds Sesshin 2022
Great Vow Zen Monastery
3/19/22
Jul 27, 2024 • 47min
Diving Into Impermanence - Chozen Bays, Roshi
Repost from 2023:Chozen Bays, RoshiSunday ProgramGreat Vow Zen Monastery09/03/23
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Jul 25, 2024 • 41min
Engaged Buddhism, World Wound + Tonglen - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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.
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Jul 23, 2024 • 26min
The Bodhisattva Vow and Collective Liberation - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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 take up a view of unconditional acceptance? Love unbounded? Freedom for all beings?This is the heart of what we call—the Bodhisattva Vow. And it is often articulated as a vow to work towards liberation for all beings.
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Jul 20, 2024 • 35min
The Infinite Facets of Our Lives - Hogen Bays, Roshi
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. Where do we go from here?
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