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 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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Jul 18, 2024 • 35min
Chiyono's No Water, No Moon - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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. --ChiyonoHow do we hold ourselves with our thoughts? How do we create identity with our beliefs about ourselves?What happens when we see through this function of the mind? When we let go of the narrative, even a little?
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Jul 16, 2024 • 28min
A Zen of Thinking Pt. 2 - Undoing The Dehumanizing Function - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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-dimensional mental symbols? How are they created and sustained?Actual relationship and naked awareness as the medicine
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Jul 13, 2024 • 28min
A Zen of Thinking Pt.1 - Imagining Intricacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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 cause, often to one point of blame for our suffering. Isn't this reductive?How to think interdependently?
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Jul 11, 2024 • 39min
The Benefits of A Beginner's Mind - Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher
In this podcast Kodo discusses the benefits of functioning in our daily lives with a beginners mind.Kodo Conover, Zen TeacherSunday Public Program Great Vow Zen Monastery07/09/2024
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