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From the OzZen Australian Ordinary Mind Zen school founded by Dr Andrew Tootell.

Episode Date
Meditation: Being Just This Moment, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Feb 03, 2026
Case 94, Book of Serenity, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Feb 02, 2026
Getting Used to Dying, by Jamie Yakusan Irvine
Feb 01, 2026
Our Core Practices Part Three: The Three Treasures, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Nov 23, 2025
Meditation: I – Here – Now, by Elisabeth Barrett
Nov 18, 2025
Genjokoan, by Larry Kodo Hancock
Nov 09, 2025
Meditation: Giving, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Nov 04, 2025
Transforming Suffering into Compassion, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Oct 26, 2025
Meditation: Mindful Awareness, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Oct 21, 2025
What is Consciousness?, by Phil Genkai Pisanu
Oct 12, 2025
Meditation: Bodhisattva's vow, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Oct 07, 2025
Meditation: Inner spring cleaning, by Louise Shinsho Cranny
Sep 28, 2025
Meditation: Cook your Life, by Phil Genkai Pisanu
Sep 09, 2025
The Place of Sangha in Post-Monastic Zen Practice, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Sep 01, 2025
Zen Master Dogen’s Foundational Text “Bendowa”, by Larry Kodo Hancock
Aug 31, 2025
Our Core Practices Part Two, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Aug 17, 2025
Meditation: Labelling, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Aug 12, 2025
Our Core Practices Part One, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Jul 20, 2025
Meditation: The Five Remembrances, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Jul 15, 2025
Finding peace and joy amidst climate grief, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Jul 06, 2025
Meditation: You are already where you need to be, by Ryan Eno Squires
Jul 01, 2025
Taking Refuge in Self-Affirming Experiences, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Jun 08, 2025
The Spiritual Autobiography of Ryan Eno, by Ryan Eno Squires
May 25, 2025
Spiritual Autobiographies Part 3, by Andrew Sono Tootell
May 17, 2025
Spiritual Autobiographies Part 2, by Andrew Sono Tootell
May 16, 2025
Spiritual Autobiographies Part 1, by Andrew Sono Tootell
May 15, 2025
Samadhi, by Andrew Sono Tootell
May 11, 2025
Meditation: The Gift, by Louise Shinso Cranny
May 06, 2025
Dogen Zenji - A Biography, by Larry Kodo Hancock
Apr 27, 2025
Meditation: Shelter from the Storm: The Three Refuges, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Apr 22, 2025
Practice Principles 2025, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Apr 13, 2025
Meditation: Life as it is and other teachers, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Apr 08, 2025
Coping with the loss of a loved one, by Louise Shinsho Cranny
Mar 30, 2025
Meditation: On Mu, by Ryan Eno Squires
Mar 25, 2025
Meditation: Riding the Thought Train, by Phil Genkai Pisanu
Mar 11, 2025
The Experience of Intimacy in Zen, by Zenko Jack Wicks
Mar 08, 2025
Waking to a Dream within a Dream, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Feb 16, 2025
Meditation: Stop running, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Feb 11, 2025
The History of Shikantaza, by Phil Genkai Pisanu
Feb 02, 2025
Medidation: Wabi Sabi, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Jan 28, 2025
Meditation: Leave everything alone, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Jan 14, 2025
Meditation: The Morning Star, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Dec 08, 2024
Meditation: Being at home in the world, by Andrew Sono Tootell
Dec 03, 2024
Wu-Tsu’s Who is that Other? by Andrew Sono Tootell
Nov 15, 2024
Meditation: Your Original Face is Always Changing
Oct 27, 2024
Yogacara part four
Oct 13, 2024
Meditation: Being afraid of making mistakes is the biggest mistake by Louise Shinsho Cranny
Oct 08, 2024
Meditation: Zen Practice as Community, by Zenko Jack Wicks
Sep 24, 2024
Denkai Talk: New York, Nov 15 2014
Sep 21, 2024
Yogacara part three
Sep 15, 2024
Meditation: Facing and Embracing Our Finitude
Sep 10, 2024
First Precept: Non-killing
Aug 25, 2024
Yogacara part two
Aug 18, 2024
Meditation: A Path to Oneness by Shinsho
Aug 13, 2024
Meditation: Jui-yen Calls Master
Aug 04, 2024
Yogacara part one
Jul 21, 2024
Meditation: Leave Everything Alone
Jul 16, 2024
Introduction to the Precepts
Jun 30, 2024
Nagarjuna and the Two Truths
Jun 23, 2024
Meditation: A Still Forest Pool, by Shinsho
Jun 11, 2024
Meditation: Song of Zazen
Jun 09, 2024
What does it mean to be a social activist?, by Louise Shinsho Cranny
May 24, 2024
Socially Engaged Buddhism
May 22, 2024
Meditation: Why do you sit?
May 14, 2024
The Liberatory potential of the Emptiness Teachings
May 12, 2024
Meditation: The Emptiness of Self
Apr 28, 2024
Everything is Empty of Inherent Existence
Apr 14, 2024
Meditation: Romantic and Universal Love, by Zenko Jack Wicks
Apr 02, 2024
Opening the heart in close and intimate relationships, by Shinsho
Mar 31, 2024
The empty self part two
Mar 17, 2024
Opening To Love, by Jack Wicks
Mar 05, 2024
Meditation: Simple Mind
Mar 03, 2024
Naming our experiences by Louise Shinso Cranny
Feb 20, 2024
The empty self part one
Feb 18, 2024
Yogacara part five
Feb 11, 2024
The Precept of Non-Lying and the Gurdjieff Teachings, by Elisabeth Barrett
Feb 09, 2024
Meditation: Three Types Of Zazen
Jan 23, 2024
Philosophy as practice
Jan 21, 2024
The Voice From The Heart, and the backlash to reconciliation
Oct 22, 2023
Meditation: Joyful Equanimity
Oct 08, 2023
Meditation: Meeting The Way, by Zenko Jack Wicks
Oct 03, 2023
Meditation: Deep Listening, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Oct 03, 2023
Meditation: I Am, by Elisabeth
Aug 22, 2023
Meditation: Appreciate this life, by Sono
Aug 13, 2023
Yoga Nidra, by Joshu
Aug 08, 2023
Meditation: Zazen Yoga Nidra
Jul 25, 2023
The Evolution Of Zen, by Joshu
Jul 16, 2023
The view from awareness
Jun 18, 2023
Meditation: Simply Being
May 30, 2023
The goose is out! Suffering and the end of suffering part 3
May 21, 2023
Two practices for ending suffering
May 06, 2023
Jukai talk, by Louise Cranny
May 05, 2023
Taking Refuge
May 04, 2023
Meditation: Ceaseless change turns the wheel of life
Apr 04, 2023
Meditation: Form and The Formless
Apr 02, 2023
Meditation: Practicing Non-Attachment to Desire
Mar 31, 2023
Meditation: Activating the seeds of mindfulness, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Mar 28, 2023
Meditation: Can You Find Yourself?
Mar 19, 2023
Meditation: Awakening To Life
Mar 07, 2023
Core Beliefs and the Self-Centred Dream
Jan 22, 2023
Meditation: Kindness and Self-Compassion, by Louise Shinso Cranny
Dec 23, 2022
What is Enlightenment? Part 3
Dec 04, 2022
Meditation: Sitting with Suffering, by Rhys Konin Price-Robertson
Nov 29, 2022
Meditation, Holding the self with love, by Jed Blore
Nov 15, 2022
Meditation: I Am Mountain Part 2, by Pingala Walsh
Oct 18, 2022
Meditation: Wild Swans
Oct 09, 2022
What is Enlightenment? Part 2
Oct 08, 2022
Meditation: Attending to the World
Oct 07, 2022
What is Enlightenment? Part 1
Oct 07, 2022
Meditation: Self-acceptance, by Jack Doshin Wicks
Sep 13, 2022
Meditation: I Am Mountain Part 1, by Pingala Walsh
Sep 13, 2022
Meditation: Knowing How you Feel - The Vedanas or Feeling Tones, by Louise Cranny
Sep 06, 2022
Meditation: 8 Wordly Winds, by Louise Cranny
May 31, 2022
Meditation: The alternative practice principles
May 17, 2022
Meditation: Sitting As One
May 07, 2022
Meditation: Take the backward step
May 05, 2022
The three treasures and the precepts
May 05, 2022
Meditation: Health through welcoming all of our selves, by Dr Jed Blore
May 03, 2022
Meditation: Not-knowing, by Jack Wicks
Apr 19, 2022
Peace And Happiness
Apr 10, 2022
Meditation: Seeking And Resisting
Apr 10, 2022
Meditation: Waking From The Dream
Apr 05, 2022
Way Seeking Mind, by Jack Wicks
Mar 27, 2022
Meditation: Awareness Without Identity
Mar 20, 2022
Recognising ‘I’ as Awareness
Feb 27, 2022
Meditation: Be Before Thinking
Feb 22, 2022
The Observing Self
Feb 13, 2022
Meditation: Returning, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Feb 08, 2022
Dharma Dialogue: The Practice Principles
Jan 30, 2022
Meditation: The Three Self Natures
Jan 25, 2022
Meditation: Transformations of Consciousness
Dec 14, 2021
Stages Of Practice
Nov 21, 2021
Meditation: Taking Refuge
Nov 16, 2021
Buddha Nature 4: Nonduality in a Nutshell
Nov 07, 2021
Buddha Nature 3: Integration of Zen and Psychotherapy
Nov 06, 2021
Buddha Nature 2: Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature?
Nov 05, 2021
Buddha Nature 1: The Four Turnings
Nov 04, 2021
Zen and Self Psychology
Oct 24, 2021
Meditation: Just This
Oct 19, 2021
Way Seeking Mind, by Net Mushin Parekh
Oct 10, 2021
Meditation: Ordinary Mind is Buddha. Part Two
Sep 27, 2021
Religious Practice as Nonseparation
Sep 26, 2021
Beyond Secularism
Sep 12, 2021
Meditation: Ordinary Mind is Buddha. Part One: Shamatha
Sep 07, 2021
Gurdjieff Meditation: I Am
Aug 24, 2021
Meditation: Two Meditative Poems
Aug 10, 2021
Living Without Walls, Part 2
Aug 01, 2021
Meditation: Can We Be Like The Tree?
Jul 27, 2021
Living Without Walls, Part 1
Jul 18, 2021
Meditation: Waterfalls
Jul 18, 2021
Meditation: What Is Thinking?
Jul 13, 2021
Meditation: Endings And The Fertile Void, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Jun 29, 2021
Simply Being
Jun 20, 2021
Taking Refuge
Jun 06, 2021
Meditation: Letting Go of Structure, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Jun 01, 2021
Interview with Elisabeth Barrett on Gurdjieff and Joko Beck
May 23, 2021
Meditation: Be Still, Know I Am
May 18, 2021
Meditation: Heart Sutra
May 09, 2021
Meditation: What Are We Doing Here, by Dr Jed Blore
May 04, 2021
Anzac Day
Apr 25, 2021
Meditation: Supporting Resistance, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Apr 20, 2021
Meditation: Resting in Sensations
Apr 13, 2021
Why I am a Buddhist, by Barry Magid
Apr 11, 2021
Meditation: Nothing Broken, Nothing Fixed, by Dr Jed Blore
Apr 06, 2021
Meditation: Boundlessness
Mar 30, 2021
Introduction to the Heart Sutra, Part One
Mar 28, 2021
Meditation: Three Zones of Awareness
Mar 23, 2021
Modern Buddhism
Mar 14, 2021
Meditation: Remembering to Be, by Dr Jed Blore
Mar 09, 2021
Meditation: Cultivating Joy
Mar 02, 2021
From salvation to human flourishing
Feb 28, 2021
Meditation: Dukkha, by Dr Rhys Price-Robertson
Feb 23, 2021
Meditation: Metta(Love)
Feb 16, 2021
OzZen Way Study Program
Feb 14, 2021
Meditation: Being Just This Moment, by Jed Blore
Feb 09, 2021
Meditation: Earth And Sky
Feb 02, 2021
Buddhism 101
Jan 31, 2021
Gurdjieff, by Elizabeth Barrett
Dec 06, 2020
Meditation: Coming Home
Dec 02, 2020
Meditation: Interdependence
Nov 25, 2020
Liberation In This Life
Nov 20, 2020
Meditation: Kindness
Nov 18, 2020
Meditation: Just sitting (no-gain)
Nov 04, 2020
Living this life: Zen and the teaching of emptiness
Oct 25, 2020
Meditation: Being-Time
Oct 21, 2020
Precepts of Bearing Witness - Barry Magid
Oct 11, 2020
Meditation: Resistance to being presence
Oct 07, 2020
Nothing is Lacking: Ordinary Self is the Way
Sep 27, 2020
Meditation: I Am My Body
Sep 23, 2020
Meditation: Creating a culture of awakening
Sep 16, 2020
Meditation: At home in muddy water
Sep 13, 2020
Making Friends With Death
Sep 13, 2020
Meditation: Commitment
Sep 09, 2020
Meditation: Enjoy the Ride
Sep 02, 2020
Meditation: Ecodharma and the formless self
Aug 30, 2020
Meditation: Hurt feelings and respectful speech
Aug 26, 2020
Meditation: Consciousness only
Jul 29, 2020
Zen and Attachment Theory
Jul 19, 2020
The Path Of Intimacy
Jul 05, 2020
Being At Home In The World
May 24, 2020
Being Alone Together
May 10, 2020
The Four Practice Principles
Apr 26, 2020
The Path Of Salvation In Zen
Apr 12, 2020
Growing Up Waking Up
Mar 01, 2020
Student-teacher relationship in the Ordinary Mind Zen Lineage
Feb 18, 2020
Values And Commitment
Feb 06, 2020
The Four Seals
Jan 19, 2020
Commentary on the Hsin Hsin Ming (Realising Mind) by Seng Tsan, the third ancestor
Dec 11, 2019
Meditation: Silence
Oct 12, 2019
Embodying Awakening Part Three
Oct 12, 2019
Embodying Awakening Part Two
Oct 11, 2019
Wandering Path Zen by Phil Pisanu, a way-seeking mind talk
Oct 11, 2019
Embodying Awakening Part One
Oct 10, 2019
The End Of Suffering
Sep 29, 2019
Trauma Informed Zen Practice
Aug 18, 2019
Ordinary Mind Is The Way
Jun 23, 2019
Meditation on Resting In Change
Jun 11, 2019
Wisdom And Compassion
Jun 09, 2019
Realising Your Self As Reality
May 12, 2019
Meditation: Awareness Of Awareness
May 11, 2019
Alive Or Dead
May 11, 2019
Eulogy to My Mother
Apr 28, 2019
The Razor's Edge
Mar 31, 2019
True Suffering and False Suffering
Mar 17, 2019
This Very Body Is The Buddha
Mar 03, 2019
The Observing Self
Feb 17, 2019
What Practice Is
Feb 03, 2019
Fear
Jan 21, 2019
Non Attachment
Jan 21, 2019
The Guest House
Jan 21, 2019
Avoidance And Acceptance
Jan 21, 2019
Introduction to Joko Bek
Jan 20, 2019
Wonder And Boredom
Jan 18, 2019
The Mystery Of Being
Jan 16, 2019
Zazen and the Automatic Nervous System
Nov 18, 2018
Bodhisattva's Vow And Gratitude
Nov 13, 2018
What is the essence of Zen Buddhism?
Nov 04, 2018
Entrustment
Oct 21, 2018
What Is It That Makes Us Uniquely Human?
Oct 20, 2018
Awakening To Self Intimacy
Oct 16, 2018
Meditation on Four Bodhisattva Vows: Embracing Life (Just As It Is)
Oct 07, 2018
Meditation on Thoughts
Oct 02, 2018
Secular Buddhism
Sep 24, 2018
Meditation on This Precious Moment
Sep 11, 2018
The Gateless Gate
Sep 09, 2018
Fear And Impermanence
Sep 04, 2018
Dadirri Deep Listening
Aug 21, 2018
Differentiation And Integration Part One
Aug 12, 2018
Differentiation And Integration Part Two
Aug 12, 2018
Time And The Timeless
Aug 07, 2018
Meditation on Be Here Now
Jul 29, 2018
Fireboy Seeking Fire
Jul 29, 2018
You Are Light
Jul 17, 2018
Meditation on Deepening Awareness
Jul 09, 2018
Coming Home
Jul 04, 2018
Inquiry Practice
May 06, 2018
Commentary on the Poem Chant In Praise of Zazen by Hakuin
Apr 24, 2018
The Direct Path
Apr 08, 2018
Meditation on The poem The Guest House by Rumi
Mar 27, 2018
Meditation on Contemplation on the Body
Jan 30, 2018
Bankei The Unborn
Dec 17, 2017
Advaita and Zen
Nov 19, 2017
Emotional Hurt
Oct 29, 2017
Growing and Waking Up
Oct 15, 2017
You Are Light
Oct 08, 2017
Case 23 Hui-neng Neither Good Nor Evil
Oct 01, 2017
Three Steps Zen
Sep 24, 2017
Living by Vow
Sep 17, 2017
Dukkha
Aug 20, 2017
The Self-Centred Dream
Jun 25, 2017
The Hero's Journey Part Three
Jun 18, 2017
The Hero's Journey Part Two
Jun 11, 2017
The Hero's Journey Part One
Jun 04, 2017
Three Pillars of Practice
May 21, 2017
The Inner Critic
May 17, 2017
Dog Nature
May 07, 2017
The Zen Path Through Depression
Apr 17, 2017
Integration
Apr 09, 2017
Forgiveness
Apr 02, 2017
Meditation on Emotional Hurt Part 1: Acceptance
Apr 02, 2017
Stages of Practice
Mar 26, 2017
Meditation on Emotional Hurt Part 2: Forgiveness
Feb 26, 2017
Relational Zen Part One
Feb 05, 2017
Pleasure and Pain
Dec 18, 2016
The Buddhist Santa Claus
Dec 11, 2016
Motivation Part II
Nov 26, 2016
The Oak Tree in the Garden
Oct 23, 2016
Effort and Discipline
Oct 16, 2016
Walking The Razor's Edge
Oct 09, 2016
To thine own Self be true
Sep 11, 2016
To Thine Own Self Be True
Sep 11, 2016
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Sep 04, 2016
Precepts Part 2
Aug 28, 2016
Precepts Part 1
Aug 21, 2016
Death and Rebirth
Aug 14, 2016
Self Compassion
Aug 07, 2016
The Myth of Sisyphus
Jul 23, 2016
The Myth of Sisyphus
Jul 23, 2016
Ordinary Mind is the Way
Jul 10, 2016
Alchemy and Anger
Jun 26, 2016
Lost
Jun 19, 2016
Freedom from Suffering
May 29, 2016
Domestic Violence
May 22, 2016
No - Other
May 08, 2016
Reality
May 01, 2016
No - Self
Apr 24, 2016
Hakuin's Ode To Zazen
Apr 17, 2016
The Platypus And The Billabong
Mar 12, 2016
Decentering
Feb 27, 2016
The Guest House Part Two
Feb 21, 2016
Intelligent Suffering
Feb 13, 2016
Selfing
Feb 06, 2016
The Injured Self
Jan 24, 2016
Shame and the Self
Jan 16, 2016
May I Be Willing
Jan 09, 2016
Giving And Receiving
Dec 19, 2015
The Guest House
Nov 29, 2015
Polishing The Mirror
Oct 18, 2015
Zen And Psychotherapy
Oct 10, 2015
What Is The Purpose Of Zazen?
Aug 09, 2015
On Opening The Dharma
Jul 12, 2015
The Four Practice Principles
Mar 19, 2015
The Student-Teacher Relationship
Feb 26, 2015
Denkai Talk, Garrison Sesshin (New York Zendo)
Nov 15, 2014
Beyond Us And Them (New York Zendo)
Oct 04, 2014