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A collection of dharma talks by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Guiding Teacher at Ocean Mind Sangha.
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Ignorance vs. Love
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: An Introduction to Dependent Origination
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Fusatsu: On Karma and Choice
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Faith in Zen
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2025)
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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The Eight Worldly Winds
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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What is Mind?
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The Contemplative Life
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Past Actions, Present Karma (Diamond Sutra)
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May 15, 2025 |
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Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Four Opponent Powers (Atonement Practice)
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May 04, 2025 |
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The Unmaker of Measurement: Fusatsu Talk
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Silent Illumination: Shikantaza
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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When No Thing Works | Buddhist Practice in Crisis
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The Practice of Togetherness
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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A Particular Kind of Joy
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Shikantaza: Open Awareness
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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A Satisfying Life
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Fusatsu Talk: Walking on the Ground of Reality
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Fall 2024 Ango Entering Ceremony
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Eight Ways of Cultivating Loving-kindness
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Loving-kindness As Our Ground
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Merit of Giving
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Sound of the Bell: The Why Behind Things
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Noble Silence: Zazen
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Learn to Be Satisfied: The Second Bodhisattva Vow Redux
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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On Living by Vow
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May 08, 2024 |
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Saving All Sentient Beings: The First Bodhisattva Vow Redux
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May 04, 2024 |
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Attaining the Buddha Way: The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow Redux
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Mastering the Dharmas: The Third Vow Redux
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Sloth and Torpor
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Restlessness and Worry
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Buddha's Enlightenment
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Simplicity
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The Practice of Gratitude
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Seeing Perfection: Not Speaking of Others
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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An Amazement: Practicing with Climate Change
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Wanting the Unwanted: Entering Ango
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2023)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Coming Home
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May 17, 2023 |
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Eight Ways of Looking at Dharma
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Nuts and Bolts of Letting Go
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Death by Distraction; Life by Attention
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Good Enough Faith
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Beyond Fear and Dread
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Oryoki (The Wild, Insistent Hunger) • Zazenkai Talk
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Buddha's Enlightenment (We Must Have Done Something Right)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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I Am Life Entire
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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What I Speak about when I Speak about Love
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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From Obstruction to Gate
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Instructions on Not Giving Up (aka SWITCH)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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How to Be a Noble Friend
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2022)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Working with Loneliness
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Mu: The Ungraspable
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Jun 11, 2022 |
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Sacred Food
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May 17, 2022 |
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Study Session 5: Opening the Hand of Thought
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Liberation Within
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Stand on Your Own Two Feet
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Loving What Is Rightfully Ours
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Creating the World
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Study Session 2: Opening the Hand of Thought
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Unstoppable
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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The Unbinding
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Precepts: Taking Refuge
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Understanding the I
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Treasure
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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The Love Between Parent and Child
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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You Can’t Be Yourself by Yourself
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Working with Fear
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Shikantaza
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Devotion
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Power of Bow
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Understanding Our Mind, Study Session
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Transitions
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VIII): Burning
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VII): Living Simply
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VI): Practicing the Pandemic
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (V): Listen to Bring Joy
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm
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May 27, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (III): the Searching Mind
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May 19, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (II): Desires
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May 13, 2021 |
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Eight Realizations of Great Beings (I): Impermanence
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May 06, 2021 |
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A Threaded Talk on Impermanence
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Journey to Awakening
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Possibility
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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The World Belongs to Those Who Love It
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Papañca: Proliferation
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Awash with Joy
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Being Nowhere
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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On Loving-Kindness
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Love as Prime Mover
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Still Running • Interview with Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Opening into Reality
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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On Mindfulness • Interview
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Not Leaving the Monastery
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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Pilgrimage
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Daring to Ask: Gateless Gate, Case 31, Zhaozhou Saw Through the Old Woman
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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Sacred Space
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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Prajna Paramita: The Mother of All Buddhas
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Mysticism
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Aug 25, 2018 |
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Mind at Ease II: Self-liberation
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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Mind at Ease I: Gateless Gate, Case 41, Bodhidharma’s Ease of Mind
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Aug 04, 2018 |
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Great Determination: Three Essentials of Zen
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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Great Doubt: The Three Essentials of Zen
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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Great Faith: Three Essentials of Zen
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
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May 26, 2018 |
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Studying The Way with the Body
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Apr 28, 2018 |
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Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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After No Comes Yes
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Mar 31, 2018 |
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Eight Conditions for Wisdom
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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Free Will and Karma
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Jan 27, 2018 |
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The Incalculable
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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The Gift of Fearlessness
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Dec 17, 2017 |
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Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part Two
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part 1
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Waking
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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The Call to Contemplation
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Sep 30, 2017 |
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The Power of Zazen
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Sep 10, 2017 |
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Silence
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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Cultivating Wisdom
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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Avoiding Idle Talk
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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Not Forgetting Right Thought
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Jul 09, 2017 |
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Practicing Samadhi
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Exerting Meticulous Effort
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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Equanimity: Enjoying Serenity and Tranquility
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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Knowing How to Be Satisfied
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Apr 26, 2017 |
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Having Few Desires
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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The Eight Awarenesses of Enlightened Beings
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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Human Action
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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The Way of Stillness and Silence
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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Sympathetic Joy (Four Immeasurables)
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Dec 28, 2016 |
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Equanimity (Four Immeasurables)
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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I Arise Today
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Nov 05, 2016 |
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Compassion (Four Immeasurables)
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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Lovingkindness (Four Immeasurables)
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 2
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Aug 07, 2016 |
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The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 1
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Jul 30, 2016 |
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The Third Bodhisattva Vow
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Jul 24, 2016 |
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The Second Bodhisattva Vow: Seeing Desire
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Jun 19, 2016 |
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The First Bodhisattva Vow
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Jun 04, 2016 |
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The Four Bodhisattva Vows
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Mar 27, 2016 |
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Giving Paramita
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Mar 13, 2016 |
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Truthfulness Paramita
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Feb 28, 2016 |
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Lovingkindness Paramita
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Jan 31, 2016 |
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Equanimity Paramita
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Jan 17, 2016 |
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The Five Remembrances
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Jan 10, 2016 |
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Determination Paramita
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Jan 09, 2016 |
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Wisdom Paramita
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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Diligence Paramita
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Dec 12, 2015 |
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Meditation Paramita
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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Renunciation Paramita
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Nov 14, 2015 |
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What You Hold, May You Always Hold
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Oct 23, 2015 |
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Virtue Paramita
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Oct 18, 2015 |
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Patience Paramita
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Sep 25, 2015 |
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Right Concentration
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Sep 02, 2015 |
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Right Mindfulness
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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Right Action
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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Right Livelihood
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Jun 07, 2015 |
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Right Speech
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Right View
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Apr 25, 2015 |
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Becoming Whole
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Mar 29, 2015 |
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Deeply Understand Yourself
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Feb 15, 2015 |
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Jan 18, 2015 |