Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Dharma Talks

By Ancient Dragon Zen Gate

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Dharma talks on Zen meditation and practice by members of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate.

Episode Date
Dogen’s Extensive Record and American History
May 31, 2026
Shuso: Leadership as a caring practice
May 17, 2026
Thoroughly Ragged Practice
May 10, 2026
Shuso Talk 3: The Koan of Don’t Know
May 03, 2026
Buddhist Practices of Compassion and Resonant Care
Apr 26, 2026
Shuso Talk #2: On Zazen
Apr 19, 2026
Equanimity and Transition
Apr 12, 2026
Practices That Flower Into Garlands of Beneficial Blessings
Apr 05, 2026
Merit, Bodhisattvas, and the Enmei Juku Kannon Gyo
Mar 29, 2026
Fundamentally Zazen is a Caring Practice
Mar 22, 2026
Practice Commitment: Closing The Gates
Mar 15, 2026
David Chadwick and Suzuki Roshi’s Lineage
Mar 08, 2026
Zhaozhou Meets Two Hermits
Feb 22, 2026
Encouragement to Practice Completely
Feb 15, 2026
What Do You Call the World?
Feb 08, 2026
Rigidity and Self-Delusion in Practice
Feb 01, 2026
Considering the Activities of Zazen
Jan 25, 2026
Zhaozhou’s Wash Your Bowl
Jan 18, 2026
Appropriate Response
Jan 11, 2026
Tanto Talk
Jan 04, 2026
Unpacking the Heart Sutra
Dec 14, 2025
Rohatsu sesshin – Day 5 – Tenzo Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Dec 07, 2025
Rohatsu sesshin – Day 4 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Dec 06, 2025
Rohatsu sesshin – Day 3 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Dec 06, 2025
Rohatsu sesshin – Day 2 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Dec 05, 2025
Rohatsu sesshin – Day 1 – Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Dec 04, 2025
Bendowa – Embracing Dogen’s Endeavor of the Way
Nov 23, 2025
Dragon-bodhisattvas Practicing the Precepts
Nov 09, 2025
Priest Ordination
Nov 02, 2025
Huayan and Zen Precepts
Oct 19, 2025
The Changing Role of the Precepts in Soto Zen Practice
Oct 12, 2025
Sejiki Ceremony Preview
Oct 05, 2025
Upagupta – Part II, Using The Ground To Get Up
Sep 28, 2025
Dragons report on the Branching Streams Gathering
Sep 21, 2025
The Spiral That Reconnects
Sep 14, 2025
Upagupta Part 1 – Are You Leaving Home Physically or Mentally?
Aug 25, 2025
Beginning the Bodhisattva Path and Generosity
Aug 17, 2025
Opening To Big Mind
Aug 10, 2025
Generosity That Goes Beyond
Aug 03, 2025
Nanquan Points At A Peony
Jul 27, 2025
Patience Paramita
Jul 20, 2025
Scholar Talk: Dependent Arising and Why Everything Matters
Jul 13, 2025
We Reflect On The Effort….All Beings Support Each Other
Jul 06, 2025
The 2nd Paramita,“Ethical Conduct”
Jun 29, 2025
Great teacher Issan’s skillful means
Jun 22, 2025
Not one not two: Sangha Strength
Jun 21, 2025
Ancestors convey how to answer a call
Jun 15, 2025
Practice Period: Continuing Effort Without Desire
May 18, 2025
Practicing with Joko Beck in the 1990s
May 13, 2025
Suffering and skillful means
May 11, 2025
Emperor Wu Meets Bodhidharma Face-to-Face
May 04, 2025
This is not a Tanto Talk
Apr 29, 2025
Great Ancestor Darlene Cohen takes on suffering
Apr 27, 2025
Blanche Hartman: Willing to be just this one
Apr 20, 2025
The Two Truths – The Practice Realization of Zazen
Apr 13, 2025
Blanche Hartman and the effort of daffodils
Apr 06, 2025
Joko Beck’s Compassion arising and melting reactivity
Mar 30, 2025
Practice Period 2025 – Joko Beck
Mar 23, 2025
Dongshan and the Five Positions
Mar 16, 2025
Deep Listening
Mar 09, 2025
Genjokoan
Mar 02, 2025
Zazen and the Hamster Wheel
Feb 23, 2025
Parinirvana Day
Feb 16, 2025
Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi
Feb 09, 2025
Caring with the Breath
Feb 02, 2025
Moving with the Breath
Jan 26, 2025
Reflecting on 50 Years of Zazen
Jan 19, 2025
Breathing into the new year
Jan 05, 2025
Remembering Abbot Hozan Alan Senauke
Dec 23, 2024
Composure
Dec 22, 2024
Shakyamuni Sees the Morning Star
Dec 15, 2024
Awakening under a tree
Dec 08, 2024
Mending rips and tears
Dec 01, 2024
Dogen’s Painting of a Rice Cake
Nov 24, 2024
Returning to the ground of this moment
Nov 10, 2024
Compassion and boundless ambiguity
Nov 03, 2024
Consistent Practice
Oct 20, 2024
Wrap-up of Dogen’s Expressing the Dream Within the Dream Seminar
Oct 13, 2024
The Dharma of Welcoming
Oct 06, 2024
Delight in the difficulty of practice!
Sep 29, 2024
The bodhisattva precept ceremony (jukai) as community harvest
Sep 22, 2024
In Anticipation of Jukai
Sep 15, 2024
Reflections on the Five Remembrances
Sep 08, 2024
Shanavasa – A Teacher Disciple Dialogue
Aug 25, 2024
Engaged Buddhism
Aug 18, 2024
Bring Me the Rhinoceros
Aug 11, 2024
Gassho: Joining palms is dynamic bodhisattva activity
Aug 04, 2024
You Are Here
Jul 28, 2024
Releasing the compassion body, planting the treasure seed
Jul 21, 2024
Ordinary Mind Is the Way
Jul 14, 2024
Maylie Scott’s Prayer to Guide the Bodhisattva’s Response
Jul 07, 2024
The Equal Ground of Zazen
Jun 23, 2024
Responding to the Request of the Present Moment
Jun 16, 2024
Guiding Teacher Transition Ceremony – hogetsu
Jun 09, 2024
Guiding Teacher Transition Ceremony – Taigen
Jun 09, 2024
Now, What?
Jun 02, 2024
Peeking Behind the Facade Seeking the Source
May 28, 2024
Taigen Leighton Final Dharma Talk (as guiding teacher)
May 26, 2024
Hongzhi and the Mysterious Pivot
May 19, 2024
Hongzhi and Meditation on Space (and Time)
May 18, 2024