Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Dharma Talks

By Taigen Dan Leighton

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Dharma talks on Zen meditation and practice by Taigen Dan Leighton and other members of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate.

Episode Date
Graciously Share Yourself and the Genuine Field
Apr 30, 2024
Hongzhi’s mutual response, Gaza and student encampments
Apr 28, 2024
Romp and Play in Samadhi, part 2
Apr 23, 2024
Romp and Play in Samadhi
Apr 21, 2024
Guidepost to Silent Illumination
Apr 16, 2024
Hongzhi and Wansong Soto Lineage Contexts
Apr 14, 2024
The Ancestors and History of the Future
Apr 09, 2024
Hongzhi and the Baby Buddha
Apr 07, 2024
More on the Buddha Work
Apr 02, 2024
Hongzhi and the Buddha Work
Mar 31, 2024
The Ground Sages Cannot Transmit
Mar 26, 2024
Hongzhi’s Deep Source and Practice of True Reality
Mar 24, 2024
Preview of Hongzhi and our Practice Period
Mar 19, 2024
Women Wielding Liberative Power
Mar 17, 2024
Journey of Practice
Mar 12, 2024
Bodhidharma’s Outline of Practice
Mar 10, 2024
Precepts as Imposter Repentance
Mar 05, 2024
Awakening with Zen Forms
Mar 03, 2024
What is This Place? How Can We Live Here?
Feb 25, 2024
Parinirvana
Feb 20, 2024
Zazen
Feb 18, 2024
8137: An Exercise in Beginner’s Mind
Feb 13, 2024
Keizan Zenji: Understanding Continuity
Feb 11, 2024
Anxiety, Thought Loops, and Zazen
Feb 06, 2024
Practicing with Anger
Feb 04, 2024
Meditation is Boring
Jan 30, 2024
Zazen, Awakening and Interbeing
Jan 28, 2024
Generosity
Jan 23, 2024
Dr. Martin Luther King’s Message and Gaza
Jan 14, 2024
Dharmakaya Practice and Spiritual Bypass
Jan 07, 2024
Zen Caring and Healing
Dec 19, 2023
Peace and Metta service
Dec 17, 2023
The Taste of Karma: Zazen as formless repentance
Dec 12, 2023
Rohatsu Day 5 – Radiance as Creative Energy
Dec 10, 2023
Rohatsu Day 4 – Not Realizing the Radiance
Dec 09, 2023
Rohatsu Day 3 – Buddha Awakening
Dec 08, 2023
The Nature of Self Control when there is No Self
Dec 05, 2023
The Flower Ornament Background of our Soto Treasury of Radiance Samadhi
Dec 03, 2023
Gratefulness and Generosity
Nov 26, 2023
Thinking in Practice and the Sixth Ancestor
Nov 21, 2023
Appearing appears- attachment and fear
Nov 14, 2023
Returning to Our Senses
Nov 12, 2023
Memorials and Teachers
Nov 07, 2023
Truth and the Teacher
Nov 05, 2023
Sangha and Energy
Oct 31, 2023
Bumping into Yourself
Oct 24, 2023
Excerpts from Dogen’s Extensive Record
Oct 22, 2023
Journey of Meditation Through Pain
Oct 17, 2023
Way Seeking Mind and Tenzo Mind
Oct 10, 2023
Expressing Zazen in Everyday Life
Oct 08, 2023
Being a White Sox Fan as a Dharma Gate
Oct 03, 2023
Dogen’s Extensive Record- Radiance, Intimacy, and respecting Causality
Oct 01, 2023
Sangha and Spiritual friends
Sep 26, 2023
Song of the Grass Hut = Practice Space
Sep 24, 2023
Journey to Practice via Addiction and Homelessness
Sep 19, 2023
Chinese Capping Phrases to the Harmony of Difference and Sameness
Sep 17, 2023
Introduction to the Harmony of Difference and Sameness
Sep 12, 2023
Reflections on Dharma Transmission: Mahakasyapa and Ananda
Sep 10, 2023
Objectless Meditation and Serene Illumination
Sep 05, 2023
Eyesight During Zazen
Sep 03, 2023
Living in Buddha’s Body
Aug 29, 2023
Seeds: Reflections of a Zen Botanist
Aug 27, 2023
Sangha
Aug 22, 2023
Core Soto Zen
Aug 15, 2023
American Householder Zen
Aug 13, 2023
Shivering Scarecrow: Parenting, Karma, and Self-effacement
Aug 08, 2023
Hiroshima Day and Dogen’s Repentance Practice
Aug 06, 2023
Buddha Work and the Ancestors: Teachings of Hongzhi
Aug 01, 2023
Buddhahood Conceivable and Inconceivable
Jul 30, 2023
Zazen and Compassion
Jul 25, 2023
Visiting Tassajara
Jul 23, 2023
Going to Pieces without falling apart
Jul 18, 2023
Memorial Service for Katsuryu David Hill
Jul 16, 2023
Right Livelihood for our time
Jul 16, 2023
The Zazen of Non-attachment
Jul 11, 2023
Gates and Buildings
Jul 09, 2023
The Corrosive Fantasy of Control
Jul 04, 2023
Interdependence Day and the Current State of Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Jul 02, 2023
Stories that Restore
Jun 27, 2023
Case 16 Gateless Gate: When the Bell Sounds
Jun 25, 2023
Taking Refuge and the Precepts
Jun 18, 2023
Celebrating the Avatamsaka Sutra
Jun 13, 2023
Yunmen’s Every Day Is a Good Day
Jun 06, 2023
Keeping the dharma fresh: Encouragement from Suzuki-roshi
Jun 04, 2023
In the Shade of a Beautiful Flower
May 30, 2023
The Three Refuges and Refugees
May 28, 2023
Sangha renewal with Practice Period and sesshin
May 23, 2023
Sesshin day 3: Bodhisattvas’ Four Integrative Dharmas
May 21, 2023
Sesshin day 2: The Buddha Work
May 20, 2023
Sesshin day 1: Bodhisattva Inconceivable practice
May 19, 2023
Fragrant Teaching and Incarnated Beings
May 16, 2023
Buddha Fields, Zazen, and Quantum Entanglement
May 14, 2023
The Practice of Birds /Gary Snyder’s Birthday
May 09, 2023
Inconceivably Awakening
May 07, 2023
Zen Koans about Vimalakirti’s Silence
May 02, 2023
The Family of Tathagatas and a bodhisattva song
Apr 30, 2023
The Dharma Door of Nonduality
Apr 25, 2023
Earth Day and the Family of Buddhas
Apr 23, 2023
Vimakakirti’s Goddess friend and Gender Non-discrimination
Apr 18, 2023
The Goddess of Freedom in the Vimalakirti Sutra
Apr 16, 2023