Podcast
The Living Zen Podcast
Dharma talks exploring Zen practice, awakening, and how to bring clarity and compassion into daily life.
- Buddhism chart
- #145
- Episodes
- 40
- Releases
- Every few months
- Typical length
- 41 min
- On air since
- 2017
- Latest episode
- 6 days ago
Episodes
40 episodes, newest first
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39 min
Nothing Special
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Explores Nansen and Joshu’s classic interaction: “Ordinary Mind is the Way.”
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30 min
The Well Sees the Donkey
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From An Evening of Zen at Long Beach Meditation.
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34 min
Hand Me the Cushion
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From Meditation as Refuge, an online evening with the Insight Community of the Desert, August 2026. A talk on Case 20 of the Blue Cliff Record.
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35 min
The Three Pure Precepts
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From the March 2025 7-Day Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
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34 min
A Thousand Buddhas Don’t Know
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From the October 2022 Long Beach Meditation “Mountain Refuge Retreat”
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32 min
Awareness is the Root Experience of All
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The Blue Cliff Record, Case 40, from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.
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37 min
As You Are. Here. Now.
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Case 1 of the Gateless Gate: “Ordinary Mind is the Way” from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.
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51 min
The Essential Practice of Just Sitting
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Case 1 from the Book of Equanimity “The World Honored One Ascends the Platform” from the May 2025 sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
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45 min
Pointing to the Human Mind
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From the September 2024 7-Day Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
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41 min
Trust Your Heart
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Return to What is Most Vital
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47 min
The Heart of the Matter
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From the Summer 2023 Beginner’s Mind Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
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34 min
This Mysterious Life
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From Beginner’s Mind Sesshin, January 2023
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45 min
The One Behind the Name
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You have to break through to this.
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49 min
The Three Essentials
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Great faith, great doubt, and great determination are considered to be three essentials for Zen practice. If any of these essentials are absent, we may not accomplish our aim.
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34 min
Call and Response
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Yes!
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49 min
The Meaning Finds You
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How can it be understood?
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44 min
How to do Nothing
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Doing nothing can be surprisingly difficult.
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43 min
Feeling the Heat
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The Practice of Active Acceptance.
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41 min
Searching for the Mind
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Exploring the island.
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43 min
The Exploration of Self Nature
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Leaping Clear of the Many and the One.
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