Teisho and Dharma talks by date

Billy Wynne on The Precepts

Geoff Keeton on The Wumenguan case 47, Tou-shuai’s Three Barriers

Bill Hamaker on the Bodhisattva Kannon

Peggy Metta Sheehan on case 52 in Entangling Vines, Huanglong’s “sutra chanting”

Cathy Seizan Wright on Case 23 in the Mumonkan, Hui-neng: Think Neither Good Nor Evil.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on Case 32 in the Book of Equanimity, Yangshan’s Mind and Environment

Cathy Seizan Wright on Case 23 in the Gateless Barrier, Don’t Think Good, Don’t Think Bad.

Geoff Keeton on case 185 in the Shobogenzo, Nanquan’s Storehouse of the Mani Jewel

Merilee Schultheiss on Perfection

Geoff Keeton on case 176 in the Shobogenzo, Xuefeng’s “Thirst and Starvation”

Bill Hamaker on the life of Chan Master Hongzhi Zhengjue

Jim Long on some aspects of our practice that may not receive a lot of attention

Cathy Wright on case 82 in the Hekiganryoku, Ta Lung’s Hard and Fast Dharma Body of Reality

Geoff Keeton on the chapter of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Continuous Practice 2

Geoff Keeton on the chapter of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Continuous Practice 1

Karin Kempe on the subject of the student teacher relationship

Peggy Metta Roshi on a selection from Dogen’s Genjokoan

Karin Kempe on a selection from Dogen’s Genjokoan

Peggy Metta Roshi on a selection from Dogen’s Genjokoan

Karin Kempe on a selection from Dogen’s Genjokoan

Geoff Keeton on Dōgen and Bodhicitta

Cathy Wright on case 52 in the Hekiganryoku, Chao Chou’s Stone Bridge

Geoff Keeton on case 122 in The Shobogenzo, The Fire God Seeks Fire

Dennis Sienko on case 55 in the Blue Cliff Record, Alive or Dead

Geoff Keeton on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra

Karin Kempe on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers: East Mountain Walks on the Waters

Cathy Wright on case 41 in the Shobogenzo, Shitou’s Ask the Pillar

Dennis Sienko on case 6 in the Blue Cliff Record, Yun Men’s Every Day is a Good Day

Geoff Keeton on case 4 in The Transmission of the Light, Upagupta

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 6 in the Blue Cliff Record, Yun Men’s Every Day is a Good Day

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 18 in the Transmission of the Light, Sanghanandi to Jayashata, The Mind That Rings

Geoff Keeton on Case 16 in The Transmission of the Light, Nagarjuna to Kanadeva

Peggy Metta Roshi on case 3 in the Transmission of the Light, Mahaksyapa to Ananda; and, case 86 in the Blue Cliff Record, Yunmen’s Bright Light

Cathy Seizan Wright on case 1 in the Transmission of the Light, Shakyamuni Buddha Saw the Morning Star

Paige Noon on the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts

Peggy Metta Roshi on case 6 in the Gateless Barrier, The Buddha Holds up a Flower

Cathy Seizan Wright on “How do we not waste time in the day?”

Geoff Keeton on case 43 in The Blue Cliff Record, Dongshan’s No Cold or Heat

Geoff Keeton on case 40 in the Blue Cliff Record, Nan Ch’uan’s It’s Like a Dream

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the teachings of Master Hakuin

Billy Wynne on the many changes encountered along his own Zen path

Cathy Seizan Wright on case 96 in the Blue Cliff Record, Chao-Chou’s Three Turning Words

Geoff Keeton on case 13 in the Gateless Barrier, Deshan Nestles His Bowls

Michael Kieran Roshi on case 100 in the Record of Ease, Langye’s Mountains and Rivers

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 5 in the Gateless Barrier, Hsiang-yen’s Man Up a Tree

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the practice of lying down.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on the practice of walking.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the practice of standing.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on the practice of sitting.

Dennis Sienko on Letting Go

Peggy Metta Sheehan on case 30 in the Gateless Barrier, Ma Tsu’s “This very mind is Buddha.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 36 in The Blue Cliff Record, “Ch’ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains”

Geoff Keeton on Shikantaza

Dennis Sienko on Ta Hui’s Vow for Awakening

Cathy Wright on Case 12 in The Book of Equanimity

Karin Ryuku Kempe on Bassui’s question, “Who is the Master?”

Geoff Keeton on case 1 in The Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s Dog

Cathy Wright on case 21 in the Gateless Barrier.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on “Affirming Faith in Mind” by Seng-ts’an.

Dennis Sienko on motivation in practice.

Geoff Keeton on case 33 of the Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye), Caoshan’s Falling and Rising.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 45 in the Gateless Barrier, Wu-tsu’s “Who is that other?”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on part four of the Buddha’s journey (leaving home, searching, settling and awakening).

Peggy Metta Sheehan on part three of the Buddha’s journey, settling.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on part two of the four-part Buddha’s journey (leaving home, searching, settling, and awakening).

Peggy Metta Sheehan on the first of four aspects of the Buddha’s journey, leaving home, and verses 146-156 of the Dhammapada.

Judy Johansen on practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on samsara and liberation.

Merilee Schultheiss on hospice work and the practice of living and dying.

Joel Tagert on engaged Buddhism and the meaning of sangha.

Assistant teacher Dennis Sienko on intimacy with the animate and inanimate.

Assistant teacher Geoff Keeton on the transformative power of narrative.

Josh Mather on case 7 in the Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s “Wash your bowl.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on Vimalakirti’s “I am ill because the world is ill.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the true nature of wind.

Assistant teacher Cathy Wright on case 1 in the Gateless Barrier, “Chao-chou’s Mu.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the nature of perishing. Recorded at the ZCD’s summer sesshin at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on Tung-shan’s teaching and offering one’s life freely. Dedicated to Becky Wethington. Recorded at ZCD’s summer sesshin at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on Tung-shan’s teaching and blowing out the candle on conceptual thinking. Recorded at ZCD’s summer sesshin at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the wisdom of the inanimate. Recorded at ZCD’s summer sesshin at Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on “Stop the sound of the distant temple bell.”

Cathy Wright on case 17 of the Gateless Barrier, “The National Teacher Calls Three Times.”

Dennis Sienko on Christianity and Zen.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 37 of the Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s “Oak tree in the garden.”

Cathy Wright on case 5 in The Blue Cliff Record, “Seppo’s Grain of Rice.”

Dennis Sienko on the practice of just sitting and the question of who you are.

Bill Hamaker on the life and teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Joel Tagert on the wartime statements of Japanese Zen teachers, spiritual warriorship and the Middle Way.

Geoff Keeton on case 17 of The True Dharma Eye, “Xiangyan’s Great Enlightenment.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 86 in the Blue Cliff Record, Yunmen’s “Everyone has their own light.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the fourth of the Four Vows.

Peggy Metta Sheehan on the third of the Four Vows.

Cathy Wright on the second of the Four Vows.

Karin Ryuku Kempe on the first of the Four Vows.

Karin Roshi takes up case 1 in The Gateless Barrier, Chao-chou’s Mu.

Assistant teacher Bill Hamaker takes up Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, “A Universal Recommendation for Zazen.”

Dennis Sienko on case 33 in The Gateless Barrier, “Ma-tsu: Not Mind, Not Buddha.”

Karin Ryuku Kempe on case 4 in The Gateless Barrier, “Huo-an’s Beardless Barbarian.”

Peggy Metta Sheehan on trueing the wheel.

Cathy Wright on passing through the net.