Santa Cruz Zen Center: Recent Episodes

Santa Cruz Zen Center

Listen To Our Weekly Dharma Talk

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Susan Moon - Rylie’s Prayer

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Rev. Cathy Toldi - No Trace

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Rev. Rachel Grad - The Taming Power of the Small

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Hsuansha’s fish, Hsuansha’s pearl

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - The We of Me

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Rev. Cathy Toldi - Earth is our Body

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Rev. Sara McLellan - Turning Away from Greed, Hate, and Delusion and Embracing the Bodhisattva Path

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Life Being / Vivid Appearance

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Opening Plum Blossoms

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Dogen’s Plum Blossoms

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - The Pause for the Inward Reflection

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - loving kindness and the four Brahmaviharas

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - harmonious speech

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Buddha nature, nothing to gain

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Buddha nature

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - no beginning, no end

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - No Separation

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - My thoughts on immigration and trans-rights

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - No Abode

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - suchness is our daily life

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Buddha's enlightenment

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - wondrous embrace

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - it’s use removes all pains

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - You are not it, in truth it is you

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Not one, Not two

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Rev Max Swanger - A Zen Koan: Daowu’s Condolence Call

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Dongshan and Dogen Give Us Guidance About Election Results

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Rev. Rachel Grad - The Original Anti-Zombie Apocalypse Campaign

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Sesshin day 3, More on the Jewel Mirror

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Sesshin day 2, Suchness

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Sesshin day 1, Introduction to the Jewel Mirror Samadhi

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Rev. Edie Brown - Just this is it

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Onryu GD Kennedy - Things as they are - maybe

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Preview of Dongshan's Five Ranks

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Rev. Cathy Toldi - The Ache of Impermanence

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Rev. Rachel Grad - Zen Approaches to Fear — Sejiki, Halloween

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Wooden Man / Stone Woman

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Rev. Steve Palmisano - Honoring our Rock Ancestors: Imagination and Practice

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Rev. Rene Netter - Way-Seeking Mind

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Embodying Big Mind

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Rev. Sara McLellan - Freedom is here now

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Rev Edie Brown - True Intimacy

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - The Dharma of Diversity

Pride Parade Santa Cruz June 2024

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Embodying the Precepts

Rev. Netter, Rev. Teverbaugh and Rev. Palmisano

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Why We Put on These Robes

Rev. Netter, Rev. Teverbaugh and Rev. Palmisano

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Spiritual Friends: Sangha Practice

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Buddhas dance to exaulted music and blossoms on trees immediately open

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Steve Palmisano - Zen and Nature: Taking Refuge in the More-Than-Human World

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - What is the meaning of Spring? Day One Buddha’s Birthday Sesshin

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Invitation to Buddha’s birthday sesshin and closing of the practice

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Rev. Neti Parech - Fragile Life

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Sara McLellan - Intensive Training at Green Gulch Farm and the Bodhisattva Path

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Rev. Rachel Grad - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Meets Zen

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Radiant Light of the Self

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Rev. Cathy Toldi - Arousing Practice in the Midst of Delusion

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Buddha's Parinirvana

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - tripping throug the Buddhaverse

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - tripping through the Buddhaverse

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Valentines Day: Buddha Nature is Love

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Heart Sutra Arising

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - saying yes

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Kezan/Setcho Chikan

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Keizan-Seigan Gyoshi

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Keizan-Prajnatara

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Rohatsu Day 4 - Keizan/Vasubandhu

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Rev. Patrick Teverbaugh - Keizan/Haklenayashas

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Trusting the true self, why we sit Rohatsu

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A Bodhisattva's Trust

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Labyrinth

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Make the Dark Night Bright

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Reparative Justice

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Onryu G. D. Kennedy

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My Teacher’s Teabowl

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the big picture mind

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moonlight swallows moonlight

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Practice engages us with life.

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Twining Vines II

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Twining Vines

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Pursuing the truth and beating the drum

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The path is the heart.

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Taking Refuge in Sangha

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Transmission

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Cultivating Joyful Mind

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The Mind of Not Knowing

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Dogen’s thoughts on Spring, from his Extensive Record 3

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Dogen’s thoughts on Spring, from his Extensive Record 2

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Dogen’s thoughts on Spring, from his Extensive Record 1

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You don’t have to be good.

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A Bigger Perspective

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Ecosattva Chaplaincy as a Practice

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The Precepts are Our Body

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Embodying the Precepts

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The taste of the entire sky.

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Resolute Stability

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The ancestor's household is our house.

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The unity of the Dharma teaching of sentient beings and the Dharma teaching of insentient beings

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The Dream that Wakes You Up.

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Light pours into light.

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Angry birds - our Ancient, Twisted Karma.

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Two hands clapping.

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The heart of sesshin.

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Gracias a la Vida

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The Non-dual, Where is that?

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Vimalakirti's Great Compassion

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Are you on Fire?

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Eager Faith, Confident Faith

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To Study the Self

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Eager Faith, Confident Faith

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Beyond Walls of the Mind

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Sangha Treasure

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Then Just Return

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Sangha Treasure

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Trust, Inquiry and Devotion

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The Tempest Another Dance with the Absolute and the Particular

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Practice of the Wild

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Katherine's Ordinary Way

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The Dance of Seeming Opposites

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Cool Your Mind

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Confluence

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Compassion arises when we realize our shared reality.

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The Fourth Method of Guidance - Identity Action

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The Joy of Your Own True Nature

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Reflection on Uvalde

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The Roots of Beneficial Action

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Turning the Dharma Wheel, Dogen's Temborin

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Practice Intensive Green Gulch Farm

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The Heart of Practice

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Giving Expresses Bodhicitta

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Only a Buddha with a Buddha #4

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Only a Buddha with a Buddha #3

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Only a Buddha with a Buddha #2

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Only a Buddha with a Buddha #1

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Stepping Off the 100 foot Pole

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Fully Meeting and Being Met

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Deep Listening

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Open-hearted Devotion

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Willing to be this moment, a teaching from Katherine

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Rachels Way Seeking Mind Talk - Priest Edition

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Ocean Mudra Samadhi

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Tribute to Thich Nhat Hahn

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Miracles

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Buddhism Enlightenment 3 (Rohatsu)

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Co-Creating Practice

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Buddhism Enlightenment 3 (Rohatsu)

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Buddhism Enlightenment 2 (Rohatsu)

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Buddhism Enlightenment 1 (Rohatsu)

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The Times They Are A' Changin'

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Three Mountains

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Bodhicitta

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Nourishing Our Hungry Ghosts

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Cause And Effect

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The We Of Me

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Study The Narrative

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No Treats Or Discounts

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Applying The Deep Time Practice Of Joanna Macy

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Presencing and Bringing Life to Life

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Four Gateways Into The Practice Of Zen Forms

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Sewing As Part Of Community Life

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The Mountains Flowing, The Flowing Mountains

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Spirit of Repetition

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Beyond Saying Yes, Being Yes

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Holding No Preferences

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Radical Attention

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First Foundation of Mindfulness

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You Are Perfect Just The Way You Are

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Dharma Blossoms Turn Dharma Blossoms

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Dharma Transmission

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Zen Ritual Zen Ethics

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May We Gather

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Solitary Retreat

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Dogen's 'Awakening Enlightened Mind'

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New Life

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Genjo Koan 3: Study Self, Forget Self

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Nanchuan Kills The Cat

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Dogen: Refrain From Evil

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Dogen: Refrain From Evil

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Genjo Koan 2: Buddhas Study Delusion

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The Celebration of Buddha's Parinirvana

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Confluence of Many and One

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Cool Your Mind

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Genjo Koan, 1: Both Equality and Particularity

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Samantabhadra, MLK, and the Inauguration

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Every Day Is A Good Day

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Buddha’s Four Watches of the Night

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A Look At Our Enlightened Nature

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The Pure and Simple Color of Practice

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Daowu Tends The Sick

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"Not Personal, Permanent, or Perfect"

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Hungry Ghosts

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The Physiology of the Present

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Mind Training

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Consciousness

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Mind-Moon and Sangha Practice

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The Pure and Simple Color of Practice

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Hidden Stones

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Self Fulfilling and 'Enjoying' Samadhi

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Bodhisattva Practice: Facing Fear

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No One Is Binding Me

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Generosity

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We are One Buddha and One Ancestor

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Don't stop at the bullseye. Keep going!

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It’s So Easy to Fall in Love

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Fearless Bodhisattvas

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6 Paramitas = Love

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Katherine Thanas Eighth Year Memorial Day Sit, Dharma Sharing Circle

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Dharma Is Good Medicine

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Outrageous Openness

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Joy, Pleasure, Happiness

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Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

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For The Common Good

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These Bardo Days

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Alone, Together

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Effortlessness and Ease and Buddha's Birthday

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Up a Tree Hanging by our Teeth

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Dogen's Moon in the Time of the Virus

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Alone, Together

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Metta Sutta, An Antidote To Privilege

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Acceptance Is Reality

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Types of Liberation in the Enneagram

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Exploring Form and Emptiness

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Lotus Sutra's Life Span of the Tathagata - Sesshin Day 3

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Lotus Sutra's Life Span of the Tathagata - Sesshin Day 2

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Lotus Sutra's Life Span of the Tathagata - Sesshin Day 1

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Buddha's Parinirvana

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108 Delusions

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Linji's True Person of No Position (Book of Serenity, case 38)

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The Sound of the Bell

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Letting Go

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Why We Are At War

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Turning Words

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 7

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 6

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 5

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 4

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 3

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo) - Sesshin Day 2

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Great Awakening for Buddha and Dogen (Daigo)

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Nanquan's Flower in a Dream (Book of Serenity, case 91)

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Teachings on Not-Self and True Self in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, class 6