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New podcasts every Tues, Thurs and Sat. Here you can find talks from various teachers involved with the Zen Community of Oregon. We share talks from our retreats, as well as our different weekly offerings between Great Vow Zen Monastery and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. Zen Community of Oregon's purpose is to express and make accessible the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha’s teachings, as transmitted through an authentic, historical lineage. To support and maintain Zen Buddhist practice in order to realize and actualize our Buddha nature in everyday life. For more information, please visit zendust.org.

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Keeping the Flame Burning - Bansho Green, Sensei

2026/11/10

Bansho explores bodhicitta—the awakening heart and the aspiration to awaken for the benefit of all beings—as the sustaining force of Zen practice. Through the interplay of wisdom and compassion, Bansho invites us to see through the illusion of separation and carry our practice into everyday life, meeting each moment and each person with an open, awakening heart. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Three Pillows of Zen - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher

2026/11/05

Shonin explores three interconnected aspects of Zen practice through teachings from Maezumi Roshi: samadhi, forgetting the self, and actualization. With the image of three soft pillows, the talk offers an encouraging view of practice as a gradual process of settling the mind, becoming absorbed in life as it unfolds, and allowing the Dharma to express itself naturally in how we live. ★ Support this podcast ★

The World Is More Than We Imagine - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher

2026/11/03

Jomon explores the Diamond Sutra and its invitation to loosen our grip on fixed ideas about ourselves and the world. Through the simple example of a cup of tea, stories of Zen teachers, and reflections on habitual thought, Jomon invites us to meet life with curiosity, humility, and a willingness to let go of what we think we know. ★ Support this podcast ★

A Mind Open to Wonder - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

2026/10/29

Jogen explores how Zen practice can restore our capacity for wonder and gratitude, even amid life’s difficulties and disappointments. Through meditation and inquiry inspired by the Diamond Sutra, he introduces samadhi (steady, open awareness) and prajna (insight) as ways to loosen habitual patterns of thought and experience the world with fresh eyes. ★ Support this podcast ★

Chanting Our Way to Wholeness - Hogen Roshi

2026/10/27

Hogen explores how chanting the Buddha’s name can loosen our sense of separation and help us reconnect with the fullness of our experience. Through wholehearted practice, we gradually awaken parts of ourselves that have been buried or excluded, finding greater clarity, compassion, and intimacy with the world around us. ★ Support this podcast ★

Awakening Is Already Here - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher

2026/10/23

This talk explores stories of awakening from Japanese women Zen practitioners, showing how moments of insight can reveal the Buddha nature present in all of life. Through the koan Mu, the oxherding pictures, and Dogen’s teachings, Shonin reminds us that practice is not about chasing a special experience, but about returning to this moment again and again until our whole lives become the practice. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Crucible of Practice - Bansho Green, Sensei

2026/10/21

Bansho explores Zen practice through the image of fire, which can both destroy and transform, forging us through the challenges of being human. Drawing on Dogen’s teachings, he invites us to meet grief, anger, change, and uncertainty with intimacy rather than trying to escape them, and to listen for the Dharma within our own experience. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Teachings of Dipa Ma - Shonin Ashton, Zen Teacher

2026/10/13

Dipa Ma’s life offers a powerful example of how meditation can transform suffering into concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. Drawing on her teachings, this talk explores the importance of committing to a practice, meeting difficulties with patience, letting go of the stories we tell ourselves, and discovering that awakening is possible in any circumstance. Her journey reminds us that the ancient way is always available, right here in the midst of our everyday lives. ★ Support this podcast ★

Karma and Freedom - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

2026/10/07

Jogen continues his exploration of karma, focusing on how habitual actions and desires can shape our lives and lead us away from ultimate peace. He explores atonement, the cultivation of skillful actions, and ultimately the possibility of becoming free from karmic patterns by resting in awareness and responding from a deeper place of choice. ★ Support this podcast ★

Patience In Practice - Bansho Green, Sensei

2026/10/05

Bansho explores patience as one of the six paramitas, a practice that helps us meet ourselves, others, and the changing circumstances of life with presence and curiosity. Through meditation and everyday relationships, patience becomes less about waiting for things to change and more about learning to respond with wisdom, compassion, and steadiness. ★ Support this podcast ★

The Shape of Karma - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

2026/10/01

Jogen explores karma as the ongoing relationship between our actions, habits, and experience, emphasizing that practice gives us freedom in how we respond to the results of past actions. Drawing on the Buddha’s teachings, including the Salt Crystal Sutta, he invites us to meet difficult patterns with greater awareness, spaciousness, and curiosity. ★ Support this podcast ★

Don't Expect Applause - Bansho Sensei

2026/09/21

Threaded through this talk by Bansho Sensei is the tension between wanting recognition for helping others and the practice of "not expecting applause." It frames true generosity as releasing the need to be thanked or acknowledged. It distinguishes ordinary impatience (wanting the red light to change) from a deeper "Dharma patience" of truly being with others and with our own discomfort. ★ Support this podcast ★

Give Life to Life - Hogen Roshi

2026/09/21

Centered on the idea of "futuring" or craving, this talk by Hogen Roshi examines how the mind actively shapes an infinite, formless world into a narrow personal story through wanting. It suggests liberation comes from noticing this shaping process rather than being unconsciously driven by it. ★ Support this podcast ★

Slipping Beneath the Difficulty - Hogen Roshi

2026/09/21

This talk by Hogen Roshi explores craving as the mind's habitual grasping — "I want, I want" — and how it quietly generates most of our dissatisfaction. It contrasts two retreat experiences, agony and freedom, to show that both can lead to the same insight once we stop resisting and sink beneath the thought. ★ Support this podcast ★

Avoiding Foolish Ways - Hogen Roshi

2026/09/21

This talk by Hogen Roshi unpacks a traditional chant on "blessings" by redefining the word away from divine reward and toward human capacity. It centers on discernment — recognizing foolish paths to happiness versus wise ones — and treats association with wisdom as something actively built, not passively found. ★ Support this podcast ★

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lost_in_the_zendo 2025/11/18

Great Talks From Integral Teachers

These are great dharma talks from weekly meditation sits and sesshins (silent long meditation retreats). All the teachers have something different to ...

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Transcendental Snail 2024/11/17

Smiling

Kisei Sensei’s recent talk on impermanence has knocked me off my stool—in a good way. I feel challenged and befriended. Thank you.

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listenr8 2020/08/26

Timely and timeless Dharma teachings for today’s world

Deep gratitude for the Zen Community of Oregon teachers and the deep practice their talks reflect. May the elixir of these Dharma teachings be a benef...

★★★★★

Ch!n Mus!c 2015/12/30

Great Dharma Talks!

These are recording of Dharma Talks given at Great Vow Zen Monastery and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple by Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi and Zen Teacher Hogen Ba...

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