Dharma Talks

A Dharma talk is a public discourse on Buddhism given by a Zen Buddhist teacher. Our Dharma Talks are available here and in your favorite podcast app.

Melissa Blacker – Plumb Blossoms Bring the Spring

March 2, 2026

David Rynick – Nature of the Myriad Things

February 20, 2026

Melissa Blacker – How Shall We Live?

February 18, 2026

Melissa Blacker – Buddha Touches the Ground

February 10, 2026

Alan Richardson – Koan Practice

February 9, 2026

Melissa Blacker – The Sense-Realm Itself is Enlightenment

January 28, 2026

David Rynick – Obey the True Nature of Things

January 27, 2026

David Rynick – The Teaching of Karma

January 13, 2026

Melissa Blacker – Avow and Repent

December 30, 2025

David Rynick – This Fleeting World

December 29, 2025

David Rynick – The Truth is Hard to Discover

December 24, 2025

Alan Richardson – Silence Speaks

December 23, 2025

Melissa Blacker – To Study the Way Is To Study the Self

December 16, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Do Not Rely Upon Tomorrow

December 15, 2025

David Rynick – Buddha’s Awakening

December 9, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Infinite Gratitude and Peace

November 28, 2025

David Rynick – The Road Back Home

November 25, 2025

David Rynick and Melissa Blacker – November 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

November 19, 2025

Melissa Blacker – The Circle of Wonder

November 18, 2025

Alan Richardson – A Day of No Work, A Day of No Eating

November 18, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Great Wisdom

November 5, 2025

David Rynick – Boundless Light

November 4, 2025

Alan Richardson – Wandering in the Mountains

October 19, 2025

David Rynick – The True Person

October 15, 2025

David Rynick – Neither Difficult nor Easy

October 14, 2025

Melissa Blacker – To Study the Self

October 8, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Zen Principle and Practice

September 30, 2025

David Rynick – Awakening is Always Here

September 23, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Realize Awakening Without Fail

September 17, 2025

David Rynick – February Sesshin Dharma Talk

September 11, 2025

David Rynick – Our Actions Are Without Hinderance

September 3, 2025

David Rynick – Seeing Our Actions As Giving

September 2, 2025

Melissa Blacker – February 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

August 24, 2025

David Rynick – April 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

August 18, 2025

Melissa Blacker – April 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

August 9, 2025

David Rynick – May 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

August 2, 2025

Melissa Blacker – May 2025 Sesshin Dharma Talk

July 25, 2025

David Rynick – The Great Way is Not Difficult

July 22, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Great Doubt

July 7, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Facing Everything

July 1, 2025

David Rynick – Dharma Gates Are Boundless

June 24, 2025

David Rynick – Delusions Are Inexhaustible

June 20, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Living the Teachings

June 17, 2025

David Rynick – It’s So Very Clear

June 10, 2025

Alan Richardson – Acceptance of the Field

June 3, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Wandering on Dark Paths

May 27, 2025

Melissa Blacker – This Dream World

May 14, 2025

Alan Richardson – Strolling About in the Hills

May 12, 2025

David Rynick – Abiding in the Ephemeral World

May 11, 2025

Alan Richardson – The Misunderstanding of Many Lifetimes

April 18, 2025

David Rynick – The Universal Path

April 15, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Buddha Nature Pervades the Whole Universe

April 8, 2025

David Rynick – Your True Self

April 2, 2025

David Rynick – The Teaching That Transcends Buddha and the Ancestors

March 28, 2025

Alan Richardson – Spring Everywhere

March 25, 2025

David Rynick – The Compassionate Action of Kanzeon

March 12, 2025

David Rynick – We Are Not Separate From Each Other

March 11, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Connecting to the Sorrow of Others

March 10, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Seeing Through the Narritive Self

March 5, 2025

Alan Richardson – Absolute and Universal Love

February 14, 2025

David Rynick – The Three Bodies of Buddha

February 7, 2025

Melissa Blacker – If You Set Foot on the Path

February 5, 2025

David Rynick – The Three Pure Precepts

January 28, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Awake in the Face of Everything

January 24, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Three Turning Words

January 14, 2025

David Rynick – The Underlying Assumption of Zen

January 13, 2025

David Rynick – Following the Thread

January 7, 2025

Melissa Blacker – Freedom in the Midst of Thought

December 31, 2024

David Rynick – Everyone Has Their Own Light

December 24, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Wisdom

December 10, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Vast Inconceivable Source

November 26, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Meditation

November 19, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Joyful Effort

November 15, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Wholehearted Way

November 12, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Patience

October 29, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Accepting Your Life

October 22, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Ethical Action

October 15, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Fruit of the Bodhisattva Way

October 1, 2024

David Rynick – The Paramita of Generosity

September 24, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Mind is Buddha

September 17, 2024

David Rynick – Making Use of Discomfort

September 3, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Great Meaning of the Buddhadharma

August 9, 2024

David Rynick – Each Thing Has Its Own Intrinsic Value

August 6, 2024

Melissa Blacker – What Meets the Eye is the Way

August 5, 2024

David Rynick – A Shining Window

August 2, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Myriad Things Are One’s Own Self

July 30, 2024

David Rynick – Intensive Practice

July 29, 2024

David Rynick – Seeking With Empty Hands

July 24, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The First Noble Truth

July 16, 2024

David Rynick – Progressing Energetically

July 3, 2024

David Rynick – Human Flowers

June 27, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Founder of Zen

June 24, 2024

David Rynick – Deep Democracy

June 11, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Five Remembrances

June 8, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Finding Your Path and Place

May 28, 2024

David Rynick – The Dharma Does Not Rise Up Alone

May 21, 2024

David Rynick – Inner Illumination Restores Wonder

May 19, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Blue Cliff Record – Case 86

May 18, 2024

David Rynick – Proceed With Care

April 30, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Harmony of Relative and Absolute

April 23, 2024

David Rynick – The Ocean of Awareness

April 12, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Everything is Included

April 9, 2024

David Rynick – The Wholehearted Way

April 2, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Genjōkōan

March 26, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Case #9 – Blue Cliff Record

March 22, 2024

David Rynick – Experience it For Yourself

March 15, 2024

David Rynick – The Dharma Realm in the Ten Directions

March 12, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Do Not Squander Your Life

March 5, 2024

David Rynick – Sun-Face Buddha, Moon-Face Buddha

March 4, 2024

David Rynick – Real Freedom

February 27, 2024

Melissa Blacker – True Happiness

February 21, 2024

David Rynick – The Tathagata’s Complete Enlightenment

February 16, 2024

David Rynick – Bowing

February 6, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Baizhang’s Fox

February 2, 2024

David Rynick – One Thing After Another

January 30, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Manjushri, Samantabhadra, Avalokiteshvara

January 29, 2024

Melissa Blacker – Dharma Name

January 16, 2024

David Rynick – Wholehearted Practice

January 9, 2024

David Rynick – The Lojong Preliminaries

January 9, 2024

Melissa Blacker – The Meaning of This Moment

January 2, 2024

David Rynick – The Bodhisattva Way Is Just This

December 26, 2023

David Rynick – The Many and the One

December 18, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Awakening to Discouragement

December 12, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Buddha’s Awakening

December 8, 2023

David Rynick – Transcendent Enlightement

December 5, 2023

Melissa Blacker – The Ten Thousand Forms

November 27, 2023

David Rynick – The Bodhisattva of Compassion

November 17, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Great Doubt

November 7, 2023

David Rynick – Being Time

November 3, 2023

David Rynick – The Vast Autumn Sky

October 24, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Zen Practice and Human Conflict

October 17, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Leaving Thinking as It Is

October 13, 2023

David Rynick – Not Dwelling Anywhere

October 10, 2023

David Rynick – Respond Unencumbered to Each Speck of Dust

October 5, 2023

Melissa Blacker – The House of Buddha

October 4, 2023

Melissa Blacker – This Way is Originally So Close

September 25, 2023

David Rynick – Joyful Energy

September 22, 2023

David Rynick – Cultivating Patience and Generosity

September 19, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Sun-Face Buddha, Moon-Face Buddha

September 12, 2023

David Rynick – The Clear, Wondrously Bright Field

August 22, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Dust Particle Samadhi

August 14, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Sesame Rice Cakes and Manju

August 8, 2023

Melissa Blacker – May I Ask Your Answer?

August 7, 2023

David Rynick – Transcending the Buddhas and the Ancestors

August 5, 2023

David Rynick – Sesame Rice Cake

August 2, 2023

David Rynick – Within There is a Jewel

July 31, 2023

David Rynick – Bodhisattva Action

July 25, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Who Is That Other?

July 24, 2023

Melissa Blacker – What is Most Important

July 21, 2023

David Rynick – Cut Off Delusion

July 10, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Self-nature is the Light

July 4, 2023

In This Passing Moment, Karma Ripens

June 30, 2023

Melissa Blacker – What Is the Essential Meaning of Buddhism?

June 26, 2023

David Rynick – A God Mask, a Devil Mask

June 20, 2023

Melissa Blacker – The Dharma; Incomparably Profound and Infinitely Subtle

June 13, 2023

David Rynick – Maintain the Vow to Realize Awakening

June 6, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Just Sit

June 2, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Opening the Hand of Thought

May 30, 2023

David Rynick – Wonder and Beauty

May 18, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Case #12 – The Gateless Gate

May 18, 2023

David Rynick – The Heart of True Entrusting

May 5, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha

May 2, 2023

David Rynick – The Way of Zen Practice

April 25, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Do Not Waste Even a Minute

April 18, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Attached to the Line of Tears

April 13, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Going Alone to Meet a Teacher

April 4, 2023

David Rynick – The Mysterious Truth of the Tathagata

April 3, 2023

David Rynick – Blue Cliff Record Case 49: Sansheng Passes Through the Net

March 28, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Here is the Lotus Land

March 21, 2023

David Rynick – Self and Other

March 17, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Knock at Any Door

March 14, 2023

David Rynick – Basic Kindness

March 10, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Cultivating the Mind

March 7, 2023

David Rynick – Actualizing Fundamental Reality

February 21, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Compassion Unbound

February 14, 2023

David Rynick – Case #78 – The Book of Equanimity

February 7, 2023

Melissa Blacker – This Moment is the Koan

February 3, 2023

Melissa Blacker – The Gateless Gate: Case #16

February 1, 2023

David Rynick – Repentance

January 30, 2023

Melissa Blacker – Great Compassion

January 25, 2023

David Rynick – I Am the Only One

January 24, 2023

David Rynick – Though the Hut is Small, it Includes the Entire World

January 6, 2023

Melissa Blacker – The Consolations of Zen Practice

January 3, 2023

David Rynick – To Know the Dark

December 20, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Five Hindrances

December 17, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Truth Has Always Been Exhibited

December 6, 2022

David Rynick – Facing Uncertainty

November 17, 2022

Melissa Blacker – This Very Mind is Buddha

November 16, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Not Finding Fault With Others

November 15, 2022

David Rynick – Accepting Apparent Injustice

November 15, 2022

Melissa Blacker – I Am the Only One

November 2, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Three Poisons

November 1, 2022

David Rynick – It Is Already Here

October 27, 2022

David Rynick – Buddha Nature

October 25, 2022

David Rynick – Being Lost

October 21, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Cut Off the Mind-Road

October 19, 2022

David Rynick – It is Everywhere

October 11, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Case #89 – The Blue Cliff Record

October 3, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Awareness of the Body

September 21, 2022

David Rynick – Our Great Zen Power

September 13, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Gateless Gate: Case #16

August 30, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Dharma of Thusness

August 29, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Seeking Guidance From Teachers

August 22, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Awake to Just This

July 27, 2022

David Rynick – Being Upright

July 15, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Essence of Zen

July 12, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Do Not Waste Even a Minute

July 3, 2022

David Rynick – Take the Backward Step

July 1, 2022

Melissa Blacker – No Knowing

June 17, 2022

David Rynick – All Dharmas Are Amazing Beyond Description

June 15, 2022

David Rynick – Seeing Through

June 14, 2022

David Rynick – Enter Into the Heart Land

June 11, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Case #3: The Blue Cliff Record

June 10, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Wander Into the Circle of Wonder

June 7, 2022

David Rynick – The Dharma of Thusness

June 1, 2022

David Rynick – I Now Go On Alone

May 31, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Gateless Gate: Case #14

May 24, 2022

David Rynick – Appreciating Our Life

May 23, 2022

David Rynick – Gateless Gate: Case #2

May 22, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Who are you?

May 21, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Body & Mind, Ocean & Waves

May 20, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Original Dwelling Place

May 6, 2022

David Rynick – The Way of Tenderness

May 3, 2022

David Rynick – Playful Zen

April 19, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Book of Serenity, Case 67

April 15, 2022

David Rynick – This Mystery of Coming and Going

April 8, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Days Like Lightning

April 5, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Defaming The Three Treasures

March 22, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Harboring Ill Will

March 18, 2022

David Rynick – To Give Ourselves in This Moment

March 15, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Sparing the Dharma Assets

March 11, 2022

David Rynick – No Fault

March 8, 2022

David Rynick – Ethical Conduct

March 4, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Elevating Yourself While Abusing Others

March 1, 2022

David Rynick – Patience

February 22, 2022

David Rynick – Right Here

February 18, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Finding Fault With Others

February 15, 2022

David Rynick – Continual Investigation

February 8, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Intoxicating Mind and Body

February 7, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Speaking Falsely

February 2, 2022

David Rynick – Awakening to Discouragement

January 31, 2022

David Rynick – Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh

January 26, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Misusing Sex

January 21, 2022

Melissa Blacker – This Is Happiness

January 19, 2022

David Rynick – The Field of Boundless Emptiness

January 11, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Stealing

January 10, 2022

David Rynick – This World of Dew

January 7, 2022

Melissa Blacker – The Precept of Not Killing

January 4, 2022

David Rynick – No Preparation for Something Else

January 3, 2022

Melissa Blacker – Vow to Practice Good

December 28, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Vow to Cease From Evil

December 27, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Three Refuges

December 24, 2021

David Rynick – Silent Illumination

December 21, 2021

David Rynick – Alone on the Great Sublime Peak

December 7, 2021

David Rynick – Facing What You Have Excluded

December 3, 2021

Melissa Blacker – This Dharma Entrance Gate

November 30, 2021

David Rynick – The Four Preliminaries

November 23, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Showing Up

November 19, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Three Barriers

November 16, 2021

David Rynick – Everything Is Correct and Totally Sufficient

November 15, 2021

David Rynick – The Practice of Surrender

November 9, 2021

Michael Fieleke – Case 27 – The Blue Cliff Record

November 8, 2021

David Rynick – Vows For Daily Life

November 5, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Invocation of Kanzeon

November 2, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Ghosts of the World

November 1, 2021

David Rynick – Dharma Transmission

October 27, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Zen Circle

October 22, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Ordinary Mind is the Way

October 19, 2021

David Rynick – Spiritual Energy Will Marvelously Transport You

October 18, 2021

David Rynick – Dependent Co-arising

October 12, 2021

David Rynick – Karma Ripening

October 8, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Song of Zazen

October 5, 2021

David Rynick – The Four Noble Truths

October 1, 2021

David Rynick – The Wandering Mind

September 28, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Mind Like the Moon

September 24, 2021

David Rynick – The Essential Art of Zazen

September 21, 2021

David Rynick – To Live in the Bodhisattva Spirit

September 17, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Human Realm

September 14, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Realm of Gods

September 13, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Realm of Angry Gods

September 10, 2021

David Rynick – Still the Same Old Me

September 7, 2021

David Rynick – To Appreciate Being Human

September 3, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Animal Realm

August 31, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Hungry Ghosts

August 20, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Six Realms of Existence

August 19, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Not For Anything Else

August 16, 2021

David Rynick – The Grieving World

August 13, 2021

David Rynick – Swampland Flowers

August 10, 2021

David Rynick – The Practice of Generosity

August 3, 2021

Melissa Blacker – On the Mountain Sitting Alone

July 27, 2021

David Rynick – Including Everything

July 23, 2021

David Rynick – Hope in the Dark

July 20, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Awake in This World Just As It Is

July 13, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Ship of Compassion

July 9, 2021

David Rynick – The Grass-Roof Hermitage

July 6, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Freedom

July 5, 2021

Heart of True Entrusting

July 2, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Marrow of Zen

June 30, 2021

David Rynick – Self-Receiving Samadhi

June 22, 2021

Michael Fieleke – Case 12 – The Book of Serenity

June 21, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Mind Is the Natural Buddha

June 15, 2021

David Rynick – Like an Iron Wall

June 14, 2021

David Rynick – The Jeweled-Mirror Samadhi

June 11, 2021

David Rynick – Happiness

June 9, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Case 19, Gateless Gate

June 7, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Choosing Everything

June 3, 2021

David Rynick – Boundlessness

May 25, 2021

David Rynick – In Accord With the Buddhadharma

May 24, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Case 36, Blue Cliff Record

May 21, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Koan of Everyday Life

May 18, 2021

David Rynick – Awakening as an Obstacle

May 11, 2021

In This Moment Karma Ripens

May 10, 2021

David Rynick – The Vow To Realize Awakening

May 7, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Four Bodhisattva Vows

May 6, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Student and Teacher

May 4, 2021

David Rynick – The Field of Boundless Emptiness

April 20, 2021

David Rynick – Accepting Circumstances

April 19, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Thread of the Dharma

April 13, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Not Turning Away

April 9, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Willing To See Everything

April 5, 2021

David Rynick – A Bright Pearl

March 30, 2021

David Rynick – The Dharma of Thusness

March 22, 2021

David Rynick – This Very Mind Is Buddha Mind

March 19, 2021

Melissa Blacker – A Certain Amount of Suffering

March 16, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Ever-Changing Appearance

March 12, 2021

David Rynick – Nothing To Do

March 9, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Wanderers of the Way

March 8, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Ignoring the Near

March 3, 2021

Melissa Blacker – All Beings by Nature Are Buddha

March 2, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Visit Zen Teachers

February 23, 2021

David Rynick – Following Change

February 16, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Turning Towards Everything

February 9, 2021

David Rynick – Giving Ourselves to Ourselves and Others to Others

February 2, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Meeting Our Life With Full Attention

January 29, 2021

Melissa Blacker – View of Form and Emptiness

January 26, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Meeting Whatever Arises

January 25, 2021

David Rynick – Atonement

January 19, 2021

Melissa Blacker – Case 38, Gateless Gate

January 12, 2021

David Rynick – Your True Self Is the Entire World

January 11, 2021

David Rynick – Silent Illumination

January 5, 2021

Michael Fieleke – Beginner’s Mind

January 4, 2021

David Rynick – Everything Falls Apart

January 1, 2021

Melissa Blacker – The Wanting Creature

December 29, 2020

David Rynick – Engaged Buddhism

December 28, 2020

David Rynick – Giver, Receiver, Gift

December 22, 2020

Michael Fieleke – Samu (Work Practice)

December 18, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Unbound Compassion

December 11, 2020

David Rynick – Life and Death

December 8, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Beyond Knowing

December 7, 2020

Melissa Blacker – To Study the Buddha Way

December 1, 2020

David Rynick – At Ease and in Harmony

November 24, 2020

David Rynick – Liberation From All Obstructions

November 23, 2020

David Rynick – The Jeweled Mirror

November 20, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Waking From A Dream

November 17, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Freedom in the Midst of Fear

November 13, 2020

David Rynick – The Compassionate Heart of Wisdom

November 10, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Not Praising Yourself While Abusing Others

November 9, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 41, Gateless Gate

November 3, 2020

David Rynick – Cultivating the Mind

October 23, 2020

David Rynick – Self and Other the Same

October 20, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 14, Blue Cliff Record

October 16, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Have Some Tea

October 13, 2020

David Rynick – Grasp the Great Reality

October 6, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Karma

October 5, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 12, Gateless Gate

September 22, 2020

David Rynick – Do Nothing

September 17, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Heart-Mind Here and Now Is Buddha

September 14, 2020

David Rynick – The Limitless World

September 11, 2020

David Rynick – Three Marks of Existence

September 7, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 40, Entangling Vines

September 1, 2020

David Rynick – All Dharmas Are Innately Amazing

August 31, 2020

David Rynick – Suffering

August 25, 2020

David Rynick – The Thought That Does the Cutting Is the Thief

August 21, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 39, Entangling Vines

August 19, 2020

Michael Fieleke – Ecodharma

August 17, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 38, Entangling Vines

August 15, 2020

David Rynick – Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi

August 11, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 37, Entangling Vines

August 10, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Case 26, The Gateless Gate

August 4, 2020

David Rynick – All Things Are Boundless

August 3, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Meeting Things As They Are

July 31, 2020

David Rynick – If You Set Foot on the Path

July 29, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Face Everything

July 28, 2020

Mike Fieleke – Taego Bou Poem on Emptiness and Form

July 22, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Baizhang’s Fox

July 17, 2020

David Rynick – Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage

July 14, 2020

Robert Waldinger & Melissa Blacker – Sickness and Not Sickness

July 13, 2020

Michael Fieleke & David Rynick – Sickness and Healing

July 12, 2020

David Rynick – Let Everything Be As It Is

July 10, 2020

Melissa Blacker – The Road to Nanchuan

July 8, 2020

David Rynick – The Human Body is Like a Lightning Flash

June 30, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Practice and Seek the Way Together

June 26, 2020

David Rynick – Staying Right in the Middle

June 25, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Our Work as Zen Practitioners

June 23, 2020

David Rynick – The Middle Way

June 17, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Awakened Action

June 15, 2020

David Rynick – The World of Inter-Being

June 12, 2020

Melissa Blacker – The Student-Teacher Relationship

June 9, 2020

David Rynick – Trusting the Darkness

June 1, 2020

Melissa Blacker – A Brittle Bowl

May 28, 2020

David Rynick – Doing Nothing, Doing Something

May 27, 2020

David Rynick – An Unending Truth

May 25, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Not Cleaving to Things

May 21, 2020

David Rynick – Encouragement Talk

May 20, 2020

Melissa Blacker & David Rynick – Case 40, Blue Cliff Record

May 19, 2020

David Rynick -The Dharma Body of the Self

May 15, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Who is the True I?

May 13, 2020

Michael Fieleke – The Mirror of Zen

May 11, 2020

David Rynick -Days Like Lightning

May 5, 2020

Melissa Blacker – The Mind Turns

April 28, 2020

Melissa Blacker – The Highest Function

April 24, 2020

David Rynick – Faith in Zen Practice

April 21, 2020

David Rynick -The Way-Seeking Mind

April 17, 2020

Melissa Blacker – The Top of a 100 Ft. Pole

April 15, 2020

David Rynick – To Die Every Moment

April 13, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Not Entering Nirvana

April 10, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Connected With the Ten Thousand Things

March 25, 2020

David Rynick – The Fruit of the Bodhisattva Way

March 23, 2020

David Rynick – Taking Refuge

March 18, 2020

Melissa Blacker – True Meaning

March 13, 2020

David Rynick – Seek Nothing

March 13, 2020

David Rynick – Spiritual Energy Will Marvelously Transport You

March 6, 2020

Melissa Blacker – What is Buddha?

February 28, 2020

David Rynick – The Practice of Just Sitting

February 21, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Xiangyan: Up a Tree

February 14, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Wuzu: “Who is That Other?”

February 7, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Hui-Neng: “Neither Good Nor Evil”

January 29, 2020

David Rynick – Investigating the Great Matter

January 27, 2020

Melissa Blacker – Bodhidharma Pacifies the Mind

January 24, 2020

David Rynick – The Boat of Compassion Is Always Rowed in This Place

December 27, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Go Straight Ahead

December 20, 2019

David Rynick – Looking Into This Great Matter of Life and Death

December 13, 2019

Melissa Blacker – To Be With Things Just As They Are

December 9, 2019

David Rynick – Everything is Coming and Going

December 6, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Say Something

November 29, 2019

David Rynick – Dependent Co-Arising

November 26, 2019

Michael Fieleke – Beyond Words

November 15, 2019

Melissa Blacker – I’m Hiding Nothing From You

November 11, 2019

David Rynick – Confidence in Our Practice

November 8, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Everything is Right Here

October 25, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Every Day Is A Good Day

October 18, 2019

David Rynick – Patterns of Our Mind

October 14, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Sun-Face Buddha, Moon-Face Buddha

October 11, 2019

David Rynick – The Teaching of Equinimity

September 30, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Who Am I

September 27, 2019

David Rynick – The One Who is Awake

September 20, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Your Original Face

September 13, 2019

David Rynick – Practice in Action

September 6, 2019

David Rynick – Ease and Joy

September 3, 2019

Melissa Blacker – No Merit

August 27, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Tea With Demons

August 23, 2019

David Rynick – Being With Suffering

August 16, 2019

David Rynick – Enter Here

August 13, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Four Noble Truths

August 11, 2019

David Rynick – Equanimity

August 9, 2019

David Rynick – Coconut Happiness

August 7, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Sorrow & Joy

July 30, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Sorrow & Kindness

July 26, 2019

David Rynick – Metta Practice

July 19, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Kabir: This Body

July 16, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Ordinary Mind

July 12, 2019

David Rynick – Mental Suffering

July 6, 2019

David Rynick – Basic Friendliness

June 28, 2019

David Rynick – Living Activity

June 21, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Nothing To Do

June 14, 2019

Michael Fieleke – Who Owns the Weather

June 7, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Defending the Self

May 31, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Ordinary Mind is the Way

May 17, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Sitting Long, Getting Tired

May 10, 2019

David Rynick – Reborn Every Moment

May 3, 2019

David Rynick – Right Here is the Sanctuary

April 23, 2019

Melissa Blacker – Bodhisattvas of Compassion

March 30, 2019

Melissa Blacker – The Four Bodhisattva Vows

March 17, 2019

Melissa Blacker – The Three Treasures

March 8, 2019

David Rynick – Waking Up

March 1, 2019

David Rynick – Participating in Our Life

February 15, 2019

Melissa Blacker – The Practice of Lojong

February 1, 2019

Michael Fieleke – Forget About the End

December 28, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Sitting Upright in the Middle of Everything

December 21, 2018

David Rynick – Everything You Encounter Constitutes the Meaning of Your Life

December 19, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Marvelous Error

December 16, 2018

David Rynick – Appreciate Your Life

December 14, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Bodhicitta is the Nature of Our Human Bodies

November 30, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Resting With Difficulties

November 23, 2018

David Rynick – The Eight Earthly Winds

November 16, 2018

James Cordova – Practice Love Until You Remember You Are Love

November 9, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Resting With What Is

November 2, 2018

David Rynick – Appreciating the Fire of Our Life

October 26, 2018

David Rynick – When Things Don’t Go Our Way

October 19, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Carried Along by Turbulent Waters

October 12, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Xizhong Builds Carts

October 6, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Days Like Lightning

October 5, 2018

David Rynick – You Who Seek the Dharma Should Seek Nothing

September 28, 2018

James Cordova – Everything You Do Bears Your Signature

September 14, 2018

James Cordova – This Tender Heart

August 31, 2018

James Cordova – The Pain of Two Arrows

August 17, 2018

James Cordova – What is Arising in This Moment

August 10, 2018

David Rynick – Nothing in This World Is Separate from Our Own Nature

August 3, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Ruiyan Calls “Master”

July 27, 2018

David Rynick – Oneness and Variety Are the Same

July 13, 2018

David Rynick – Everything Comes and Goes

July 6, 2018

Melissa Blacker – You Who Seek The Dharma Should Seek Nothing

June 29, 2018

James Cordova – All Things Are Nothing But Change

June 22, 2018

James Cordova – Love is the Bridge Between You and Everything

June 8, 2018

James Cordova – Things Come Together and Things Fall Apart

May 25, 2018

David Rynick – The Teaching of the Mystery

May 18, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Right And Wrong

May 11, 2018

David Rynick – Be A Light Unto Yourself

May 4, 2018

Melissa Blacker – On The Verge of Perishing

April 27, 2018

James Cordova – Practice Even With Half A Heart

April 20, 2018

James Cordova – All Things Completely Love Us

March 29, 2018

David Rynick – The Virtue of Self Confidence

March 15, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Dealing with the Vast Suffering

March 8, 2018

David Rynick – What is it Like to Sit?

March 1, 2018

James Cordova – The Optical Delusion of Consciousness

February 22, 2018

David Rynick – Being Passive and Also Active

February 15, 2018

Diane Fitzgerald – Nan Ch’uan’s Truth That’s Never Been Spoken

February 8, 2018

Melissa Blacker – Buddhist Precepts 6 & 7

February 1, 2018

David Rynick – Instructions to the Cook

January 26, 2018

James Cordova – Non-attained Buddha

January 4, 2018

Diane Fitzgerald – The Time Being

December 28, 2017

David Rynick – Awakening to Whatever is Here

December 21, 2017

James Cordova – Spring Everywhere

December 14, 2017

David Rynick – Be an Island Unto Yourself

December 7, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Teaching of the Three Pillars of Zen

November 30, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Dark and Broken Roads

November 23, 2017

James Cordova – Awakening From the Delusion of Separation

November 17, 2017

James Cordova – What is the Way?

November 2, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Dongshan’s Sixty Blows

October 5, 2017

James Cordova – What’s the Buddha?

September 21, 2017

David Rynick – Returning To What Is Here

September 8, 2017

James Cordova – The Illusion Of Our Separateness

August 24, 2017

James Cordova – Absolute and Universal Love

August 17, 2017

James Cordova – Another False Peak

August 10, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Infinite Causes

August 3, 2017

Melissa Myozen Blacker, Roshi – In the Ocean of Yes and No

July 27, 2017

James Cordova – Our True Nature

July 20, 2017

David Rynick – The Way of Non-Mind

July 13, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Salvation of Your LIfe

July 6, 2017

James Cordova – Learn to Tolerate Ease

June 26, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Already Awake

May 26, 2017

David Rynick – Beyond Words and Letters

May 11, 2017

Diane Fitzgerald – What is the Need for Practice?

May 3, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Not Harboring Ill Will

April 28, 2017

James Cordova – And Go On

April 20, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Not Sparing the Dharma Assets

April 16, 2017

David Rynick – Freedom Exactly Where You Are

April 11, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Boddhisattvas Are Us

April 4, 2017

James Cordova – Realizing You

March 31, 2017

David Rynick – Responding Without Falling into Achievement

March 28, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Song of Realizing the Dao

March 24, 2017

David Rynick – Awake to Life

March 22, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Vīrya and Pīti

March 17, 2017

David Rynick – Delusive Certainty

March 15, 2017

James Cordova – Take Off More Armor

March 9, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Way Things Are

March 7, 2017

Diane Fitzgerald – Faith and the Emptiness View

March 2, 2017

Diane Fitzgerald – Knowing the Mind in Peace

March 2, 2017

David Rynick – Not Advancing, Not Retreating

February 24, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Things Have Always Been Terrible

February 21, 2017

James Cordova – This Ungraspable Trace

February 17, 2017

Diane Fitzgerald – None of Us Is An Island

February 15, 2017

James Cordova – Pleasant and Unpleasant

February 13, 2017

James Cordova – Facing Everything

February 3, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Way of Everyday Life

January 31, 2017

Melissa Blacker, James Cordova – Every Day is a Good Day

January 17, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Wash Your Bowls

January 17, 2017

Melissa Blacker – The Three Refuges

January 17, 2017

Diane Fitzgerald, James Cordova – To Study the Buddha Way is to Study the Self

January 17, 2017

David Rynick – Wondrously Embraced Within the Real

January 17, 2017

Melissa Blacker – Deshan Burns His Commentaries

January 17, 2017

David Rynick – In This Passing Moment Karma Ripens

January 17, 2017

James Cordova – When the Time Comes to Let It Go

January 17, 2017

James Cordova – Hsiang-yen Up A Tree

January 16, 2017

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