Repost from 2023:
Chozen Bays, Roshi
Sunday Program
Great Vow Zen Monastery
09/03/23

This talk is from Kisei's Monday night online sit through Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. This includes a dharma talk and then a guided Tonglen meditation toward the end.

This talk is from Kisei's Monday night online sit through Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in late June 2024.

When we take thoughts or beliefs as ultimate truth—divisiveness, conflict or isolation often follow suit. Our thoughts are powerful. And we can actually use this insight to try on other ways of viewing our lives or reality.

What happens when we take up a view of unconditional acceptance? Love unbounded? Freedom for all beings?

This is the heart of what we call—the Bodhisattva Vow. And it is often articulated as a vow to work towards liberation for all beings.

This talk is from the Great Vow Sunday Public Program on Sunday July 14th 2024.
In this talk Hogen, Roshi discusses the different views one can take in looking at our lives. From a cursory look at our immediate experience things may seem concrete and unchanging, but when looked at closer, it is ever changing and when it arrives, it's already gone. Where do we go from here?

This talk is from Kisei's Monday evening online sit through Heart of Wisdom in late June 2024.

With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together, and then the bottom fell out.

Where the water does not collect, the moon does not dwell. --Chiyono

How do we hold ourselves with our thoughts? How do we create identity with our beliefs about ourselves?

What happens when we see through this function of the mind? When we let go of the narrative, even a little?

A continuation of our last episode with Jogen discussing his "Thinking Zen". Dharma talk given at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple during the Wednesday night sit. Topics in this podcast include:

• Juneteenth, slavery and how the dehumanization of racism is undergirded by our mind's false 'symbol' making.
• To what degree are we entangled in flat, mono-dimensional mental symbols? How are they created and sustained?
• Actual relationship and naked awareness as the medicine

Jogen's talk during the Wednesday night sit at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple in Portland, OR.
Topics touched on in this episode include:

• what to do about the frustrating shift from open-hearted, naked awareness to our encultured, dualistic way of thinking/being when we're off of our meditation cushions ?
• The mind likes to reduce things to a single cause, often to one point of blame for our suffering. Isn't this reductive?
• How to think interdependently?

In this podcast Kodo discusses the benefits of functioning in our daily lives with a beginners mind.
Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher
Sunday Public Program
Great Vow Zen Monastery
07/09/2024