Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast

Themes from the Dogen Genzo-e opening retreat continue to be explored in the Sunday morning dharma talk. Can we practice humility and be open to wonder? In what ways do we express how we feel about m…

A call to the co-arising of "be alert!". Enlightenment is not a fixed state - it is the expression of our practice. And that is a great miracle.

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Mysoshin Kate McCandless offers a deep dive into what Dogen meant by saying miracles are "the tea and rice of buddha's house".

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These talks…

Dai-i Flo Rublee offers the last instalment in our dharma seminar - Chapter 5 from Charlotte Joko Beck’s Everyday Zen - with the suggestion that we don't have to be engaged in endless struggle with f…

Kakuko Kaye Simard offers a talk on anger as a path of transformation.

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Jikai Vicki Turay continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck’s  Everyday Zen asking the question: Do our ideals serve us or confuse us? Are they guiding principles or subtle forms of attache…

In honour of the Buddha's parinirvana, Shinmon Michael Newton asks: how does realizing our self-nature free us from birth and death? 

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Thes…

"Every moment of our life is relationship. There is nothing except relationship." (Charlotte Joko Beck)

Shinmon Michael Newton continues our dharma seminar, exploring how we can perceive and navigate …

Myoshin Kate McCandless asks, with so much seeming to be so awry in the world right now, how can we  meet beauty and truth in unexpected moments and guises.

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Daikan John Green continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's Everyday Zen, in which Joko describes how sitting can be like opening a Pandora’s box — which looks still and pretty on the out…

In this second talk on working with anger, MRZC Priest Dai-i Flo Rublee uses Shantideva's writings in The Way of the Bodhisattva—along with Pema Chödrön's masterful analysis—to explore specific situa…

In this first of two talks based on Shantideva's writings in the classic text The Way of the Bodhisattva, MRZC Priest Dai-i Flo Rublee unpacks how anger functions as a hindrance to happiness and affe…

Myosen River Shannon continues our dharma seminar on Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen and explores two questions Beck poses: "What is practice?" and "What is not practice?"

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Michael Hare describes how his different communities of practice weave together like the threads of a martial arts belt.

ZED (Zen Engaged Dharma) talks are short talks by sangha members about how they…

Kakuko Kaye Simard begins a new dharma seminar on Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen: Love and Work. 

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Tales from the San Dei…

"All sentient beings have their existence and live within my life" -Uchiyama Roshi

Shinmon Michael Newton asks us what our deep vows are, particularly in light of the many complex and difficult issues…

Hozan Alan Senauke was an American Sōtō priest, folk musician and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Center. Myoshin Kate McCandless reads from Hozan’s tribute and shares some of his writing.  

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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers insight into how, even with all the challenges the holiday season might bring, we can experience joy as one of the noble abodes. 

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Shinmon Michael Newton asks how we might best respond to the uncertainty that is always present in our lives. In what way does living in sangha provide an opportunity to meet the unexpected and exper…

Mysohin Kate McCandless gives the last talk of sesshin and concludes the story of Sudhana’s pilgrimage. 

Because we only exist within the vast matrix of Indra’s Net, the work of a Bodhisattva is never…