Prairie Mountain Zen Center Dharma Talks
PMZC offers Sunday morning Dharma talks by our own teachers and sangha members. In addition, we are privileged to have wonderful Soto Zen guest speakers from around the country.
If you enjoy listening to our online dharma talks, please consider making a donation to Prairie Mountain Zen Center at https://www.prairiemountain.org/donate .
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 194
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Bishal Karna: Lessons from a Year of Zen in the American Midwest
Bishal Karna is a spiritual student and a professor of comparative religion. He studies contemplative practices and positive states such as love, compassion, and joy. He lives in Roches…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Introduction to the Vimalakirti Sutra
"The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti" is considered one of the most influential of the Mahayana sutras. Vimalakirti is a layman whose understanding and teaching of the Dharma is unparallel…
Daitoku Rick Vosper: The Practice Is Always To Notice
Rick has been practicing Zen since 1995. He took vows with Jodo Cliff Clusin in 2013. Recently retired, he has worked as an advertising copywriter and in the bicycle business, as well a…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Not always so
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks about Suzuki Roshi's book, not always so.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Closing chants - Dedication of merit and the four bodhisattva vows
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center. In this talk he discusses various translations of the dedication of merit chant and bodhisattva vows.
Judy Putnam: Reflections from Dogen's Fukanzazengi
Judy Putnam worked for the City of Fort Collins in the Light and Power Department for 23 years in various positions from Meter Calibrator to Special Projects Coordinator. As a young stu…
Rev. Ben Connelly: Non-violence - Facing In All Directions
Ben Connelly is a Soto Zen teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police training and addiction rec…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Liberation through the Middle Way
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Paula Scarborough: The Roots and Fruits of Mindfulness
Paula is a long-term student and practitioner of massage, yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, the Diamond Approach and for the last few years, Soto Zen with Prairie Mountain Zen in Longmont, Colo…
Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer: Practicing with Calamities
Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer is a long-time teacher and leader with the San Francisco Zen Center. She will speak to us about about using our practice to meet both individual and social su…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Chants for the Start and End of Dharma Talks
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Rev. Nomon Tim Burnett: Approaching Koans
Rev. Nomon Tim Burnett is the Guiding Teacher of Red Cedar Zen Community in Bellingham, Washington. Tim was ordination teacher for our own Chikyo Ewan Magie.
Tim has been a student of Z…
Rev. Dokai Georgesen: An Appropriate Response
Rev. Dokai Georgesen began his study of Zen Buddhism at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center under the direction of Dainin Katagiri Roshi in 1974. He spent two years on pilgrimage studying B…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Zen Practice
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.