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
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Spring 2022 Bendowa Class 1 of 6
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 1 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Introduction to Dogen's Bendowa
Sangha member Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie gives an introduction to his six-week class on Dogen Zenji's fascicle Bendowa. The class will be offered by Zoom on Thursday evenings beginning Mar…
Rev. Kyosho Valerie Beer: Why do we need to practice if we're already enlightened?
Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She liv…
David Pavlacky: Being time - for the time being
Sangha member David Pavlacky explores time from the perspective of Dainin Katagiri’s (2007) book “Each moment is the universe: Zen and the way of being time,” and his (1984) recorded Dh…
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 6 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 6 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 5 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 5 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 4 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 4 of 6)
Rick Daitoku Vosper: The Everyday Zen of Katherine Sobun Thanas
Sangha member Rick Daitoku Vosper speaks to us on The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is by Katherine Sobun Thanas. Rick Daitoku Vosper has been practicing Z…
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 3 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 3 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 2 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 2 of 6)
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Sangha
Guiding teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks to us about sangha.
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 1 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 1 of 6)
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Gratitude, Faith and Compassion
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie introduces his upcoming Thursday night class, which starts January 13.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Excerpts from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin, Guiding Teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center, reads from this classic collection of Zen stories published in 1955.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Karma and Causation
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the guiding teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center. In this talk he discusses a talk by Katagiri Roshi on karma and causation from the book Each Moment is the…
David Coupland: The Heart of Understanding
In this talk, sangha member David Coupland will discuss Thich Nhat Hahn's commentary on the Heart Sutra. David practiced and studied with Zen and Insight Meditation groups in Ann Arbor…
Annabella Pitkin: Worlds and Stories of Mahayana Buddhist Literature
Annabella Pitkin is an Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and Director of Lehigh Asian Studies Program. Her dharma talk is a…
Gift Robe Presentation Ceremony for Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin receives a gift robe sewn by sangha members in appreciation for his many years of service as founder and guiding teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Rev. Norm Randolph: The Life of the Buddha
Rev. Norm Randolph is a senior teacher at Dharma Field zen center in Minneapolis. Born in San Francisco in 1943, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a psych…
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Ancestors and Koans
Ewan gives us an introduction to his Ancestors and Koans class which begins on Thursday September 16.