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. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Practicing with the Bodhisattva Precepts
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Rev. Ekyo Susan Nelson: Equanimity
Rev. Ekyo Susan Nelson was a lay student of Katagiri-roshi and had her jukai ceremony in 1980. After Katagiri’s death she practiced for a time at Clouds in Water Zen Center before retur…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Opening the Hand of Thought (part 2)
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center. This is part two of a two-part series.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Opening the Hand of Thought (part 1)
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center. This is part one of a two-part series.
Judy Putnam: The Significance of Buddha’s Robe
Judy 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 student, s…
Gene Heater: Zen Stories from the Transmission of Light
Gene began his Zen practice at the Boulder Zen Center in the Rinzai Tradition with Gento Richard Barsky. In response to the Koan, "How does the Buddha manifest the ringing of the bell …
Meho Isabelle André: The Relevance of the Bodhisattvas
Meho Isabelle André started her journey in the early eighties at Taisen Deshimaru’s Zendo in Paris. She subsequently sought teachings that emphasized the feminine. She studied Vedanta …
Daitoku Rick Vosper: Too Busy
Daitoku Rick Vosper 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 busi…
Rev. Byakuren Judith Ragir: The Three Bases and the Eightfold Path
Rev. Byakuren Judith Ragir is the Senior Dharma Teacher at Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Generosity
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: On the Bodhisattva Precept Ceremony
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin will speak about the Bodhisattva Precept Ceremony in anticipation for the ceremony on Sunday June 27.
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Vulnerability in Practice and Pandemic
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie is a Soto Zen Priest, training under the supervision of his teacher, Rev. Nomon Tim Burnett, Guiding Teacher at Red Cedar Zen Center located in Bellingham, WA .
He…
Paula Scarborough: Cultivating Self-Compassion
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. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Dharma and Social Justice
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.
Leslie Irvine: Mindfulness as Contemplative Training and Ethical Activity
The practice of mindfulness originates in the Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path. Although we begin the practice in zazen, we engage with mindfulness and apply it in ethical situa…
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin: Sariputra and the Goddess
Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the guiding teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center. In this talk he shares a teaching story from the Vimalakirti Sutra, one of the most influential sutras in …
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Practicing in the Light of Death
Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie gives an introduction to his six-week class starting June 3, "Practicing in the Light of Death". Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie is a Soto Zen Priest, training under the …
Rev. Taiju Geri Wilimek: Blossoms Fall; Weeds Flourish
Rev. Taiju Geri Wilimek, guiding teacher at Sokuji Zen Community, Bemidji MN. Geri received dharma transmission in 2015, so is pretty "new" to all of this! She began her dharma studie…
David Pavlacky: Something Universal
Nendo David Pavlacky began practicing at Prairie MountainZen Center in 2012, received lay ordination from Jodo-san in 2016, and recently completed a three-year term as board president. …
Rev. Steve Hagen: Zen in an Age of Disquiet
Steve was ordained a Zen priest in 1979 by Katagiri Roshi. In 1989, he received formal endorsement to teach (Dharma transmission). He has been an instructor in Buddhism at St. Olaf Co…