Talks Archive

Talking Zen. Connect to our Zen Center through Podcasts and Dharma talks.

Recorded Talks

Here are a selection of talks that we have recorded. Please feel free to download and listen at your leisure. Talks are also available on iTunes.

2020

The Road to Cold Mountain, by Red Pine, 4 October 2020
Great Vow Zen Monastery, by Hogan Bays, 27 September 2020
PSZC first ordination ceremony, by Koshin Cain, 20 September 2020
Humility and Confidence, by Koshin Cain, 13 September 2020
The Keel of Equanimity , by Koshin Cain, 6 September 2020
Enlightenment and ecology – nature in early buddhist teachings, by Dr. Joe Marino, 30 August 2020
Compassion, by Juin Hosen of BodhiManda zen center, 23 August 2020
The meaning of Ordination, by Koshin Cain, 16 August 2020
A buddhist View of Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble, by Genko Cathy Blackman, 9 August 20
Interview with Yuiho Kirchner on his 50 years as a Monk in Japan and what Zen is like in Japan these days, by Koshin Cain, 3 August 2020
Regarding the Other, by Koshin Cain, 2 August 2020
Wisdom, by David Steel and Kaj, 27 July 2020
Interdependence: sameness in difference, difference in sameness: how do we arise with our world? by Seiju Bob Mammoser, 26 July 2020
Meditation, by Wes Borden, 20 July 2020
The Four Noble Truths in light of the present moment, by Mushin Abby Terris, 19 July 2020
Day sit 2 – Valuing Interdepence in Uncertain Times, by Genko Cathy Blackman, 18 July 202
Day sit 1 – Valuing Interdepence in Uncertain Times, by Koshin Cain, 18 July 2020
Diligence, by Stephen Black, 13 July 2020
Unburdening ourselves from the diamond sutra: how we can use and enjoy one of the classics, by Giko David Rubin, 12 July 2020
Patience, by Sissel Johannesen, 6 July 2020
Relatives of Affinity and No Affinity: The Awful Liberation of Interdependence, by Mushim Patricia Ikeda, 5 July 2020
Morality, by Elizabeth Fitterer, 29 June 2020
A winter’s Journey: time out at Enso House and Bodhi Manda, by Sissel Johannesen, 28 June 2020
Generosity, by Jim Hunziker, 22 June 2020
Cultivating, Abandoning, and Letting Go: Narratives for Practice in Theravada Buddhism, by Brian Lesage, 21 June 2020
Zen Character and the Paramitas, Koshin Kain, 15 June 2020
Wisdom as a Substance of Mind, by Gendo Allyn Field, 14 June 2020
Sangha Meeting, 7 June 2020
Zen and Global Warming, Josh Lawler, 31 May 2020
The Mind is Without Hindrance, Kanshin Allison Tait, 24 May 2020
New Beginnings, by Genko Cathy Blackman, 17 May 2020
Nature always cycles, by Eshin Godfrey, 10 May 2020
The Zen Principle of Resurrection, by Shingen Jan Gaensslen, 3 May 2020
Every Day Mind is the True Way, by Jeff Tipp, 27 April 2020
Annual PSZC Ethics Committee report, 26 April 2020
Rooster Zen, by Giko David Rubin, 20 April 2020
Spring Sesshin 3: Inspiring Faith, by Genko Cathy Blackman, 19 April 2020
Spring Sesshin 2: Verifying Faith, by Koshin Cain, 18 April 2020
Spring Sesshin 1: Bright Faith, by Genko Cathy Blackman, 17 April 2020
“The Heart Sutra – Nothing is Certain, Everything is Free”, by Nomon Tim Burnett, 5 April 2020 (Zoom)
“Empty of What?”, by Koshin Chris Cain, March 29, 2020 (Zoom)
“O Shariputra, have you not heard? On the Compassion of Emptiness”, by Dr. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth, March 22, 2020 (Zoom)
“To Lure and to Shock – the Heart Sutra”, by Elizabeth Fitterer, March 15, 2020 (Zoom)
“Meditation 101 – sitting tips & tricks”, by Koshin Chris Cain, March 8, 2020
“Practicing our (no) selves”, by James Farwell, February 23, 2020
“One Moon”‘, by Koshin Chris Cain, February 16, 2020
“Finding (and taking) refuge”‘, by Keri Pedersen, February 9, 2020
“Tokusan carries his bowls”‘, by Wes Borden, February 2, 2020
“Becoming ordinary”‘, by Koshin Chris Cain, January 25, 2020
“Becoming a person with nothing to do”‘, by Koshin Chris Cain, January 19, 2020
“Starting Over”‘, by Koshin Chris Cain, January 12, 2020

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2016

“Zen and Being a Mother” by Lidunn Overdahl Cain, June 26, 2016

2015

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2013 and earlier

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