The Living Zen Podcast

Becoming Ordinary

Dharma talks exploring Zen practice, awakening, and how to bring clarity and compassion into daily life.

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20 episodes
Updated Tuesday

Episodes20

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Tuesday · 34 min
The Three Pure Precepts
From the March 2025 7-Day Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
July 6 · 34 min
A Thousand Buddhas Don’t Know
From the October 2022 Long Beach Meditation “Mountain Refuge Retreat”
May 29 · 32 min
Awareness is the Root Experience of All
The Blue Cliff Record, Case 40, from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.
April 14 · 36 min
As You Are. Here. Now.
Case 1 of the Gateless Gate: “Ordinary Mind is the Way” from Insight Community of the Desert’s Tuesday Meditation As Refuge class.
February 24 · 51 min
The Essential Practice of Just Sitting
Case 1 from the Book of Equanimity “The World Honored One Ascends the Platform” from the May 2025 sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
Mar 22, 2025 · 44 min
Pointing to the Human Mind
From the September 2024 7-Day Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
Apr 23, 2024 · 41 min
Trust Your Heart
Return to What is Most Vital
Sep 2, 2023 · 46 min
The Heart of the Matter
From the Summer 2023 Beginner’s Mind Sesshin at Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
Apr 8, 2023 · 34 min
This Mysterious Life
From Beginner’s Mind Sesshin, January 2023
Dec 11, 2022 · 44 min
The One Behind the Name
You have to break through to this.
Sep 25, 2022 · 48 min
The Three Essentials
Great faith, great doubt, and great determination are considered to be three essentials for Zen practice. If any of these essentials are absent, we may not accomplish our aim.
Jan 16, 2022 · 33 min
Call and Response
Yes!
Jul 25, 2021 · 49 min
The Meaning Finds You
How can it be understood?
Jan 17, 2021 · 44 min
How to do Nothing
Doing nothing can be surprisingly difficult.
Sep 23, 2020 · 42 min
Feeling the Heat
The Practice of Active Acceptance.
May 16, 2020 · 40 min
Searching for the Mind
Exploring the island.
Dec 31, 2019 · 42 min
The Exploration of Self Nature
Leaping Clear of the Many and the One.
Nov 30, 2019 · 40 min
The Role of a Lifetime
Are we really who we think we are?
Oct 31, 2019 · 45 min
The Oak Tree
What is the Essential meaning?
Sep 29, 2019 · 44 min
Who Is That One?
Who is taking care of who?

The Living Zen Podcast

The Three Pure Precepts

A Thousand Buddhas Don’t Know

Awareness is the Root Experience of All

As You Are. Here. Now.

The Essential Practice of Just Sitting

Pointing to the Human Mind

Trust Your Heart

The Heart of the Matter

This Mysterious Life

The One Behind the Name

The Three Essentials

Call and Response

The Meaning Finds You

How to do Nothing

Feeling the Heat

Searching for the Mind

The Exploration of Self Nature

The Role of a Lifetime

The Oak Tree

Who Is That One?