Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

Will Rauschenberger

Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link...

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Will Rauschenberger, Abbot

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Episode 227: Causality
11-04-2024
Episode 227: Causality
Accepting causality and letting go of the discriminating mind.

Episodes

Episode 227: Causality
11-04-2024
Episode 227: Causality
Accepting causality and letting go of the discriminating mind.
Episode 226: Our Burden’s Are Empty
29-03-2024
Episode 226: Our Burden’s Are Empty
Realizing emptiness allows us the freedom to put down what burdens us.
Episode 225: The Luminosity of Mahayana Mind
13-03-2024
Episode 225: The Luminosity of Mahayana Mind
Coming off an all-day meditation workshop...
Episode 224: Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower
04-03-2024
Episode 224: Smiling with Buddha Holding A Flower
Not Two!
Episode 223: enlightenment
22-02-2024
Episode 223: enlightenment
enlightenment, how far away is it?
Episode 222: Chopping Wood, Carrying Water
10-02-2024
Episode 222: Chopping Wood, Carrying Water
The perfection of wisdom and suchness
Episode 221: The Authentic View
02-02-2024
Episode 221: The Authentic View
‘Don’t know mind’ is being authentic.Includes an audio clip from an Audiobook "101 Zen Stories" by Paul Beck on Audible.
Episode 220: Where Is Your Home?
30-01-2024
Episode 220: Where Is Your Home?
Breath, coming and going, life.
Episode 219: The Medicine of Together Action
29-01-2024
Episode 219: The Medicine of Together Action
Buddha’s prescriptions or remedies, also called expedient means, as they apply to Zendo etiquette.
Episode 218: The Gateless Gate Of Your Own Mind
22-01-2024
Episode 218: The Gateless Gate Of Your Own Mind
The path of enlightenment…
Episode 217: What Are We Doing?
15-01-2024
Episode 217: What Are We Doing?
In today’s Dharma Talk, we ask the question “What is it we are doing?”
Episode 216: Stop Reasoning!
13-01-2024
Episode 216: Stop Reasoning!
It neither is nor isn't. Already you see, you hear...
Episode 215: Karmic Aggravations
10-01-2024
Episode 215: Karmic Aggravations
The Perfection of Patience and our Karmic makeup, the phenomenal experience, the vibrational music of our lives.
Episode 214: A New Years Message
01-01-2024
Episode 214: A New Years Message
The past is gone, everything changes, and nothing is permanent except One.
Episode 213: Leting go is freedom
31-12-2023
Episode 213: Leting go is freedom
Letting go is walking in the footsteps of Buddha. Let it be what it is, letting go is letting go of a diluted view.
Episode 212: The Dreamscape Master
20-12-2023
Episode 212: The Dreamscape Master
What’s real and what isn’t?Just this One Mind, This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and indestructible. – Huang PO
Episode 211: December Darkness and the Perfection of Wisdom
07-12-2023
Episode 211: December Darkness and the Perfection of Wisdom
Zen is the secret right in front of you, letting your Light shine.
Episode 210: Great Inquiry
28-11-2023
Episode 210: Great Inquiry
Zen Meditation - Sitting like a hen on her eggs. Awakening to our Buddha Nature.
Episode 209: True Thanksgiving Is Everyday
23-11-2023
Episode 209: True Thanksgiving Is Everyday
As expressed by the three jewels and the Bodhisattva path.
Episode 208: Personality Traits Are Empty
20-11-2023
Episode 208: Personality Traits Are Empty
Our personality traits are just grist for the mill.