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2100 SERIES
Give Up, But Don't Quit
Feb 12, 2022    2122

Never Say Karma

Dec 4, 2022    2121

The Whole Shebang
Oct 9, 2022    2120

​Returning to Sanity
Aug 14, 2022    2113

Ways of Knowing
Jul 24, 2022    2112

​Unadorned Quietude
Jul 3, 2022    2111

​If You Want to Wake Up
May 29, 2022    2110

​Do You Know What
Apr 3, 2022    2109

​Unsupported Thought
Feb 27, 2022    2103
2000 SERIES
Trusting Reality
Jan 30, 2022    2096

If We Belong to the Sun
Jan 2, 2022    2094

​Unconditional Freedom
Nov 28, 2021    2093

Everything is All Right
Nov 14, 2021    2086

How to Hear Huang Po
Oct 17, 2021    2085

What's the Big Deal About This?
Sep 12, 2021    2084

Seeing Original Nature
Aug 8, 2021    2083

In the Seen There Is Only the Seen
Jul 18, 2021    2080

Buddhas Don't Seek
Jun 13, 2021    2069

Man Up a Tree
May 23, 2021    2060

A Hidden Glimmering
Apr 25, 2021    2055

Not Knowing Your Name
Apr 4, 2021    2050
On Peace
Feb 25, 2021    2043
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​Shining Without Intending to Shine
Feb 14, 2021    2040

Belief is the Culprit
Jan 17, 2021    2029

Halcyon Days
Dec 20, 2020    2026
​Awe and Awakening
Dec 7, 2020    2025

Q & A
Nov 8, 2020    2020

Q & A
Oct 18, 2020    2018

Stuff Happens
Sep 27, 2020    2015

Harmonious Speech in Disharmonious Times
Aug 30, 2020    2010
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Letting Go of Views
Aug 16, 2020    2008

Emptiness is Form
Jul 26, 2020    2004

Q & A Where is the "Me"?
Jun 28, 2020    2000
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1900 SERIES
Do Not Lose Sight of the Whole
May 31, 2020    1995

Sitting with Unfavorable Circumstances
May 17, 2020    1993

We've Always Been in this Place
Apr 26, 2020    1986

​Don't Think About It
Apr 12, 2020    1985

A Calm Mind in Challenging Times
Mar 29, 2020    1984

Acting Naturally
Feb 23, 2020    1981

The Reflection of Your True Face
Jan 5, 2020    1974

Seamless Monument
Dec 1, 2019    1971

How Belief Keeps Us from Waking Up
Nov 17, 2019    1970

To Beat or Not to Beat
Nov 3, 2019    1969

Look Not for Refuge
Sep 29, 2019    1960

Sudden Illumination
Sep 7, 2019    1958

It's Not About You
Sep 1, 2019    1957
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How Would Buddha Vote?
Aug 4, 2019    1956

Unpindownable
Jul 7, 2019    1955

Accept Disgrace Willingly
Jun 16, 2019    1954
Q & A
May 26, 2019    1953

Q & A On Truth and Dreams
May 19, 2019    1952

Q & A
Apr 28, 2019    1950

In Reality, as in Dreams
Apr 6, 2019    1947

Seeing No Evil

Mar 31, 2019    1945

Monet vs Moses
Mar 3, 2019    1930

Nagarjuna and the Middle Way
Jan 27, 2019    1929

Q & A
Dec 30, 2018    1928

Purity of Mind
Dec 6, 2018    1927 

Movement in Stillness
Aug 5, 2018    1910

What is Self?
Aug 1, 2018    1909

You Are Not It
Jul 13, 2018    1908

Kindness is not Compassion
Jun 24, 2018    1907

Q & A - Settle Down Right Here
Jun 10, 2018    1906

A Different Tree
May 13, 2018    1903
1800 SERIES
One Pure Practice
Mar 18, 2018    1899

Q & A - Intention, Delusion, and Enlightenment
Mar 4, 2018    1898

Suchness Without Delay
Feb 11, 2018    1890

The Wise Have No Motives
Jan 28, 2018    1888

Q & A - Aspects of Meditation
Dec 31, 2017    1880

Neither Good Nor Evil
Dec 3, 2017    1876

Nagarjuna's Tetralemma
Nov 1, 2017    1874

Beyond Good and Evil
Oct 15, 2017    1873
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What is Sesshin?
Sep 17, 2017    1865

Only Cease to Cherish Opinions
Sep 3, 2017    1864

Kindness
Jul 30, 2017    1863

Intentional Action
Jul 9, 2017    1862

The Only Difference
Jun 25, 2017    1861
General Practice
Jun 13, 2017    1860

What is the Role of a Teacher
May 21, 2017    1858

What the Hedgehog Knows
Mar 19, 2017    1854

Life, Death, and Me
Jan 15, 2017    1837
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Out of Totality
Aiug 28, 2016    1822

The Roots of Paradox

Jul 24, 2016    1820

The Deep Ache of the Heart
Jun 26, 2016    1819

Just Loosen Your Grip

Jun 5, 2016    1817

Get to Know Your Real Self
May 1, 2016    1810


Negating Zen
Mar 27, 2016    1807

Is Big Mind Analogous to God?
Mar 16, 2016    1806

Let Us Live Happily
Mar 13, 2016    1805​

Ersatz Buddhism

Mar 2, 2016    1804
1700 SERIES
Living Here
Jan 31, 2015   1794

No One Interpretation or Another
Jan 10, 2015   1786

No Intention, No Mystery
Nov 29, 2015   1778

Neither Wise Nor Foolish
Oct 11, 2015   1770

Reality is Not What You Think
Oct 3, 2015   1769

Wash Your Ears
Sep 20, 2015   1768

The True Power of a Buddha
Sep 6, 2015   1766
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The Essential
Sep 5, 2015   1765

Awareness Plain and Simple
Aug 30, 2015   1764

Mind and Consciousness
Aug 26, 2015   1763

Relinquish All Views
Jul 19, 2015   1761

Why We Don't Wake Up
Jun 7, 2015   1758  

Are We Natural?
May 17, 2015   1755  

What Is Our Problem?
Apr 26, 2015   1750  

Don't Know It Is
Apr 15, 2015   1749  

Beyond Interconnectedness 
Mar 29, 2015   1746  

You Are not You
Mar 18, 2015   1745  
​When the Mind Is Not Disturbed
Feb 22, 2015   1743  
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Wholeness Includes Everyone
Jan 25, 2015   1739  

Ordinary Mind Is The Way
Jan 11, 2015   1738  

When the Mind is Nowhere
Dec 28, 2014   1737  

Nothing to Depend On
Nov 30, 2014   1726  

Loosen Your Grip
Nov 5, 2014   1725

Practice-Enlightenment
Nov 2, 2014   1724  
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Let It Drop Away
Oct 15, 2014   1723

It’s Your Life
Sep 28, 2014   1722

Practice Without Labels
Sep 17, 2014   1721  
 
The Wisdom of Lao Tsu
Sep 10, 2014   1720
 
This is Truly Unique
Sep 7, 2014   1719
 
Belief is the Culprit
Aug 3, 2014   1709  
 
No Mind to Cast or to Receive
​Jul 6, 2014   1707

Useless Zazen and Other Imponderables
Jun 18, 2014   1706  

On the Head Teacher Position with Q and A
Jun 15, 2014   1705  


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1600 SERIES
I Have Learned So Much
April 20, 2014   1699

Dharma Discussion Q and A #29
Mar 9, 2014   1694

How Happy is the Little Stone
Feb 9, 2014   1692

What Never Occurs to a Buddha
Jan 19, 2014   1691

The Three Truths
Dec 15, 2013   1683

Reason and Error
Nov 17, 2013   1678

The Marks of a Solitary Bird
Oct 13, 2013   1675

A Quantum Leap of Faith
Jul 21, 2013   1663

Mature Practice
May 5, 2013   1654

Cold Mountain is Right Here
Mar 31, 2013   1651

Without Relying on Belief
Feb 24, 2013   1644
Why I Don’t Say I’m a Buddhist
Feb 3, 2013   1643

Spontaneous Knowledge
Dec 23, 2012   1633

Pleasure is not Happiness
Sep 30, 2012   1628
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The Purpose of Life?
Jul 22, 2012   1625

Watch Your Mind
May 6, 2012   1624

Dharma Teachers
Apr 15, 2012   1617

Dharma Teaching
Mar 25, 2012   1616

Is Buddhism a Religion?
Mar 4, 2012   1615

Teaching Like a Raft
Feb 5, 2012   1606

The Interidentity of Absolute and Relative Truth
Jan 25, 2012   1605
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The Interidentity of Correct and Imaginary Relative Truth
Jan 18, 2012   1604


1500 SERIES
Holding No Beliefs
Jan 15, 2012   1596

Whatever Has Form is Illusory
Dec 18, 2011   1595

The Sound of One Duck Quacking
Dec 27, 2011   1592

Grasping Bodhidharma
Nov 6, 2011   1585

Skin, Flesh, Bone, Marrow
Oct 16, 2011   1584

The Ultimate Non-duality
Sep 11, 2011   1571

Why Practice
Aug 14, 2011   1568

Dharma Discussion – Q & A
Jul 3, 2011   1567

The True Dharma Gate
Jun 5, 2011   1563

The Mother of Buddhas
May 8, 2011   1559

Stepping Aside
Apr 17, 2011   1552
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The Resolve to Awaken

Mar 20, 2011   1549
This Insubstantial Pageant
Feb 6, 2011   1541

Where Zen Practice is Difficult
Jan 23, 2011   1540

Dharma Transmission
Jan 2, 2011   1539

The Scoreboard
Jan 2, 2011   1538

Q & A – Living in the Moment, Compassion
Dec 19, 2010   1537

Dharma Words
Nov 7, 2010   1527

The Lull of Words
Sep 26, 2010   1517

The Point of the Spiritual Life
Jul 25, 2010   1510

Q and; A – Sanzen, Forms, Time and; Taoism
Jul 4, 2010   1509

What Are You Doing?
Jun 27, 2010   1507
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Not So Fast and Loose with the Truth
Jun 6, 2010   1503


1400 SERIES
Who Are the Awakened?
May 16, 2010   1497

The World Is Too Much With Us
Apr 25, 2010   1493

Trust in the Sangha
Mar 14, 2010   1486

Forget Your Drum
Feb 28, 2010   1477

The Trouble With Conviction
Feb 7, 2010   1472

Why?
Jan 24, 2010   1469

The Bane of Humankind
Jan 10, 2010   1466

Truth and Words
Dec 27, 2009   1465

The Notion of Existence
Nov 29, 2009   1454

People, Problems, and Practice
Nov 15, 2009   1453

No Explanation
Nov 1, 2009   1452

Not Holding a View of Extinction
Oct 18, 2009   1445

The Mountain of Egolessness
Sep 27, 2009   1444

No Hindrance of Mind
Sep 13, 2009   1437

No Compassion Without Wisdom
Jul 26, 2009   1434
Hard Zen, Easy Zen
Jul 5, 2009   1433

Secular Religion
Jun 28, 2009   1432

Are All Religions the Same?
Jun 14, 2009   1431
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Mind, Motion, and Math
Jun 3, 2009   1430
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Zen vs Insanity
May 31, 2009   1429

The Field of Dharma
May 3, 2009   1426

Living Without Heaven or Hell
Apr 12, 2009   1425

No Separation
Mar 22, 2009   1421

Causes and Conditions
Mar 1, 2009   1420

What Kind of Teaching Is This?
Feb 1, 2009   1419

Question What You Know
Jan 25, 2009   1406

Where There Is No Cold or Heat
Jan 11, 2009   1404

Mind, Matter, and Meditation
Dec 21, 2008   1403

Physics, Philosophy, and Prajna
Dec 17, 2008   1402
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Too Big to Fail
Dec 14, 2008   1401
1300 SERIES
The Five-fold Student-Teacher Relationship
Nov 23, 2008   1397

Cats and Cows Know It Is
Nov 2, 2008   1390

True Leadership
Oct 5, 2008   1387

Meet a Teacher, Leave the Teacher
Sep 21, 2008   1380

It is You
Sep 7, 2008   1379

Turning Understanding on its Head
Aug 3, 2008   1378

On Not Being a Buddhist
Jul 20, 2008   1377

A Childish Query
Jul 6, 2008   1376

The Most Important Thing
Jun 22, 2008   1375

Only Make-Believe
Jun 1, 2008   1374

Introduction to Nagarjuna
Apr 23, 2008   1369

How to Tell the Truth
Apr 20, 2008   1368
Yada-yada Dharma
Mar 23, 2008   1358

A Place to Enter
Mar 9, 2008   1357
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The Only Possible World
Feb 24, 2008   1350
​

What Is Practice?
Jan 27, 2008   1347

Set It Down
Jan 13, 2008   1340

Learn the Backward Step
Dec 30, 2007   1333

Q & A
Dec 16, 2007   1332

Life Worth Living
Nov 25, 2007   1326

Kind Mind
Nov 7, 2007   1325

Honor
Oct 28, 2007   1318
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Dangerous Delusions

Oct 7, 2007   1315
1200 SERIES
The Point of Practice
Jul 29, 2007   1296

Not By Your Own Yardstick
Jul 15, 2007   1295

Seeing Through the Benefits of Meditation
Jul 1, 2007   1294

Knowing Before You Think
Jun 20, 2007   1293

Without Subscribing to Beliefs
Jun 17, 2007   1292

Time and Now
Jun 6, 2007   1291

Sick Characters in Search of a Cure
Jun 3, 2007   1290

The Ultimate Non-Question
May 13, 2007   1296

The Non-duality of Good and Evil
Apr 29, 2007   1279

Aim for Cold Mountain
Apr 1, 2007   1276

Prajna, Not Prada
Mar 4, 2007   1262

When Enough is Enough
Feb 4, 2007   1259

Hidden Body
Jan 14, 2007   1252

The Secret of Practice
Dec 31, 2006   1245
Why We're Suspicious of the True Dragon
Dec 17, 2006   1243

See the Mountain Again
Nov 26, 2006   1236
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To Sit Still in a Room

Nov 12, 2006   1235
​

The Ground of Compassion
Oct 29, 2006   1234

The Two Truths
Oct 8, 2006   1219

One Great Thing
Sep 24, 2006   1212

Leave No Trace
Sep 3, 2006   1211

The Art of Asking
Jul 23, 2006   1210

Shaking Up the Mixture
Jul 9, 2006   1209

Neither Graspable Nor Illusive
Jun 18, 2006   1207

Buddhism Is Not What You Think
Jun 4, 2006   1206

Parental Mind
May 14, 2006   1202

Timeless Morality
Apr 30, 2006   1201
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Formlessness
Apr 23, 2006   1200
1100 SERIES
Practice By No Means
Apr 2, 2006   1197

Truth Has No Theories
Mar 19, 2006   1190

Before You Get Any Ideas
Mar 5, 2006   1189

To Live in Awakening
Feb 5, 2006   1167

Peace – Not Wanting a Different World
Jan 22, 2006   1160

What the Buddha Never Taught
Jan 8, 2006   1159

30,000 Years of Celebration
Dec 25, 2005   1158

The Blindness of Just Seeing
Dec 18, 2005   1157

Sanzen
Nov 27, 2005   1145

Big Mind

Oct 2, 2005   1144

Understanding Non-Attachment
Oct 30, 2005   1143

Language Without Metaphor
Oct 9, 2005   1128

Recognizing and Avoiding Extremes

Sep 25, 2005   1127
What Was That?
Sep 11, 2005   1120


Life Lives Through You
Sep 4, 2005   1119


Notice the Elephant in the Room
Jul 31, 2005   1118


Not Worth Dying For
Jul 17, 2005   1117


Don't Kid Yourself
Jul 3, 2005   1116

Your Own Worst Enemy
Jun 19, 2005   1115

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The Ones Who Walk Away
Jun 8, 2005   1114


Sharper Than You Received It
Jun 5, 2005   1113

What Matters
May 22, 2005   1108

Nowhere to Direct Your Mind
May 15, 2005   1107

Give Them a Large Pasture
May 1, 2005   1106

Not Self, Not No Self
Apr 10, 2005   1104
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Be a Light Unto Yourself

Mar 20, 2005   1101
1000 SERIES
Confusing Good with Evil
Feb 6, 2005   1096

It's Up to You

Jan 30, 2005   1095

The Steady Walk of Compassion
Jan 16, 2005   1094

Compassion Without Crisis
Jan 9, 2005   1093

The Exact Moment of Death and Other Questions
Dec 26, 2004   1087

Living in Muddy Water
Dec 16, 2004   1086

Meeting with the Lake Superior Freethinkers
Dec 5, 2004   1084

True Security in an Insecure World
Nov 11, 2004   1083

Sounding Silence
Nov 10, 2004   1082

My Country Right or Wrong?
Nov 14, 2004   1081

Zen Without the Traps
Oct 31, 2004   1080

Words
Oct 10, 2004   1077

Not Being Anybody
Sep 12, 2004   1076
Just Look
May 9, 2004   1066
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To Undertake the Training
May 2, 2004   1065

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Formless Admission, Unobstructed Mind
Apr 25, 2004   1064
​
Positively Negative
Apr 11, 2004   1063

Stop Analyzing Your Feelings
Mar 28, 2004   1050

Aloneness, Not Loneliness
Feb 1, 2004   1033

Constancy
Jan 18, 2004   1032

Life Without Meaning
Jan 4, 2004   1025

The Turning of the Light
Dec 21, 2003   1019

Causes and Conditions
Nov 30, 2003   1017

True Seeking Mind
Nov 23, 2003   1016

No Judgment
Nov 9, 2003   1015

What Are You, Really?

Oct 12, 2003   1005
900 SERIES
Sticky Zen
Sep 7, 2003   997

Is There Life After Death?
Jun 29, 2003   991

Shikantaza

Jun 11, 2003   990

Look Not for Refuge
Apr 26, 2003   978

The Merging of Perfection and Error

Apr 12, 2003   977

Nothing Holy
Mar 29, 2003   970

Muddy Water, Clear Mind

Mar 15, 2003   969

The Trouble With Promoting Buddhism

Mar 1, 2003   968
Big Self, Little Self
Feb 1, 2003   967

Winter Solstice

Dec 2, 2002   951
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Buddhism Without Baloney
Dec 7, 2002   950

Wearing the Teaching
Nov 23, 2002   949

Patient Like the Earth
Nov 9, 2002   948

Regarder of the Cries of the World

Nov 2, 2002   947

The Giving Tree

Sep 21, 2002   937
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Recognizing Religion After 9/11

Sep 7, 2002   900
800 SERIES
Collecting the Mind (or What is Sesshin?)
Aug 31, 2002   897

An Honest Question
Jul 20, 2002   896

Slowing Down
Jun 29, 2002   895

Why People Don't Become Enlightened
Jun 8, 2002   894

Skin, Flesh, Bones, Marrow
May 11, 2002   890

Beyond the Cross-legged Position
Apr 13, 2002   888

Zen is Zero or 100%
Mar 30, 2002   880

Zen Plain and Simple
Mar 23, 2002   879

Walking the Razor's Edge
Mar 9, 2002   860

The Mind of Why and What
Feb 23, 2002   859

Seeing Good and Evil with One Eye
Feb 9, 2002   856

Why Religion Must Abandon Belief
Jan 26, 2002   855
Practice and Circumstance
Jan 12, 2002   854

Seven Aspects of Being

Jan 5, 2002   853
​

Inner Comfort, Wholesome Practice
Jan 5, 2002   839

Zen and the Art of Leadership
Nov 17, 2001   835

Put Your Energy Into Wholeness
Nov 10, 2001   834

Walking by Faith
Oct 20, 2001   825

Doing Not-doing
Oct 6, 2001   824

Walking by Sight
Jan 22, 2001   823

Enlightenment
Sep 8, 2001   810

Ice Forming in Fire
Jul 21, 2001   801
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Song of the Solitary
Jul 7, 2001   
800
Talks N°s 39 - 799
Neither Sacred Nor Profane
Jun 23, 2001   799

Rebirth, Not Reincarnation
Jun 9, 2001   792

Only to be Awake
May 12, 2001   786

A Mind of Winter

Apr 14, 2001   784

Reflections on Science, Religion and Handel
Mar 3, 2001   763

The Buddhist Teaching of Totality
Feb 3, 2001   760

Hear, Speak, and See No Evil
Jan 6, 2001   759

The Thing Well Made
Dec 23, 2000   757

Forgetting All Dichotomies
Oct 28, 2000   739

Forsaking Understanding

Sep 30, 2000   737

Mind in the Lead
Sep 16, 2000   731
​
Ordinary Zen and Zen
Jul 1, 2000   
725
The Elixir of Immortality
Jun 10, 2000   718

No Mystery
May 20, 2000   712

That It Will Never Come Again
Jan 8, 2000   652

One Continous Mistake
Oct 9, 1999   618

Expressing Ultimate Reality

May 2, 1998   465

Tasting the Moment
Jun 13, 1998   447

On the Precept Ceremony
May 23, 1998   442

The Boddhisattva's Four Vows

Oct 11, 1997   370

Most Wonderful Thing in Life
Jun 27, 1994   164

Chao Chou Folds His Bowing Mat
Jun 20, 1994   163

Belief, Knowledge, Faith, and Chaos
May 27, 1989   57

We Already Know
Jun 3, 1987   
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