A Zen podcast plus audio archive, with over 800 teisho and Dharma talks by teachers and senior students at the Rochester Zen Center. Topics range from classical koan commentaries to engaged Buddhism and talks that support beginners.
Talks for Newcomers & Old Hands
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Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn
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Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn
Practice and our lives are not two. Insight comes when the thinking mind falls silent.
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Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn
Sesshin: November 2023, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 2). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996
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Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn
Sesshin: November 2023, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 1). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996
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Coming to the Path Talk by Ven. Kanji Argetsinger
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Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal
Sesshin: September 2023, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Zen Master Foyan. Sources: Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings (Expanded Edition) by Andy Ferguson. Wisdom Publications, 2011. Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. Shambhala Press, 2000.
Philip Kapleau was one of the founding fathers of American Zen and author of The Three Pillars of Zen, the first book to explain the practice of Zen to Westerners.
Talks by senior students, sharing their journey to the Dharma and to the Rochester Zen Center
A complete list of all of our digitized recordings
