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PODCAST

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast

Greater Boston Zen Center

Welcome to our podcast coming to you from the Greater Boston Zen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are a sangha-led sangha, and our podcasts (beginning in 2024) feature talks given by knowledgeable sangha members and guest speakers, often accompanied by group discussion. For more information about our sangha go to our website: bostonzen.org.

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All Episodes

06:07

(Short) Being Vast Space

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2022/01/11

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk. "You cannot feel earth unless you feel space." (January 10, 2022)

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08:49

(Short) Anxiety

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2022/01/02

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about mild anxiety as a form of selfing. (December 16, 2021)

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12:30

(Short) A Zen New Year

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/30

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk. Does Zen encourage taking stock and making resolutions on the New Year·s holiday? (December 30, 2021)

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08:54

(Short) Celebrating Light

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/21

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk on the occasion of the winter solstice. (December 20, 2021)

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07:25

(Short) Endings

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/17

Fran Ludwig talks about the destruction that proceeds a new beginning. (Rohatsu Sesshin, December 11, 2021)

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18:44

My Messy Life

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/17

Julie Nelson contrasts the traditional abbreviated story of the Buddha's enlightenment with her own messy life, and reviews what is often left out in the telling. (Rohatsu Sesshin, December 11, 2021) (Does not include a Dharma Discussion.)

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41:32

Metaphors of Light and Dark

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/16

Jeff Seul speaks about images of light and dark in relation to Rohatsu, the celebration of the Buddha's great realization. (December 11, 2021)

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10:08

Falling Into the Universe

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/15

Ed Oberholtzer speaks about stars, in relation to Rohatsu, the celebration of the Buddha's awakening. (Rohatsu Sesshin, December 10, 2021) (Does not include a Dharma Discussion.)

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45:44

Koun Yamada’s Three Aims of Practice

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/04

Fran Ludwig speaks about the goals of our practice. The text is from Yamada's book, Zen: The Authentic Gate. (December 4, 2021)

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06:51

(Short) Bowing

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/12/03

Ed Oberholtzer gives and encouragement talk about bowing (December 3, 2021)

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47:47

Pretending to Be a Zen Teacher

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/11/28

Julie Nelson speaks about taking functions seriously, and names lightly. The text is "Kit's New Practice" from The Book of Householder Koans by E.M. Marko and W. E. Nakao. (November 27, 2021)

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09:54

(Short) Home

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/11/25

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about the concept and feeling of home ("home for the holidays," "home sangha") and its relation to our Zen practice. (November 25, 2021)

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10:43

(Short) Anxiety as Liberation

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/11/14

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about Zhaozhuo's saying, "Buddhahood is passion, and passion is Buddhahood." (October 4, 2021)

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10:41

(Short) Awakening

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/11/05

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about waking up--and what comes next. The text is taken from Koun Yamada's Zen: The Authentic Gate. (October 28, 2021)

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42:03

Grief

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/11/02

Jeff Kogen Seul speaks about grief. The text is from the Chinese text Zhuangzi, excerpted in the book The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life. (October 30, 2021)

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12:49

(Short) The Universe

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/10/29

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is Dainin Katagiri's Each Moment is the Universe. (October 20, 2021)

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42:08

Betrayal

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/10/24

Julie Nelson speaks about how we can practice with betrayal, both by approaching feelings of having been betrayed as a Dharma Gate, and by considering whether inflicting "betrayal" could be in line with our Zen precepts. (October 23, 2021)

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08:20

(Short) Choicelessness

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/10/10

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about cultivating a practice of being intimate with whatever is arising. (August 30, 2021)

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09:21

(Short) Not Quite Broken Up Yet

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/10/03

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about how we practice in the midst of destruction. The text is from Joan Sutherland's Acequias/Gates. (September 23, 2021)

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12:26

(Short) Intimacy Renews Intimacy

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/09/29

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is Fasicle 52 of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. (September 22, 2021)

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