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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

38:35

One Gains, One Loses

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/09/21

Julie Nelson speaks about our thoughts of gain and loss, and right and wrong. The text is Case 26 of The Gateless Gate, "Fayan Points to the Bamboo Screens." (September 18, 2021)

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08:48

(Short) No Teachers of Zen

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/31

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk. What is the role of a teacher in Zen practice? (August 9, 2021)

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12:10

(Short) On Just Wanting the Good Parts

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/26

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement about just wanting to see or to have "the good parts," including the good parts of ourselves. The text is a poem by Ikkyu. (August 19, 2021)

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13:24

(Short) Liberation

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/22

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about the place of freedom from which we meet the exigencies of life. The text used is Kosho Uchiyama's Opening the Hand of Thought. (July 29, 2021)

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11:50

(Short) Cultivating the Empty Field

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/18

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is "The Field of Boundless Emptiness" from Cultivating the Empty Field by Hongzhi Zhengjue. (August 11, 2021)

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51:35

My Deeds Are My Closest Companions

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/10

Fran Ludwig speaks about keeping company with pain that has traveled from generation to generation. The text is "The Five Remembrances." (July 31, 2021)

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12:40

(Short) What Are We Doing Here?

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/04

James Cordova gives and encouragement talk about not knowing why we are here. The text is Case 17 in the Blue Cliff Record. (July 28, 2021)

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11:58

(Short) The World is Burning

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/08/02

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about observing widespread destruction. The text is Deep Hope by Diane Rizzetto. (July 22, 2021)

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06:24

(Short) Seeing Through the Boundary

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/07/30

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about seeing through the boundary between you and me. The text is the story, "Layman Pang and his daughter Ling Zhao fall together."( July 5, 2021)

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12:52

(Short) Intimacy with Conflict

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/07/09

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about turning towards conflict and tension. The texts are from the Diamond and Vimilakirti Sutras. (July 8, 2021)

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45:21

Blinded by Passions

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/07/05

Fran Ludwig speaks about how our unconscious behaviors can cause harm to others. (July 3, 2021)

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11:21

(Short) See How Vast and Wide the World Is

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/30

Fran Ludwig gives and encouragement talk about what we can do when feeling overwhelmed. (June 21, 2021)

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11:50

(Short) Trust

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/28

Kate Hartland gives an encouragement talk about trust in teachers, and the problems therein. The text is from Zen Master Raven by Robert Aitken. (June 25, 2021)

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10:38

Hitting the Wall

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/27

Fran Ludwig speaks about "What happens when we run out of options?" (June 22, 2021) (Does not include a Dharma Dialog.)

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47:38

Vimilakirti and the Unconditioned

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/20

Julie Nelson speaks about what in our Zen practice is really essential. The text is the Vimilakirti Sutra. (June 19, 2021)

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24:06

Samadhi, Kensho, and Cultivating a Zen Life

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/16

Julie Nelson speaks about some (often confusing) aspects of our Zen practice: In this case, samadhi (a blissful mind state), kensho (a.k.a. satori, enlightenment), and cultivating a Zen life. What are samadhi and kensho? Are they goals, means to a goal, or something else? How do we express the Dharma in our lives? (June 8, 2021) (Does not include a Dharma Dialog.)

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13:01

(Short) At Ease and in Harmony

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/11

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk based on a reading by Keizan Jokin (from the GBZC Sutra Book, 2019 edition). May 13, 2021

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44:46

The Great Unmasking

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/08

Fran Ludwig speaks about how our practice helps us remove remove the masks that hide our true nature. (June 5, 2021)

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11:13

(Short) Savoring Every Moment

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/06/06

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is from Pema Chodron's No Time to Lose. (May 5, 2021)

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08:42

(Short) I Don’t Know

Greater Boston Zen Center Podcast ·

2021/05/30

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about imagining oneself as a particular locus of not-knowing. (May 20, 2021)

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