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Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks

Zen Community of Oregon

New podcasts every Tues, Thurs and Sat. Here you can find talks from various teachers involved with the Zen Community of Oregon. We share talks from our retreats, as well as our different weekly offerings between Great Vow Zen Monastery and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. Zen Community of Oregon"s purpose is to express and make accessible the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha’s teachings, as transmitted through an authentic, historical lineage. To support and maintain Zen Buddhist practice in order

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33:08

The 8 Wordly Concerns - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/03/03

Responding to a question about fame, influence, and “sacrificing one’s life to a cause,” Jogen explores the Buddhist teaching of the Eight Worldly Concerns: pleasure and displeasure, loss and gain, praise and blame, fame and infamy. He examines the deep human desire to be known, respected, and powerful, and the spiritual dangers hidden within recognition and status. Drawing on stories from Zen tradition and his own experience, he reflects on how practice invites us to stop being buffeted by

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42:58

Cut Off All Useless Thoughts- Kisei Costenbader, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/28

In this talk, Kisei continues exploring the Faith in Mind poem, reflecting on the invitation to “cut off all useless thoughts” and return to the root of awareness itself. Drawing on the koan of Mu, the teachings of Mumon and Dahui, and her own experience of practice, she reframes “cutting off” as seeing through the thinking mind rather than fighting it. By investigating the nature of thought—its texture, duration, and source—practitioners begin to recognize the spacious awareness in which

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32:26

Motivation and the Dharma - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/26

Jogen explores the question of motivation for practice, reflecting on why spiritual practice matters in a disturbing and impermanent world and why it can still be difficult to sustain. He examines sources of motivation—from habit and benefit to suffering, wisdom, and mysterious calling—and introduces the traditional “Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind” as contemplations on suffering, impermanence, karma, and death. Through personal stories and practical reflection, this talk invites listeners

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28:28

The Mysterious Source - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/24

Kisei reflects on the closing stanzas of the Affirming Faith in Mind poem, exploring what it means to trust the heart-mind beyond discrimination and thought. She considers seasons of practice, the tension between sidedness and non-duality, and the lived, particular shape of a practitioner’s path, weaving in stories of pilgrimage, faith in America, and the koan of calling out to one’s true nature. This talk invites listeners to recognize the mysterious source within, honor their unique karma

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14:20

Advice To An 18 Year Old Practitioner- Hogen, Roshi...

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/21

In this dialogue, Jogen and Hogen reflect on practice, uncertainty, and how to find direction in life. Hogen shares what he would tell his 18-year-old self about confidence and liberation, while Jogen explores non-resistance, yielding to experience, and listening deeply to the body and mind. Together they discuss career choices, not knowing the future, and how Zen practice cultivates discernment, flexibility, and trust in the unfolding of a life.★ Support this podcast ★

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26:06

Turning Problems Into Wisdom pt.2 - Hogen Roshi

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/19

In this talk, Hogen reflects on turning problems into wisdom, exploring how fear, beliefs, and fixed stories can become inner prisons—and how practice opens a path to freedom. Drawing on teachings about equanimity, responsibility, and gratitude, he invites listeners to face fear directly, soften around difficulty, and transform life’s challenges into sources of insight, compassion, and appreciation for this one precious life.★ Support this podcast ★

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38:41

The Spell of the World - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/17

In this closing retreat talk, Jogen explores awareness, language, and love as portals into awakening, weaving poetry with Zen teaching to question what we mean by “the world.” Reflecting on impermanence, intimacy, and the bodhisattva path, he invites listeners to recognize the myriad worlds arising through their own body and mind—and to live so that life itself becomes an altar of love, responsibility, and presence. This is talk 5 of the 2026 Dharma Gates retreat.★ Support this podcast

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32:20

One Hundred Foot Pole - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/14

In this New Year Dharma talk, Kisei reflects on the Zen koan of stepping from the top of the hundred-foot pole, exploring what it means to move from insight into lived, embodied practice. Weaving together koans, tarot imagery, and reflections on aspiration, habit energy, and curiosity, she invites listeners to examine where they hold back from life and how playful, resourceful engagement can become a path of awakening. Through images of the Fool, the lotus in fire, and the bodhisattva

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43:07

Traveler, There Is No Road - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/12

In this retreat talk, Jogen explores the inner disturbance that drives spiritual practice and the ways mistaken perception, fixed beliefs, and self-image shape our suffering. Drawing on Zen teachings, poetry, and personal reflection, he examines how we live in mental representations rather than direct experience, and how practice invites us to shed accumulated knowledge and see more clearly. The talk points to deep yielding and decisive, wholehearted engagement as gateways to freedom,

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26:16

Turning Problems into Wisdom - Hogen Roshi

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/10

In this opening talk of a series, Hogen introduces the Dharma as a practical path for transforming life’s challenges into wisdom, compassion, and clarity. Drawing on the Four Noble Truths, he reframes suffering as “challenge” and emphasizes that everything in our inner life is workable when met directly. The talk focuses on cultivating a clear mind through slowing down, presence, and discernment, learning to distinguish facts from problems, and understanding what is truly ours to carry

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33:14

The Way of The Bodhisattva - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/07

In this talk, Kisei explores the Bodhisattva path as a life oriented toward love for the world and responsiveness to suffering. Drawing on Mahayana teachings, Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, and contemporary reflections, she distinguishes between boundless compassion as our true nature and active compassion as a practice we cultivate. Introducing the “five compassions”—wise, fierce, patient, joyful, and unified—Kisei offers practical guidance for living the Bodhisattva vow with

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55:21

The Doors of Liberation - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/05

In this retreat talk, Jogen explores love, yielding, and aimlessness as essential dimensions of Zen practice. Beginning with love as the ground of awakening—from kindness toward oneself to devotion to ending suffering—he offers practical guidance for integrating warmth, relaxation, and embodied presence into meditation. The talk unpacks distraction and return as the natural texture of practice, introduces the Mahayana teachings of signlessness, wishlessness, and aimlessness, and points to

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30:05

Dew on the Rose - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/03

This talk explores the Buddhist teaching of impermanence as the foundation of liberation and ethical living. Reflecting on the meaning of a “new year,” it examines how fixed ideas about self, time, and identity create suffering, and how seeing the fluid, moment-to-moment nature of experience opens creativity, responsibility, and freedom. Through teachings on letting go, vow, and integrity, the talk invites practitioners to align their deepest intentions with daily life, discovering how

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42:29

When Effort Becomes Intimacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/31

In this opening retreat talk, Jogen explores the nature of effort in zazen, describing practice as a living, responsive correction of the mind’s continual drift from intimacy with body, breath, and present awareness. Using the image of driving a car, he shows how meditation requires both gentle steadiness and, at times, wholehearted intensity, always guided by sincerity rather than force. He unpacks the “discriminating itch” that divides experience into right and wrong, and invites

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28:52

Gathering the Heart - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/29

In this opening sesshin talk, Jogen welcomes practitioners into the deep work of gathering the heart and aligning with true nature through the simple, demanding forms of Zen retreat. He speaks of awakening as the end of unnecessary suffering and the discovery of a deeper truth than personality, a shared root of all beings that softens division and reveals a “diamond kinship” with life. Emphasizing both character formation and mind training, he encourages sincerity, steadiness, relaxation,

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20:41

The Fluid Heart of the New Year - Hogen, Roshi

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/27

In this New Year’s talk, Hogen reflects on impermanence as the ground of freedom, showing how the fluid, flickering nature of body, mind, and world makes transformation always possible. Through the traditional elements of letting go, clarifying vow, and living with ethical integrity, he points to the deep creativity inherent in each moment and the unique aspiration alive in every person. By trusting direct experience, releasing fixed self-images, and aligning our actions with our deepest

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43:52

Appreciate Your Life - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/24

Drawing on the teaching “Appreciate Your Life” from Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Jomon weaves together the Zen story of Gensha with the lives and insights of Carl Rogers, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Marsha Linehan, showing how trust in direct experience, mindful presence, and compassion reveal the same truth across traditions. Through breath, awareness, and the courage to meet life as it is, she points to a lived understanding that this very life is the life of Buddha, that each moment is complete, and

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33:05

Frictionless Mind - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/23

In this talk on the Faith in Mind chant, Jogen explores acceptance, frictionlessness, and the deeper wisdom that lives beneath ordinary discriminating thought. He reflects on how suffering arises from clinging to opinions, identities, and habitual stances, and how Zen practice reveals a naturally fluid, responsive mind that does not grind against experience. Pointing to prajna—intelligence before thought—he invites us to trust the heart-mind that meets each moment freshly, allowing action

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41:38

Where the Next Step Lands - Hogen Roshi

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/20

In this closing sesshin talk, Hogen reflects on faith not as belief, but as the lived courage to step into the unknown moment by moment. He speaks of karma as an unfolding stream, of practice as learning to trust the next step without grasping at outcomes, and of life’s purpose as simply being fully alive in what is. Through images of walking, breathing, and letting go of fixed identity, he points to a deep confidence in the present moment and in the heart’s aspiration, inviting us to meet

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41:07

Tipping the Water Bottle - Chozen, Roshi

Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/17

In this Rohatsu sesshin talk, Chozen reflects on awakening, silent mind, and the constructed personality that both protects and confines us. Drawing on the Buddha’s own awakening, the teaching of “don’t-know mind” from Seung Sahn Sunim, Eckhart Tolle’s modern account of disidentification from thought, and the koan of Isan tipping over the water bottle, she points to the moment when thinking falls away and original mind reveals itself—vast, intimate, and free from entanglement. The

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