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PODCAST

The No-Rank Zendo Podcast

Rinzan Pechovnik

Rinzan Osho is a priest and teacher at No-Rank Zendo, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Community in Portland, Oregon. His Dharma talks explore various aspects of Rinzai Zen Buddhist practice, spirituality and religion. He emphases practice as a means to develop and cultivate a tender open-heartedness that allows a deep engagement with a troubled world. http://www.norankzendo.org

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34:25

The Hidden Lamp: Dieu Nhan’s Without Words

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2025/06/29

In this Teisho, given on May 18th, 2025, Rinzan Osho examines Dieu Nhan’s Without Words from The Hidden Lamp. When we attach to things, we lose the essence. Zen practice is the practice of presence. Being present, we see that there is nothing to attach to. Then the whole world reveals itself.

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26:57

Showing Up to What Is

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2025/06/09

Reverend Keizan Shaffer gave this Dharma Talk on June 1st, 2025. In it, he explores the meaning of simply showing up and how preoccupation with self can get in the way. When fixated on acheiving certain results, getting things right or having it our way, we lose the flex and flow of life that unfolds just as it is.

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40:02

Bearing Witness: Racism

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2025/05/24

Reverend Yuen Kristina Houck gave this Dharma Talk May 11th, 2025. In it, she reflects on her recent experience in the Zen Peacemakers Bearing Witness to Racism retreat in Alabama. Though the layers of suffering are profound, in the midst of Samsara, the ineffable "it" expresses itself through hope, courage, persistence and faith.

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35:04

Hekiganroku: Kyozan Asks Sancho's Name

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2025/05/12

In this Teisho, given on April 20th, 2025, Rinzan Osho examines case 68 of the Hekiganroku: Kyozan Asks Sancho's Name. Deep investigation takes us to a place so vast and free that we can feel the relief of "nothing matters." From that place, we can spring forth revived, and with a profound sense that "everything matters."

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37:24

Hekiganroku: Ummon's Staff Becoming a Dragon

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2025/04/21

In this Teisho, given on March 2nd, 2025, the final day of No-Rank Zen Temple's Spring Odayaka Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 60 of the Hekiganroku: Ummon's Staff Becoming a Dragon. The staff has swallowed up the universe, where are the mountains, rivers and the great world?

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32:50

The Hidden Lamp: Lingzhao's Shining Grasses

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2025/03/31

In this Teisho, given on February 29th, 2025, the second day of No-Rank Zen Temple's Spring Odayaka Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines Lingzhao's Shining Grasses. To open to Dharma practice and the deep spiritual life, one has to be willing to do hard things with an everyday mind.

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28:09

Hekiganroku: Joshu's "Why Not Quote to the End?"

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2025/03/17

In this Teisho, given on February 28th, 2025, the first day of No-Rank Zen Temple's Spring Odayaka Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 59 of the Hekiganroku: Joshu's "Why Not Quote to the End?" The Real Way is not difficult. It only abhors choice and attachment. So how can we be free to flow in a world of like and dislike?

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35:33

The Hidden Lamp: Kakuzan Shido's Dagger

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2025/02/25

In this Teisho, given on January 26th, 2025, Rinzan Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: Kakuzan Shido's Dagger. Zen training initiates us into a new way of being. How do we respond to the world with authenticity, depth and presence?

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33:20

The Hidden Lamp: Ling's Question

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2025/02/19

In this Teisho, given on January 21st, 2025, the fourth full day of No-Rank Zen Temple's January Rohatsu Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines the Hidden Lamp: Ling's Question. "To be a human being is to live in calamity." How is it that we live a caring spiritual life amidst this?

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31:19

Hekiganroku: Ummon Stretches Out His Hands

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2025/02/09

In this Teisho, given on January 20th, 2025, the third full day of No-Rank Zen Temple's January Rohatsu Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 54 of the Hekiganroku: Ummon Stretches Out His Hands. Who are we when we greet the world that is beckoning us forward? How do we respond to its open armed invitiation.

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37:59

Three Legged Stool: Taking Responsibility

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2025/01/15

In this Dharma talk, given on December 15, 2024, Rinzan Osho talks about the importance of taking responsibility in our work in developing spiritual maturity.

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31:59

Hekiganroku: Ummon's "Particle After Particle Samadhi"

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2024/12/29

In this Teisho, given on December 2, 2024, the second full day of Chobo-ji's Rohatsu Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 50 of the Hekiganroku: Ummon's "Particle After Particle Samadhi." When we see beyond concepts, we can be open, free and responsive to the great reality, a place where words meet words and spirit meets spirit.

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29:30

The Hidden Lamp: Satsujo Sits on the Lotus Sutra

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2024/12/21

In this Teisho, given on November 24th, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: Satsujo Sits on the Lotus Sutra. When we free our mind, we see that we are intimate with all things .

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30:29

Hekiganroku: The Golden Carp

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2024/11/28

In this Teisho, given on Novembwer 10, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines case 49 of the Hekiganroku: Sansho's "The Golden Carp Out of the Net." What is it when we have dropped the bonds of ego and are truly free?

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32:43

Hekiganroku: Ummon's "Beyond the Six"

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2024/11/15

In this Teisho, given on October 17, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines case 47 of the Hekiganroku: Ummon's "Beyond the Six." Taking up our practice on the cushion, stilling the mind, we feel into something beyond, but here. We relax and immerse ourselves in it, so we can rise up in service of that which is beyond the beyond.

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34:37

Politics and the Election: Forbearance, Compassion,...

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2024/10/30

In this Dharma talk, given on October 27th 2024, Rinzan Osho takes up the challenge of our current political climate and discusses how we bring ourselves into it as practitioners of the Way.

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27:42

Hekiganroku: Nansen's "This Flower"

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2024/10/27

In this Teisho, given on August 25, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines case 40 of the Hekiganroku: Nansen's "This Flower." Believing thoughts are substantive, we get confused about what is most intimate. Setting aside descriptions and categories of like and dislike, can we be open to the great reality presenting itself to us directly?

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35:24

Hekiganroku: Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal of the Ancestor

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2024/09/27

In this Teisho, given on July 28, 2024, Rinzan Osho examines case 38 of the Hekiganroku: Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal of the Patriarch." In practicing music, we train to become musicians, learning from those before us and taking the guidance of a teacher. In Zen, we apply these same principles, training to become a human being.

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25:14

Hekiganroku: Nansen Draws a Circle (a Genjo Roshi...

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2024/09/15

Genjo Marinello Roshi gave Teisho on the Hekiganroku case 69, "Nansen Draws A Circle," at No-Rank Zen Temple's Sept. 1st Zazenkai. Sadly the recording of this talk was lost. He reprised it during the Sept. 8, 2024 Zazenkai at Chobo-Ji. It explores the Zen enso and its meaning. How do we sit in the middle of the circle of form and non-form?

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28:24

Hekiganroku: Chosha Went for a Walk

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2024/08/31

In this Teisho, given on July 15th, 2024, the sixth day of No-Rank Zen Temple's Summer Sesshin, Rinzan Osho examines case 36 of the Hekiganroku: Chosha Went for a Walk." How do we touch everything with the greatest appreciation, even while allowing for preferences?

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