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Stoep Zen

Stoepzen Podcasts

Stoep Zen is a series of Dharma Talks by Antony Osler (Dae Chong, Osho), the guiding teacher at Poplar Grove Zendo in South Africa and a former Zen monk. The ‘Stoep’ in the title refers to the stoop or porch of an old farm house in the remote dry veld where the zendo is situated; it refers to the title of Antony’s first book and the zendo website (stoepzen.co.za); and it refers to the plain embodiment quality of the Zen practice there. The talks draw from traditional Zen teachings and koans to make

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00:26:03

Compassion as Emptiness

Stoep Zen ·

2025/11/08

Compassion in Buddhism is not cute; it is grounded in Emptiness, in Taoism it is grounded in Tao, ordinariness. And both of these are marked by a fundamental unfathomable interconnectedness.

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00:28:21

The Vastness of Zen Practice

Stoep Zen ·

2025/10/10

Whether we are on formal retreat or out in the everyday world, our practice continues. We pay attention, whatever we are doing and whomever we are with. We honour our inherent relatedness. This is where our practice is tested, refined, enjoyed and deepened.

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00:25:23

The Way of Teachings; the Way of Attention

Stoep Zen ·

2025/09/15

We come to Zen through the teachings of the tradition. The brilliance of the teachings is that they have a self-destruct button. We are asked to leave the house of explanation and go into the fresh air. There we can find the Way of Attention and Connection. Very clear. Complete faithfulness to Just This.

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00:30:57

What can we truly believe?

Stoep Zen ·

2025/08/08

In a world awash with information, disinformation, misinformation, debates, opinions, what can we truly rely on? This question points us back to our Zen practice itself, towards our learning to return to the roots of our unassailable experience.

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00:29:46

Faithfulness to What Is

Stoep Zen ·

2025/07/15

Our practice is not about achieving any particular experience or state of mind; it is about coming to our cushions with nothing beyond our willingness to turn up and sit down. In this way we honour the purity and humility of this Way.

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00:23:16

Unasked as an Excellent Friend

Stoep Zen ·

2025/06/09

Beyond heroism and psychodrama lies the fundamental reality of interconnection. We take this as the foundation and focus of our practice as Poplar Grove Zendo.

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00:34:19

The Baby in the Water

Stoep Zen ·

2025/05/05

Zen practice reminds us how natural it is to move beyond the self of judgement into the selflessness of true connection.

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00:31:10

When life shakes you by the collar and words fail

Stoep Zen ·

2025/04/17

When heatbreak appears, boundless compassion arises instantly.

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00:28:33

Honouring my Heritage

Stoep Zen ·

2025/03/14

Sometimes my ancestors of yesterday are the villains of today. How do I go beyond judgement, to honour them in the fullness of their flawed humanity and include them in my life?

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00:28:44

The Great Way is not Difficult

Stoep Zen ·

2025/02/10

If we can be clear and bright on a mountaintop as well as in the city, the Way is also clear and bright.

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00:17:04

Guided Meditation 1 December 2024

Stoep Zen ·

2024/12/08

Guided meditation 1 December 2024, after Dharma Talk : Awakeness as our natural condition.

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00:30:00

Awakeness as our natural condition

Stoep Zen ·

2024/12/08

We are naturally awakened, we just have to open our eyes. Then our attachment self falls away by itself.

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00:20:28

Guided Meditation October 6, 2024

Stoep Zen ·

2024/11/11

Accompanying the Dharma talk "Democratizing the Dharma."

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00:23:07

I take refuge in the entire universe

Stoep Zen ·

2024/11/11

The original Buddhist refuges in Buddha, Dharma, Sangha can be expanded to include our suffering-self, our practice self, our enlightenment-self, and every blade of grass.

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00:27:16

Democratizing the Dharma

Stoep Zen ·

2024/10/17

Zen is not an elite sport. It is not spiritual apartheid. It is for everyone who is willing to tune into this world and hear its song.

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00:29:44

Zen is the practice of environment but is not an...

Stoep Zen ·

2024/09/08

In this talk Antony Osho teaches that our Zen practice is essentially about finding our connection to the earth beneath our feet. It is here that we detect the health and distress of our environment and it is from here that we step back into the world with healing hands.

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00:25:21

Attention in the Service of Connection

Stoep Zen ·

2024/08/09

In this talk, Antony Osho looks at how the natural faculty of attention is hijacked by the self and how Zen practice works to rediscover attention in the service of enlightenment, the kind of attention that connects us with the world. A friend's haiku and the discovery of bushman rock engravings are part of the story.

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00:33:30

The Buddha, Granny, Politics & Hospital

Stoep Zen ·

2024/07/14

In this talk, Antony Osho talks about our modern relationship with the Buddha and reads a piece of writing about the Buddha appearing in a hospital ward.

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00:30:03

The Buddha's White Plastic Chair

Stoep Zen ·

2024/06/10

Zazen can not be mastered by the practising self. It can only be enfolded in the Dharma of Infinite Connection. When the meditating self is resolved in this way, it becomes the expression of our interconnectedness.

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00:24:01

The Gift of Pure Presence

Stoep Zen ·

2024/05/10

When we meet with others, we bring some kind of judgement, complication and confusion with us. This is part of our life as self. But everything becomes very simple when we drop everything and step into the meeting with only pure presence. This is part of our life as Dharma itself, as the radical acceptance of What Is.

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