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Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks
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…
Episodes
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Way We Do This Thing We Do- Perfection of Effort - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this informal talk, Jogen Sensei explores the Buddhist “perfection of effort” (virya) as a subtle, deeply personal process of aligning one’s life with what…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAbundant Blessings- On The Mangala Sutta Pt 1 - Hogen Bays, Roshi
In this informal talk,. Hogen Roshi explores the the Mangala Sutta, tracing its origins in the Pali Canon and reflecting on how its wisdom remains deeply…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Mind's Filter - Chozen, Roshi
This talk explores the Four Immeasurables—loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—as practical trainings for transforming how we relate to…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Perfection of Wisdom - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen continues a series on the six perfections, focusing on prajñāpāramitā—the perfection of wisdom. Rather than conceptual knowledge, this…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Root of Faith - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen Roshi reflects on spring as a living expression of faith—an ever-present renewal that arises regardless of conditions. He points to the…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksPrayer and Zen -Chozen, Roshi
In this talk, Chozen Roshi explores the role of prayer in Zen practice—something rarely discussed, yet deeply present. Rather than asking for control over…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksMeditation and Wisdom: Being With What Is - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
This talk explores the paramitas of meditation (samadhi) and wisdom (prajna) as deeply interconnected aspects of practice. Meditation is presented not as…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Pillars of Zen Practice - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
This talk explores the three essential qualities of Zen practice—great faith, great doubt, and great determination—as living forces rooted in direct…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksResting in Is-ness - Hogen, Roshi
In this 2026 Sound Sesshin talk, Hogen explores the profound immediacy of our lived experience, showing how attention to the present moment reveals the mind’s…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Power To Stay - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Jogen explores concentration as the essential force that allows us to stay aligned with what matters in a world full of distraction. He reframes it as both a…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Body of Wisdom - Hogen, Roshi
This talk explores how grounding in present-moment awareness—especially through the body—becomes the foundation for transforming life’s challenges into wisdom…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksFrom Forbearance to Joy - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon explores the paired Paramitas of patience (kshanti) and joyful effort (virya), showing how they support and balance one another on the path…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAwareness in Everyday Life - Hogen, Roshi
Hogen explores how awareness and direct experience form the foundation of spiritual practice, inviting us to look closely at our own minds rather than relying…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksRethinking Impatience - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk on the paramita of patience (kshanti), impatience is explored as the tension between our desires and reality. Rather than something to resist, it…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Paramitas: Generosity and Ethical Living - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
Jomon introduces the paramitas, core qualities in Buddhist practice that guide the path toward awakening, focusing on generosity and ethical conduct. She…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksPractice is About Direct Experience - Hogen, Roshi
Hogen explores the central role of direct experience in practice, emphasizing that true understanding arises from living and sensing life, not just…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksPilgrimage, Death, and the Compassion of Jizo - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon continues the February exploration of parinirvana and the teachings of death, weaving together reflections from Frank Ostaseski’s The Five…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksHow to Outgrow our Flakiness - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores why it has become so difficult to show up for one another in a culture of endless options and easy canceling. Through the lens of…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksSitting in the Mystery - Hogen, Roshi
n this talk, Hogen continues the series “Turning Problems into Wisdom,” exploring how challenges in everyday life can become opportunities for clarity and…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAt Once Here and Disappearing - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon reflects on the first of Frank Ostaseski’s Five Invitations—“Don’t Wait”—and explores what death can teach us about living fully. Drawing…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Buddha's Awakening. - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
In this Rohatsu talk, Kisei shares the story of the Buddha’s awakening and the journey that led to it. Beginning with the Buddha’s birth and the prophetic…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksLiving the Dharma Off the Cushion - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
In this episode, Jogen continues exploring how Zen practice moves beyond the meditation cushion and into daily life. Focusing on the Bodhisattva path, he…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksShadowboxing the Mind: Interrupting Automatic Thought - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
In this episode, Jogen explores how Zen practice extends beyond the meditation cushion into the challenges of everyday life. From observing habitual thought…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksLiving Fully In An Impermanent World - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this episode, Jomon reflects on death, impermanence, and how mindfulness can deepen our appreciation of life. Drawing from experiences with wildland…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksFacing the End with Presence - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen explores how to bring spiritual practice to life in the face of life’s inevitable endings. From confronting illness and loss to observing…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe 8 Wordly Concerns - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksCut Off All Useless Thoughts- Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksMotivation and the Dharma - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Mysterious Source - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAdvice To An 18 Year Old Practitioner- Hogen, Roshi and Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksTurning Problems Into Wisdom pt.2 - Hogen Roshi
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Spell of the World - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksOne Hundred Foot Pole - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksTraveler, There Is No Road - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores the inner disturbance that drives spiritual practice and the ways mistaken perception, fixed beliefs, and self-image shape…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksTurning Problems into Wisdom - Hogen Roshi
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Way of The Bodhisattva - Kisei Costenbader, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Doors of Liberation - Jogen Salzeberg, Sensei
In this retreat talk, Jogen explores love, yielding, and aimlessness as essential dimensions of Zen practice. Beginning with love as the ground of…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksDew on the Rose - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksWhen Effort Becomes Intimacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksGathering the Heart - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this opening sesshin talk, Jogen welcomes practitioners into the deep work of gathering the heart and aligning with true nature through the simple…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Fluid Heart of the New Year - Hogen, Roshi
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAppreciate Your Life - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksFrictionless Mind - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk on the Faith in Mind chant, Jogen explores acceptance, frictionlessness, and the deeper wisdom that lives beneath ordinary discriminating thought…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksWhere the Next Step Lands - Hogen Roshi
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…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksTipping the Water Bottle - Chozen, Roshi
In this Rohatsu sesshin talk, Chozen reflects on awakening, silent mind, and the constructed personality that both protects and confines us. Drawing on the…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe Many Faces of Joy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen reflects on joy not as something to be manufactured, but as a natural expression that arises when we stop getting in the way of our own…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksBefore The Tightening - Hogen, Roshi
What is here before the mind contracts around thought, identity, or effort? This talk points to the moment prior to grasping—where awareness is open…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksVast Space, No Lack - Kodo Conover, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Kodo reflects on Faith in Mind as a teaching on living with uncertainty and relinquishing judgment, comparison, and fixed views. Drawing on…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksExploring Space - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this wide-ranging talk, Jogen explores spaciousness as a direct and liberating dimension of Zen practice, drawing from his own experience and from Zen and…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksAwakening and Non-Thinking - Chozen, Roshi
In this Rohatsu Sesshin talk, Chozen reflects on the meaning of awakening—not as a one-time event, but as an ongoing opening into reality beyond self, time…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksRohatsu: The Buddha’s Awakening - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this Rahatsu talk, Jomon tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama’s path to awakening, tracing his journey from royal luxury through extreme asceticism to the…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksPracticing with Seasonal Depression - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen responds to a request to explore Zen practice in relation to seasonal affective disorder and low-level depression, while distinguishing…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksRelationship, Refuge, and the Faith in Mind - Hogen, Roshi
In this talk, Hogen explores how the teachings of Affirming Faith in Mind illuminate the way we meet family, conflict, and connection—especially during the…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksDifference Without Division: Working with Comparing Mind - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores the human habit of comparing ourselves to others—and to imagined versions of ourselves—through the lens of the classic Zen text…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksIdentity Action and Gratitude - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jōmon explores the deep connection between gratitude, generosity, and Dōgen’s teaching of identity action—acting together as one body. Through…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksThe River That Holds Us - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this sesshin talk, Jōgen invites practitioners to turn directly toward the living fabric of experience with wonder and open-handedness. Reflecting on the…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksWhat We Turn Our Attention To - Hogen, Roshi
In this sesshin talk, Hōgen Roshi reflects on the heart of practice through the teachings of the Xin Xin Ming. He emphasizes that “what we turn our attention…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksGenerosity Without Separation - Jomon Martin, Zen Teacher
In this talk, Jomon explores the first of the Bodhisattva’s four embracing actions—generosity—and how giving becomes boundless when we drop the sense of…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksConnecting With Family This Thanksgiving - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, Jogen explores how our relationships—especially with family—can become genuine fields of practice. He challenges the assumption that practice…
Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksInterrupting The Trance of "Not Enough"- Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
In this talk, we explore the Zen poem often translated as Inscribing Trust in the Heart or Affirming Faith in Mind. The teaching points to a profound…