Dharma Talks From Ordinary Mind Zendo

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Date Given Speaker Title Transcription
Jan 5th, 2013 Barry Magid Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans. Chapter 1: Wholeness and immediacy
Nov 10th, 2012 Barry Magid Leaving open space in which grace can act
Oct 27th, 2012 Barry Magid The fireboy seeking fire. Our reflexive "This isn't it."
Sep 22nd, 2012 Barry Magid The limitations of metaphors of clinging and letting go in Buddhist practice
Sep 15th, 2012 Barry Magid Everyday is a good day. The nature of before and after.
Jul 14th, 2012 Barry Magid Aesop's fable of The Sun and the North Wind. To practice harder or practice softer?
Jul 7th, 2012 Barry Magid The Bodhisattva's Vow and The Heart Sutra. What is the nature of compassion?
Jun 9th, 2012 Barry Magid What does it mean to practice in the face of death?
Jun 2nd, 2012 Barry Magid There are no dragons in stagnant water
May 19th, 2012 Barry Magid The Bodhisattva's Vow
May 12th, 2012 Barry Magid Patrick Hawk, Thomas Merton, and the dialogue between Catholicism and Zen
May 5th, 2012 Barry Magid The sensibility of tea ceremony and haiku
Apr 21st, 2012 Barry Magid The evolution of the sangha
Apr 14th, 2012 Barry Magid Freedom in the midst of, rather than freedom from
Apr 7th, 2012 Barry Magid Ordinary Mind Zendo's four practice principles
Mar 24th, 2012 Barry Magid Three Buddhist Teachers Walk Into A Bar: Our pictures of what practice is
Mar 17th, 2012 Barry Magid The nature of insight in our practice
Mar 10th, 2012 Barry Magid Our ordinary mind: the darkness of abandoned grasses
Feb 25th, 2012 Barry Magid How an experience can shape our world view
Feb 11th, 2012 Barry Magid Our relationship to desire and attachment
Feb 4th, 2012 Barry Magid Lay practice and the Buddhist precepts: How we can't possibly break them
Jan 28th, 2012 Barry Magid Lay practice and the Buddhist precepts: How we can't possibly keep them
Jan 14th, 2012 Barry Magid The dialectic of mastery and self-acceptance
Jan 7th, 2012 Barry Magid Where is immutability to be found? Flowers blooming in their season, the color of flowing water.
Nov 10th, 2011 Barry Magid Play among equals. Two old teachers enjoying themselves together.
Oct 22nd, 2011 Barry Magid The Precepts as a practice of bearing witness
Aug 10th, 2011 Barry Magid Mu. What are the splits and barriers that exist in yourself?
Aug 9th, 2011 Barry Magid A new breed. Denkai explained.
Aug 9th, 2011 Claire Slemmer Claire Slemmer - Denkai
Aug 9th, 2011 Marc Poirier Marc Poirier - Denkai
Aug 9th, 2011 Karen Terzano Karen Terzano - Denkai
Aug 8th, 2011 Barry Magid This Dharma, incomparably profound, and minutely subtle, looks like me
Feb 12th, 2011 Barry Magid Looking at the sick man, the old man, and the corpse and saying that's me.
Jan 22nd, 2011 Barry Magid To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
Dec 18th, 2010 Barry Magid Who put you in bondage? Our ideas of the master and the novice.
Dec 11th, 2010 Barry Magid The elbow does not bend backwards
Dec 4th, 2010 Barry Magid A different picture of what a liberated life can look like
Nov 6th, 2010 Barry Magid Bodhidharma pacifies the mind. Passing through the gate of trust
Oct 9th, 2010 Barry Magid Our particularities. How does a Buddha deal with his dog nature?
Oct 2nd, 2010 Barry Magid Isan's water buffalo: the changing nature of the self

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