Show overview
Crooked River Zen Center has been publishing since 2020, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 296 episodes. That works out to roughly 320 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 4th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 55 min and 1h 11m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 2.4 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Keith Gliesman.
From the publisher
Weekly Dharma talks, Zazenkai and Sesshin talks. We are part of the Phoenix Cloud lineage whose founder was Kobun Chino Roshi (1938-2002). Kobun came to San Francisco from Japan in 1967 at the request of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi to serve as his attendant at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Sensei Dean Williams is the guiding teacher of the Crooked River Zen Center in Cleveland, Ohio. His interest in Zen Buddhism began in the early 70s when he was working on his BA in philosophy. He began formal zen practice in 1997. He was lay ordained in 2000, ordained as a Buddhist chaplain in 2001, and as a priest in 2003, all while studying with Sojun Diane Martin, the resident teacher at Udumbara Zen Center in Evanston, IL. In 2006 he served as shuso during the fall practice period at Udumbara. Dean received dharma transmission in 2014 from Shoho Michael Newhall, the abbot of Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California, making him a dharma holder in the Kobun Chino lineage.
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Engaged Buddhism 12.16.23 Mark Domman
This week, Long time Sangha member Mark (Shinmon) Domann, shares what he is doing now that he has retired, to keep busy and engaged in his Buddhist practice in San Diego CA.
Happiness Metta Suta_ 11.25.23
The topic of my talk will be happiness using as a launching point a statement from an essay I read this morning by a retired psychiatrist - "As a psychiatrist, I've seen how chasing happiness leads to misery."
Bendowa_7_11.16.23
This Thurs. we'll have our usual sitting at 7pm following which the dharma talk will continue our study of Dogen's Bendowa, picking up at pg. 105 of "The Wholehearted Way" with the section that begins "There is a path through which the Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi of all things returns..."
Jukai Class_The Way of the Bodhisattva_3_11.04.23
This Sat. at 9:30am we will have our next Jukai class where we are still early on with our study of "The Way of the Bodhisattva." We will pick up here with verse 20 in chapter 1. These classes are open to everyone.
Bendowa_6_10.5.23
We will have our usual sitting on Thurs. at 7pm when we will continue our study of Dogen's Bendowa
Jukai Class_The Way of the Bodhisattva_2_10.07.23
On Sat. we have the second of our current series of Jukai classes where we are beginning to study the classic Mahayana text by Shantideva, "The Way of the Bodhisattva." These classes are being led by Chris. We begin at 9:30am with a 30 minute sitting which is followed by the class. Attendance is open to everyone
How to Raise an Ox_9.23.23
The writings of Zen master Dogen are among the highest achievements not only of Japanese literature but of world literature. Dogen's writings are a near-perfect expression of truth, beautifully expressing the best of which the human race is capable. In this volume, Francis Cook presents ten selections from Dogen's masterwork, the Shobogenzo, as well as six of his own essays brilliantly illuminating the mind of this peerless master.
Jukai Class_The Way of the Bodhisattva_1_9.9.23
On Sat. we begin our next series of Jukai classes which are open to everyone, even if you're not currently sewing a rakusu in preparation for formally receiving the precepts. These classes will be led by Chris and the text that we'll be studying is "The Way of the Bodhisattva." These classes begin with one 30 minute sitting at 9:30am followed by the class.
Bendowa_5_9.7.23
On Thurs. we will have our usual sitting at 7pm when our dharma talk will continue our study of Dogen's Bendowa.
8.31.23_Bendowa_04
The dharma talk Thurs. will continue our study of Dogen's "Bendowa."
8.17.23_Bendowa_03
We have our usual Thurs. evening sitting this week at 7pm when our dharma talk following our sitting will continue to look at the last section of the introduction to "The Wholehearted Way" analyzing the important term which Dogen introduces in this work, jijuyu zanmai. Once we get through that we will begin looking at the Bendowa text itself along with Uchiyama's commentary on it.
8.12.23_open_talk_aliens
Open discussion, We get started out with the subject of aliens and Buddhism.
8.10.23_Bendowa_02
This week we'll again be following our normal schedule with sittings on Thurs. at 7pm and Sat. at 9:30am. The dharma talk on Thurs. will primarily focus on Shohaku's analysis of Dogen's term "Jijuyu Zanmai" from his introduction to "The Wholehearted Way" which was recently re-published as "Master Dogen's Zazen Meditation Handbook."
8.5.23_atlantic_environment
Open discussion, Dean gets started with an article from the Atlantic. Then continues with the environment.
8.3.2023_Bendowa_01
The service following our second sitting on Thurs. will be the full moon ceremony and the talk following that will be focused primarily on Shohaku Okumura's analysis of the very important terms "Bendowa" and "Jijuyu Zanmai" which is found in his introduction to the text we began studying last week, "Master Dogen's Zazen Meditation Handbook" aka "The Wholehearted Way."
Open Discussion_7.08.23
Open discussion from 7/08/2023
Zen Jazz and the Creative Art of Everyday Living 2_7.15.23
On Sat. we will have our July zazenkai. If you plan to attend any portion of this day of practice and have not yet informed me, please let me know by no later than Wed. to help with our preparation. I'm attaching a copy of the schedule we will be following. The dharma talk that morning will be "Zen, Jazz, and the Creative Art of Everyday Living."
Zen Jazz and the Creative Art of Everyday Living 1_7.15.23
On Sat. we will have our July zazenkai. If you plan to attend any portion of this day of practice and have not yet informed me, please let me know by no later than Wed. to help with our preparation. I'm attaching a copy of the schedule we will be following. The dharma talk that morning will be "Zen, Jazz, and the Creative Art of Everyday Living."
The Three Fold Lotus Sutra 20_7.12.23
We will have our usual Thurs. evening sitting at 7pm followed by a dharma talk on the final chapter of the Lotus Sutra, chapter 28 "Encouragement of the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue."
Open Discussion_7.08.23
Open discussion from the summer sesshin 2023 given by Dean Williams.