Zen Community of Oregon Dharma Talks

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Sacred Mirror Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 9/9/20

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Sacred Mirror Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 9/8/20

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Sacred Mirror Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 9/9/20

Chozen Bays, Roshi Earth and Sky Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/22/20

Shinei Monial, Dharma Holder Earth and Sky Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/21/20

Soten Lynch, Dharma Holder Earth and Sky Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/20/20

Chozen Bays, Roshi Earth and Sky Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/19/20

Onshin Landry, Novice Priest Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/16/20

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Wednesday Night Zoom Meeting Portland, OR

Myoyu Voekel, Novice Priest Great Vow Zen Monastery 8/9/20

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/26/20

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/25/20

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Wednesday Night Zoom Meeting Portland, OR

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Wednesday Night Zoom Meeting Portland, OR

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Wednesday Night Zoom Meeting Portland, OR

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/24/20

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/23/20

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/22/20

Jogen Salzberg, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/21/20

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Cultivating the Empty Field Sesshin Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/20/20

Chozen Bays, Roshi Morning Meditation Great Vow Zen Monastery 7/9/20

Part two of three Hogen Bays, Roshi Great Vow Zen Monastery via Zoom

Part two of three Hogen Bays, Roshi Great Vow Zen Monastery via Zoom

Part one of three Hogen Bays, Roshi Great Vow Zen Monastery via Zoom

Kisei Costenbader, Sensei Great Vow Zen Monastery, June 5th 2020

Lekshe King Tamang is an ordained nun and Lama in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. She has been practicing Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition since 1994. She completed a traditional, cloistered 3-year retreat in 2018 with her primary western teacher, Lama Michael Conklin. She is especially interested in deep retreat and the many opportunities in integration of practice into contemporary secular life. Lekshe is currently a resident of the Great Vow Monastery, from which she serves practitioners at Dekeling—a Portland-based meditation community that, since the advent of Covid, meets entirely online. https://www.dekeling.online/ ★ Support this podcast ★

Lekshe King Tamang is an ordained nun and Lama in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. She has been practicing Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition since 1994. She completed a traditional, cloistered 3-year retreat in 2018 with her primary western teacher, Lama Michael Conklin. She is especially interested in deep retreat and the many opportunities in integration of practice into contemporary secular life. Lekshe is currently a resident of the Great Vow Monastery, from which she serves practitioners at Dekeling—a Portland-based meditation community that, since the advent of Covid, meets entirely online. https://www.dekeling.online/ ★ Support this podcast ★

The Boundless Qualities of the Heart Sesshin (2020) Talk 4 Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 6/19/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Lekshe King Tamang is an ordained nun and Lama in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. She has been practicing Buddhism in the Tibetan tradition since 1994. She completed a traditional, cloistered 3-year retreat in 2018 with her primary western teacher, Lama Michael Conklin. She is especially interested in deep retreat and the many opportunities in integration of practice into contemporary secular life. Lekshe is currently a resident of the Great Vow Monastery, from which she serves practitioners at Dekeling—a Portland-based meditation community that, since the advent of Covid, meets entirely online. https://www.dekeling.online/ ★ Support this podcast ★

The Boundless Qualities of the Heart Sesshin (2020) Talk 2 Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 6/17/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Hogen Bays, Roshi - 6/14/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Hogen Bays, Roshi - 5/24/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Ancestors Sesshin (2020) Talk 1 Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 5/22/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Ancestors Sesshin (2020) Talk 3 Jogen Salzberg, Sensei - 5/21/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Ancestors Sesshin (2020) Talk 2 Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 5/20/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Ancestors Sesshin (2020) Talk 1 Chozen Bays, Roshi - 5/19/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Returning to the basics, Jogen Sensei addresses the Buddha's core teaching of the four noble truths. As with all the Buddha's teachings, the four truths point to an active experiential investigation. This teaching is medicine; we have to learn how to administer it skillfully and appropriately. On one level, the practice of meditation is a direct, intimate disclosure of these four truths, with each truth revealing a new perspective and insight. The traditional formulation of the four noble truths is as follows: 1) The truth of dukkha (suffering or dis-ease); 2) The truth of craving (tanha) as the cause of suffering; 3) The truth of the end of suffering; 4) The truth of the eightfold path as the way to liberation from suffering Jogen Salzberg, Sensei - 5/17/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Karma in Sanskrit, or Kamma in Pali, is the traditional Buddhist term for cause and effect. Having some understanding of cause and effect is a necessary foundation for spiritual practice. Cause and effect operates on many levels, ranging from the explicit and linear to the subtle, complex, and nonlinear. Hogen Bays, Roshi - 5/3/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi and Dharma Holder Kisei Costenbader - 2/23/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi - 2/22/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi - 2/21/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Dharma Holder Kisei Costenbader - 2/20/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Lent, culminating on this Easter Sunday, is a time of fasting, releasing, letting go. It is a time of atonement and purification. The lenten practice of atonement is mirrored by our practice of sheltering in place. Our busyness stopped by the virus, we can open to the transformative process of renunciation. Our lives can become simpler, more attuned to the source. Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 4/12/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

As the spread of COVID-19 continues, Chozen Roshi gives an update on activities at the monastery, showing how quarantined life connects us with the wider world. Reflecting on past episodes of crisis in human history, we are reminded that our current situation is not uncommon. This is a shared experience and an opportunity for spiritual practice. Also, this pandemic will not last forever, and it is important that we find something positive to look forward to. Chozen Bays, Roshi - Sunday, 4/5/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

This adaptation of Shantideva's classic 8th-century text is chanted after evening meditation each night at Great Vow Zen Monastery. It is offered here by members of the Great Vow Choir, Soten Lynch, Kōshō Ault, Maggie Medlin, and Eric Hertz - Recorded in the Fall of 2019

Kshitigarbha Bodhisattva, or Jizo in Japanese, is the archetypal protector of all that comes from the Earth. Jizo represents enlightened qualities that we all naturally possess: benevolence, determination, fearlessness, and optimism. Jizo is also known for the vow to help all beings realize their true potential, including us. Our realization that we are supported, guided, and protected by Jizo opens us to a life that is woven completely of faith. What do we have faith in, in each moment? Chozen Bays, Roshi - Sunday, 3/29/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi - 3/22/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi - 2/20//20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Kisei Costenbader, Dharma Holder - 2/19/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery

Chozen Bays, Roshi - 3/21/20 - Great Vow Zen Monastery