Dharma Talks by Dana Kojun Lederhos

Dharma Talks by Dana Kojun Lederhos episodes:

• 04.29.2024

  Nirvana Without Remainder

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, February 18, 2024.

  
• 04.27.2024

  Jukai: What Is It?

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, February 4. Includes a brief introduction to posts.* (*Talk uploaded out of chronological order)

  
• 04.23.2024

  February 3, 2024 Retreat Teisho

  Teisho given at zazenkai February 3, 2024.* Posted outside of chronological order.

  
• 04.20.2024

  Kissing The Earth

  Sunday talk given January 28, 2024.* (* talk posted out of chronological order.)

  
• 04.16.2024

  Our Life Is a Continuous Offering

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, April 14, 2024

  
• 04.14.2024

  Easter Reflections

  Dharma talk given March 31, 2024.

  
• 12.31.2023

  Retreat Talk: Opening to Darkness

  Retreat Talk given Saturday, December 30, 2023. Contains excerpts from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel’s book Opening to Darkness.

  
• 11.13.2023

  Seeing The Light

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, November 12, 2023.

  
• 11.10.2023

  Participating in the Awakening of Others

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, November 5, 2023, plus Sangha discussion following the talk.

  
• 11.10.2023

  Retreat Talk: Fathoming

  Retreat Talk given Saturday, November 4, 2023.

  
• 11.10.2023

  Sloth and Torpor Revisited

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, October 29, 2023.

  
• 11.10.2023

  How Do I Respond To Tragedy?

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, October 22, 2023.

  
• 11.10.2023

  Meeting What Must Be Done

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, October 15.

  
• 11.08.2023

  Retreat Talk: Just Return

  Talk given at Zazenkai on October 7, 2023.

  
• 10.02.2023

  Five Buddha Families/Energies

  Sunday Talk given October 1, 2023. Note: Fear under distorted red energy is fear of loneliness (This point was missed in the recorded talk).

  
• 10.01.2023

  Medicine and Poison

  Sunday Talk given September 24, 2023.

  
• 06.26.2023

  The Bodhisattva Vow Is The Heart’s Vow

  Sunday talk given June 25, 2023.

  
• 06.19.2023

  Working With Difficult States (Just Do It!)

  Sunday talk given June 18, 2023.

  
• 05.29.2023

  Talk Practice/Collaborative Talk on Breath Practice

  Sunday talk given by Kojun and the Upright Noble Zen sangha on May 28, 2023.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Our Life as an Extension of The Buddha’s Life

  Sunday talk given May 21, 2023.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Emptying The Cup

  Sunday talk given May 14, 2023.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Obstructed By The Eye (Investigation)

  Sunday talk given May 7th, 2023.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Retreat Talk: Mu Work

  Retreat talk given May 6, 2023. Includes some discussion of how to work with mu and present in sanzen.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Holding Our Own Practice Container (+ Koan/Mu Work)

  Sunday pre-retreat talk given April 30, 2023.

  
• 05.27.2023

  Earth Day Reflections and Some Metta “Hacks”

  Sunday talk given April 23, 2023.

  
• 05.26.2023

  Depth, Titration, and What Jukai is Not

  Sunday talk given April 16, 2023.

  
• 05.26.2023

  Dancing With Rascality And Other Energies (Plus a Metta “Hack”)

  Sunday talk given April 2, 2023.

  
• 05.26.2023

  Is Our Fear Of Death Why We Stray From The Present?

  Sunday talk given March 19th, 2023.

  
• 05.26.2023

  Practicing our True Values (For the Moment of Death)

  Sunday talk given March 12, 2023.

  
• 03.06.2023

  On Creation: More from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book No Death, No Fear

  Sunday Talk given March 5, 2023

  
• 03.06.2023

  Teisho From Retreat March 4, 2023

  Teisho

  
• 02.27.2023

  Talk 2 from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book No Death, No Fear

  Sunday Talk given February 26, 2023. Includes brief exploration of Blue Cliff Record case 55.

  
• 02.14.2023

  Right Effort

  Talk given Sunday, February 13, 2023.

  
• 02.06.2023

  On Attention and Post Retreat Instructions

  Sunday talk given February 5, 2023.

  
• 02.05.2023

  Retreat Talk: Song of the Grass Roofed Hermitage

  Retreat talk given February 4, 2023.

  
• 02.02.2023

  We Are Contingent (contains excerpts from Stephen Batchelor)

  Dharma Talk given Sunday, January 29, 2023.

  
• 01.24.2023

  Retreat Talk: Building a Grass Hut

  Retreat talk given Saturday January 7, 2023.

  
• 01.23.2023

  On Prayer as a Multifaceted Collaboration

  Sunday talk given January 1, 2023.

  
• 01.18.2023

  Nothing to Hide, Defend, or Prove

  Sunday talk given November 27, 2022.

  
• 10.15.2022

  Metta Sutta and Maha Ghosananda

  Sunday talk given October 2, 2022

  
• 09.26.2022

  Prioritizing The Unmissable Truth

  Sunday talk given September 25, 2022.

  
• 09.19.2022

  Emotional Alchemy and The Perfect Teaching

  Sunday Talk given September 18, 2022.

  
• 09.05.2022

  Practice Intention

  Sunday talk given September 4, 2022; includes rAmu Aki remembrance.

  
• 08.29.2022

  Watching The Mind…The End of Suffering

  Sunday Talk Given August 28, 2022

  
• 08.22.2022

  Bodhidharma’s Pithy Teaching

  Sunday talk given August 21, 2022

  
• 06.06.2022

  Expressing Potential

  Sunday talk given June 5, 2022.

  
• 05.30.2022

  Space Around Things (Non-Self Expression)

  Sunday talk given May 29, 2022.

  
• 02.24.2022

  Good For Nothing?

  Sunday Talk given 2/20/22

  
• 02.07.2022

  To Study…Is To Study The Self…

  Sunday talk given February 6, 2022. Verse from Dogen Zenji’s Genjokoan.

  
• 01.16.2022

  Retreat Talk:4 Vows/4 Principles

  Retreat talk given January 15, 2022.