"The Audacious Zen Shout" Sunday, November 24, 2019, Dosho Port Roshi. This vigorous talk is an introduction to the teaching of Great Master Linji (aka Rinzai), based on Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, "Question 12: When the Buddhas and Ancestors Comes, He Shouts - Why?"

"The Zen of Beatings," Sunday, November 3, 2019, Dosho Port Roshi.

This talk is about receiving corrections while practicing Zen, sorting past stimuli from present reality, and really meeting the moment. Based on Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, "Question 11: Beating Buddhas and Ancestors."

"Where Do I Become My Future Self?" Sunday, November 3, 2019, Dosho Port Roshi.

This talk is the fluid nature of the self and the light of liberation. Includes water buffaloes, water bottles, past and future, as well as Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #10, "Where Did Guishan Turn Into a Water Buffalo?"

"Knock On The Door: The Teacher-Student Relationship,"

Sunday, October 27, 2019, Dosho Port Roshi. This talk is about the teacher-student relationship's central role in Zen practice.

"Sanzen," four types of meditation, and "the wind of the way" are emphasized. Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #9, is Dosho's source of inspiration.

"What Doesn't Change?" from Sunday, October 13, 2019, by Dosho Port Roshi.

Buddha taught the importance of impermanence (and) the deathless, the permanent. In this talk, Dosho leads an examination of what is permanent, and offers a Zen view. The "Ten Line Kanzeon Sutra of Timeless Life," and "Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #8, are cited.

"How Can I Realize The True?"

September 27, 2019, Dosho Roshi. In this talk, Dosho explores what we can do to realize suchness and, yet, how we don't control when realization comes. Selections from Dogen's Extensive Record and Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #6, are cited.

"Pivotal Moments" Dosho Roshi, Sunday, September 22, 2019.

Dosho talks about the importance of pivotal moments in our practice and in our lives with the examples of Greta Thunberg, Katherine Gun, and an experience from his past. "Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #5, serves as the dharma container: "The great ocean serves as ink. Mt. Sumeru serves as brush. Yet, say, what single thing are you writing?"

"How Can This Be Avoided?" Dosho Roshi, 9/8/19.

In this talk, Dosho Roshi comments on Going Through the Mystery's One Hundred Questions, #4.

It begins with the question, "Hot as hell. Summer rain like boiling water. Just now, how can this be avoided?" Ten Thousand Pines' response offers a radical shift from our culturally condition sense of the isolated, alienated self.

August 4, 2019, Dosho Roshi.

How can we be free in this world of light and dark?

In this talk, Dosho Roshi addresses this question with a passage from Tongxuán's One hundred Questions, that begins, "In the dark, dark, dark [one] must also exhale."

This is 6 of 6 Dharma talks for the 2019 NZC Summer Sesshin given by Dosho Roshi.

This Sesshin is exploring Dogen Zenji's fascicle "One Bright Pearl" from the Shobogenzo.