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"Awakening Irrepressible Joy" was Dosho's talk for Sunday Open Zen on April 29, 2018. In the talk, Dosho sings praises for kensho - seeing-nature - as an essential element in the revitalization of Zen. The talk also includes the story of Yamanashi, a householder who realized kensho after only two nights of zazen.

"Practicing the Precepts" is Kosho McCalls talk from Sunday, April 22, 2018. In the talk, Kosho looks at how we live with and in the precepts, where they come from and how they work.

"Passionate Practice" is Dosho's talk for Sunday Open Zen from April 8, 2018. The talk focuses on arousing the Way Seeking Heart and explores the teaching of Hakuin with a selection from Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn, "286. A Crab." What is your true nature?

"What You Are Seeking Is Seeking You" is Tetsugan's talk for Sunday Open Zen on April 1, 2018. In the talk, she highlights the process around Way-Seeking Heart talks, and their significance for students in the Zen tradition. Emphasizing the importance of developing the Way-Seeking Heart to begin and continue the spiritual journey, she then speaks to the mystical communion that arises between practitioners and Buddha (awakening) when the Circle of The Way is set into motion.

"Joe Janowski's Way-Seeking Mind Talk" was offered to Sunday Open Zen on March 25, 2018. In this talk, Joe tells the story of his dharma journey from St. Louis, to Tassajara, and South Korea to the Nebraska Zen Center."

"If You Can't Let It Go, Let It Come In" is Tetsugan's talk to Sunday Open Zen on March 4, 2018. In this talk, Tetsugan discusses suffering as the central problem addressed by Buddhism, and how recognizing our suffering in its various forms is the first step to its solution.

"Big Idea, Big Stupid, and Big Realization" is Dosho's talk for Sunday Open Zen on March 11, 2018. In the talk, Dosho tells the story of Linji's big realization. If you want to do big realization too, tasting the really and truly big idea of the buddhadharma, you'll have to go through big stupid.

"Cat-and-Mouse Zazen with the Three Marks" is Dosho's dharma talk during the February Sesshin 2018. In the talk, Dosho unpacks the passage in the Heart Sutra that refers to the Three Marks (impermanence, suffering, andnonself) as a contemplative practice. Deshan's last words light our way to freedom: "Ouch! Ouch!"

"Walking in the Mist, Suddenly a Steamed Dumpling" is Dosho's Sunday Open Zen talk from February 11, 2018. In the talk, Dosho comments on the first line of the Heart Sutra, "Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when deeply practicing prajna paramita, clearly saw that all five aggregates are empty and thus relieved all suffering." Along the way, he covers kensho, gradual cultivation, and, yes, steamed dumplings.