Ocean Mind Sangha

By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

A collection of dharma talks by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, Guiding Teacher at Ocean Mind Sangha.

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July 30, 2016 The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 1
This talk is part one of two on the fourth Bodhisattva Vow: The Buddha Way is unattainable; I vow to attain it.
To commit to this path is to commit to walking a road without end—there is no finish line. And as Zuisei says, this is actually good news: “It’s exactly this vastness that leads to our sense of belonging, of rightness. Actually, it doesn’t lead to it— it is it.”
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39min
July 24, 2016 The Third Bodhisattva Vow
This talk explores the third Bodhisattva Vow: The dharmas are boundless; I vow to master them.
To vow to master the dharmas is to undertake the commitment to studying the Way for our whole lives— understanding that despite the fact that we can never learn it all, it is our obligation to try.
“I vow to be rent open, my heart laid bare. I vow to stand defenseless, yet awake in the face of reality. I vow to truly not know, that I may know ever more deeply. I vow to regard you, and when I can’t to regard you, and when I won’t, to regard you, and to let you regard me. Because I finally see that our lives depend on it.”
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46min
June 19, 2016 The Second Bodhisattva Vow: Seeing Desire
This talk explores the second Bodhisattva Vow: Desires are inexhaustible, I vow to put an end to them.
Zuisei explains that this vow is not about suppressing what is pleasurable; rather, it asks us to look at how we cling to our desires and in turn create suffering for ourselves and others. This vow calls us to let go of conditioning that makes us feel separate, and instead to focus on our shared humanity so we can work toward building a just and equitable world.
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44min
June 04, 2016 The First Bodhisattva Vow
This talk explores the first Bodhisattva Vow: Beings are numberless; I vow to save them. What does it mean to save another being? What does it mean to relieve someone else’s suffering?
As Zuisei explains, “… a bodhisattva enables others to be released from suffering by releasing his or her own suffering. By recognizing another’s pain as my own pain…by trusting that the best medicine is to turn to another and ask, ‘How can I help you?’”
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36min
March 27, 2016 The Four Bodhisattva Vows
No one is free until everyone is free. To take the Bodhisattva Vows is to commit fully to liberating all beings—despite of the insurmountability of the notion of ending all suffering.
In this introductory talk to a series exploring the Four Bodhisattva Vows, Zuisei explains why commitment to the path of a Bodhisattva is essential— why we cannot give up, even in a world with so much suffering and oppression.
“To save the environment and this planet? Impossible. To establish racial, gender, sexual, and age equality? Impossible. To put an end to poverty and hunger? Impossible.” Yet we vow to fulfill these vows, because we understand it is the only way to free ourselves and others from suffering.
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38min
March 13, 2016 Giving Paramita
Giving or dana paramita invites us to move outside of our conditioning, which primes us toward scarcity and individualism, and into an understanding that we are actually living in the midst of abundance. That’s why dana paramita is the first of the perfections— it is something that all of us can do, and the gift we offer touches not only others, but also ourselves.
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37min
February 28, 2016 Truthfulness Paramita
“Who will teach me how to live?” a student asks in Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life.
In this talk, Zuisei speaks on the seventh paramita—truthfulness—and its critical place on the path to cultivating freedom for ourselves and for all beings.
Only each one of us can learn from our own expression, our own actions, skillful or not. But because every time we set down a mark, take an action, we affect the whole world, we’re actually saying that teaching ourselves how to live is the same as everything—every creature and every thing—teaching us.
Recorded at Zen Mountain Monastery 02/28/2016
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39min
January 31, 2016 Lovingkindness Paramita
Lovingkindness, one of the Four Imeasurables, is also the ninth of the ten paramis or paramitas (perfections). In this talk Zuisei speaks of the hunger we all have for love and warmth, for the touch, the regard, of another human being. We are hungry to belong and to know ourselves as part of a whole. Lovingkindness for ourselves can teach us that we have never been apart, never been broken. That is why we’re able to offer immeasurable love to ourselves and others.
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33min
January 18, 2016 Equanimity Paramita
To cultivate equanimity is to cultivate a stable quality of mind that is not swayed by externalities— it is strong, peaceful, and easeful in every moment. In this talk, Zuisei says: “It’s not unfeeling, it’s not uncaring, it’s not cold or distant or even protected. It is unshakeable. It is a mind free of suffering.”
This talk is part of a series of talks on the Ten Paramitas.
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31min
January 17, 2016 Equanimity Paramita
To cultivate equanimity is to cultivate a stable quality of mind that is not swayed by externalities— it is strong, peaceful, and easeful in every moment. In this talk, Zuisei says: “It’s not unfeeling, it’s not uncaring, it’s not cold or distant or even protected. It is unshakeable. It is a mind free of suffering.”
This talk is part of a series of talks on the Ten Paramitas.
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31min

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The podcast currently has 178 episodes available.