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Rinzan Osho is a priest and teacher at No-Rank Zendo, a Rinzai Zen Buddhist Community in Portland, Oregon. His Dharma talks explore various aspects of Rinzai Zen Buddhist practice, spirituality and re... more
FAQs about The No-Rank Zendo Podcast:How many episodes does The No-Rank Zendo Podcast have?The podcast currently has 198 episodes available.
August 10, 2022Tozan's Five Ranks: The Apparent Within the RealIn this Teisho, given on the first full day of Summer Sesshin, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines the first of Tozan's Five Ranks: The Apparent Within the Real....more27minPlay
July 14, 2022The Hidden Lamp: Dipa Ma's Fearless DaughtersIn this Teisho, given on July 6th, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: Dipa Ma's Fearless Daughters. In practicing Zen we learn mastery over the impulses of the body, mind and heart. What is it to live a fearless life? How can this fearlessness serve as a balm to ease the world?...more32minPlay
July 04, 2022The Hidden Lamp: Shotaku's Paper SwordIn this Teisho, given on June 6th, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines The Hidden Lamp: Shotaku's Paper Sword. The practice of Zen asks us to know the suffering of others. The misogyny inflicted upon women is something we mace face, confront and do our best to end. Accessing and opening to spiritual power will give us the strength of Shotaku who used her own spiritual strength to back down a sexual assailant....more22minPlay
June 18, 2022Hekiganroku: The Surangama Sutra and "Unseeing"In this Teisho, given on May 25th, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 94: The Surangama Sutra and "Unseeing." Our practice takes us beyond holding onto notions. As soon as we believe we have figured something out, we have made it into something. How does one see the unseen? How does one live it? If we believe we know what peace is, we have lost it. So how do we know peace? And how do we bring peace into a world with such things as school shootings and ecological collapse? ...more28minPlay
June 05, 2022Hekiganroku: Taiko's "You Fox Devil"In this Teisho, given on May 15th, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 93: Taiko's "You Fox Devil." The Buddha taught us to investigate our composite nature and see into the great emptiness. What is this great emptiness really and how does it come forth? We cannot ever fully know it, but we can let ourselves live it....more29minPlay
May 20, 2022Hekiganroku: Ummon's "The Old Buddha Communes With a Pillar"In this Teisho, given on March 13th, 2022, Rinzan Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 83: Ummon's "The Old Buddha Communes With a Pillar." The practice of zen asks us to dissolve our barriers and commune with all things, animate and inanimate, sentient and insentient....more28minPlay
April 27, 2022Hekiganroku: Tairyu's "Indestructible Dharma Body."In this Teisho, given on Feb. 27th, 2022, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 82: Tairyu's "Indestructible Dharma Body." Facing the fundamental religious question, "What is it when all things die?" we are compelled to face a power greater than ourselves and that, indeed, is our very selves....more31minPlay
April 24, 2022Hekiganroku: Joshu's "A Newborn Baby."In this Teisho, given on Jan. 30th, 2022, Rinzan Pechovnik Osho examines The Blue Cliff Record, Case 80: Joshu's "A Newborn Baby." What is it when the artifice of the ego frame falls away? How do we see the world? How is it to be in the world as the universe? ...more26minPlay
March 30, 2022Genjo Roshi: "Senjo and Her Soul Are Separated"Genjo Roshi gave the following Teisho on March 12th, 2022, during No-Rank Zendo's Zazenkai: Case 35 from the Mumonkan, "Senjo and Her Soul Are Separated." We are a multiplicity, will the real you please stand up?...more25minPlay
March 30, 2022Rohatsu Sesshin 2022 Closing Teisho: Mumonkan, "Ordinary Mind is Tao."Rinzan Osho gave the following Teisho on January 14th, 2022, closing day of No-Rank Zendo's Rohatsu Sesshin examining Case 19 of the Mumonkan: "Orindary Mind is Tao." We do the hard work of spiritual practice to find the mystery lies in all things already surrounding us and our very natural, caring attention to them....more18minPlay
FAQs about The No-Rank Zendo Podcast:How many episodes does The No-Rank Zendo Podcast have?The podcast currently has 198 episodes available.