Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks
By: Will Rauschenberger
Language: en-us
Categories: Religion, Spirituality, Buddhism, Health, Fitness, Mental
Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link... Thank you for listening,Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger, Abbot
Episodes
Investigating The Great Mystery
Dec 15, 2025Zen's fundamental question!
Duration: 00:09:42Being In The World But Not Of The World
Dec 12, 2025A message for the Holiday Season — Abbot Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger
Duration: 00:13:06Dan Talks About Attachments
Dec 10, 2025Do our attachments define us?
Duration: 00:08:07Are You Patient?
Nov 24, 2025The Six Perfections and Thanksgiving.
Duration: 00:15:00You Are What You Are And You Ain’t What You Ain’t
Nov 17, 2025Life’s Limitations and Boundlessness, are they the same or different?
Duration: 00:10:17Not So and the Great Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra
Nov 14, 2025Beyond the algorithms of delusion.
Duration: 00:10:39Beyond Thinking, Rising Above Duality
Nov 09, 2025Opening the hand of thought to the natural attributes of compassion, intuition, and the wisdom of our original nature.
Our upcoming Retreat is on November 15, 2025.
In Your Life, How Is Meditation Practice Relevant?
Oct 27, 2025Why do we meditate?
Duration: 00:08:04No Self and The Immoveable Mountain
Oct 23, 2025Practice is continuous, Mountains are Mountains, and Rivers are Rivers.
Duration: 00:05:47Compassionate Mind
Oct 02, 2025Beyond Thinking Is Compassionate Mind.
Duration: 00:13:55Essential Zen
Aug 18, 2025What is emptiness in Ordinary Zen?
Duration: 00:09:23Chasing after Awakened Mind
Aug 12, 2025What is meditation?
Duration: 00:15:04You are the Cosmos
Aug 09, 2025The Samadhi of the perfume of the universe.
Duration: 00:02:44Lucid Dreaming – Awakened Mind
Aug 06, 2025The Dreamscape and doing the right thing.
The Fundamental Issue of Life
Jul 28, 2025Who is it that sees, hears, tastes, smells, feels, thinks?
Duration: 00:14:24The Interconnected Patterns of Experience
Jul 17, 2025What are you? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Duration: 00:10:56Rising Above, Being Selfless
Jul 17, 2025How would you like to be involved without being involved? Rising above the din.
Duration: 00:11:34The Tathagatas Jewel of Wisdom
Jul 06, 2025The Boddhisattva path.
Duration: 00:09:23Rise Above, Just Be
Jun 30, 2025How to handle the apparent distinctions and differences that divide us, from the Zen perspective.
Duration: 00:08:48Let the Lotus Bloom Naturely
Jun 21, 2025The influence of Zen Master Hakuin
Duration: 00:05:34Dogan and the Buddha Way
Jun 16, 2025Dan Gulliford and Will Rauschenberger co-host this talk from Sarasota, FL, and Asheville, NC.
Duration: 00:10:19Don’t Ignore It!
Jun 01, 2025Ignoring, denying, or pushing away anything we consider uncomfortable is why we are uncomfortable!
Duration: 00:14:59Just Be, No Great Shakes, Everything Just As It Is
May 29, 2025The ups and downs of the seesaw of karma.
Duration: 00:12:44Sudden and Gradual Schools of Zen
May 11, 2025Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will Rauschenberger in discussing Kongan practice, Linages, and the Lotus Sutra Parable of the Burning House.
Duration: 00:16:28Dharma and Karma, What’s In Your Backpack?
May 05, 2025In this podcast, visiting Zen Master Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will (Hea An) Rauschenberger at our Sunday Session on May 4th, 2025. The talk includes chanting the Heart Sutra.
Duration: 00:21:13The Precepts, Actuality and Flowering of Being
Apr 22, 2025Strip away who we think we are and experience the actuality of who we are.
Duration: 00:17:02This Mind Alone is Buddha
Apr 15, 2025Zen is solving the problem of Birth and Death.
Duration: 00:12:54Why do we practice Zazen, doing no-thing?
Apr 15, 2025If we already have Buddha Nature, why do we meditate?
Duration: 00:09:28This Mind Alone, There Is No Other
Apr 07, 2025Taking responsibility for your life and liberation are not different.
Duration: 00:10:50Repose and Bliss
Mar 17, 2025“Bodhisattva Samadhi” is Repose and Bliss.
The message of Zen, overcoming stupidity
Mar 11, 2025How ordinary stupid people cause great suffering.
Duration: 00:16:17Life’s Trauma And Liberation
Mar 03, 2025Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.
Duration: 00:13:27The Heart of Perfect Wisdom
Feb 24, 2025The lion’s roar.
Duration: 00:19:09Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea
Feb 18, 2025You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…
Duration: 00:11:25The Primordial Darkness of Ignorance
Feb 06, 2025Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?
Duration: 00:11:38A Safe Space
Jan 27, 2025What does it mean to be fearless?
Duration: 00:09:57Zen Is Life, Not A Hobby Or Pastime
Jan 21, 2025Hitching your Ox to the post of Emptiness.
Duration: 00:15:31Relaxing In What Is
Jan 10, 2025Opening the hand of thought.
Duration: 00:08:13The Cosmic Mudra of Zazen
Jan 06, 2025Zazen (Zen meditation), Awakening, and Buddhahood are no different.
Duration: 00:14:10Seeking Validation
Dec 19, 2024You are a unique expression of the universal.
Duration: 00:08:21Here We Are!
Dec 13, 2024"One's presence makes for a good present"
Duration: 00:08:48Wind Blows, Old Songs End, New Ones Begin
Dec 08, 2024The Song of Liberation.
Duration: 00:07:14Attached to Name & Form, Talks with Chong An Sunim at OZS, part 2
Nov 22, 2024This part is two of three sessions at Ordinary Zen Sangha in November 2024 with Zen Master Chong An Sunim and Abbot Will Rauschenberger.
Duration: 00:32:06Dharma and Karma, Talks with Chong An Sunim at OZS, part 1
Nov 21, 2024This part is one of three sessions at Ordinary Zen Sangha in November 2024 with Zen Master Chong An Sunim and Abbot Will Rauschenberger.
Duration: 00:33:33Dark Times Ahead, Stars Will Shine
Nov 08, 2024What can we rely on in times like these?
Duration: 00:06:10The Relative and Absolute, is it different or not?
Nov 01, 2024A OZS sangha member asks: "Is there, or is there not, a balance between our absolute expansive selves and our relative selves that outflow into the world?"
Duration: 00:16:38Certainty in Uncertainty
Oct 27, 2024The transcendence of ever changing circumstances.
Duration: 00:06:49Have you lost your way?
Oct 01, 2024Today’s talk is about an exchange between Zen Master Seung Sahn and a student, from the book “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha”. 🙏
Duration: 00:16:17Illuminating Dangerous Times
Sep 16, 2024Don’t believe anything you think…
Duration: 00:12:06Inquiry, what is this, who am I?
Sep 04, 2024“Thinking is just thinking, it is not who I am”.
Duration: 00:10:14Undeniable Suchness of Being
Aug 31, 2024Inquiry into “What is this?”