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Zen Community of Oregon Dharma TalksNew podcasts every Tues, Thurs and Sat. Author: Zen Community of Oregon
New podcasts every Tues, Thurs and Sat. Here you can find talks from various teachers involved with the Zen Community of Oregon. We share talks from our retreats, as well as our different weekly offerings between Great Vow Zen Monastery and Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple. Zen Community of Oregon's purpose is to express and make accessible the wisdom and compassion of the Buddhas teachings, as transmitted through an authentic, historical lineage. To support and maintain Zen Buddhist practice in order to realize and actualize our Buddha nature in everyday life. For more information, please visit zendust.org. Language: en-us Genres: Buddhism, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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When Effort Becomes Intimacy - Jogen Salzberg, Sensei
Episode 713
Saturday, 31 January, 2026
In this opening retreat talk, Jogen explores the nature of effort in zazen, describing practice as a living, responsive correction of the mind’s continual drift from intimacy with body, breath, and present awareness. Using the image of driving a car, he shows how meditation requires both gentle steadiness and, at times, wholehearted intensity, always guided by sincerity rather than force. He unpacks the “discriminating itch” that divides experience into right and wrong, and invites practitioners to trust their innate diamond wholeness and big tender heart through unwavering attention, prayer, reflection on impermanence and death, and a deep commitment to stay on the path that leads beyond habitual suffering into freedom. This is talk 1 of the 2026 Dharma Gates retreat at Great Vow Zen Monastery. ★ Support this podcast ★
