Ordinary Zen Sangha - Dharma Talks

Episode 300: Ten Square Miles Surrounded By Reality

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:14:18 +0000

The relative and the absolute, are they different or the same? Where are you now?

Episode 299: Wisdom Through The Ages

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:46:42 +0000

Being authentic, genuine, and reflecting true wisdom.

Episode 298: Surrendering to Original Nature

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:09:27 +0000

Bearing witness instead of turning your back on life.

Episode 297: Lost in the Weeds, Where is your Zen Compass

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:18:08 +0000

Dropping off body, mind.

Episode 296: Awakening, what is it?

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:55:07 +0000

Smile as the mockingbird sings.

Episode 295: Alles ist gut

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:53:15 +0000

When all distinctions drop away, “alles ist gut”

Episode 294: Dancing in Emptiness, Community Action

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:09:31 +0000

Empathy and compassion in everyday life.

Episode 293: Where Are You Right Now?

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:29:24 +0000

The Ordinary Zen Sangha discusses our Zen practice. Is zazen the whole experience?

Episode 292: The Action of No Action, True Zen

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:31:32 +0000

Non-violent resistance, what is it?

Episode 291: The Middle Way

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:17:16 +0000

What is this? There is nothing to gain.

Episode 290: Compassion, Mercy & Love: Lessons from Guanyin

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:04:45 +0000

Andrea shares with us some reflections on compassion, mercy, and love.

Episode 289: Zen’s New Year Message

Will Rauschenberger — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:17:52 +0000

A good news message and prediction for the New Year!

Episode 288: Winter Solstice Birthday

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:05:13 +0000

Beyond beginnings and endings.

Episode 287: Investigating The Great Mystery

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:31:44 +0000

Zen's fundamental question!

Episode 286: Being In The World But Not Of The World

Will Rauschenberger — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:04:35 +0000

A message for the Holiday Season — Abbot Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger

Episode 285: Dan Talks About Attachments

Will Rauschenberger — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:50:05 +0000

Do our attachments define us?

Episode 284: Are You Patient?

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:49:35 +0000

The Six Perfections and Thanksgiving.

Episode 283: You Are What You Are And You Ain’t What You Ain’t

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:43:07 +0000

Life’s Limitations and Boundlessness, are they the same or different?

Episode 282: Not So and the Great Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra

Will Rauschenberger — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:01:36 +0000

Beyond the algorithms of delusion.

Episode 281: Beyond Thinking, Rising Above Duality

Will Rauschenberger — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:31:31 +0000

Opening 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.

Episode 280: In Your Life, How Is Meditation Practice Relevant?

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:09:38 +0000

Why do we meditate?

Episode 279: No Self and The Immoveable Mountain

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:30:25 +0000

Practice is continuous, Mountains are Mountains, and Rivers are Rivers.

Episode 278: Compassionate Mind

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:04:54 +0000

Beyond Thinking Is Compassionate Mind.

Episode 277: Essential Zen

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:54:06 +0000

What is emptiness in Ordinary Zen?

Episode 276: Chasing after Awakened Mind

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:40:50 +0000

What is meditation?

Episode 275: You are the Cosmos

Will Rauschenberger — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:28:21 +0000

The Samadhi of the perfume of the universe.

Episode 274: Lucid Dreaming – Awakened Mind

Will Rauschenberger — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:32:16 +0000

The Dreamscape and doing the right thing.

Episode 273: The Fundamental Issue of Life

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:29:18 +0000

Who is it that sees, hears, tastes, smells, feels, thinks?

Episode 272: The Interconnected Patterns of Experience

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:54:12 +0000

What are you? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

Episode 271: Rising Above, Being Selfless

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:44:25 +0000

How would you like to be involved without being involved? Rising above the din.

Episode 270: The Tathagatas Jewel of Wisdom

Will Rauschenberger — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:22:31 +0000

The Boddhisattva path.

Episode 269: Rise Above, Just Be

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:02:25 +0000

How to handle the apparent distinctions and differences that divide us, from the Zen perspective.

Episode 268: Let the Lotus Bloom Naturely

Will Rauschenberger — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:22:46 +0000

The influence of Zen Master Hakuin

Episode 267: Dogan and the Buddha Way

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:52:57 +0000

Dan Gulliford and Will Rauschenberger co-host this talk from Sarasota, FL, and Asheville, NC.

Episode 266: Don’t Ignore It!

Will Rauschenberger — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:20:47 +0000

Ignoring, denying, or pushing away anything we consider uncomfortable is why we are uncomfortable!

Episode 265: Just Be, No Great Shakes, Everything Just As It Is

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:35:37 +0000

The ups and downs of the seesaw of karma.

Episode 264: Sudden and Gradual Schools of Zen

Will Rauschenberger — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:02:18 +0000

Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will Rauschenberger in discussing Kongan practice, Linages, and the Lotus Sutra Parable of the Burning House.

Episode 263: Dharma and Karma, What’s In Your Backpack?

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:15:21 +0000

In 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.

Episode 262: The Precepts, Actuality and Flowering of Being

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:52:56 +0000

Strip away who we think we are and experience the actuality of who we are.

Episode 261: This Mind Alone is Buddha

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:17:27 +0000

Zen is solving the problem of Birth and Death.

Episode 260: Why do we practice Zazen, doing no-thing?

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:52:09 +0000

If we already have Buddha Nature, why do we meditate?

Episode 259: This Mind Alone, There Is No Other

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:42:13 +0000

Taking responsibility for your life and liberation are not different.

Episode 258: Repose and Bliss

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:55:04 +0000

“Bodhisattva Samadhi” is Repose and Bliss.

Episode 257: The message of Zen, overcoming stupidity

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:40:05 +0000

How ordinary stupid people cause great suffering.

Episode 256: Life’s Trauma And Liberation

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:38:42 +0000

Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.

Episode 255: The Heart of Perfect Wisdom

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:25:31 +0000

The lion’s roar.

Episode 254: Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:45:56 +0000

You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…

Episode 253: The Primordial Darkness of Ignorance

Will Rauschenberger — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:01:02 +0000

Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?

Episode 252: A Safe Space

Will Rauschenberger — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:25:46 +0000

What does it mean to be fearless?

Episode 251: Zen Is Life, Not A Hobby Or Pastime

Will Rauschenberger — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:08:15 +0000

Hitching your Ox to the post of Emptiness.