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Scroll below for links to all of Zuisei’s Talks and Writings featured on this site.
Talks
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Ceremony Talks | Fusat...
- Oct 25, 2025 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2025)
- Jul 30, 2025 Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods
- May 4, 2025 Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
- May 3, 2025 The Four Opponent Powers (Atonement Practice)
- Mar 26, 2025 The Unmaker of Measurement: Fusatsu Talk
- Jan 8, 2025 A Particular Kind of Joy
- Nov 6, 2024 Fusatsu Talk: Walking on the Ground of Reality
- Sep 18, 2024 Fall 2024 Ango Entering Ceremony
- Feb 7, 2024 Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
- Aug 5, 2023 Wanting the Unwanted: Entering Ango
- Jul 15, 2023 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2023)
- Jul 23, 2022 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2022)
- Oct 13, 2018 Sacred Space
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Death & Dying | Imperm...
- Dec 7, 2022 I Am Life Entire
- Mar 30, 2022 The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
- Jan 10, 2016 The Five Remembrances
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Dharma Study
- May 14, 2025 Past Actions, Present Karma (Diamond Sutra)
- Feb 5, 2025 When No Thing Works | Crisis: Five Stages of Dharma Practice
- Jan 15, 2025 The Practice of Togetherness
- Jan 8, 2025 A Particular Kind of Joy
- Dec 7, 2024 Shikantaza: Open Awareness
- Dec 4, 2024 A Satisfying Life
- Nov 13, 2024 The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)
- Sep 25, 2024 The Miracle of Mindfulness
- May 8, 2024 On Living by Vow
- May 4, 2022 Study Session 5: Opening the Hand of Thought
- Feb 2, 2022 Study Session 2: Opening the Hand of Thought
- Oct 8, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II
- Aug 11, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session
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Eight Realizations...
- Jul 14, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VIII): Burning
- Jun 30, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VII): Living Simply
- Jun 23, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VI): Practicing the Pandemic
- Jun 16, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (V): Listen to Bring Joy
- May 19, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (III): the Searching Mind
- May 12, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (II): Desires
- May 5, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (I): Impermanence
- Jul 28, 2017 Cultivating Wisdom
- Jul 16, 2017 Avoiding Idle Talk
- Jul 9, 2017 Not Forgetting Right Thought
- Jul 8, 2017 Practicing Samadhi
- Jun 23, 2017 Exerting Meticulous Effort
- Apr 30, 2017 Enjoying Serenity and Tranquility
- Apr 26, 2017 Knowing How to Be Satisfied
- Mar 19, 2017 Having Few Desires
- Jan 24, 2017 Human Action
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Eightfold Path
- Mar 4, 2018 Eight Conditions for Wisdom
- Sep 2, 2015 Right Concentration
- Aug 11, 2015 Right Mindfulness
- Jun 29, 2015 Right Action
- Jun 7, 2015 Right Livelihood
- Jun 2, 2015 Right Speech
- Apr 25, 2015 Right View
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Faith & Devotion
- Dec 6, 2025 Faith in Zen
- Feb 8, 2023 Good Enough Faith
- Aug 22, 2021 Devotion
- Aug 18, 2021 Power of Bow
- Dec 30, 2018 Not Leaving the Monastery
- Oct 26, 2018 Pilgrimage
- Jul 28, 2018 Great Determination: Three Essentials of Zen
- Jul 15, 2018 Great Doubt: The Three Essentials of Zen
- Jun 23, 2018 Great Faith: Three Essentials of Zen
- Jan 18, 2015 All the Light We Cannot See
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Guest Teacher
- Mar 30, 2022 The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
- Sep 16, 2018 Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
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Karma | Dependent Orig...
- Mar 4, 2026 Ignorance vs. Love
- Jan 28, 2026 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: An Introduction to Dependent Origination
- Jan 15, 2026 Fusatsu: On Karma and Choice
- May 14, 2025 Past Actions, Present Karma (Diamond Sutra)
- Jan 27, 2018 Free Will and Karma
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Koan Study
- Jul 24, 2024 Sound of the Bell: The Why Behind Things
- Jun 11, 2022 Mu: The Ungraspable
- Mar 20, 2022 Liberation Within
- Jan 12, 2022 Unstoppable
- Oct 27, 2021 The Love Between Parent and Child
- Oct 14, 2018 Daring to Ask
- Aug 5, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 2: Self-liberation
- Aug 4, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 1: Waking up to Our Un-ease
- May 25, 2018 Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
- Apr 22, 2018 Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way
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Love & Lovingkindness
- Nov 13, 2024 The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)
- Sep 25, 2024 The Miracle of Mindfulness
- Aug 21, 2024 Eight Ways of Cultivating Loving-kindness
- Aug 14, 2024 Loving-kindness As Our Ground
- Aug 23, 2023 The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love
- Nov 18, 2022 What I Speak about when I Speak about Love
- Feb 16, 2022 Loving What Is Rightfully Ours
- Oct 27, 2021 The Love Between Parent and Child
- Jan 27, 2021 On Loving-Kindness
- Jan 13, 2021 Love as Prime Mover
- Sep 23, 2016 Lovingkindness (Four Immeasurables)
- Jan 31, 2016 Lovingkindness Paramita
- Oct 23, 2015 What You Hold, May You Always Hold
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Mind
- Aug 13, 2025 What is Mind?
- Oct 8, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II
- Feb 17, 2021 Papañca: Proliferation
- Aug 5, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 2: Self-liberation
- Aug 4, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 1: Waking up to Our Un-ease
- May 25, 2018 Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
- Nov 2, 2017 Placing Ourselves in Suchness, Part 1
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Precepts | Ethics
- Oct 25, 2025 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2025)
- Dec 6, 2023 Simplicity
- Oct 4, 2023 Seeing Perfection: Not Speaking of Others
- Jul 15, 2023 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (2023)
- Dec 8, 2021 Precepts: Taking Refuge
- Oct 18, 2015 Virtue Paramita
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Relationship | Community
- May 4, 2025 Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
- Jan 15, 2025 The Practice of Togetherness
- Feb 7, 2024 Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
- Aug 10, 2022 How to Be a Noble Friend
- Sep 29, 2021 You Can’t Be Yourself by Yourself
- Sep 16, 2018 Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
- Apr 22, 2018 Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way
- Jan 24, 2017 Human Action
- Oct 23, 2015 What You Hold, May You Always Hold
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Sutra Study
- May 14, 2025 Past Actions, Present Karma (Diamond Sutra)
- Aug 23, 2023 The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love
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The Four Immeasurables
- Dec 28, 2016 Sympathetic Joy (Four Immeasurables)
- Nov 15, 2016 Equanimity (Four Immeasurables)
- Oct 16, 2016 Compassion (Four Immeasurables)
- Sep 23, 2016 Lovingkindness (Four Immeasurables)
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The Paramitas
- Aug 7, 2024 The Merit of Giving
- Mar 13, 2016 Giving Paramita
- Jan 31, 2016 Lovingkindness Paramita
- Jan 17, 2016 Equanimity Paramita
- Jan 9, 2016 Determination Paramita
- Dec 30, 2015 Wisdom Paramita
- Dec 12, 2015 Diligence Paramita
- Nov 24, 2015 Meditation Paramita
- Nov 14, 2015 Renunciation Paramita
- Oct 18, 2015 Virtue Paramita
- Sep 25, 2015 Patience Paramita
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Tools for Practice
- Sep 3, 2025 The Eight Worldly Winds
- May 3, 2025 The Four Opponent Powers (Atonement Practice)
- Feb 5, 2025 When No Thing Works | Crisis: Five Stages of Dharma Practice
- Feb 17, 2024 Sloth and Torpor
- Feb 14, 2024 Restlessness and Worry
- Oct 27, 2023 The Practice of Gratitude
- Apr 19, 2023 The Nuts and Bolts of Letting Go
- Mar 8, 2023 Death by Distraction; Life by Attention
- Jan 18, 2023 Beyond Fear and Dread
- Aug 26, 2022 Instructions on Not Giving Up (aka SWITCH)
- Jun 19, 2022 Working with Loneliness
- May 17, 2022 Sacred Food
- Sep 15, 2021 Working with Fear
- Sep 16, 2018 Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
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Vow | Bodhisattva Vows
- Jun 5, 2024 Learn to Be Satisfied: The Second Bodhisattva Vow Redux
- May 8, 2024 On Living by Vow
- Apr 10, 2024 Attaining the Buddha Way: The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow Redux
- Mar 20, 2024 Mastering the Dharmas: The Third Vow Redux
- Feb 17, 2024 Sloth and Torpor
- Aug 7, 2016 The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 2
- Jul 30, 2016 The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow, Part 1
- Jul 24, 2016 The Third Bodhisattva Vow
- Jun 19, 2016 The Second Bodhisattva Vow: Seeing Desire
- Jun 4, 2016 The First Bodhisattva Vow
- Mar 27, 2016 The Four Bodhisattva Vows
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Zazen & Meditation
- Feb 26, 2025 Silent Illumination: Shikantaza
- Jul 21, 2024 Noble Silence: Zazen
- Sep 8, 2021 Shikantaza
- Sep 10, 2017 The Power of Zazen
- Aug 14, 2017 Silence
- Jul 8, 2017 Practicing Samadhi
- Jan 22, 2017 The Way of Stillness and Silence
- Nov 24, 2015 Meditation Paramita
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2025
- Sep 10, 2025 The Eight Worldly Winds
- Jul 10, 2025 The Five Opponent Powers
- Jun 30, 2025 Not Even the Now
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2024
- Nov 22, 2024 Signs of the Unseen
- Jun 24, 2024 Moving Through the Three "Karma Doors"
- Mar 4, 2024 The Practice of Right Relationship
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2023
- Oct 3, 2023 Working with Craving
- Sep 23, 2023 The World Between Breaths: Mu and Buddha Nature
- Sep 7, 2023 Life Is And
- Aug 20, 2023 Emptiness Brimming with Love
- Aug 5, 2023 The Four Bodhisattva Vows: An Impossible Dream
- Aug 4, 2023 How To Choose What Helps, Not What Harms
- Feb 28, 2023 Noble Friends
- Jan 25, 2023 Syzygy: Indra's Diamond Net
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2022
- Dec 31, 2022 Silence: The Fable of the Oak and the Linden
- Aug 22, 2022 One-Eyed Turtle and the Floating Log
- Jul 17, 2022 This Is Not Mine, This Is Not Myself
- Jun 1, 2022 Authentic Self in Buddhist Practice
- May 5, 2022 The Gift of Contemplation
- Mar 20, 2022 When Women Practice Anger
- Mar 15, 2022 Interdependence, Entanglement and Possibility
- Mar 4, 2022 On Fatigue and Illness in Buddhist Practice
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2021
- Sep 21, 2021 Buddhist Practice: Just Love Them
- Jul 21, 2021 Taking Refuge in Zazen
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2020
- Jul 21, 2020 What Is a Sacred Space and How do I Create One?
- Apr 4, 2020 Take Shelter in the Three Treasures
- Mar 5, 2020 Shikantaza: The Methodless Method of Zazen
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2019
- Dec 4, 2019 The Four Immeasurables: A Science of Compassion
- Nov 4, 2019 The Three Essentials of Zen