Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

Rochester Zen Center Teisho (Zen Talks)

Dharma talks by senior teachers, including Sensei John Pulleyn, Sensei Donna Kowal, and Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. The Rochester Zen Center was founded in 1966 by Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of 20th century Zen classic, The Three Pillars of Zen.

Episodes

June 13, 2025 41 mins

June 2025 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on “Everyday Zen: Love & Work” by Charlotte Joko Beck, Part 2 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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June 2025 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on “Everyday Zen: Love & Work” by Charlotte Joko Beck, Part 1 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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June 11, 2025 41 mins

June 2025 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings” by Ajahn Chah, Part 4 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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June 10, 2025 41 mins

June 2025 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings” by Ajahn Chah, Part 3 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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June 9, 2025 45 mins

June 2025 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings” by Ajahn Chah, Part 2 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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June 8, 2025 41 mins

June 2025 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings” by Ajahn Chah, Part 1 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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May 18, 2025 43 mins

Finding the Silence that doesn’t depend on conditions. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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May 11, 2025 41 mins

Moshan Liaoran (c. mid-late 800s) was the first female ancestor to be recognized in the official record of Dharma transmission. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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April 27, 2025 44 mins

Our evolutionary heritage instills and reinforces the dream of self and other and blinds us to how little is actually within our control. Everything begins to open up when we drop our demands and learn to work with things as they are. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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April 2025 Sesshin, Day 2
A commentary on Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away (Ajahn Chah). High ideals and daily frustrations- a story; Comments on Ajahn Chah’s meditation instructions; and Keep at it. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.  Automated Transcript

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April 19, 2025 48 mins

April 2025 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Throw Yourself into the House of Buddha (Tangen Harada Roshi) and Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away (Ajahn Chah). Tips on zazen posture & practice; Working with pain in sesshin; Biography of Ajahn Chah; Comments on impermanence and practice. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.  Automated Transcript

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April 9, 2025 49 mins

What is attention? How do we cultivate it? How do we work with our habits of mind and avoid being swayed by the “attention economy”? Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 27, 2025 50 mins

March 2025 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 26, 2025 50 mins

March 2025 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 25, 2025 50 mins

March 2025 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 24, 2025 52 mins

March 2025 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 23, 2025 49 mins

March 2055 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “An Experience of Enlightenment” by Flora Courtois. The Theosophical Publishing House, 1986. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal.  Automated Transcript

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March 16, 2025 37 mins

Not floundering in dread and resentment, but rising to the occasion in these difficult times when we really don’t know what will happen. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn.  Automated Transcript

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Coming to the Path Talk by Ven. Danan Redding.  Automated Transcript

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