Open Mind Zen
Home
Announcements
Retreats
Workshop Descriptions
Correspondence Course
Dharma Talks
OMZ Book
Q&A
Meditation Schedule
7 Levels of Open Mind Zen
Online Donations
Teachers
Links
Affiliate Groups
Contact Us
Open Mind Zen


Dharma Talks

Dharma Talks

Each Sunday at 10:00 am, Sensei Al Rapaport or Senior Students give instruction on Zen practice.  The session begins with a 30-minute silent meditation, followed by the talk and time for Q & A, for a total time of about 90 minutes.

Below are a selection of talks in MP3 format given over the last few years. Additional talks are found in the Archives.

Sensei Al Rapaport

January 10, 2010 Being in the Flow
February 7, 2010, Genjo Koan #1
February 14, 2010, Genjo Koan #2
February 28, 2010, Buddha Mind is Practice
March 14, 2010, Buddha Mind is NOT Practice
April 25, 2010 Shannon Burnett, Dharma Talk
May 2, 2010,  What do we Know?
May 9, 2010, Foundations of Practice
May 16, 2010, What is Real?
June 6, 2010, The Value of What Is
June 11, 2010, Lauri Lyons,  3 Pounds of Flax
June 13, 2010, Evaluating or Valuing?
June 20, 2010, How Suggestible Are You?
July 11, 2010, Life Purpose
July 18, 2010,  Humility or Humiliation?
August 1, 2010, Anger Management
August 8, 2010, The Practice of Giving
August 15, 2010, Sila Paramita
August 22, 2010,  3rd Paramita of Patience
August 29, 2010, 4th Paramita of Joyful Effort
September 5, 2010, 5th Paramita of Mindfulness
September 12, 2010, 6th Paramita of Wisdom
Sepember 26, 2010, Unsticking the Pointer
October 3, 2010, Inner and Outer Practice
October 31, 2010, Letting Go of Ideas
November 21, 2010, Linda Lehrhaupt
November 28, 2010, Coming to Conclusions
December 5, 2010 , Life Purpose
December 19, 2010, Awakening or Insanity?
December 26, 2010, Orthodoxy and Conditioning
December 30, 2010, Defining out Life, Laurie Lyons
January 9, 2011, Whose body is it?
January  23, 2011, Lay Zen Teachers
February 20, 2011 To Flow or Not to Flow
March 6, 2011, Fixing the Mind
March 13, 2011, Conscious & Unconscious
March 27, 2011, Rinzai's Man of  No Rank
April 10, 2011 , Human Nature, Buddha Nature
April 24, 2011,  Resurrection and Going Beyond Mind & Body
May 1, 2011, Root Cause Analysis and  the Human  Mind
May 15, 2011,  Not Doing and Non Doing
May 22, 2011,  Holy Tears and the Practice of Compassion
May 29, 2011, Consciousness Only
June 12, 2011 What is Real?
June 26, 2011 Building a Bigger Box
July 3,2011, Understanding Love: Eros, Agape and the Practice of Loving Kindness
July 10, 2011, On Dialogue
July 24, 2011, Aquisition
August 14, 2011, Past & Future Time
August 21, 2011, Alignment
August 28, 2011, Reactive vs. Creative Mind
September 11, 2011, Come Back to the Real
October 9, 2011, Linda Lehrhaupt Talk
October 30, 2011, Voice of the Critic
November 27, 2011 Love and Liberation
December 11, 2011, Fears of the Ego
December 18, 2011, 8 Obstacles to Listening
January 8, 2012, The Levels of Human Endeavor

 

Home | Announcements | Retreats | Workshops | Correspondence | Dharma Talks | OMZ book | Q & A |
Meditation | 8 Levels of Open Mind Zen | Online Dotations | Teachers | Links | Affiliate Groups | Contact Us

Copyright ©2007-2010 Open Mind Zen. Terms of service.