Recorded Talks*

By Mike Fieleke, Rōshi

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2024

Apr 24	Loving Kindness
Apr 3	Torei Enji Parts 3 & 4: Who Are You
Mar 13	Torei Enji Part 2: Boundless Intimacy
Feb 21	Torei Enji Part 1: The Essential Gateway
Jan 31	Every Day is a Good Day
Jan 10	The Hidden Lamp: Ling's Question

2023

Dec 20	Turning into the Dark
Nov 29	Bowing
Nov 8	The Great Matter
Oct 18	Compassionate Surrender
Sep 27	Mind of Bisquick
Sep 6	In the Mud, Flowers Bloom
Aug 9	Sambhogakaya
Jul 26	Where there’s No Heat, No Cold
Jul 5	Releasing the Grip of Thought
Jun 14	No Gaining Idea
May 24	The Diamond Sutra and Saving All Beings
May 3	"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness"
Mar 22	Beginning Koan Practice with Chaozhou’s Mu
Feb 8	The Precepts: A Clear View of Muddy Water
Jan 18	The Six Paramitas

2022

Dec 22	Why We Need the Precepts
Dec 7	Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness
Nov 16	Opening Through Suffering
Oct 5	Endarkenment
Aug 15	Nirvana
Aug 3	Make of Yourself a Light
Jun 29	Zen: Walking the Eightfold Path
Jun 22	Healing in Love
Jun 1	Awakening to Discouragement
May 11	Not Knowing is Most Intimate
Apr 20	Practicing Wisdom
Mar 30	Caring for Stardust
Mar 16	Seek Nothing
Feb 16	Realizing the Zen Way
Feb 2	Bodhicitta
Jan 19	Right Speech
Jan 5	The 12 Links: Monkey Freedom

2021

Dec 1	Guanyin Finds Us
Nov 17	Delusive Wisdom
Nov 3	Seeking With Empty Hands
Oct 6	Self and Other the Same
Sep 1	The Ship of Compassion
Aug 4	Opening the Hand of Thought
Jul 21	Birth-and-Death
Jun 2	The Six Realms
May 19	Where is Buddha
Apr 21	Only Apricots
Apr 7	Happy Birthday Buddha
Mar 31	Hotei's Way
Mar 17	No Knowing, Bearing Witness, & Loving Action: A Response to Violence against Asian Americans
Mar 3	No
Feb 17	Ocean of Presence
Feb 3	Loving Kindness
Jan 6	Dharma in the Midst of a Coup

2020

Dec 30	New Year's Vow
Dec 16	A Thousand Hands and Eyes
Dec 2	Master Ma is Unwell
Nov 18	Shikantaza
Nov 4	Flowers of Air
Oct 21	Self-care For World-care
Sep 28	Acting Without Attachment
Sep 14	The Way of Doubt
Aug 16	Ecodharma (Given at Boundless Way Temple)
Aug 1	Dismantling Racial Constallations of Harm
Jul 15	The Four Bodhisattva Vows
Jul 1	Because of the Rain
May 6	You and the Universe are Never Separate
Apr 22	Giving Up Control
Apr 8	Saying Yes
Apr 1	Dont Be Lost in Resistance
Mar 25	Just This
Mar 4	Birth-and-Death
Feb 10	Limiting Your Activity
Feb 9	Not one. Not two. Both one and two
Jan 16	Realizing the Zen Way

2019

Dec 18	The Precepts
Dec 4	Dedications
Nov 6	Tuning the Strings
Nov 6	Great Doubt
Oct 23	Shikantaza
Oct 9	Who Owns the Weather
Sep 11	Compassion Unbound
Aug 14	Wandering
Jul 21	Facing Everything
Jul 3	Zen, Not What You Expected
Jun 19	The Three Pillars of Zen
Jun 6	The Three Pure Precepts
May 19	Race and Liberation For All
May 15	Enlightenment Is Not Enough
May 2	Right Effort
Apr 13	Pai-Chang's Fox
Mar 20	Only Compassion
Feb 20	Further Musings on the Heart Sutra
Feb 6	Is There Anything Missing Now
Jan 2	Enlightenment

2018

Dec 5	Nanchuan's Cat
Nov 21	Dogen's Instructions for Zazen
Oct 17	Being Embodied
Sep 19	Dogen's Time-Being
Jul 4	Dogen's Dharma Blossoms
Jun 20	Buddhanature
Jan 3	Compassion For Delusions

Earlier

A Lotus In Muddy Water

The Oneness of Forms

The Heart of the Heart Sutra

Sudden Awakening

Just Notice

Moments of Opening (by David Rynick)

Precepts (by David Rynick)

Enlightenment (by Melissa Blacker)

Entangling Vines (by Melissa Blacker)

Precepts (by Melissa Blacker and James Ford)

Shikantaza (by David Rynick)

*Talks often explore readings from our sutra book or other sources cited in Mike's blog.