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Click the links below to view teaching videos. Most of these are on the Belmont Zen Center YouTube channel. The most recent is at the top.
- The Noises We Make
- A dharma talk about chanting practice (March 12, 2023, 18:32)
- No Enlikenment
- One minute of dharma — a spiritual path has to be walked (January 21, 2023, 0:57)
- Morning Service
- Get a taste of what services are like at our new location (January 16, 2023, 11:41)
- Tour Our New Home!
- A short tour of our new facility in St. Clairsville, Ohio (January 8, 2023, 3:00)
- We Eat This Food With Everyone
- A dharma talk about food, eating, and the holidays (December 18, 2022, 21:53)
- Big News!
- An update on live in-person events starting soon (December 5, 2022, 1:00)
- Homage to Medicine Buddha
- One minute of dharma — May all beings be healthy in body and mind! (November 13, 2022, 0:48)
- Update and Appeal
- What’s going on with the Zen Center? Can you help it find a home? (October 16, 2022, 4:50)
- Everyone Is Eligible
- One minute of dharma — from Tong Songchol Sunim, one of the great Seon masters of the 20th century (October 2, 2022, 0:53)
- One Hundred Years
- One minute of dharma — a reading from the Dhammapada (August 28, 2022, 0:54)
- Buddha Nature Cures Everybody
- A dharma talk given at Muddy Water Zen Temple, with a mental health angle (August 21, 2022, 17:21)
- Mind Is At Rest
- One minute of dharma — this lightly edited passage is from “Korean Buddhism,” published by the Korean Buddhist Order Association (July 24, 2022, 0:54)
- The Buddha’s Robe
- A short explanation about the vestments worn by Buddhist clergy (July 10, 2022, 6:34)
- Ten Guides
- A reading of an important Seon text (July 3, 2022, 1:28)
- The Practice of Angeo
- Explains the cycle of intensity that is build into Seon practice over the year (May 15, 2022, 9:18)
- Existential Gaslighting
- A re-recording of a dharma talk given at Muddy Water Zen Temple (April 24, 2022, 19:30)
- The Christ-Buddha – A poem by Rev. Duke Grey
- One minute of dharma for Easter (April 17, 2022, 0:46)
- A Small Drop of Water – A reading from Daehaeng Kunsunim: Part 1 — Part 2
- One minute of dharma times two (April 3, 2022, 0:59 & 0:54)
- Kwan Seum Bosal Chanting
- Praying for peace in Ukraine and around the world (February 27, 2022, 3:38)
- A Samantabhadra Practitioner’s Aspiration
- One minute of dharma (February 20, 2022, 1:00)
- Celebrating the life of Thich Nhat Hanh
- One minute of dharma (January 21, 2022, 1:00)
- Eating the Ice Cream
- One minute of dharma (November 18, 2021, 1:00)
- We Need a Metta-Verse
- One minute of dharma (November 13, 2021, 1:00)
- Crossing the Threshold
- Korean Buddhism’s unique idea of “sudden enlightenment and gradual cultivation” — on the Muddy Water Zen Temple channel (October 24, 2021, 24:43)
- That’s Not My Train
- One minute of dharma (October 10, 2021, 1:00)
- Evening Liturgy
- This is an animated version of the evening liturgy from the BZC liturgy book (August 29, 2021, 12:50)
- Making Seated Meditation More Comfortable
- Increase your flexibility and warm up for sitting meditation with this exercise (August 15, 2021, 11:08)
- Impossible Vows
- Examining the four bodhisattva vows — on the Muddy Water Zen Temple channel (July 18, 2021, 14:19)
- Karma Isn’t Everything
- The Buddha taught that why things happen is… complicated (May 9, 2021, 20:57)
- In Defense of Study
- The map is not the trip, the menu is not the meal, but the map and the menu are still worthwhile. (March 14, 2021, 14:41)
- Meditation on Loving-Kindness and Compassion
- A guided metta meditation (February 7, 2021: 15:00)
- Rebirth – Reincarnation – What Did the Buddha Teach?
- Metaphors for understanding a complex teaching (January 3, 2021, 11:31)
- The One Who Bows, the One Who Is Bowed To
- A dharma talk on prostrations as a spiritual practice (November 29, 2020, 11:39)
- What’s With All the Gray?
- Explains the symbolism of this color in the Korean Buddhist tradition (November 1, 2020, 3:52)
- Meditation: Is It All in My Head?
- Explores the role of the body in meditation practice (October 11, 2020, 13:32)
- Meditation: What’s the Point?
- A short teaching on the goal of meditation (September 13, 2020, 5:20)
- Brief Morning Liturgy
- This is an animated version of the morning liturgy from the BZC liturgy book (August 16, 2020, 7:00)
- Buddhism is Not Just Meditation
- The path starts with ethics (August 2, 2020, 5:16)
- If You’re Happy Where You Are…
- A short video about “no proselytizing” (July 26, 2020, 5:19)
- Swimming in Life & Death
- A dharma talk from April, 2020 for the Muddy Water Zen Temple (July 19, 2020, 15:21)
- Why This? Why Now?
- About why the Belmont Zen Center was started (June 28, 2020, 7:20)