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)