Audio Dharma Talks
Below are recordings of Dharma Talks given by Taigen and others at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in MP3 format. You can listen to the talks in your browser by clicking the name of the talk. To save the MP3 to your computer you need to right click on the talk name (or hold the control key and click if you have a Mac) and select "Save link as".
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All Dharma Talks are by Taigen Dan Leighton unless otherwise noted.
- Samadhi of the Treasury of Light
ADZG 142: September 19, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Samadhi of Light and the Illuminating Spirits
ADZG 141: September 18, 2011 - ADZG Three Day Sesshin Dharma Talk - Zen and the Season of Light
ADZG 140: December 25, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Keizan Titus O'Brien - Grieving the Loss of the Grasping Self
ADZG 139: December 19, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - Zen Questions and Joyful Expression Without Commodities
ADZG 138: December 18, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Rocks and Envelopes
ADZG 137: October 23, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Nyozan Eric Shutt - Priest Ordination
ADZG 136: October 16, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Opening Reality and Returning to the Source
ADZG 135: July 25, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Zen Expression and Dream Practice
ADZG 134: July 24, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Memory, Forgetfulness, and Big Mind
ADZG 133: June 5, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The Essential Meaning of Buddha Dharma
ADZG 132: December 4, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The One Not Busy and a Great Zen Failure
ADZG 131: December 3, 2011 - ADZG Three Day Sesshin Dharma Talk - Occupying Zazen
ADZG 130: November 28, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Accidental Buddhist: "How my mistakes led me to, and deepened, my practice"
ADZG 129: October 24, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Roy Wyman - Roundtable Discussion
ADZG 128: November 12, 2011 - Discussion by William Bodiford, Griffith Foulk, Steven Heine, Taigen Dan Leighton, and Shohaku Okumura at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami - Arousing Bodhi Mind: What is Earth in Dōgen's Teaching
ADZG 127: November 12, 2011 - Talk by Shohaku Okumura at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami - Dōgen's Vital Process of Going Beyond Buddha
ADZG 126: November 12, 2011 - Talk by Taigen Dan Leighton at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami - Seasons in Dōgen's Chinese and Japanese Poetry
ADZG 125: November 12, 2011 - Talk by Steven Heine at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami - Dōgen's Use of Koans
ADZG 124: November 12, 2011 - Talk by Griffith Foulk at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami - Conference Introduction
ADZG 123: November 12, 2011 - Talk by Steven Heine and Shotai De La Rosa at Bringing Dōgen Down to Earth conference, FIU Miami [Note: video of the conference will also appear on the Buddha Soto Zen website] - Zen in Japan and America
ADZG 122: September 26, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by David Chadwick - Commments on Suzuki Roshi
ADZG 121: September 25, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by David Chadwick - Practice Off the Mat: Two Monks Roll Up the Blind
ADZG 120: August 29, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Douglas Floyd - Imagination as a Bodhisattva Resource
ADZG 119: August 22, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Lotus Sutra, Nichiren, and Joanna Macy: Bodhisattva Joy in Challenging Times
ADZG 118: August 14, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Zen Koans from Yogi Berra
ADZG 117: August 28, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Kenji Miyazawa
ADZG 116: August 15, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Gene Reeves - Finding Vitality in Non-Separation
ADZG 115: November 21, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Taking Refuge
ADZG 114: November 7, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Sangha Talk by Nancy Easton - Breakfast Comes First
ADZG 113: August 7, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Urban Land Ethics
ADZG 112: August 1, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Laurel Ross - Three Pure Precepts
ADZG 111: January 2, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - Dharma and Thomas Jefferson
ADZG 110: July 3, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - My Life With Dogen
ADZG 109: July 10, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Kazuaki Tanahashi - The Origin of Mothers' Day and the Precepts
ADZG 108: May 8, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The Bodhisattva Precept on Not Speaking of Faults
ADZG 107: May 1, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Practicing with Relationships: Truth and Acceptance
ADZG 106: May 2, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Mauro Crestani - The Bodhisattva Precept on Not Taking What is Not Given
ADZG 105: April 25, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Ungraspable Mind, Deep Time, and the Precepts: Painting the Ungraspable
ADZG 104: May 16, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Gratitude and Kindness
ADZG 103: March 14, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Jim Spiegler - Zazen and the Equinox
ADZG 102: March 20, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practicing with Anger
ADZG 101: November 29, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Douglas Floyd - The Teaching of a Lifetime: The Three Aspects of Appropriate Response
ADZG 100: September 19, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Genjōkōan, Part V: Firewood and ash at the North Pole: Dōgen and time
ADZG 99: March 27, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Shohaku Okumura - Genjōkōan, Part IV: Dropping body-mind
ADZG 98: March 26, 2011 - ADZG Saturday Afternoon Dharma Talk by Rev. Shohaku Okumura - Genjōkōan, Part III: Realization and delusion defined
ADZG 97: March 26, 2011 - ADZG Saturday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Shohaku Okumura - Genjōkōan, Part II: Opening: Dōgen and basic Buddhism
ADZG 96: March 25, 2011 - ADZG Friday Afternoon Dharma Talk by Rev. Shohaku Okumura - Genjōkōan, Part I: Search for practice and the meaning of Genjōkōan
ADZG 95: March 25, 2011 - ADZG Friday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Shohaku Okumura - Non-attachment and the Most Dangerous Attachment
ADZG 94: March 6, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Practice on the Razor's Edge
ADZG 93: February 28, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Josh Mather - The Gift of Boredom
ADZG 92: February 27, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Sangha Talk by Nancy Easton - Separation Anxiety and Nirvana
ADZG 91: February 6, 2011 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - On Gratitude
ADZG 90: January 24, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Serena Lander - Blood and Breath
ADZG 89: January 10, 2011 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Eric Shutt - Ananda Takes Down the Banner
ADZG 88: December 27, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Winter Solstice: the Glow Increases
ADZG 87: December 20, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Dogen's Zazen as Nenbutsu Practice
ADZG 86: December 19, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Faith and Zazen
ADZG 85: December 13, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Titus O'Brien - Transforming the Three Poisons
ADZG 84: December 12, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Buddha's Enlightenment; Never Reaching the End
ADZG 83: December 6, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Right Livelihood
ADZG 82: September 6, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Practice with Silence
ADZG 81: October 31, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Sangha Talk by Nancy Easton - Creativity and Compassion
ADZG 80: August 22, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Buddha Nature Wholeness
ADZG 79: July 26, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Flowering of Dharma
ADZG 78: August 16, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Gene Reeves - Buddhas Merging with Temple Pillars
ADZG 77: December 6, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Zazen as Forgiveness
ADZG 76: November 1, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Eric Shutt - Work Practice
ADZG 75: September 27, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Dawn Kistler - Nirvana-Samsara: What's the Difference?
ADZG 74: September 13, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Myōgen Steve Stücky - The Practice of Generosity
ADZG 73: September 12, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Myōgen Steve Stücky - Zen Time and Its Practice
ADZG 72: August 29, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Meaningful Life / The Most Important Thing?
ADZG 71: August 23, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Mary Oliver's Grasshopper
ADZG 70: August 9, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Laurel Ross - Impermanence Is Buddha Nature
ADZG 69: August 2, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Beyond-Thinking and Wandering Mind
ADZG 68: July 18, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Always Close to This
ADZG 67: June 27, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Beyond-Thinking
ADZG 66: June 26, 2010 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk - Swimming in the Samadhi of Water
ADZG 65: June 7, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - Zazen Is Not Learning Meditation
ADZG 64: June 14, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Rev. Issho Fujita - The Practice of Patience
ADZG 63: June 6, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Bodhisattva Identity-Action
ADZG 62: May 24, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Being Joy in Times of War
ADZG 61: March 28, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Sarah Weintraub - The Mind Ground Dharma Field and Spectacular Dragons
ADZG 60: March 15, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Emptiness and Shifting Perspectives
ADZG 59: March 8, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Jim Spiegler - Love and Zen
ADZG 58: February 14, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Dragon Song & Practice in the Withered Tree
ADZG 57: March 22, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - Spring Arising In Everything: Dragon Song
ADZG 56: March 21, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Song of the Grass Hut
ADZG 55: February 7, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Meditation-Wisdom & the Platform Sutra
ADZG 54: January 10, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The Ultimate Way Is Not Difficult
ADZG 53: January 11, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Douglas Floyd - The Sixth Ancestor's Original Face
ADZG 52: January 4, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Living for the Welfare of the World
ADZG 51: April 25, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Afternoon Dharma Talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson - Cultivating Great Compassion and Loving Kindness II
ADZG 50: April 25, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson - Cultivating Great Compassion and Loving Kindness
ADZG 49: April 24, 2010 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk by Tenshin Reb Anderson - Dogen's Four Basic Teachings
ADZG 48: January 24, 2010 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The Fox Koan; Not Ignoring Karma
ADZG 47: December 20, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Expressing the Dream within a Dream
ADZG 46: January 25, 2010 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The First Day of Whatever
ADZG 45: December 14, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Nancy Easton - The Misunderstandings of Many Lifetimes
ADZG 44: November 22, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Zazen and Ultra-marathon practice
ADZG 43: November 16, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by David Hill - Ryokan Dealing with Each thing Changing
ADZG 42: November 15, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Hacking Zazen
ADZG 41: October 5, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Kevin Iverson - Positive and Negative Feeling
ADZG 40: September 27, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Chicago Wilderness
September 9, 2009 - ADZG Peace and Environment Forum talk by Laurel Ross - The Intelligence of Zen Postures
ADZG 39: August 31, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Titus O'Brien - Practicing Three Thousand Worlds in a single Thought-moment
ADZG 38: November 9, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Lotus Sutra Heart
ADZG 37: August 24, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Gene Reeves - Other Power and Self Power
ADZG 36: June 21, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Practicing with Technology
ADZG 35: July 12, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hogetsu Laurie Belzer - Lotus Sutra Stupa in Mid-air
ADZG 34: August 10, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - A Journey Through Addiction
ADZG 33: June 22, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Dawn Kistler - The Practice of Generosity
ADZG 32: May 24, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - The Gateway to Repose and Joy
ADZG 31: May 18, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Motion and Stillness
ADZG 30: May 11, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Sangha Talk by Adam Tinkham - Mother's Day: Grandmother Zen and the Mother of All Buddhas
ADZG 29: May 10, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Four Embracing Dharmas of Bodhisattvas
ADZG 28: May 5, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Alan Senauke - Ordinary Mind is the Way
ADZG 27: April 27, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Daigaku Rumme - The Growth of Oneness a commentary on One by Kaz Tanahashi
ADZG 26: April 12, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Japanese Culture and Engaged Buddhism
ADZG 25: March 9, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Transmitting the Pierced Nostrils
ADZG 24: April 6, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Does Dimsum Have Buddha Nature?
ADZG 23: March 30, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Steven Heine - Right View
ADZG 22: March 22, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk - Almost Not Confused By Self
ADZG 21: March 15, 2009 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk - King Ashoka: The Ancestor of Engaged Buddhism
ADZG 20: March 8, 2009 - ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Kaz Tanahashi - The Chicago Koan: Dongshan's Place Beyond Hot and Cold
ADZG 19: February 9, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Zendo Opening and Martin Luther King Day
ADZG 18: January 19, 2009 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Meaning of Buddha's Enlightenment
ADZG 17: December 7, 2008 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk - Engaging the Mystery
ADZG 16: November 17, 2008 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Like the Moon Through Ivy
ADZG 15: August 25, 2008 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk by Myoshi Roger Thomson - Mary Oliver - Making yourself into a Light
ADZG 14: August 4, 2008 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Gary Snyder on the Mountains and Water Sutra: The Rhythm of Zen Practice
ADZG 13: August 18, 2008 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Dongshan's Meeting Suchness; Rimbaud's 'I is an Other'
ADZG 12: June 28, 2008 - ADZG Three Day Sesshin Dharma Talk - Dogen's five-part notes on Zazen
ADZG 11: May 13, 2008 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Zhaozhou's Cypress Tree in the Yard
ADZG 10: July 22, 2007 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk - The Awesome Presence of Active Buddhas
ADZG 9: November 4, 2007 - Sunday Morning Dharma talk, Clouds in Water Zen Center, St. Paul, Minnesota - Rumi's 800th Birthday
ADZG 8: October 1, 2007 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Silent Illumination and the Upright Cauldron
ADZG 7: June 16, 2007 - ADZG Three Day Sesshin Dharma Talk - Serene Illumination Practice and the Backward Step
ADZG 6: June 15, 2007 - ADZG Three Day Sesshin Dharma Talk - The Worldview of Dogen and The Lotus Sutra
ADZG 5: May 19, 2007 - Sat. Morning Dharma Talk, San Francisco Zen Center - The Transformative Function of Zazen
ADZG 4: May 6, 2007 - ADZG One Day Sitting Dharma Talk - Liberty and Justice for All: July 4th as a Buddhist Holiday, and the current U.S. situation
ADZG 3: July 2, 2006 - Green Gulch Farm, Marin County, CA - Bob Dylan's Song about Sesshin and Zen Mind
ADZG 2: April 2, 2007 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk - Zazen Mind
ADZG 1: March 12, 2007 - ADZG Monday Night Dharma Talk
Samadhi of the Treasury of Light