Dharma Talks

Debra Seido Martin is Zen West's Guiding Teacher. She was transmitted in 2009 by Kyogen Carlson, late Abbott of Dharma Rain Zen Center. Seido is an organic farmer and psychotherapist devoted to the wild and giving space of practice and grace of the land. She carries forward her teacher’s directive to “ordain into your life.”

Guest Teacher Myobun: On Being Groundless

The ungraspable Now is always out of date. We’re always, in each moment, encountering something that’s already slipping away. The ground...

May 8

Oxherding Pictures 9 and 10: Returning to the Source and Entering the Marketplace

It may be a difficult place to practice, but the marketplace—ordinary life—is where the need for our human energy and spiritual life is...

May 1

Oxherding Pictures 7 and 8: Forgetting the Ox and Transcending the Ox

If we sincerely walk the path, eventually the practice becomes who we are. We see when we are caught with the old mind—the poisons of...

Apr 24

Oxherding Picture 6: Riding the Ox Home

What does it mean to ride the ox, to lose the distance between you and practice, you and life? The boundaries become clear but there is...

Apr 17

Oxherding Picture 5: Training. Trusting. Patient.

In this very moment, how am I being asked to grow? To be wholehearted in Zen practice means to give up any expectation of reward. To be...

Apr 10

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