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Scroll below for links to all of Zuisei’s Talks and Writings featured on this site.
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        Dharma Encounter
        
        
      
      
      
- May 4, 2025 Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
 - Feb 7, 2024 Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
 
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        Dharma Study
        
        
      
      
      
- May 14, 2025 Past Actions, Present Karma
 - Feb 26, 2025 Silent Illumination: Shikantaza
 - Feb 5, 2025 When No Thing Works: Five Stages of Dharma Practice
 - Jan 15, 2025 The Practice of Togetherness
 - Jan 8, 2025 A Particular Kind of Joy
 - Dec 7, 2024 Shikantaza: Open Awareness
 - Dec 4, 2024 A Satisfying Life
 - Nov 13, 2024 The Power of Loving-kindness (Metta)
 - Sep 25, 2024 The Miracle of Mindfulness
 - May 8, 2024 On Living by Vow
 - May 4, 2022 Study Session 5: Opening the Hand of Thought
 - Feb 2, 2022 Study Session 2: Opening the Hand of Thought
 - Oct 8, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session II
 - Aug 11, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session I
 
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        Dharma Talk - Guest Speaker
        
        
      
      
      
- Mar 30, 2022 The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
 - Sep 16, 2018 Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
 
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        Dharma Talk - Zuisei Goddard
        
        
      
      
      
- Sep 3, 2025 The Eight Worldly Winds
 - Aug 13, 2025 What is Mind?
 - Jul 30, 2025 Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods
 - Jun 25, 2025 The Contemplative Life
 - May 14, 2025 Past Actions, Present Karma
 - May 4, 2025 Dharma Encounter: The Next Buddha
 - Feb 26, 2025 Silent Illumination: Shikantaza
 - Feb 5, 2025 When No Thing Works: Five Stages of Dharma Practice
 - Jan 8, 2025 A Particular Kind of Joy
 - Dec 7, 2024 Shikantaza: Open Awareness
 - Sep 18, 2024 Fall 2024 Ango Entering Ceremony
 - Aug 21, 2024 Eight Ways of Cultivating Loving-kindness
 - Aug 14, 2024 Loving-kindness As Our Ground
 - Aug 7, 2024 The Merit of Giving
 - Jul 24, 2024 Sound of the Bell: The Why Behind Things
 - Jul 21, 2024 Noble Silence
 - Jun 5, 2024 Learn to Be Satisfied: The Second Bodhisattva Vow Redux
 - May 4, 2024 Saving All Sentient Beings: The First Bodhisattva Vow Redux
 - Apr 10, 2024 Attaining the Buddha Way: The Fourth Bodhisattva Vow Redux
 - Mar 20, 2024 Mastering the Dharmas: The Third Vow Redux
 - Feb 17, 2024 Sloth and Torpor
 - Feb 14, 2024 Restlessness and Worry
 - Feb 7, 2024 Dharma Encounter: What Is Buddha?
 - Dec 10, 2023 Buddha's Enlightenment
 - Dec 6, 2023 Simplicity
 - Oct 27, 2023 The Practice of Gratitude
 - Oct 4, 2023 Seeing Perfection: Not Speaking of Others
 - Sep 20, 2023 An Amazement: Practicing with Climate Change
 - Aug 23, 2023 The Heart Sutra: Emptiness Brimming with Love
 - Aug 5, 2023 Wanting the Unwanted: Entering Ango
 - May 17, 2023 Coming Home
 - Apr 26, 2023 Eight Ways of Looking at Dharma
 - Apr 19, 2023 The Nuts and Bolts of Letting Go
 - Mar 8, 2023 Death by Distraction; Life by Attention
 - Feb 8, 2023 Good Enough Faith
 - Jan 18, 2023 Beyond Fear and Dread
 - Dec 17, 2022 Oryoki (The Wild, Insistent Hunger) • Zazenkai Talk
 - Dec 14, 2022 Buddha's Enlightenment (We Must Have Done Something Right)
 - Dec 7, 2022 I Am Life Entire
 - Nov 18, 2022 What I Speak about when I Speak about Love
 - Sep 9, 2022 From Obstruction to Gate
 - Aug 26, 2022 Instructions on Not Giving Up (aka SWITCH)
 - Aug 10, 2022 How to Be a Noble Friend
 - Jun 19, 2022 Working with Loneliness
 - Jun 11, 2022 Mu: The Ungraspable
 - Mar 30, 2022 The Preciousness of Human Life with Karma Yeshe and Karma Zopa
 - Mar 20, 2022 Liberation Within
 - Mar 16, 2022 Stand on Your Own Two Feet
 - Feb 16, 2022 Loving What Is Rightfully Ours
 - Feb 9, 2022 Creating the World
 - Jan 12, 2022 Unstoppable
 - Dec 12, 2021 The Unbinding
 - Dec 8, 2021 Precepts: Taking Refuge
 - Dec 3, 2021 Understanding the I
 - Nov 10, 2021 Treasure
 - Oct 27, 2021 The Love Between Parent and Child
 - Sep 29, 2021 You Can’t Be Yourself by Yourself
 - Sep 15, 2021 Working with Fear
 - Sep 8, 2021 Shikantaza
 - Aug 22, 2021 Devotion
 - Aug 18, 2021 Power of Bow
 - Jul 21, 2021 Transitions
 - Jul 14, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VIII): Burning
 - Jun 30, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VII): Living Simply
 - Jun 23, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (VI): Practicing the Pandemic
 - Jun 16, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (V): Listen to Bring Joy
 - May 26, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (IV): Find Your Enthusiasm
 - May 19, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (III): the Searching Mind
 - May 12, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (II): Desires
 - May 5, 2021 Eight Realizations of Great Beings (I): Impermanence
 - Apr 21, 2021 A Threaded Talk on Impermanence
 - Apr 14, 2021 Journey to Awakening
 - Mar 26, 2021 Possibility
 - Feb 24, 2021 The World Belongs to Those Who Love It
 - Feb 17, 2021 Papañca: Proliferation
 - Feb 12, 2021 Awash with Joy
 - Feb 3, 2021 Being Nowhere
 - Jan 27, 2021 On Loving-Kindness
 - Jan 13, 2021 Love as Prime Mover
 - Jan 7, 2021 Opening into Reality
 - Dec 30, 2018 Not Leaving the Monastery
 - Oct 26, 2018 Pilgrimage
 - Oct 14, 2018 Daring to Ask
 - Oct 13, 2018 Sacred Space
 - Sep 16, 2018 Ancestors (with Hojin Sensei)
 - Sep 14, 2018 Prajna Paramita: The Mother of All Buddhas
 - Aug 25, 2018 Mysticism
 - Aug 5, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 2: Self-liberation
 - Aug 4, 2018 Mind at Ease, Part 1: Waking up to Our Un-ease
 - Jul 28, 2018 Great Determination: Three Essentials of Zen
 - Jul 15, 2018 Great Doubt: The Three Essentials of Zen
 - Jun 23, 2018 Great Faith: Three Essentials of Zen
 - May 25, 2018 Mind and Reality: Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds
 - Apr 27, 2018 Studying The Way with the Body
 - Apr 22, 2018 Gateless Gate, Case 36: Meeting a Person of the Way
 - Mar 30, 2018 After No Comes Yes
 - Mar 4, 2018 Eight Conditions for Wisdom
 - Jan 27, 2018 Free Will and Karma
 - Dec 30, 2017 The Incalculable
 - Dec 17, 2017 The Gift of Fearlessness
 
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        Dharma Talk - Zuisei Goddard (2015)
        
        
      
      
      
- Jan 18, 2015 All the Light We Cannot See
 
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        Dharma Talk - Zuisei Goddard (2016)
        
        
      
      
      
- Jan 9, 2016 Determination Paramita
 
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        Fusatsu
        
        
      
      
      
- Oct 13, 2018 Sacred Space
 
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- Jul 30, 2025 Fusatsu Talk: The Three Supreme Methods
 - May 3, 2025 The Four Opponent Powers
 - Mar 26, 2025 The Unmaker of Measurement: Fusatsu Talk
 - Nov 6, 2024 Fusatsu Talk: Walking on the Ground of Reality
 
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- Sep 3, 2025 The Eight Worldly Winds
 - Aug 13, 2025 What is Mind?
 
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        Interview
        
        
      
      
      
- Jan 12, 2021 Still Running • Interview with Jay Rinsen Weik Sensei
 - Jul 17, 2019 On Mindfulness • Interview
 
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- May 17, 2022 Sacred Food
 - Aug 11, 2021 Understanding Our Mind, Study Session I
 - Jul 9, 2017 Not Forgetting Right Thought
 
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- Jul 15, 2023 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony (II)
 - Jul 23, 2022 Receiving the Precepts: Jukai Ceremony
 
 
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- Sep 10, 2025 The Eight Worldly Winds
 - Jul 10, 2025 The Five Opponent Powers
 - Jun 30, 2025 Not Even the Now
 
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- Nov 22, 2024 Signs of the Unseen
 - Jun 24, 2024 Moving Through the Three "Karma Doors"
 - Mar 4, 2024 The Practice of Right Relationship
 
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            2023
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
- Oct 3, 2023 Working with Craving
 - Sep 23, 2023 The World Between Breaths: Mu and Buddha Nature
 - Sep 7, 2023 Life Is And
 - Aug 20, 2023 Emptiness Brimming with Love
 - Aug 5, 2023 The Four Bodhisattva Vows: An Impossible Dream
 - Aug 4, 2023 How To Choose What Helps, Not What Harms
 - Feb 28, 2023 Noble Friends
 - Jan 25, 2023 Syzygy: Indra's Diamond Net
 
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            2022
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
- Dec 31, 2022 Silence: The Fable of the Oak and the Linden
 - Aug 22, 2022 One-Eyed Turtle and the Floating Log
 - Jul 17, 2022 This Is Not Mine, This Is Not Myself
 - Jun 1, 2022 Authentic Self in Buddhist Practice
 - May 5, 2022 The Gift of Contemplation
 - Mar 20, 2022 When Women Practice Anger
 - Mar 15, 2022 Interdependence, Entanglement and Possibility
 - Mar 4, 2022 On Fatigue and Illness in Buddhist Practice
 
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            2021
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
- Sep 21, 2021 Buddhist Practice: Just Love Them
 - Jul 21, 2021 Taking Refuge in Zazen
 
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            2020
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
- Jul 21, 2020 What Is a Sacred Space and How do I Create One?
 - Apr 4, 2020 Take Shelter in the Three Treasures
 - Mar 5, 2020 Shikantaza: The Methodless Method of Zazen
 
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            2019
        
        
        
        
      
      
      
- Dec 4, 2019 The Four Immeasurables: A Science of Compassion
 - Nov 4, 2019 The Three Essentials of Zen