Mountain Rain Zen Dharma Podcast
Presented by the Mountain Rain Zen Community based in Vancouver, BC. Featuring talks by our guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton, and other guest speakers. To learn more about our community, explore our extensive teaching archive, and offer your support, visit http://mountainrainzen.org.
Episodes
Dai-i Flo Rublee gives the first dharma seminar on The Old Way, talks on texts from the Pali Canon.
Can you see the importance of recognizing wholesome and unwholesome thoughts and their effect on others?
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Shinmon Michael Newton offers a talk about David Chadwick, a Soto Zen priest, author, archivist, and one of the earliest disciples of Shunryu Suzuki (February 9, 1945 - February 23, 2026).
“I don't know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”
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Myoshin Kate McCandless acknowledges that our deeper wounds need to be given protection and healing care. The darts and arrows of a human life can be sharp and painful - the body and mind are supported by practicing the dharma.
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Shinmon Michael Newton affirms that our practice is complete in each moment -- each moment of thought transcends all time. As Dogen would say: there is nothing to add or take away.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless encourages the perspective that even though we are very far away in time from Dogen, we are part of the movement and transmission of dharma.
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A fu...
Myoshin Kate McCandless looks at how poets before and after Dogen have used blossoms in their writing. From a smile, to dynamic interrelationship, to a burning house - all is real, all is unreal.
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Shuso Heito Lee Lourdeaux explores how anger can transmute into compassion. "Understanding is love's other name."
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A full archive of recorded teachings goi...
Shinmon Michael Newton reinforces that for us, reality is continuously expressing itself as this moment - and your life and practice is not separate from that expression.
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The continuous and subtle movement of our senses as they function naturally means that delusion is part of the human experience. Shinmon Michael Newton offers the last talk on the fascicle: Flowers in the Sky.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless continues the Genzo-e with an exploration of our capacity for agency.
“Even those who attempt to create or measure do so in accordance to dharma blossoms.” (Dogen)
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Myoshin Kate McCandless celebrates the historic buddha’s final enlightenment by sharing images and teachings from Dogen’s Flowers in the Sky.
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Shinmon Michael Newton affirms that beyond recitation and intellectual understanding of the sutras, our practice is full of heart. All is mutually interdependent and dynamic, and all activities are expressions of dharma blossoms.
“If thinking and beyond thinking do not divide the mind you can steer the white ox cart endlessly.” (Zen master Hui-neng)
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Shinmon Michael Newton continues the Genzo-e by reflecting on Dogen’s “Buddhas and ancestors of old were as we - we in the future shall be buddhas and ancestors.”
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A full...
Myoshin Kate McCandless emphasizes that co-awakening is the nature of our experience- it is only in relationship with the world around us that enlightenment happens.
“When your mind is deluded, you are turned by the dharma blossoms. When your mind is enlightened, you turn the dharma blossoms” (Dogen)
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Hotei Lee Lourdeaux talks about the importance of having a supportive religious community or sangha.
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A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
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Myoshin Kate McCandless offers that through entrusting and upholding, each is an extraordinary expression of the blossoming of the Udumbara flower.
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Shinmon Michael Newton opens our annual Dogen study intensive by exploring the Udumbara Blossom text and introducing this year’s theme.
“Holding up a flower means a flower is holding up a flower.”
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Joko Claire Talbot offers the fourth and final talk in our Dharma Seminar on Shunryu Suzuki’s new book Becoming Yourself - Teachings on the Zen Way of Life.
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Shiryū talks about faith, queerness and liberation across religious traditions. He dreams of a time when people of different backgrounds can complete each other's sentences.
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A way-seeking mind talk tells how the speaker came to Zen practice and how it has guided their life.
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These talks are made possible thanks to donations from our w...
Daikan delves further into the writings of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, who suggests that whatever you think or see is the teaching of the Buddha, and whatever you do is the practice of the Buddha. We should not rely on some teachings but should reflect on ourselves.
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