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Manjusri Fails!
May 30, 2026
42m 40s
Meeting Manjusri Bodhisattva of Wisdom Face-to Face
May 16, 2026
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Manjusri -- Bodhisattva of Wisdom
May 9, 2026
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Actualizing Our Gestural Imagination: Telling Stories that Live!
May 7, 2026
1h 03m 45s
Roshi Philip Kapleau Memorial
May 2, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/30/26 |  Manjusri Fails! | Recorded 5/30/2026. Wu-men’s commentary to Case 42 of The Gateless Barrier, “Manjusri and the Young Woman in Samadhi” says “The comedy Old Shakya puts on the stage here is a great hodgepodge. Just tell me now; Manjusri is the teacher of the Seven Buddhas – why couldn’t he get the young woman out of her samadhi, when the Bodhisattva of Delusive Wisdom, a beginner, could? If you can firmly grasp this point, then for you this busy life of ignorance and discrimination will be the life of the Dra... | 42m 40s | ||||||
| 5/16/26 |  Meeting Manjusri Bodhisattva of Wisdom Face-to Face✨ | BuddhismZen+4 | — | A Zen Life of BodhisattvasBlue Cliff Record | — | ManjusriWu Cho+5 | — | 44m 34s | |
| 5/9/26 |  Manjusri -- Bodhisattva of Wisdom✨ | BodhisattvaWisdom+3 | — | A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas | Japan | ManjusriBodhisattva+5 | — | 53m 07s | |
| 5/7/26 |  Actualizing Our Gestural Imagination: Telling Stories that Live!✨ | storytellinggestural imagination+3 | — | Boulder Valley Spell BindersPhoto of Rafe Martin, storytelling 1984 | Boulder, CO | storytellinggestural imagination+3 | — | 1h 03m 45s | |
| 5/2/26 |  Roshi Philip Kapleau Memorial✨ | memorialZen Buddhism+3 | — | Zen Center | RochesterReno, Nevada | Roshi Philip KapleauZen teacher+3 | — | 50m 56s | |
| 4/25/26 |  Are Bodhisattvas Real?✨ | BodhisattvasMahayana Buddhism+3 | — | A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas | — | BodhisattvasMahayana Buddhism+3 | — | 57m 30s | |
| 4/18/26 |  Impossible Situations: A Buffalo Passes Through the Window✨ | Zen Buddhismteisho+3 | — | Gateless BarrierA Buffalo Passes Through the Window | — | ZenBuddhism+6 | — | 58m 13s | |
| 4/11/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile (Final Chapter) - Part 11: A Springtime Stroll✨ | springBuddhism+3 | — | Blue Cliff Record | — | Buddha Smilespringtime+3 | — | 34m 24s | |
| 4/4/26 |  The Birth of The Buddha -- What's it all about?✨ | BuddhismBuddha's birth+3 | — | — | — | Buddhabirth+5 | — | 54m 01s | |
| 3/28/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile- Part 10: Beautiful Snowflakes!✨ | Buddhismspirituality+4 | — | Blue Cliff Record | — | Buddhismmindfulness+5 | — | 40m 29s | |
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| 3/21/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 9: What is the True Me?✨ | identityZen Buddhism+3 | — | — | — | identityZen+5 | — | 32m 58s | |
| 3/7/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 8: How Do I Find Peace of Mind?✨ | peace of mindZen+4 | — | Bodhidharma and Peace of MindGateless Barrier | — | peace of mindZen+5 | — | 51m 42s | |
| 2/28/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 7: The Highest Teaching is the Oak Tree in my Front Garden?✨ | wisdomlife choices+3 | — | — | — | BuddhismZen+5 | — | 40m 47s | |
| 2/21/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 6: Te-shan Carries His Lunch Bowls: The Last Word✨ | Zenmaturity+3 | — | — | — | BuddhismZen+5 | — | 34m 47s | |
| 2/14/26 |  The Buddha’s Parinirvana: Teisho by Roshi Rafe Martin✨ | BuddhismZen teachings+3 | — | — | London | BuddhaParinirvana+6 | — | 56m 47s | |
| 2/7/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 5: Te-shan Carries His Bundle✨ | Zen Buddhismspiritual awakening+4 | — | Diamond Sutra | — | Te-shanMaster Lung-t’an+6 | — | 37m 31s | |
| 1/24/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 4: Te-shan Carries His Backpack | Recorded January 24, 2026. In this teisho, we move on from the Buddha himself, to see how Zen tradition views the ordinary person’s journey from ignorance to maturity. To show this, Roshi Martin arranges three koans, each drawn from the life of the Chinese Zen master, Te-shan (J. Tokusan, 780–865), in their chronological order—which is not how we find them in our actual koan curriculum. In actual practice we face these koans totally out of sequence. His purpose with this chronological reorgan... | 45m 12s | ||||||
| 1/17/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 3: The World Honored One Ascends the Teaching Seat | Recorded January 17, 2026. In this teisho Roshi Martin reads and comments on Chapter 2 of his latest book, “Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home (To What Zen is Really All About).” The legendary-mythic jataka tales, reveal the Buddha’s past life efforts, challenges, triumphs, and mistakes. Let’s look at him now as the fully “Awakened One,” the finished product of that many lifetime effort, and see how he taught others to realize the Ancient Way of fulfillment he himself had fully found. T... | 32m 46s | ||||||
| 1/10/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 2: The Buddha Shows the Path | Teisho by Roshi Rafe Jnan Martin Endless Path Zendo, 01/10/2026 This teisho opens with a brief talk on the terrible dangers of our present time and the challenging, profoundly helpful path that Zen offers — not of philosophizing, but of tending an ox. Roshi Martin then resumes reading and commenting from his latest book —“Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home (To What Zen is Really All About).” In this next chapter, we look at the Buddha, not as the smiling, perfectly realized finished prod... | 51m 23s | ||||||
| 1/3/26 |  Finding Your Buddha Smile - Part 1: Introduction | Recorded January 3, 2026. Roshi Martin reads the Opening, Thanks, and Introduction of his new book -- "Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home (to What Zen is Really All About)." From the Intro: There are lots of ways to be happy, some selfish, some naive, some fleeting, some more lasting. The kind I have in mind is of the more lasting sort, the kind that can only come after troubles, after experiencing and suffering the fundamental difficulties of an ordinary human life. . . . What, leads to... | 51m 23s | ||||||
| 12/20/25 |  On the Precepts (in preparation for New Year's Eve Jukai) | Recorded 12/20/2025. Roshi Martin reads Chapter 10 of Aitken Roshi's "Taking the Path of Zen" -- "The Ten Grave Precepts" and comments in preparation for Jukai. Jukai is a way of taking our practice seriously, of saying — of vowing that “It’s not simply what I do in the zendo or dokusan room that matters – it’s what I do in and how I live my actual daily life.” We take Jukai many times. Each time we find greater understanding and a deepening life path. With each Jukai we take another step for... | 52m 12s | ||||||
| 12/6/25 |  The Buddha's Great Enlightenment | Recorded December 6, 2025. December 8th is the traditional date on the Mahayana (Zen Buddhist) calendar of the Buddha's profound Enlightenment. Sitting beneath the Bodhi Tree after a long night of zazen that capped 6 years of ferocious effort, the previously sheltered ex-prince, Siddhartha Gautama, so deeply troubled by his head-on collision with impermanence, the sheer injustice of it -- finally got to the bottom of it all. After touching the Earth, he glanced up at the Morning Star and full... | 47m 25s | ||||||
| 10/25/25 |  Old Ghosts and Living a Life of Grace -- teisho on the Fox Koan | Recorded October 25, 2025. Thoughts, actions, understandings, perceptions, realizations that had once seemed good enough, may in time, no longer be sufficient. We outgrow them. Then ghostlike, they can return and haunt us. But maybe they return, not to block our way, but to give us another chance. If so, their appearance may not be reason for disappointment, but our opportunity to mature further. So let’s look again at “Master Pai-Chang and the Fox," koan case 2 of The Gatelesss Barrier. Seen... | 39m 54s | ||||||
| 10/18/25 |  No Kings, Vows -- Zen and the U.S.A. -- and the conclusion to Hanshan's Autobiography | Recorded October 18, 2025 Roshi Martin opens with comments on No Kings and its relationship to our vows. Then, in this 9th and final teisho on the life of Ming Dynasty Zen Teacher Hanshan, Roshi Martin resumes reading and commenting on Hanshan's autobiography which takes us to Hanshan's death in 1623. Referenced: The Autobiography and Maxims of Master Han Shan, translated by Upasaka Richard CheungBooks by Roshi Rafe MartinTalks on YouTubeMore information at endlesspathzen.org | 44m 46s | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | 2025 Jataka Sesshin: The Monkey King | Recorded October 14, 2025. This teisho was given by Roshi Martin on the fourth day of the 15th annual Jataka Sesshin held at the Vermont Zen Center. ______________________________ The Monkey King jataka is also explored in Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and DailyLife by Rafe Martin Books by Roshi Rafe MartinTalks on YouTubeMore information at endlesspathzen.org | 33m 30s | ||||||
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