Jeff Bickner talks on "Yaoshan Ascends the Seat" Case 7 of the Book of Serenity. Unfortunately due to a technical error the first 10 minutes of Jeff's talk were not recorded.

Chris Fortin leads the Dharma Seminar on the koan Yunmen's "Two Sicknesses", case 11 of The Book of Serenity.

Florence gives talk 5 of the Zen's Women Ancestors talk on "The Zen Mirror of Tokeiji" This series is based on the Record Of the Hidden Lamp: One Hundred Koans of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon (forthcoming from Wisdom Publications, 2013).

Norman's first talk at the Mar De Jade December sesshin is on Zhaosho's Dog from the Book Of Serenity Case 18.

Norman gives the first talk on the Koans 2011 series on Zhaozho's Dog (Book of Serenity case 18, Mumankan case 1, and Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo case 114. Norman also read his Blog entry found on EDZ regarding the death of Osama Bin Ladin.

Norman gives the first talk of the Vancouver May 2011 weekend on the koan "Zhaozho's Dog" as found in the Book of Serenity Case 18, Mumonkan Case 1, and Dogen's Mana Shobogenzo Case 114.

Norman gives his fourth talk at the Tassajara 2011 Koan workshop on the Commentary on the koan regarding Zhaozho's Mu as found in the Book of Serenity Case 18 as edited by Thomas Cleary.

Norman gives the Sunday Green Gulch Dharma talk on the koan Zhaozho's Oak Tree.

Norman gives the ninth and final talk of the Zen's Women Ancestors series on Zhaozhou's Intimate Touch. This series is based on Record of the Hidden Lamp: One Hundred Koans of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon (forthcoming from Wisdom Publications, 2013

Norman speaks on the Koan Mi Hu's "Enlightenment or Not" Case 62 in the "Book of Serenity" Thomas Cleary edition.

This is an introduction to Koan Study. Zoketsu discusses the history of Koans and their relationship to Zen practice in the Rinzai and Soto schools of Zen. He recommends Dogen’s Genjo Koan as a guide in making this very life our central koan.

Koans from the upcoming collection, compiled and edited by Sue Moon and Florence Caplow, of Zen Koans about women.

Short comments on contemporary and ancient Zen stories

Norman gives the second talk in the Koans 2011 series on Avoid Picking and Choosing - Case 2 Blue Cliff Record "The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty". Also found In Mana Shobogenzo Case 11.

500 lives reborn as a fox for one misstep! Zoketsu speaks on karma and practice.

Norman speaks on Bodhidharma's Emptiness - Case 2 of the Book of Serenity Thomas Cleary edition. We are left with the questions of Boundlessness (or Emptiness) and Don't Know.

(plática impartida el 24 de agosto del 2005, Everyday Zen Dharma Seminar. A ser publicado en Tricycle Magazine.)

When Buddha was on Vulture Peak he twirled a flower before the assembly. Everyone was silent. Only Maha-kashapa smiled. Buddha said: `I have the eye treasury of the true teaching, the heart of Nirvana, the true form of non-form, and the ineffable gate of Dharma. It is a special transmission outside the teaching. I now entrust it to Maha-kashapa.' This story is not historically true but it isn't made up either. Over the years I've come to appreciate that it expresses something spiritually accurate about the Zen lineage.

Translation (with traditional commentary) of 100 koans.

New translation of Book of Serenity, with good comments by a contemporary American Zen teacher.

Translation (with traditional commentary) of 100 koans.

Zen teacher Robert Aitken’s thorough-going translation of and commentary on the 48 koans of the Mumonkan.

Another collection of scholarly essays about the origins and uses of the koan literature in Zen history.