Dharma Talks at the Ordinary Zen Sangha, a Zen Meditation Practice Center located in Sarasota, Florida. Please help us if you can. Our programs and events are only made possible by donations from our supporting members. Donations Link... Thank you for listening, Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger, Abbot
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Will Rauschenberger Podcasts
Welcome to The Beginners Guide To The Third Eye, the podcast that delves into the profound realms of spiritual experiences and the dedicated practitioners and modalities that guide us on transformative paths. Join us as we embark on a captivating exploration of the mystical, the enlightened, and the sacred. In each episode, we pair seasoned practitioners, spiritual experiences or healing modalities and a willing participant to share their experience in working together. We will explore the u ...
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A good news message and prediction for the New Year!
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Beyond beginnings and endings.
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Episode 287: Investigating The Great Mystery
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9:42Zen's fundamental question!
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Episode 286: Being In The World But Not Of The World
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13:06A message for the Holiday Season — Abbot Will (Hae An) Rauschenberger
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Do our attachments define us?
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The Six Perfections and Thanksgiving.
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Episode 283: You Are What You Are And You Ain’t What You Ain’t
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10:17Life’s Limitations and Boundlessness, are they the same or different?
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Episode 282: Not So and the Great Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra
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10:39Beyond the algorithms of delusion.
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Episode 281: Beyond Thinking, Rising Above Duality
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9:11Opening the hand of thought to the natural attributes of compassion, intuition, and the wisdom of our original nature. Our upcoming Retreat is on November 15, 2025.
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Episode 280: In Your Life, How Is Meditation Practice Relevant?
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8:04Why do we meditate?
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Episode 279: No Self and The Immoveable Mountain
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5:47Practice is continuous, Mountains are Mountains, and Rivers are Rivers.
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Beyond Thinking Is Compassionate Mind.
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What is emptiness in Ordinary Zen?
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What is meditation?
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The Samadhi of the perfume of the universe.
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The Dreamscape and doing the right thing.
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Episode 273: The Fundamental Issue of Life
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14:24Who is it that sees, hears, tastes, smells, feels, thinks?
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Episode 272: The Interconnected Patterns of Experience
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10:56What are you? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
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Episode 271: Rising Above, Being Selfless
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11:34How would you like to be involved without being involved? Rising above the din.
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The Boddhisattva path.
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How to handle the apparent distinctions and differences that divide us, from the Zen perspective.
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The influence of Zen Master Hakuin
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Dan Gulliford and Will Rauschenberger co-host this talk from Sarasota, FL, and Asheville, NC.
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Ignoring, denying, or pushing away anything we consider uncomfortable is why we are uncomfortable!
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Episode 265: Just Be, No Great Shakes, Everything Just As It Is
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12:44The ups and downs of the seesaw of karma.
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Episode 264: Sudden and Gradual Schools of Zen
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16:28Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will Rauschenberger in discussing Kongan practice, Linages, and the Lotus Sutra Parable of the Burning House.
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Episode 263: Dharma and Karma, What’s In Your Backpack?
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21:13In this podcast, visiting Zen Master Chong An Sunim joins Abbot Will (Hea An) Rauschenberger at our Sunday Session on May 4th, 2025. The talk includes chanting the Heart Sutra.
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Episode 262: The Precepts, Actuality and Flowering of Being
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17:02Strip away who we think we are and experience the actuality of who we are.
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Zen is solving the problem of Birth and Death.
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Episode 260: Why do we practice Zazen, doing no-thing?
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9:28If we already have Buddha Nature, why do we meditate?
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Episode 259: This Mind Alone, There Is No Other
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10:50Taking responsibility for your life and liberation are not different.
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“Bodhisattva Samadhi” is Repose and Bliss.
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Episode 257: The message of Zen, overcoming stupidity
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16:17How ordinary stupid people cause great suffering.
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Episode 256: Life’s Trauma And Liberation
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13:27Zen is not mental replacement therapy for your self image.
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The lion’s roar.
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Episode 254: Loving Kindness Is Not An Idea
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11:25You cannot think your way into Loving Kindness…
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Episode 253: The Primordial Darkness of Ignorance
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11:38Did Buddha pierce right through the primordial darkness of ignorance?
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What does it mean to be fearless?
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Episode 251: Zen Is Life, Not A Hobby Or Pastime
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15:31Hitching your Ox to the post of Emptiness.
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Opening the hand of thought.
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Zazen (Zen meditation), Awakening, and Buddhahood are no different.
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You are a unique expression of the universal.
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"One's presence makes for a good present"
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Episode 246: Wind Blows, Old Songs End, New Ones Begin
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7:14The Song of Liberation.
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This episode features Amlas the Director of Wildquest, a retreat based in the Bahamas on the island of Bimini. Wildquest encompasses so many forms of healing it’s difficult to condense it down to one thing. It is primarily a human-wildlife encounter with the star of the show being Wild Dolphins, but within each day you are given rare opportunities …
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THE VIBRATIONAL UNDERSTANDING EPISODE
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1:35:18In this episode we'll be exploring the Vibrational Understanding Technique, which consists of a variety of transformative personal development and self discovery tools and techniques that reveal the hidden blueprint of our energetic patterns and essence. Over the past decade Willie Ingram has developed and tested his own spiritual software. Designe…
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On this show we will be exploring The Harmonic Egg with its inventor Gail Lynne. The Harmonic Egg is a self-evolving, adaptive technology that uses sound and light as it works with the cellular body, resetting the autonomic nervous system, and restoring it to its natural state of creation. The Harmonic Egg incorporates Tesla Mathematics, Sacred Geo…
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In this episode we will be exploring Intuitive Healing which is a powerful way to shift your energetic and physical body into a higher state of healing and frequency.. Colleen Meisel is a licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine specializing in the treatment of emotional imbalances, using a combination of acupuncture, herbs and intuitive communica…
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In this episode we explore reading the Akashic Records which are described as a library of information that contains the vibrational details of each individual soul and its journey. Krista Rauschenberg is a dedicated Akashic Records Facilitator and a Certified Breathwork Practitioner who is passionate about guiding individuals on their journey to s…
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In this episode we explore Constellations Therapy which is a technique that allows individuals or groups to explore their family dynamics and interpersonal relationships through a process that often involves representing family members or elements of a system using other participants or objects. trî chung is an integrative manual and somatic trauma…
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