This page is a collection of talks by Reb Anderson, recorded at various times in recent years. All talks are in MP3 format.

Reb has approved the publication of these talks. For questions about the talks on this site, please contact Luminous Owl <luminousowl@gmail.com>.

Other talks by Reb Anderson, as well as those by many other teachers from the San Franciso Zen Center, can be found at the SFZC Dharma Talks site.

No Abode Hermitage April 4, 2008	About the Lotus Sutra	Full talk
The Yoga Room March-April, 2008	Embodying the Lotus Sutra	March 6, 2008 March 13, 2008 March 20, 2008 March 27, 2008 April 3, 2008 April 10, 2008 April 17, 2008 April 24, 2008
Green Gulch Farm November 11, 2007	Bodhisattva Initiation	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage November 1, 2007	Fearlessness	Full talk
Green Gulch Farm October 21, 2007	Wholeheartedness	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage October 20, 2007	Wholeheartedness	Full talk
Green Gulch Farm September 9, 2007	Wholeheartedness	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage September 8, 2007	Bodhisattva Vows	Full talk, morning Full talk, afternoon
No Abode Hermitage July 28, 2007 (afternoon)	Only a Buddha and a Buddha The Lotus Sutra says that the desire to help beings open to Buddha's wisdom is the condition for Buddha's appearing in this world.	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage July 28, 2007 (morning)	Worship of the Buddha When a person pays homage and bows to the Buddhas, there is just one Buddha with no other person.	Full talk
Green Gulch Farm July 15, 2007	The Highest Happiness	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage July 14, 2007 (afternoon)	Prajna Paramita The "Perfection of Wisdom" is the bodhisattva's understanding of emptiness, which is available to those who are settled in the conventional world.	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage July 14, 2007 (morning)	The Bodhisattva and the Mahayana "Enlightening beings" are committed to living for the benefit of all beings; they practice in the "universal vehicle" which includes everyone.	Full talk
The Yoga Room July 10-August 21, 2007	Zen Meditation as Bodhisattva Vow During this course, we will study the bodhisattva vow, to see how the compassionate intentions of enlightening beings generate, work, and play with the mind of enlightenment to promote peace and harmony among all beings. We will explore ways to reinterpret and reinvigorate these timeless vows to meet the problems of our contemporary society in a beneficial way.	July 10, 2007 July 17, 2007 July 24, 2007 July 31, 2007 August 7, 2007 August 14, 2007 August 21, 2007
Green Gulch Farm May 27, 2007	Gracious Attention to Stories	Full talk
Mount Madonna Center May 4-6, 2007	The Light of Buddha's Wisdom - Precepts of Compassion Buddha sheds the light of wisdom on the true nature of suffering, liberation, and the human mind, on the teachings of compassion, moral causation, and the whole phenomenal universe. This retreat offered an opportunity to receive, study, and contemplate Buddha's teachings on mind, precepts of compassion, and moral cause and effect. The discussions and contemplations were framed in the light of wisdom which is far beyond all discussion. Wonderful teachings were offered together with ways of not clinging to those teachings. There were periods of quiet sitting, walking meditation, oral teachings, and group discussions, with opportunities for individual interviews as time allowed.	Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7
Green Gulch Farm April 1, 2007	Enlightenment is the Silent Bond	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage February 3, 2007	Gnosticism American Buddhism as a gnostic practice; meaning of the word "tathagata"	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage February 3, 2007	Happiness The pursuit of happiness vs. wanting others to be happy; happiness from absorption in activity	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage August 12, 2006	Intention Transforms the World Our thinking and intention makes the world what it is; awareness of intention makes our contribution a positive one	Full talk
No Abode Hermitage May 27, 2006	Baizhang's Fox Being clear about cause and effect, intention, karma.	Part 1 Part 2
Green Gulch Farm January 8, 2006	Crisis: A Spiritual Turning Point Spiritual life exists in crisis, which can be used as a turning point. To the extent that we recognize that where we sit right now is a turning point, we are able to understand the possibility of freedom in this moment. The Chinese character for "crisis" consists of two radicals: danger and opportunity. A common danger is the crisis of faith that emerges when the conversation or stories about "truths" are stopped. Zen stories are about crises and turning points, where people in face-to-face meetings turn from bondage to freedom, and from ignorance to enlightenment. They are stories that demonstrate that opening to the dangers that surround us is also opening to the opportunities, and closing to those dangers closes us to those opportunities.	Part 1 Part 2