Awakening Streams features Dharma talks and Zen reflections from Sensei Michael Brunner of One River Zen Center in Ottawa, Illinois.
Each episode explores the living practice of Zen Buddhism through classic Zen koans, teachings from the ShĆyĆroku and Mumonkan, and direct encounters with everyday life.
Discover how awakening flows through every obstacle, every act of compassion, and every moment of wonder.
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Awakening Streams features Dharma talks and Zen reflections from Sensei Michael Brunner of One River Zen Center in Ottawa, Illinois.
Each episode explores the living practice of Zen Buddhism through classic Zen koans, teachings from the ShĆyĆroku and Mumonkan, and direct encounters with everyday life.
Discover how awakening flows through every obstacle, every act of compassion, and every moment of wonder.
đ Learn more: https://www.oneriverzen.org
đ§ Hyakujoâs Fox â The Dharma of Cause and Effect
Ango Opening Talk with Sensei SĆen Michael Brunner
In this opening talk for Ango, Sensei explores the Zen koan Hyakujoâs Foxâa story about karma, consequence, and the illusion of escape. When a monk once claimed that the enlightened person does not fall under cause and effect, he was reborn as a fox for 500 lives.
Through this teaching, Sensei invites us to see that awakening is not found beyond karma but within it. The very circumstances we try to avoidâour mistakes, limitations, and expectationsâare themselves the field of practice. Freedom is not escape; itâs meeting life completely, right where we stand.
đȘ¶ âEvery mistake, every slip into fox life, is also Buddha life.â
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Awakening Streams: The One River Zen Podcast
Awakening Streams features Dharma talks and Zen reflections from Sensei Michael Brunner of One River Zen Center in Ottawa, Illinois.
Each episode explores the living practice of Zen Buddhism through classic Zen koans, teachings from the ShĆyĆroku and Mumonkan, and direct encounters with everyday life.
Discover how awakening flows through every obstacle, every act of compassion, and every moment of wonder.
đ Learn more: https://www.oneriverzen.org
