Welcome to the Benevolent Zen Sangha dharma podcast page. These dharma talks were given by our resident teacher James Myosan Cordova, Sensei. The Benevolent Zen Sangha is a Zen Buddhist practice group, we hold regular zazen sessions the second Monday of the month, 7:00 pm at the First Unitarian Church, corner of Benevolent and Benefit Streets in Providence, Rhode Island. All Mondays at 7:00 pm are on Zoom. All are welcome!
See for Yourself
James Myosan Cordova, October 22, 2025
"Awareness, Truth, Purity"
James Myosan Cordova, October 8th, 2025
"Self-Liberated"
James Myosan Cordova, September 24, 2025
"Younger Today Then Yesterday"
James Myosan Cordova, September 10, 2025
"X-Men"
James Myosan Cordova, August 27, 2025
"The Way Surrenders Itself"
James Myosan Cordova, March 12, 2025
"The Flowers of Emptiness"
James Myosan Cordova, February 26, 2025
"Welcome"
James Myosan Cordova, January 15,2025
"Bring Me the Rhinoceros"
James Myosan Cordova, September 24, 2024
"Moment by Moment"
James Myosan Cordova, September 4, 2024
"Shouting Grass"
James Myosan Cordova, May 23, 2024
"All This and That"
James Myosan Cordova, May 9, 2024
"To Be Human"
James Myosan Cordova, April 25, 2024
"The Unconstructed Being"
James Myosan Cordova, February 29, 2024
"Our True Nature"
James Myosan Cordova, February 15, 2024
"Self-Enjoyment Samadhi"
James Myosan Cordova, January 25th, 2024
"Turnips"
James Myosan Cordova, November 30, 2023
"Stay With It"
James Myosan Cordova, November 2, 2023
"Sitting in a clearing of a Very Dark Forest"
James Myosan Cordova, October 12, 2023
"Open Up to the Complexity of Things"
James Myosan Cordova, September 28, 2023
"What is it Like?"
James Myosan Cordova, September 14, 2023
"The Mountains Arising in Each Heartbeat"
James Myosan Cordova, August 17, 2023
"Even Though to With"
James Myosan Cordova, May 18, 2023
"Turning Towards"
James Myosan Cordova, May 4, 2023
"Yes, Yes"
James Myosan Cordova, April 20, 2023
"Suchness"
James Myosan Cordova, April 6, 2023
"Lose the Greed for Pleasure"
James Myosan Cordova, March 16, 2023
"This Letting Go"
James Myosan Cordova, Feb 9, 2023
"Splash"
James Myosan Cordova, January 26, 2023
"Being Winter"
James Myosan Cordova, January 5, 2023
"Moment to Moment"
James Myosan Cordova, December 22, 2022
"Not Separate"
James Myosan Cordova, December 8, 2022
"Again and Again"
James Myosan Cordova, November 3, 2022
"Yummy and Not Yummy"
James Myosan Cordova, October 22, 2022
"No Fire"
James Myosan Cordova, September 26, 2022
"Who is Binding You?"
James Myosan Cordova, February, 2022
"Everything Flowing"
James Myosan Cordova, February 21, 2022
"Radical Acceptance"
James Myosan Cordova, November 29, 2021
"Doubt and Time"
James Myosan Cordova, October 25, 2021
"Cultivating the Empty Field"
James Myosan Cordova, August 11, 2021
"What is Most Urgent to Know?"
James Myosan Cordova, June 7, 2021
"Taking Care"
James Myosan Cordova, April 26, 2021
"Receiving the Marrow by Bowing"
James Myosan Cordova, December 28, 2020
"Active Buddhas"
Janes Myosan Cordova, November 30, 2020
"Thank You for Your Practice"
James Myosan Cordova, October 26, 2020
"All Things Are Buddha Dharma"
James Myosan Cordova, September 21, 2020
"Not Being Unloving"
James Myosan Cordova, July 7, 2020
"Invocation of Kanzeon"
James Myosan Cordova, February 3, 2020
"Song of Zazen"
James Myosan Cordova, March 9, 2020
"The Swinging Door"
James Myosan Cordova, December 9, 2019
"Inside and Outside"
James Myosan Cordova, November 4, 2019
"The Dharma Finds the Dharma"
James Myosan Cordova, October 7, 2019
"Transforming Suffering"
James Myosan Cordova, September 9, 2019
"Cultivating Compassion"
James Myosan Cordova, Sensei, July 1, 2019
"Great Doubt"
James Myosan Cordova, May 20, 2019
"Non-Attained Buddha"
Sesshin dharma talk, Duxbury, MA, May 2019 by James Cordova and Josh Bartok
"The Way of Tenderness"
James Myosan Cordova, April 1, 2019
"No More Struggling"
James Myosan Cordova, March 4, 2019
"Interbeing"
James Myosan Cordova, February 16, 2019
"When the Wheels Come Off"
James Myosan Cordova, January 7, 2019