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Endless Path Zendo, is a lay Zen Buddhist community. Intimate and non-institutional in atmosphere, we are dedicated to realizing the Buddha Way in the midst of our own ordinary lives, finding our center of gravity in the creativity of Zen, and the Way of the Bodhisattva.Zen teacher (roshi) Rafe Jnan Martin began traditional Zen practice in 1970, becoming a personal disciple of Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen. After Kapleau Roshi’s retirement, he practiced with Robert Aitken Roshi, founder of the Diamond Sangha, then from 2002-2016 worked intensively with Danan Henry Roshi, founding teacher of the Zen Center of Denver and a Kapleau Roshi Dharma Heir as well as a Diamond Sangha Dharma Master.Rafe received full lay ordination in 2009, and in 2012 received inka—recognition of his successful completion of the Diamond Sangha/ Harada-Yasutani koan curriculum, along with authorization to begin teaching. In 2016 he receive
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- 1 weeks ago33 min
"Haunted" - Halloween Teisho 2026
Recorded October 31, 2026. Viewed in an eerie Halloween light, the 2nd koan of the Gateless Barrier, “Master Pai-Chang and the Fox,” becomes a lively, shape-shifting encounter. Trick or treat! Pai-chang meets an old man who, though he wears a human mask, is is a fox, or fox spirit. The koan then removes that mask to reveal that Pai-chang is not face-to-face with a fox, but with his own past self! And we’re not even in our own world cycle. In the koan we go back before Shakyamuni was the Budd...
- 2 weeks ago53 min
Karma, World Cycles, Vows, and the Tigress
Recorded October 24, 2026. Long ago, world ages back, we humans got so clever we created a nifty trick. We figured out how to forget or suppress our Original Mind and Fundamental Vow to liberate all beings. With this trick we were able to gather all kinds of goodies for ourselves. Unfortunately, there were unforeseen side-effects: isolation, cosmic loneliness, and the whole catastrophe that Buddhism sums up as greed, anger, and ignorance — which we see playing out in our world today. Jataka ...
- Oct 3, 202637 min
Bodhidharma and Peace of Mind
Recorded October 3, 2026. Case no. 41 Gateless Barrier: Bodhidharma sat facing the wall. Huike, the Second Ancestor, having cut off his arm, stood in the snow and said, “Your disciple’s mind has no peace as yet. I beg you, master, to please put it to rest.” Bodhidharma said, “Bring me your mind, and I will put it to rest.” The Second Ancestor said, “I have searched for my mind, but I cannot find it.” Bodhidharma said, “Then I have completely put it to rest for you.” The...
- Sep 26, 202647 min
Zen Failure and Creativity
Recorded 9/26/2026. In this lively, enjoyable teisho, Roshi Martin edits on the fly from the final two short chapters of his book, A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas — “Zen Failure” and “Painting of a Rice Cake: Creative Imagination and the Way of the Bodhisattva.” From “Zen Failure:” “Quantum theory suggests that each moment arises out of a field of endless possibility and has, in turn, endless lines of possibility extending from it. All such possible lines collapse into the one line we call “reali...
- Sep 12, 202651 min
Are Trees Bodhisattvas?
Recorded September 12, 2026. In this latest teisho (Zen talk) Roshi Martin, reads, comments on, and edits on the fly Chapter 11 —“The Bodhisattva Saves the Realm as the Consciousness of a Tree” from his book, “A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas” (Sumeru, 2023). “You and the tree in your backyard come from a common ancestor. A billion and a half years ago, the two of you parted ways. But even now, after an immense journey in separate directions, that tree and you still share a quarter of your genes.”...
- Aug 8, 202654 min
Fugen, Tree Bodhisattvas, Creativity and Zen
Recorded on August 8, 2026. This teisho is a potpourri made up of 3 shorter sections from "A Zen Life of Bodhisattvas" — namely a folktale of Fugen Bosatsu, a jataka tale of the Buddha in a past life when he was the consciousness of a tree, and a short piece on Zen, Creativity, and imagination all read aloud and commented on by their author, Roshi Rafe Jnan Martin. Tree painting by Rafe Martin Read Roshi Rafe Martin's latest book: Finding Your Buddha Smile: Coming Home To...
- Aug 1, 202654 min
The Buddha Makes a Mistake
Recorded 08/01/2026. What does it mean to be human? Does the form of having two feet, legs, eyes, and ears, a nose, brain, and heart sum it up? If so there are billions of us. But if by “human” we mean someone wise and compassionate, not driven by greed, anger, ignorance, or fear; someone who can be counted on when the going gets rough, then that number may be rather small. What does it take to be or become such a genuinely human, human being? The Buddha in a distant past life was on t...
- Jul 25, 202653 min
A Dream Within A Dream
Recorded July 25, 2026. Case no. 25, Gateless Barrier: “Yang-shan’s Sermon From the Third Seat” is as follows: Yang-shan dreamed he went to Maitreya’s realm and was led to the third seat. A senior monk struck the stand with a gavel and announced, “Today the monk in the third seat will preach.” Yang-shan rose, struck the stand with the gavel, and said, “The Dharma of the Mahayana is beyond the Four Propositions and transcends the Hundred Negations. Listen, listen.” Why does Master Wu-men, cre...
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About Endless Path Zendo | Roshi Rafe Martin
Endless Path Zendo, is a lay Zen Buddhist community. Intimate and non-institutional in atmosphere, we are dedicated to realizing the Buddha Way in the midst of our own ordinary lives, finding our center of gravity in the creativity of Zen, and the Way of the Bodhisattva.Zen teacher (roshi) Rafe Jnan Martin began traditional Zen practice in 1970, becoming a personal disciple of Roshi Philip Kapleau, author of The Three Pillars of Zen. After Kapleau Roshi’s retirement, he practiced with Robert Aitken Roshi, founder of the Diamond Sangha, then from 2002-2016 worked intensively with Danan Henry Roshi, founding teacher of the Zen Center of Denver and a Kapleau Roshi Dharma Heir as well as a Diamond Sangha Dharma Master.Rafe received full lay ordination in 2009, and in 2012 received inka—recognition of his successful completion of the Diamond Sangha/ Harada-Yasutani koan curriculum, along with authorization to begin teaching. In 2016 he receive
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