Audio

The Desert Zen Center has made the following recordings available for download in the form of MP3 files. Dharma talks by Roshi An Giao are recorded several times per month.

A series of talks entitled "Zen Basics" was recorded in the winter of 2004. These recordings were orginally released on CD, but were made available for download as MP3 files.

Roshi An Giao is an accomplished folk musician. A small collection of his recordings have been made available below.

Dharma Talks

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Date	Title	Size (MB)
02/17/2008	The Story of Angulimala (Rev. Nagacitta)	22.6	[Download]
01/20/2008	none	26.9	[Download]
01/06/2008	Your Relationship With Your Teacher: A Lay Perspective (Jackie Randa)	19.5	[Download]
12/30/2007	Are You Willing to go to Hell?	28.1	[Download]
12/16/2007	The Circle of Fifths: Are you in harmony?	29.0	[Download]
11/18/2007	Jizo Bodhisattva, (Rev. Nagacitta)	13.0	[Download]
10/14/2007	Physical Perfection, Monks, and Karma	17.9	[Download]
10/07/2007	The Middle Way Needs Others	15.6	[Download]
09/30/2007	Heaven and Hell 2	14.8	[Download]
09/09/2007	How to Be Balanced	16.1	[Download]
09/02/2007	Morality and Meditation	10.4	[Download]
08/26/2007	Why People Become Monks	16.2	[Download]
07/22/2007	Three Necessary Practices	15.6	[Download]
07/15/2007	The Problem of Meditation	15.9	[Download]
07/08/2007	Your Original Face	11.2	[Download]
06/03/2007	Impermenance and Desire	6.9	[Download]
05/20/2007	Being Grateful	12.7	[Download]
04/15/2007	Rock Stars	12.7	[Download]
04/08/2007	The Baby Buddha	7.4	[Download]
03/25/2007	Effort	9.4	[Download]
03/18/2007	The Returned Son	2.8	[Download]
03/10/2007	Dogen's Robe	13.7	[Download]
03/04/2007	Heaven and Hell	11.2	[Download]
02/25/2007	The Intention of Lent	14.6	[Download]
02/18/2007	When The Buddha Awoke	17.6	[Download]
02/11/2007	Ahimsa, Do No Harm	12.6	[Download]
02/04/2007	Multitasking and Zen Practice	15.1	[Download]
01/28/2007	Hungry Ghosts & Compassionate Love	14.4	[Download]
01/14/2007	The Many Ways to Practice	16.7	[Download]
01/07/2007	Impermanence	11.7	[Download]
12/31/2006	Karma, Right Speech, and Happiness	13.0	[Download]
12/24/2006	The Blue Eyed Barbarian	11.5	[Download]
12/17/2006	Seeing	13.6	[Download]
12/03/2006	To Practice is to Simplify	14.9	[Download]
11/26/2006	Ceremonies and Rituals	14.6	[Download]
11/19/2006	How much do you want to be angry	12.7	[Download]
11/12/2006	What is Buddhism II	16.7	[Download]
10/29/2006	India's Caste System and the Buddha	18.5	[Download]
10/15/2006	The Buddha's Disciples	19.2	[Download]
10/08/2006	What is Buddhism	17.0	[Download]
10/01/2006	Matters Big & Small	20.1	[Download]
09/24/2006	The Buddha's One Thing	9.7	[Download]
09/17/2006	Three Pillars of Zen	19.0	[Download]
09/10/2006	It's about people	9.6	[Download]
09/03/2006	Zen, an American word	20.6	[Download]
08/27/2006	The Silver Bullet to Enlightenment	19.6	[Download]
08/13/2006	Lay People and Dharma Combat	15.9	[Download]
08/06/2006	If you don't have an Ego, why do you need a cat?	6.5	[Download]
07/23/2006	Handling your Stuff	12.5	[Download]
07/16/2006	Work Ethic	14.6	[Download]
07/09/2006	What's in your garage?	15.4	[Download]
07/02/2006	What does it mean to be a Buddhist?	17.9	[Download]
06/11/2006	Spontaneity	18.0	[Download]
06/04/2006	Living as a Buddhist	16.4	[Download]
05/29/2006	A Baby for Hakuin	16.5	[Download]
05/07/2006	Same Old Story	19.9	[Download]
04/30/2006	Karma	17.9	[Download]
04/02/2006	Master Joshu	11.6	[Download]
03/05/2006	You Have to be Somebody Before You Can be Nobody	18.1	[Download]
02/27/2006	Keeping It Simple	19.3	[Download]
02/11/2006	How Big is Your Heaven?	17.7	[Download]
01/29/2006	Karma, Hungry Ghosts and Hell	15.0	[Download]
01/22/2006	A Life of Quiet Desperation	16.3	[Download]
01/15/2006	The Emporer has no Clothes	13.7	[Download]
12/21/2005	Why We Bow	14.8	[Download]
12/04/2005	Altruism	14.8	[Download]
11/27/2005	Is There Buddhist Dogma?	14.7	[Download]
09/11/2005	The Purpose of Death	11.5	[Download]
09/04/2005	Is Buddhism a Religion?	16.8	[Download]
08/28/2005	About Meditation	16.2	[Download]
08/21/2005	Do you really want that next promotion?	11.6	[Download]
07/31/2005	Not Speaking That Which May Harm Others	9.4	[Download]
07/24/2005	Why People Meditate	13.2	[Download]
07/17/2005	Mindfullness	10.3	[Download]
07/03/2005	Do You Believe in Christ?	14.6	[Download]
06/26/2005	Take Joy in Your Work	10.1	[Download]
06/19/2005	Letting Go	14.7	[Download]
05/29/2005	Buddhist Faith, Buddhist Karma	13.7	[Download]
05/22/2005	The Purpose of a Temple, the Purpose of Practice	17.3	[Download]
05/08/2005	Perfection and Letting Go	17.2	[Download]
04/24/2005	What Buddhism is about	16.0	[Download]
04/10/2005	Who Are You	13.6	[Download]
04/03/2005	Look at Yourself	10.0	[Download]
03/27/2005	Great Effort, Great Doubt & Great Faith	10.4	[Download]
03/20/2005	Ego	12.1	[Download]
02/13/2005	Stress and Habit	10.8	[Download]
02/06/2005	Meditation Practice is Life Practice	13.2	[Download]

Zen Basics

In this series of informal talks on Zen Buddhism, held at the Desert Zen Center in the Winter of 2004, Roshi Ân Giáo brings life to the transmission of Zen. The feel and smell of Zen practice is given to us in a unique way. We get to put our arms around the sweep of Zen history, and sense the scope and meaning of the practice. We can connect what we see and do at Zen centers with the minds of the people that brought us the Source down through the ages.

Title	Description	Size (MB)
Introduction	The story of Zen begins with Bodhidharma, and a lineage of masters in China recreate the core of The Buddha's Teaching.	3.2	[Download]
Revelation, Karma, Grace	Zen's Karma is contrasted with Grace from revealed religions.	5.4	[Download]
God and Jesus	The West's relationship with an external God, and Jesus as Zen Master.	4.2	[Download]
The Real You	Forming your self image, and the Universal Buddha as True Self.	4.2	[Download]
Emptiness, no Holiness	Zen begins with Bodhidharma's declaration of the first principle.	4.8	[Download]
Self Sacrifice	Monk in Viet Nam sets fire to himself to try to bring peace.	1.6	[Download]
Bodhidharma	Bodhidharma's time; background and history.	7.6	[Download]
Cutting Off Our Arm	What Hui-k'o's dismemberment tells us about the practice of Zen.	5.8	[Download]
Hui-neng	Hui-neng's awakening.	6.5	[Download]
Early Lineage	The early Chinese lineage, the Mongols provide a boost to Buddhism, and what Bodhidharma actually brought us.	4.2	[Download]
Hui-neng's Verse	Hui-neng's famous verse, and the difference between practice and understanding.	5.2	[Download]
Pai-chang's Work Ethic	How Pai-chang gave us monastic rules, and cemented the work ethic of Zen by a famous story.	4.1	[Download]
Lin-chi, Just This	Lin-chi raises his whisk, just as Shakyamuni raised a flower; and expressed the truth.	2.9	[Download]
Lin-chi Strikes	Lin-chi strikes students with his staff and students give shouts, and what this means for us.	5.9	[Download]
Dogen Goes to China	An introduction to Dogen and his trip to China.	7.5	[Download]
Dogen Wakes Up	The story of Dogen's awakening.	2.2	[Download]
Zazen is Buddhism	Dogen shows us that Zazen is Buddhism, and should be continuous.	2.3	[Download]
Simplicity	How Dogen's simple practice expresses the root of Zen, and how the word Zen is used.	3.8	[Download]
Soto & Rinzai	Keizan brings Zen to lay people, and differences between Soto and Rinzai appear.	4.4	[Download]
Ryokan	Delightful stories about Ryokan, famous for his poetry.	2.7	[Download]
Hakuin and Enlightenment	The story of Hakuin's awakening, and the question if awakening is the end to practice.	6.2	[Download]
Zen in Viet Nam	Zen in later day Viet Nam.	2.0	[Download]
Schools in America	Different schools of Buddhism taking root in America.	2.5	[Download]
Training in America	Being ordained in America, and a sense of how this is evolving.	3.3	[Download]

Chants

Sunday Chants (8.9 megs) [Download]

Music

Title	Size (MB)
Alice's Restaurant	1.5	[Download]
Bobbie McGee	1.5	[Download]
Darcy Farro	1.2	[Download]
Freight Train	1.2	[Download]
Froggie Went a Courtin	1.6	[Download]
Green Back Dollar	1.5	[Download]
House of the Rising Sun	2.7	[Download]
I Wonder Where I'm Bound	1.2	[Download]
Jesse James	1.3	[Download]
Kilgary Mountain	1.4	[Download]
King of the Road	1.1	[Download]
Make Me a Pallet	1.5	[Download]
Old Stuball	0.7	[Download]
Opus 1	0.7	[Download]
Opus 2	0.6	[Download]
Puff the Magic Dragon	1.2	[Download]
Ruby	0.9	[Download]
Sinnerman	1.0	[Download]
Sloop John B	1.5	[Download]
The Train/Folsom Prison Medley	2.3	[Download]