Prairie Mountain Zen Center Dharma Talks
May 31, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Rev. Shin-E Kieran Rhysling leads a lively sangha discussion on a section of Katagiri Roshi’s book, You Have to Say Something , entitled There’s No Escaping This Moment.
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[gentle music] This Dharma talk was recorded at Prairie Mountain Zen Center in Longmont, Colorado.
This morning, our presenter is Sangha member, uh, Shimei Karen Reisling, and he has, uh, been working through, uh, one of Katagiri Roshi's... books of Katagiri Roshi's talks called You Have to Say Something.
At least I think so, but we'll, uh, we'll let him take over.
We have been working on You Have to Say Something by Katagiri Roshi, and not too far into it.
And the next one to talk about is called There's No Escaping This Moment.
So starting out, he goes, "When you sit in zazen, how many beings sit with you? Right where you sit, many beings, emotions, thoughts, memories, physical sensations appear from moment to moment." And, uh, like right there, just barely starting this talk, I feel like with those two sentences, we could probably talk for an hour just on that.
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[gentle music] This Dharma talk was recorded at Prairie Mountain Zen Center in Longmont, Colorado.
This morning, our presenter is Sangha member, uh, Shimei Karen Reisling, and he has, uh, been working through, uh, one of Katagiri Roshi's... books of Katagiri Roshi's talks called You Have to Say Something.
At least I think so, but we'll, uh, we'll let him take over.
We have been working on You Have to Say Something by Katagiri Roshi, and not too far into it.
And the next one to talk about is called There's No Escaping This Moment.
So starting out, he goes, "When you sit in zazen, how many beings sit with you? Right where you sit, many beings, emotions, thoughts, memories, physical sensations appear from moment to moment." And, uh, like right there, just barely starting this talk, I feel like with those two sentences, we could probably talk for an hour just on that.