talks by Tenney
& talks by Open Source teachers from our Open Source retreats
alert: there's a new place to find some recent talks by Tenney (and Megan and Sarah from our Open Source retreats): tenneynathanson.com is a new in-progress website, and you can check there for some recent talks (much easier to load them to that web host, and an easier interface for users as well). Adding talks is an ongoing task, but you can check this page to see what's there. Most recent upload is the second night talk, by Tenney, from the September-October 2024 Open Source retreat, "Sickness and Medicine," held at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Spring, New Mexico.
Here are some talks by our resident teacher Tenney Nathanson, & some more by Open Source teachers delivered at our Open Source retreats. Click to play, or right click on "Download file" to save the talk to your computer (in Firefox, for example, you'd select the "save link as" option). To play a talk on your phone, just open this page in your phone's browser and tap on the "Download File" link. You can also look down below for the red "download" button if you'd like to download the talks from our Dropbox folder instead. Further down the page you'll find links to pages of talks by some other teachers. Questions? email us
talks from the March 2025 Desert Rain Zen retreat
at the Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks in Tucson
Tenney Nathanson & Megan Rundel
at the Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks in Tucson
Tenney Nathanson & Megan Rundel
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first night (3/4): Tenney and Megan
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second night (3/5): Tenney
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third night (3/6): Megan
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fourth night (3/8): Tenney and Megan
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talks from the March 2024 Desert Rain Zen retreat
at the Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks in Tucson
Tenney Nathanson & Megan Rundel
at the Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks in Tucson
Tenney Nathanson & Megan Rundel
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first night (3/19): Tenney
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first night (3/19): Megan
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second night (3/20): Tenney
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third night (3/21):Megan
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talks from the July 2022 Open Source retreat in Beulah, Colorado:
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final night: Megan and Tenney
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3rd night: Tenney
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2nd night: Megan
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opening night: Tenney and Megan
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talks from our DRZ March 2020 residential retreat:
| 20_03_07_retreat_talk_4.mp3 |
| 20_03_05_retreat_talk_3.mp3 |
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Open Source Teachers:
talks from our June 2019 Open Source Mahasangha Retreat in Beulah, Colorado
Here are the talks from our June 2019 Mahasangha Retreat up in Beulah, Colorado, by Open Source teachers Sarah Bender Roshi, Andrew Palmer Sensei, Megan Rundel Sensei, and Tenney Nathanson Sensei. Left-click to play, right-click to download. Thanks to Andrew for recording, curating, and uploading the talks for us to share!
talks from our June 2019 Open Source Mahasangha Retreat in Beulah, Colorado
Here are the talks from our June 2019 Mahasangha Retreat up in Beulah, Colorado, by Open Source teachers Sarah Bender Roshi, Andrew Palmer Sensei, Megan Rundel Sensei, and Tenney Nathanson Sensei. Left-click to play, right-click to download. Thanks to Andrew for recording, curating, and uploading the talks for us to share!
| 6-9-19_opening_evening.mp3 |
| 6-10-19_am_sarah.mp3 |
| 6-10-19_pm_megan.mp3 |
| 6-11-19_am_tenney.mp3 |
| 6-11-19_pm_andrew.mp3 |
| 6-12-19_am_megan.mp3 |
| 6-12-19_pm_sarah.mp3 |
| 6-13-19_am_andrew.mp3 |
| 6-13-19_pm_tenney.mp3 |
talks from our June 2016 Open Source Mahasangha Retreat in Colorado
You can listen to all the talks given at our June 2016 Open Source retreat--by Open Source teachers Sarah Bender, Andrew Palmer, Megan Rundel, and Tenney Nathanson--here on Andrew Palmer's Bow & Roar Website
note added April 2024: it looks like the talks are no longer posted on Andrew's site (the page is still there but the links are no longer "live"). Here are the talks I gave; I'm not sure how you can locate the talks by the other teachers, sorry.
note added April 2024: it looks like the talks are no longer posted on Andrew's site (the page is still there but the links are no longer "live"). Here are the talks I gave; I'm not sure how you can locate the talks by the other teachers, sorry.
| 16_06_21_mahasangha_retreat_talk.mp3 |
| 16_06_23_mahasangha_morning_talk.mp3 |
more talks by Tenney
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talks from our DRZ March 2019 residential retreat:
talks from our DRZ March 2018 residential retreat:
a talk at Little Chapel, 2018
a talk from our DRZ October 2017 mini-retreat at Little Chapel:
talks from our DRZ March 2017 residential retreat:
talks from the Open Source Mahasangha retreat, Colorado, June 2016
talks from our DRZ March 2016 residential retreat
talks at Little Chapel, 2015
talks at Little Chapel, 2014
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| 14_10_26_off_the_clock__balanchine_.mp3 |
| 14_05_11_working_with_koans__resemblance_.mp3 |
| 14_04_13_but_thats_just_my_opinion_3.mp3 |
| 14_03_30_but_thats_just_my_opinion_2.mp3 |
talks at Little Chapel, 2013
| 13_12_29_but_thats_just_my_opinion_1.mp3 |
| 13_12_22_midwinter_day__beethoven.mp3 |
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talks at Little Chapel, 2012
a talk at the Awakened Life retreat in Santa Fe, June 2012
more talks at Little Chapel, 2012
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| 12_05_20_mindfulness_and_the_storehouse_consciousness.mp3 |
If you're having trouble downloading files here, you can get (most of) them from Dropbox:
talks (etc.) by other Open Source teachers
Joan Sutherland:
Sarah Bender:
Andrew Palmer:
Megan Rundel:
Sarah Bender:
Andrew Palmer:
Megan Rundel:
Pacific Zen Institute
John Tarrant (et al)
- printed talks by John Tarrant and other PZI teachers
- videos of talks by John Tarrant and other PZI teachers
Everyday Zen Foundation
Norman Fischer (et al)
- soundfiles of talks by Norman Fischer and other Everyday Zen teachers
- Norman's "Abbot's Journal"
photo: Lynda Zwinger
this page last modified September 6, 2025
this page last modified September 6, 2025