San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Επεισόδια

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  Heart-Teachings of a No-Good, Lazy Monk 02.08.2026 59λ

  Dr. Jan Willis discusses the life of eighth-century poet and philosopher, Shantideva, and what it can teach us about genuine bodhisattva practice.
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  Attention: Practice to Benefit the World 26.07.2026 58λ

  Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts explores how caring with wholehearted attention to what is before us and within us realizes the practice of expressing the True Reality of All Things.
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  Turning the Light Around to Illuminate the Light 25.07.2026 53λ

  Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman offers three analogies related to light as supportive practices for zazen, noting that in Zen, light serves as a powerful analogy for awareness.
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  Joy and Responsibility in Zen 22.07.2026 44λ

  Doshin Dan Gudgel explores joy as a fuel for practice and shares a practice for connecting with joy during daily meditation.
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  Nothing Wasted 19.07.2026 50λ

  So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson explores a practice that rejects nothing, wastes nothing, and reveals how transformation begins when everything belongs through stories from Green Gulch Farm, Zen teachings, and an ecological view of dependent arising.
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  We Are Buddhas and Ancestors 18.07.2026 28λ

  Odo Ellen Simpson explores the depth and complexity of Soto Zen ancestor practice in the context of monastic and lay life with consideration of cultural and family trauma perspectives.
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  When A Buddha Breaks 12.07.2026 55λ

  Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman speaks to the loss felt by the fire that destroyed the Tassajara Zendo in March 2026, and particularly the damage to the 1800-year-old Gandharan Buddha stone statue that had been on the altar (with slide accompaniment).
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  Honoring My Teacher 11.07.2026 37λ

  Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho shares the experience of being a student and learning from a Zen teacher. What is needed? Are you prepared to have a teacher? What happens when you’re from different cultures?
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  Returning and the Settled Self 08.07.2026 41λ

  Horin Nancy Petrin reflects on the ‘settled self’ inspired by Suzuki Roshi’s lecture ‘Be Kind with Yourself” from the collection “Not Always So.”
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  To Shine One Corner 05.07.2026 58λ

  Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler shares some of Suzuki Roshi’s views on WWII, America and Japanese nationalism, and shares a story of Suzuki Roshi’s practice of “shining one corner” during the war.
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  Taste The Truth 01.07.2026 40λ

  Shundo David Haye reflects on the role and value of practice in imbuing us with inner integrity, in this age of social media and AI.
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  The Dharma of Demi-Girls 28.06.2026 58λ

  Shōren Heather Iarusso explores the intersection of Buddhism, gender fluidity and the PRIDE movement using a rainbow as a metaphor.
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  Holding It All 27.06.2026 28λ

  td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;} Jisho Lisa Beth Hoffman, in this Queer Pride weekend talk, asks “How do we practice so the poignant truth of impermanence deepens our experience of ‘just this’ – the life and moment before us?”
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  The Gulch, the Valley, as the Embodiment of Silent Illumination 21.06.2026 1ώ 2λ

  td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;} Chan Teacher Guo Gu speaks of the significance of the "gulch" in Green Gulch, connecting it with the qualities of being the “valley"—open receptive, responsive, hollow yet luminous qualities.
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  The Historical-Political Rise of Silent Illumination, Shikantaza, and the Embodied Experiencing of this Practice 16.06.2026 54λ
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  Zazen Sits Zazen for the Welfare of the World 14.06.2026 1ώ 2λ

  Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about zazen as a practice of realizing the non-separation of body and mind, and about the dynamic relationship that is the body-mind.
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  AI and the Second Noble Truth 13.06.2026 42λ

  Sozan Michael McCord teaches that when we look at the cause of suffering, we see that it is grasping and clinging or aversion and not accepting what is. We have known since the Industrial Revolution, very clearly, but now have it even more greatly elucidated in the age of artificial intelligence: if a human being equates their value to production, they are obsolete.
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  Body, Breath and Hara 10.06.2026 45λ

  Anshi Zachary Smith examines the "doing nothing” of zazen, and how much it actually does.
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  How to Be Alive for It All 06.06.2026 38λ

  Ryotan Cynthia Kear shares Darlene Cohen’s core teachings on the importance of cultivating concentration, personal koans, transformation of suffering and vow.
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  Awakening to the Sickened Heart 03.06.2026 42λ

  Chikudo Catherine Spaeth teaches that a whole world of forms catches us up in personal emotions and stories, and when we see through them there can be a feeling of heartsickness. How, in our illness, does emptiness use emptiness to liberate us in true feeling?