San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
724 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★ - 155 ratingsDharma Talks given at San Francisco Zen Center
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Karma and Self-Care
September 25, 2021 18:00The importance of unwiring ourselves and developing deep self-care in order to take up the great vow of liberation for ourselves and all beings. 09/25/2021, Dr. Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe Ward, dharma talk at City Center.
Both Truths Are True
September 19, 2021 18:00A talk about our Zen’s Chinese ancestors based in Suzuki Roshi’s teaching on Sekito Kisen’s Harmony of Difference and Equality. 09/19/2021, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The Ancestors' Breath
September 18, 2021 18:00The ancient foundation of the breath, creating an environment for a skillful response. 09/18/2021, Myogan Djinn Gallagher, dharma talk at City Center.
Within a Dream Expressing the Dream
September 12, 2021 18:00The buddhas and Zen ancestors encourage us to become lucid dreamers - realizing that we are dreaming while remaining within the dream, where subject and object appear as separate but are really just manifestations of one mind. 09/12/2021, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Priest Ordination
September 11, 2021 18:00A personal reflection on priest ordination in the Soto Zen Lineage from their own live as priests. 09/11/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller and Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at City Center.
Being Like A Bee
September 09, 2021 03:00Beekeeping as a temple art. The shared qualities of honeybees and bodhisattvas, hives and sangha, enjoying the taste of honey. 09/08/2021, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk at City Center.
Corona – Teaching of Impermanence and Permanent Transition
September 08, 2021 03:0009/07/2021, Jisan Anna Thorn, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Small Things Matter
September 05, 2021 18:00In this talk Eijun Roshi reflects on the path of relieving our suffering, highlighting the importance of being in relationship with everything in our life—from people to the smallest detail—and on the basic interconnection of pleasure and pain. 09/05/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Appreciate Your Life
September 04, 2021 18:00Yunmen’s Every Day is a Good Day. 09/04/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.
The Backward Step
September 02, 2021 03:00An exploration of zazen as a mirror of our everyday life and our everyday mind. 09/01/2021, Hakusho Ostlund, dharma talk at City Center.
The Importance of a Generous Heart
August 29, 2021 18:00Teachings and practices connecting our fundamental and profound practices of gratitude and generosity. 08/29/2021, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Let Things Fall Apart
August 28, 2021 18:00A student's reflections on a life of teachings with their teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman, and the nature of Bodhi Mind 08/28/2021, Hozan Alan Senauke, dharma talk at City Center.
Meeting Some Women Ancestors
August 26, 2021 03:00A selection of stories about our Buddhist women ancestors whose names we chant during morning service. 08/25/2021, ARobin Orden, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Medicine and Disease
August 26, 2021 03:00Commentary on Case 87 from the Blue Cliff Record, Yunmen's "Medicine and Disease. The whole earth is medicine. Which one's for you?" 08/25/2021, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center.
Fixing Things
August 22, 2021 18:00Once when a student straightened a hanging picture in the temple, Suzuki Roshi went and made it crooked again - why did he do that, and what does this story show about our "fixing" mind versus Suzuki Roshi's path of "seeings things-as-it-is, accepting things-as-it-is, and nourishing things as they grow"? 08/22/2021, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
This Radiant Mind
August 21, 2021 18:00An examination of what it means to both fully express ourselves, and a consideration of how the world is being made in each moment (by each one of us). 08/21/2021, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at City Center.
The Taproot of Soto Zen, Part 3: Just This Is It
August 19, 2021 03:0008/18/2021, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Courage, Futility, and the Promises of Practice
August 18, 2021 18:00Studying our attachment to our biography as a resource for our self undersanding and transformation. And the joy of renunciation and exploring the edges of freedom. 08/18/2021, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center.
It's for Your Benefit, Acarya
August 15, 2021 18:00Continuing with our focus this month on the Mind Only teachings, this talk offers a walk-through of some of the school's major components, among them, compassion, generosity and wisdom. 08/15/2021, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
When Dharma and Karma Unite
August 14, 2021 18:00If we hurry the important and urgent nature of studying the self we are likely to miss "this" - the entire truth of who we are. 08/14/2021, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
Bodhicitta in Action
August 12, 2021 03:00An exploration of arising Bodhicitta, not othering, and taking action. 08/11/2021, Seiho Qayyum Johnson, dharma talk at City Center.
Sweep The Garden - Any Size
August 12, 2021 03:0008/11/2021, Teishin Layla Smith Bockhorst, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Seeing Without An ‘I’
August 08, 2021 18:00In this talk, Abbot David weaves together personal stories regarding “seeing” with teachings by Vasubandhu, Shakyamuni Buddha, and Suzuki Roshi in an exploration of the nature of perception.The radical proposition at the heart of the ‘Third Turning’ Yogacara teachings is that we construct, through our way of looking, what we experience. We do not see the “real world” and others in it, but only projections of our karmic consciousness, which more often than not leads to our suffering. 08/08/20...
Factory Farming and its Environmental Effects Through the Lens of the Three Collective Pure Precepts
August 05, 2021 03:0008/04/2021, Yuki Kobiyama, dharma talk at City Center.
Living and Being Lived for the Benefit of All Beings
August 05, 2021 03:00An exploration of the Third Pure Precept and what it means to mature as buddhist practitioners. 08/04/2021, Horin Nancy Petrin, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Vimalakirti and Suzuki-Roshi Teach the Dharma of Freedom from Dualism
August 01, 2021 18:00In this time of worldwide sickness, the teaching of Vimalakirti—the bodhisattva who manifests illness for the sake of teaching sentient beings— is brought up. Linda also offers a Jataka Tale about a baby quail to illustrate non-duality. 08/01/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Angulimala and Right Speech
July 31, 2021 18:00In this dharma talk Tenku Ruff explores the precept of right speech particularly what it means to practice in community/Sangha and the habit of assigning permanent status to our faults and those of others. How do we work with what each of us have on our plates with love and compassion? 07/31/2021, Tenku Ruff, dharma talk at City Center.
The Taproot of Soto Zen, Part 2: Like a Fool, Like an Idiot
July 29, 2021 03:0007/28/2021, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Radical Dharma: Talking about Race, Love and Liberation
July 25, 2021 18:00This Sunday Dharma talk was a special offering by Green Gulch Abbess Fu Schroeder and Rev. angel Kyodo williams, in conversation about the suffering caused by racism, and how our Buddhist communities can begin the work of healing from inside out. 07/25/2021, Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The Wind of the Family House
July 24, 2021 18:00In this talk, Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts brings forth the spirit of the Mahayana Buddhist Vimalakirti Sutra, and the second turning of the wheel teachings. She suggests that the reconciliation of the truth of emptiness, the inconceivable which can not be grasped, can be found in our practice of zazen. 07/24/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at City Center.
Right in Imperfection is Perfect Reality
July 22, 2021 03:0007/21/2021, Steve Weintraub, dharma talk at Tassajara.
Stillness in Midst of Imagination
July 18, 2021 18:00By practicing zazen again and again we create space to receive stillness right in the midst of our many stories and imaginations about the world, and in this way begin to see a path to live our life as a blessing for this world in turmoil. 07/18/2021, Sonja Gardenswartz, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Feelings as Dharma Gates
July 15, 2021 03:00Practicing exactly where we are is the perfect place, an exploration of dharma gates and developing the "practice" muscle of entering them. 07/14/2021, Laurie Schley Senauke, dharma talk at City Center.
What Do You Call The World?
July 11, 2021 18:00This talk centers on the two truths about our one world, the human world and Buddha’s world, with 5 easy steps on how to bring those worlds together again. 07/11/2021, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Taking Off The Mask
July 10, 2021 18:00What is it to take up the call of a Bodhisattva? This question is explored in this Dharma talk with Ashanti Branch of the Everforward Club and City Center Tanto, Nancy Petrin, exploring Ashanti's decision leave a successful job as an engineer to work with young men and explore the experience and definitions of "manhood" as essential to becoming whole and mature human beings. 07/10/2021, Horin Nancy Petrin and Ashanti Branch, dharma talk at City Center.
What If We Stopped Pretending?
July 08, 2021 03:00A reflection on climate collapse and Zen practice. "I wonder what might happen if we tell ourselves the truth, instead of denying reality?" 07/07/2021, Shogen Jody Greene, dharma talk at City Center.
The Taproot of Soto Zen, Part 1 - Suchness is Groovy
July 08, 2021 03:0007/07/2021, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Tassajara.
A Lifetime of Devotion
July 04, 2021 18:00Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Linda Cutts reflects on "a lifetime of devotion." 07/04/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The Plan Is The Body
July 03, 2021 18:00Zoketsu Norman Fischer, former abbot of San Francisco Zen Center and founding teacher of Everyday Zen reads and reflects on passages from the "What Is the Body?" chapter of his new book, "When You Greet Me, I Bow." 07/03/2021, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at City Center.
Awareness, Assumptions, and Actions
July 01, 2021 03:00In this dharma talk Sonja Gardenswartz poses the turning question, are we willing to step into curiosity, into "I don't know," and consider what is the appropriate response? Examining with the awareness of zazen and looking at what am I assuming as I move into action. 6/30/2021, Sonja Gardenswartz, dharma talk at City Center.
What Is The Body?
June 27, 2021 18:00Zoketsu Norman Fischer reads and reflects on passages from the "What is the Body?" chapter of his new book, "When You Greet Me, I Bow." 06/27/2021, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Queering Dharma
June 26, 2021 18:00Honoring Pride month, abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman explores what it is "to queer" and how this is essentially the practice at the heart of Buddhadharma. 06/26/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
Acts of Giving
June 24, 2021 03:00In this talk Shundo David Haye looks at how our Bodhisattva vows, and the paramita of generosity, can help us navigate the current uncertainty, as the world starts to open up again. 06/23/2021, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center.
Giving and Receiving with Gophers
June 20, 2021 18:00Tenshin Roshi shares examples modern and ancient of the practice of generosity. 06/20/2021, Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Buddhist Teacher on Death Row
June 19, 2021 18:00Jarvis Masters joins Lee Lesser on the dharma seat to speak from death row in San Quentin Prison about his Buddhist Practice of 30 years; his understanding of the nature of suffering; what it is to practice with constriction and uncertainty, and other profound insights. 06/19/2021, Lee Klinger Lesser, Jarvis Masters, dharma talk at City Center.
This Time Of Transition
June 17, 2021 03:00A reflection and consideration on "making the transition, entering the marketplace and crossing over supported by Buddhist practice and traditions. 06/16/2021, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk at City Center.
Even A Child Of Three Can Understand...
June 13, 2021 18:00Inspired by the wisdom of a young girl talking to her mother about kindness, this talk touches on the Buddhist practices of tranquility and insight that allows us live in harmony with one another. 06/13/2021, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The Wish To Be Loved
June 12, 2021 18:00In this talk Senior Dharma Teacher Paul Haller compares the opening statement of Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi with the open statement of Shakyamuni Buddha's Satipattana, to support the notion that in embracing our human lives we're asked to appreciate the rich beauty of life and to accept the challenge of our human suffering. 06/12/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at City Center.