Episodes

  • To Expound the Dharma with This Body

    To Expound the Dharma with This Body
    Aug 10 2025
    08/10/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho discusses the reality that a human body will turn to dust and yet it is the body in which we carry the dharma and come to know it. As Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen, taught, "To expound the dharma with this body is foremost."
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    39 mins
  • Stories and Silence

    Stories and Silence
    Aug 9 2025
    08/09/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo David Haye reflects on the way we hold stories about ourselves and others, and how our practice of dwelling in silence can help us change our relationship with them.
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    35 mins
  • The Three Poisons: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    The Three Poisons: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    Aug 7 2025
    08/06/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses working with and growing in our awareness of how the three poisons—greed, hatred and delusion—manifest in our lives, on this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
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    36 mins
  • Hello, My Other Self

    Hello, My Other Self
    Aug 3 2025
    08/03/ 2025, Sessei Meg Levie, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sessei Meg Levie offers the teaching of the Four Elements and how seeing Dharma in nature can help us open our hearts to all beings.
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    43 mins
  • Gratitude and Grief

    Gratitude and Grief
    Jul 27 2025
    07/27/2025, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenshin Greg Fain talks about gratitude and grief in the context of Thusness. Gratitude and grief can both be dharma gates to bring us closer to a felt sense of connection with each other, and all of existence.
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    39 mins
  • Finding Awareness in the Everyday

    Finding Awareness in the Everyday
    Jul 24 2025
    07/23/2025, Yogetsu Akasaka, dharma talk at City Center. Yogetsu Akasaka, a priest from the Sōtō Zen School in Japan, asks What if cleaning a bathroom could be one of your most profound spiritual practices?
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    36 mins
  • Goodbye and Hello

    Goodbye and Hello
    Jul 20 2025
    07/20/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on recent departures from Green Gulch of the elder teachers of the founding generation, and how at the same time as that loss, a new flower of teaching blossoms as "Becoming Yourself," the new book of Suzuki Roshi's talks, is released.
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    38 mins
  • Introducing "Becoming Yourself"

    Introducing "Becoming Yourself"
    Jul 19 2025
    07/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler celebrates together with the sangha the launch of the first new book of Suzuki Roshi's teachings in over 20 years, "Becoming Yourself," sharing about its fundamental teachings and how it came about.
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    45 mins