Podcasts by Upaya Zen Center
The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya
Further podcasts by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot
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Kaz Tanahashi&Shinzan Palma: Breakthrough: Rohatsu Sesshin from 2023-12-11T12:00:11
In this illuminating dharma talk given on day four of Rohatsu sesshin, 2023, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and Sensei Shinzan Palma speak to the importance of recognizing and embracing our inner […]
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Joan Halifax: Seeing Without a Seer…Hearing Without a Hearer from 2023-12-04T12:00:49
On the eve of Rohatsu, the celebration of the Buddha’s awakening, Roshi Joan Halifax considers the theme of “breakthrough”. How do we breakthrough our own limiting beliefs and behaviors to […]
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Christiana Figueres: What does the climate crisis teach us? from 2023-11-27T12:00:10
“Climate and biodiversity loss could be nature’s invitation to humanity to either fish or cut bait.” Here, Upaya friend and architect of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, Christiana Figueres delive...
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Wendy Dainin Lau, MD: Taming this wild horse: listen, study, practice from 2023-11-20T12:00:46
As a doctor, Wendy Dainin Lau realized her medical practice was missing something when she began to experience “compassion fatigue”. To deepen her practice in compassion, she ordained as a […]
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Hozan Alan Senauke: The Bodhisattva’s Four Embracing Ways from 2023-11-13T12:00:44
In a world at war, how do we begin the difficult work of healing? What is the antidote to hate, conflict, and destruction? Sensei Hozan Alan Senauke discusses the importance […]
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Cyndi Lee: Lifting the Gaze from 2023-11-06T12:00:05
Yoga and meditation teacher Cyndi Lee discusses the benefits and limitations of “self-care” culture. She warns against materialistic self-care “bandaids” that enhance our craving for pleasure and a...
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Kathie Fischer: When a fish enters the flowing stream, everything is provided from 2023-10-30T11:00:49
What does the evolution of grasses, the schooling behavior of fish, and our dharma practice have in common? Former school teacher and Zen priest Sensei Kathie Fischer beautifully weaves together […]
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Monshin Nannette Overley: The Spiritual Source Shines Clearly in the Light from 2023-10-23T11:00:46
Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley guides us straight to our hearts in her teaching on The Sandokai, our Zen ancestor Shitou’s poem on the harmony of oneness and multiplicity. How do […]
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Kathie Fischer: Warm Hand to Warm Hand from 2023-10-16T11:00:12
In this warm talk, Sensei Kathie Fischer explores the classic Zen poem The Sandokai, translated at Upaya as “The Identity of Relative and Absolute”. Weaving through the history of Buddhist […]
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One Body Buddha from 2023-10-09T11:00:47
What and where is our body? This is the question Sensei Matthew Kozan Palevsky asks us to deeply consider in this probing dharma talk. Is our body, as we commonly experience it, […]
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Rhonda V. Magee: Mindfulness and the Possibility of Living Well Together in Hard Times from 2023-10-02T11:00:13
How do we integrate our meditation practice and our collective work for social and racial justice? Mindfulness teacher and law professor Rhonda Magee explores this question in a personal and […]
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Rebecca Solnit: Hope Is a Discipline – On Being Present and Committing to the Future from 2023-09-25T11:00:55
In her talk, Rebecca Solnit explores the concept of hope and activism in the face of uncertainty, particularly relating to climate change. She discusses how even so-called “failed” actions can […]
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Ben Connelly: Imagination, Interdependence, and Liberation Practicing Yogacara Buddhism with Vasubandhu’s Three Natures from 2023-09-18T11:00:21
“Good news! Everything is of complete, realized nature.” In this energized dharma talk, author and teacher Ben Connelly beautifully articulates Vasubandhu’s teachings of “The Three Natures” – that ...
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Alcio Braz: Making Peace with our Ancestors from 2023-09-11T11:00:47
In this compassionate talk, Sensei Alcio Braz calls in his ancestors to sit with him and invites us to call in ours, too. This explicit invitation runs counter to the […]
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Natalie Goldberg: The Mind of Writing from 2023-09-04T11:00:24
“There’s an integrity to mind if you watch it.” In this fresh talk, Natalie Goldberg shares about giving space to her grief, about her high school friend Phyllis, about time, […]
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Frank Ostaseski: Surrendering to Death from 2023-08-28T11:00:15
“Stay close and do nothing.” Frank Ostaseski shares from his deep personal experience walking along so many people in the dying process about what it means to surrender to death. […]
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: She Who Hears the Cries of the World, Stories of Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion from 2023-08-21T11:00:50
Rev. Zenshin Florence Caplow shares intimate accounts and stories of Kannon or Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion. She shares the story of Julie Pryde, the public health administrator of her […]
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Jonathan S. Watts: Using the Four Noble Truths as a Framework for Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan from 2023-08-14T11:00:48
Jonathan Watts shares a framework of an iceberg, in which direct violence (the 1st Noble Truth), on the tip of the iceberg, is masked by structural and cultural violence (the […]
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Monshin Nannette Overley: It’s all alive; It’s all intelligent; It’s all connected; It’s all YOU from 2023-08-07T11:00:09
In this heartfelt talk, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley examines the Buddha’s foundational teaching of dependent co-arising in light of our deep responsibility towards our beautiful and fragile ear...
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Henry Shukman: The Cart Track: what an obscure early Chan document can teach us about the path of practice from 2023-07-31T11:00:23
In this delightfully human talk, Henry Shukman allows us to see how his heart was opened by zen practice. He reflects on the Sattipatthana Sutta and Soko Morinaga’s book “An […]
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Peter Levitt: Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women from 2023-07-24T11:00:30
Peter Levitt loves what he does. That is so clear from the way he shares the stories and works of Li Ye, Xue Tao, and Yu Xuanji, three Daoist women […]
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Edoardo (Shoryu) Eusepi: Taking Time to Transition from 2023-07-17T11:00:18
Edoardo Eusepi, who is affectionately known around Upaya by his dharma name “Shoryu,” reflects on his transition back into the “marketplace” after four years of residency at Upaya. He reminds […]
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Hozan Alan Senauke: Turning Words from 2023-07-10T11:00:05
“Can we care? Can we find the joy in that?” Sensei Alan Senauke shares words from teachers throughout his life that turned, or awakened, him. These teachers include his father, […]
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Agency, Karma, and the Four Noble Truths from 2023-07-03T11:00:45
In this honest and courageous talk, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley investigates the relationship between recalling our intention and where we delegate our attention, especially in lay practice. Ho...
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Stepping into the Turbulence: Our Walk with Fear from 2023-06-26T11:00:08
On the summer solstice, James Fushin Bristol encourages us to shine light on those fears we carry everyday, to see what is underneath them, to see what comes alongside them. […]
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Beginner’s Mind; Continuous Practice from 2023-06-19T11:00:11
On the first day of the Young Adult sesshin at Upaya, Sensei Matthew Kozan Palevsky explores each of the Four Great Bodhisattva vows. He helps us understand what is meant […]
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Tim Burkett: Enlightenment is an Accident from 2023-06-12T11:00:35
“Looking. Seeing. Peace.” Tim Burkett discusses the contents of his new book Enlightenment is an Accident in this richly informative and encouraging talk. Tim walks us through the three phases […]
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Keido Troy Fernandez: How Will You Plant Your Life: What Could it Mean? from 2023-06-05T11:00:23
“And when you go to harvest all that surely will grow, give it away.” Hoshi Keido Troy Fernandez weaves together past and present, questions and stories, dialogue and teachings as […]
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Something’s Happening Here and We Don’t Know What It Is from 2023-05-29T11:00:01
In light of the Varela Symposium and his travels, Sensei Matthew Kozan Palevsky is interested in study and knowledge and different ways of knowing. He considers the pitfalls of knowing—how […]
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Rev. Issho Fujita: Zazen as a Way of Harmonizing the Self from 2023-05-22T11:00:12
In this photo-worthy and delightfully diagram-aided talk, Rev. Issho Fujita shares his personal story and perspective on zen practice, with an emphasis on the somatic. Issho talks about how zazen […]
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Bhante Sanathavihari: On the Wings of Awakening from 2023-05-15T11:00:35
Bhante Sanathavihari enthusiastically and joyfully shares the Ummaggasutta as a way of considering that the Buddhist metaphor of a bird, with one wing of compassion and one wing of wisdom, […]
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Frank Ostaseski: Grief– A Path to Wholeness from 2023-05-08T11:00
How do we move towards the light of absolute truth while accepting and honoring our very human nature?” In this vulnerable, raw talk, Frank Ostaseski shares his heart with us […]
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Singing the River’s Song Back to the River Part 2 from 2023-05-01T11:00:30
“The practice was literally saving my life.” In Part 2 of her way seeking mind talk, Sensei Amie Diller recounts heart-filled stories about her time as a resident at Tassajara […]
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Kathie Fischer: Reflecting on the Way of Ling Zhao and her Mother from 2023-04-24T11:00:15
In this timely dharma talk in our final days of Spring Sesshin, Sensei Kathie Fischer shares teachings from three wise women who offer a powerful dharmic lesson when faced with […]
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Joys and Pitfalls of Helping: Lingzhao& Layman P’ang from 2023-04-17T11:00:30
Zenshin Florence Caplow’s dharma talk discusses Lingzhao’s helping, a koan from The Sayings of Layman P’ang which has served as our source text for the Spring Practice Period. In this […]
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Ordinary Mind: Layman Pang and Maurine Stuart, Roshi from 2023-04-10T11:00:33
In this improvisational jazz duet-style dharma talk, Senseis Amie Diller and Kathie Fischer explore the resonance between one of their shared teachers Maurine Stuart, Roshi, and the 7th Century cel...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: All Moments Are Equally Precious from 2023-04-03T11:00:55
In this honest and courageous talk, Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley investigates the relationship between recalling our intention and where we delegate our attention, especially in lay practice. Ho...
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HAIKU: The Leap from 2023-03-27T11:00:02
“Haiku is about paying attention.” Natalie Goldberg offers a deep dive into the work of Tim Roberts who found haiku after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s at 49. His haiku in […]
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Singing the River’s Song Back to the River from 2023-03-20T11:00:46
In this vulnerable and alive (and hopefully only part one of a multi-part series) Way-Seeking Mind talk, Sensei Amie Diller takes us to the LA parking lot where she had […]
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Engaged Attention: Enhancing Daily Life from 2023-03-13T11:00:33
A talk that came to her in the middle of several nights, Dr. Laurie Leitch offers us a “bedtime story” style dharma talk. She shares five stories about attention ranging […]
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Begin Again: Precepts for Everyday Life from 2023-03-06T12:00:50
“How is practicing the precepts like waking up?” In this practical and story-flush talk, on the night of the first of two jukai ceremonies in 2023, Sensei Mathew Kozan Palevsky […]
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Monshin Nannette Overley: I Offer You This Bodhi Mind from 2023-02-27T12:00:05
“Once bodhichitta is awakened in us, it is a treasure that continues to open.” In this beautiful exploration, Monshin Nannette Overley characterizes bodhichitta as “the first impulse or intention t...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: On Courage and Practice from 2023-02-20T12:00:07
“It takes so much courage to meet our suffering, to meet our life, raw and unadorned.” In this captivating talk, Zenshin Florence Caplow draws on stories and teachings from encounters […]
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Valerie Brown: The Heart of Sangha: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings on Building Beloved Community from 2023-02-13T12:00:16
“We teach what we need to learn the most.” In this humble, participatory, and open-hearted talk, Valerie Brown explores four of Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings on building beloved community: volition, […]
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Dancing with Mara: Revisiting the Life of Buddha from 2023-02-06T12:00:41
In this heartfelt talk, Sensei Amie Diller reminds us of the story of Buddha and particularly of Buddha’s relationship with Mara. Even after his enlightenment, Siddhartha was still visited by […]
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Wendy Johnson: Grass Boundless: Inside the Gate, Outside the Gate from 2023-01-30T12:00:08
On the fourth night of Winter Practice Period sesshin, Sensei Wendy Johnson explores Case 89 of The Book of Serenity, “Dongshan’s “Place of No Grass.””
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Stepping Off A 100 Foot Pole: Case 79 The Book of Serenity from 2023-01-23T12:00:57
“When we all have enough, we can fully let go. When we fully let go, we know what it is to have enough.” In this joyful and moving talk, Sensei […]
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The One Who Is Not Trifling from 2023-01-16T12:00:09
With a combination of playfulness and humility, Sensei Noah Kodo Roen presents Case 21 of Book of Serenity, “Yunyan Sweeps the Ground,” and explores the dichotomy of mindfulness and busyness, […]
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Talking on Empty from 2023-01-02T12:00:53
“Many of our friends are no longer alive or we don’t see them anymore. [Writing poetry] is a way we hold them.” Natalie Goldberg reflects on the end of the […]
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Dekila Chungyalpa: Wisdom of Winter: Rest, Regeneration, and Rebirth from 2022-12-26T12:00:36
“Does your breathing change when you imagine it’s the landscape breathing?” Dekila Chungyalpa invites us to explore different ways of looking at time (as nature and different species view time, […]
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Eloquent Silence from 2022-12-19T12:00:21
In this poetic talk, Fushin James Bristol reflects on the role of silence in zen practice and in our lives. Sharing personal stories, music knowledge, Buddhist history, and other moving […]
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Kathie Fischer: Vow and Repentance from 2022-04-18T11:00:57
In this talk about Fusatsu, the full moon ceremony of repentance and vow-renewal, Sensei Kathie Fischer implores us to, as the old folk song says, “study war no more.” Rather than waging battle aga...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow&Reigetsu Susan Moon&Joan Halifax: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (9 of 9) from 2022-04-16T21:00:13
This is the 2nd and the final segment of the final session of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is led by Zenshin Florence Caplow and Reigetsu Susan Moon with Roshi Joan Halifax joining in. To ...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow&Reigetsu Susan Moon&Joan Halifax: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (8 of 9) from 2022-04-16T20:45:30
This is the 2nd and the final segment of the final session of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is led by Zenshin Florence Caplow and Reigetsu Susan Moon with Roshi Joan Halifax joining in. To ...
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Reigetsu Susan Moon: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (7 of 9) from 2022-04-15T17:30:51
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is led by Reigetsu Susan Moon. She speaks about authenticity after which the participants join in. To access the resources page ...
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Reigetsu Susan Moon&Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (6 of 9) from 2022-04-14T21:20:37
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is led by Reigetsu Susan Moon and Zenshin Florence Caplow. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clic...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (5 of 9) from 2022-04-13T21:45:40
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and the participants share their experiences of Part 4 that was led by Zenshin Florence Caplow. To access the resources page for thi...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (4 of 9) from 2022-04-13T21:35:54
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is lead by Zenshin Florence Caplow. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clicking here.
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Joan Halifax: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (3 of 9) from 2022-04-12T22:50:57
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and the speaker is Roshi Joan Halifax. Note: The recording of this part is somewhat uneven. We have leveled it as best as we can – a...
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Wendy Johnson: Elemental Ceremony: The Art of Forming a Zen Altar from 2022-04-11T11:00:27
Sensei Wendy Johnson instructs us in the art of forming a zen altar. In her characteristic poetic style, Wendy talks about the elements that make up a Zen altar, sharing stories and photos of altar...
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Reigetsu Susan Moon&Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (2 of 9) from 2022-04-10T19:00:27
This part is a continuation of The Wisdom of Zen Crones program and is led by Reigetsu Susan Moon and Zenshin Florence Caplow.
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Zenshin Florence Caplow&Reigetsu Susan Moon&Joan Halifax: The Wisdom of Zen Crones 2021 (1 of 9) from 2022-04-09T20:20:06
Series Description: In this weekend online retreat, we explored a few of the “Old Women Koans” from The Hidden Lamp, so full of laughter, clarity, and spiritual power. Whatever our age or our gende...
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Shinzan Palma: The Intimacy of Liturgy from 2022-04-04T11:00:55
Sensei Shinzan Palma opens Upaya’s 2022 Spring Practice Period with a talk on the intimacy of Zen liturgy. Shinzan suggests that our individualistic Western culture is deficient in community ritual...
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Frank Ostaseski&Rachel Naomi Remen: The Encounter with Mystery in Medicine and the Time of Dying (2021) from 2022-04-03T20:20:36
We don’t have adequate language to describe the incomprehensible presence we meet in deep spiritual practice or the time of dying. We choose to name it Mystery with a capital M. The word Mystery po...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: A Blade of Grass from 2022-03-28T11:00:47
‘In light of the horror in the world, what will sustain us? What can sustain us enough to love the world as it is and stay engaged?’ In this Dharma talk the question of trust, right here and right ...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Becoming: Awakening in the Midst from 2022-03-23T23:00:46
In this program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski remind us that we can use the experiences of our lives, even those of great suffering, to awaken to our true nature. Frank Ostaseski reminds ...
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Jane Hirshfield: Realms of Being from 2022-03-21T11:00:07
In this evening’s Wednesday night Dharma Talk, poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield, gives a moving talk to the realms of activity in our lives. She begins by calling in the realm of comp...
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Rhonda V. Magee: Metta in a Time of War from 2022-03-14T11:00:31
Rhonda Magee, M.A., J.D., who is called by some the mother of the movement to integrate mindfulness and racial justice efforts, invites us to explore the practice of loving-kindness in a time of wa...
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Natalie Goldberg: Awakening Through Haiku from 2022-03-07T12:00:29
Natalie Golderg (Writing Down the Bones, Three Simple Lines) tells us how the practice of Haiku can change the way we interact with our world. She discusses her own haiku practice, including the st...
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Natalie Goldberg: Awaking Through Haiku from 2022-03-07T12:00:29
Natalie Golderg (Writing Down the Bones, Three Simple Lines) tells us how the practice of Haiku can change the way we interact with our world. She discusses her own haiku practice, including the st...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 9 of 9) from 2022-03-06T21:30:38
In this final session, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax continue with the audience interactions from the previous Part 8. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by clic...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 8 of 9) from 2022-03-06T21:20:11
In this session, Roshi Joan Halifax reminds us of the importance of equanimity. She leads us in a practice and participants share their experience of this program. Frank Ostaseski joins in during t...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 7 of 9) from 2022-03-05T20:50:30
After, Frank Ostaseski’s exploration of the importance of service (Part 6), the participants are split into breakout groups that’s followed with a Q&A. Roshi Joan Halifax joins in during the audien...
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Frank Ostaseski: Love and Death 2021 (Part 6 of 9) from 2022-03-05T20:30:27
In this session, Frank Ostaseski explores the importance of service. He asks us to meet love and death well by moving beyond the polarity of I and other. To access the resources page for this progr...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 5 of 9) from 2022-03-03T18:00:18
In this session, questions and answers from participants are shared. Roshi Joan Halifax shares a metta practice and invites us to come alongside our pain in order to experience the fullness of our ...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 4 of 9) from 2022-03-02T20:00
In this session Frank Ostaseski delves into the concept of Love. He introduces us to the four boundless abodes, or the four immeasurables and encourages us to cultivate these practices in order to ...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 3 of 9) from 2022-03-01T22:40
Frank Ostaseski encourages our realization of non separateness, that can “be grounded in everyday observation.” He shares his experience of a heart attack and how he experienced a lack of compassio...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Merchants of Emptiness from 2022-02-28T12:00:20
In this fourth and final talk in Upaya’s Dharma talk series on the precepts, Matthew Kozan Palevsky explores the Ten Grave Precepts. He suggests that we look at these precepts not primarily as “do’...
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Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 2 of 9) from 2022-02-27T22:00:28
In this talk, Roshi Joan Halifax calls us to commit to practice to “uphold ourselves in the midst of suffering,” in order to perceive clearly and build more capacity so that we may spend our lives ...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Love and Death 2021 (Part 1 of 9) from 2022-02-27T02:30
Series Description: This online, donation-based program explored the powerful equation of love and death. This whole life is a place where we make real our dedication to awakening, in living and dy...
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Joan Halifax&Kaz Tanahashi&Enkyo O'Hara&Steven Heine: Dogen and Nonduality 2021 (Part 4 of 4) from 2022-02-25T18:15:51
In the concluding part of the final session Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on perspectives coming from the spirit of practice. Roshi Joan reminds us that Dogen’s teacher Rujing seemed to have seen tha...
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Steven Heine&Kaz Tanahashi&Enkyo O'Hara&Joan Halifax: Dogen and Nonduality 2021 (Part 3 of 4) from 2022-02-24T22:53:12
In the first part of the final session of Dogen and Non-Duality, Steven Heine shares his upcoming book and unpacks koans that help us to realize non duality. Steven’s talk is followed by a discussi...
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Enkyo O'Hara&Kaz Tanahashi&Steven Heine&Joan Halifax: Dogen and Nonduality 2021 (Part 2 of 4) from 2022-02-24T05:00:15
In the second part of this program, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara shares her perspective on Dogen’s views and realization in relation to non-duality. She shares texts that support and inform her practice and ...
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Kaz Tanahashi&Enkyo O'Hara&Steven Heine&Joan Halifax: Dogen and Nonduality 2021 (Part 1 of 4) from 2022-02-23T00:00:27
Series Description: Zen Master Dogen’s writings are prolific and profound. In this intensive, we followed his practice of meditation and explored the essential meaning of his teaching in relation t...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: Contours of the Awakened Mind from 2022-02-21T12:00:46
Hoshi Kigaku Noah Roen continues Upaya’s series on the precepts with a talk on the Three Pure Precepts: doing no harm; doing good; doing good for others. In dialogue with the texts of Bernie Glassm...
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Frank Ostaseski&Joan Halifax: Belonging: The Power of Community from 2022-02-19T01:40:07
Months of isolation exacerbate a pre-existing crisis of loneliness that poses as grave a threat to public health. For many it gives rise to a distinct yearning for community. Something within each ...
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Wendy Johnson&Joan Halifax: WPP 2022 Sesshin (Part 6 of 6) from 2022-02-17T20:30:05
In this final dharma talk of winter practice period, Roshi Joan Halifax and Sensei Wendy Johnson recite the couplets of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. They reflect on the time that we spe...
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Al Kaszniak: WPP 2022 Sesshin (Part 5 of 6) from 2022-02-17T00:00:03
Sensei Al Kaszniak shares a poem by Ryokan and discusses its relationship to suchness and The Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. Sensei Al poses the question: “do the causes and conditions [of o...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Repentance and the Three Views from 2022-02-14T12:00:34
Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky explores the nature of atonement in our practice. Taking cues from Shohaku Okumura’s Living by Vow, he discusses zazen as one part vow, one part atonement. These two ...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: WPP 2022 Sesshin (Part 3 of 6) from 2022-02-13T17:00:14
In this talk, Matthew Kozan Palevsky takes up the question, “what is space?” through an exploration of Dogen’s fascicle “Koku.” He implores us to become intimate with it rather than our mere idea o...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: WPP 2022 Sesshin (Part 2 of 6) from 2022-02-12T21:05:29
In this talk, Hoshi Kigaku Noah Roen talks about the aspects of a mirror and reflects on the mirror as a metaphor for our practice. He reminds us that we settle our minds through zazen which helps...
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Joan Halifax: WPP 2022 Sesshin (Part 1 of 6) from 2022-02-11T21:26:26
In this talk, Roshi Joan Halifax delves into the term “intimate” which appears in the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. She asks us to become truly intimate with the nature of our minds and offe...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: Becoming “Buddhist” — What Does it Mean to Take Refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha? from 2022-02-07T12:00:19
What does it mean to become a Buddhist? Hoshi Kigaku Noah Roen kicks off a series of talks on the precepts with a discussion on the ceremony of taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. He e...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Winter Practice Period Zazenkai Dharma Talk: There is One Who is Not Busy from 2022-01-31T22:00:01
In this dharma talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky explores case 21, in the Book of Serenity, a koan between Dao Wu and Yun Yan about suchness. Kozan equates suffering with busyness. He explores wha...
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Wendy Johnson: The Practice of Interbeing from 2022-01-31T12:00:51
In this beautiful talk, Sensei Wendy Johnson recalls her love story with Thich Nhat Hanh after his death just days earlier. Beginning with Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, she calls us into deep practice with...
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Enkyo O'Hara: Winter Practice Period Dharma Talk: The Jewel Mirror in our Everyday Life from 2022-01-29T20:30:18
Roshi Enkyo O’Hara speaks on the relevance of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi to our everyday lives. She calls us to the middle way, to recognize that in the midst of our life and our relat...
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Wendy Johnson: Winter Practice Period Zazenkai Dharma Talk: Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi from 2022-01-29T02:30:03
Sensei Wendy Johnson begins by sharing with us the history and tradition of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi. She reminds us that this song lives in us, and we are spending this month integr...
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Korin Charlie Pokorny: You Are Not It, Yet It Is You: Engaging Nonduality from 2022-01-24T12:00:28
Korin Charlie Pokorny speaks to the couplets of the Song of the Jewel Mirror of Samadhi, “It is like facing a jewel mirror, form and image behold each other, You are not it, yet it is you. “ He exp...
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Korin Charlie Pokorny: Caring for the Dharma of Suchness from 2022-01-17T12:00:18
Korin Charlie Pokorny introduces us to three intertwining aspects of how to care for the dharma of suchness: embodied practice realization, inquiry, and communal relational practice. He invites us ...
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John Dunne&Joan Halifax: Exploring the Power of Lojong (Part 5 of 5) from 2022-01-13T16:15:06
Day 2 Afternoon Session: Further exploration of the practice of Lojong and how to use it practically to support your life as a life informed by the dharma. Knowing that “I” am not a story, once we ...
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John Dunne&Joan Halifax: Exploring the Power of Lojong (Part 4 of 5) from 2022-01-12T19:50:03
In this Day 2 Morning Session, Roshi Joan Halifax introduces the slogan “Drive all blames into one.” John Dunne asks us to work on what we most need to work on, to uncover our deepest issues to wor...
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John Dunne&Joan Halifax: Exploring the Power of Lojong (Part 3 of 5) from 2022-01-11T12:00:13
In this Day 1 Afternoon Session, John Dunne and Roshi Joan Halifax further explore the Lojong. In this session we come to understand the two different kinds of bodhichitta, the aspirational and the...
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Taigen Dan Leighton: Preserving the Dharma of Suchness: Inclined and Upright Interact from 2022-01-10T12:00:29
In this dharma talk, Taigen Dan Leighton explains the history and context of Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi. He goes over the five main themes of this poem and asks us to recognize that the natur...
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John Dunne&Joan Halifax: Exploring the Power of Lojong (Part 2 of 5) from 2022-01-09T16:00:32
In this Day 1 Morning Session, John Dunne introduces us to the preliminaries of Tibetan “mind training” or the Lojong tradition in this morning session. Roshi Joan Halifax ends the morning with the...
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John Dunne&Joan Halifax: Exploring the Power of Lojong (Part 1 of 5) from 2022-01-08T13:10:39
This special weekend with Buddhist scholar Dr. John Dunne and Upaya’s Abbot Roshi Joan Halifax was a deep dive into the practices of the Tibetan “mind training” or Lojong tradition. Inspired by Ind...
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Natalie Goldberg: Bones of This Life from 2022-01-03T12:00:58
In this Dharma Talk, Natalie Goldberg reflects on loss, loneliness, and suffering. She invites us to practice with the three marks of existence to be in our lives fully. For our lives to bloom, she...
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Deborah Madison&Wendy Johnson: Food and Farming: A Winter Solstice Dialogue from 2021-12-27T12:00:52
In this conversation between two veteran Zen practitioners and old friends. The master cook, Deborah Madison, and the master gardener, Wendy Johnson speak about their time practicing together over ...
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Alcio Braz: Dharma, Hyper Colonization, and Community from 2021-12-20T12:00:12
Can the Dharma really flourish in our own lands if it does not become native? This is the guiding question to Alcio Braz’s Wednesday night Dharma talk. By discussing his rich ancestry, spiritual p...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: Fall Practice Period 2021 Sesshin (Part 6 of 6) from 2021-12-15T12:00:13
Hoshi Kigaku Noah Rossetter Roen takes us on a journey of studying the role of silence in the sutra of Vimalakirti, in various texts by Dogen, and in stories of the Tatagatha. He claims that silenc...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Fall Practice Period 2021 Sesshin (Part 5 of 6) from 2021-12-14T12:00:54
Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky invites us to see our vows and liturgical chants as a key and compass to the map of our life. pointing us to the territory of our immediate experience. He asks us not t...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Fall Practice Period 2021 Sesshin (Part 3 of 6) from 2021-12-13T12:00:56
Monshin Nannette Overley invites us to view sickness and medicine beyond duality. She asks us to consider that the whole world can be viewed as medicine if we are able to cultivate equanimity of pe...
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Reigetsu Susan Moon: Fall Practice Period 2021 Sesshin (Part 2 of 6) from 2021-12-12T18:00:36
Reigetsu Susan Moon introduces us to the concept of Upaya, the creative or artistic expression of compassion. She shares the myriad of ways that upaya can be found in the Vimalakirti’s sutra and al...
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Shinzan Palma: Fall Practice Period 2021 Sesshin (Part 1 of 6) from 2021-12-12T00:30:34
Sensei Shinzan Palma welcomes us to the first day of sesshin. He reminds us that we are building our own container and to show up to practice for ourselves, coming back to the moment over and over ...
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Joan Halifax: The Practice of Emptiness from 2021-12-10T01:00:01
Roshi Joan Halifax unpacks the three doors of liberation, Vimalakirti’s gift to us: emptiness, signless, and aimlessness. She reminds us that “liberation isn’t just about freeing your body or mind ...
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Enkyo O'Hara&Joan Halifax: Rohatsu Sesshin Opening Dharma Talk (Part 1) from 2021-12-06T12:00:17
Roshis Joan Halifax& Enkyo O’Hara orient us to the beginning of Rohatsu, a ceremony marking the enlightenment of the Buddha. Pat Enkyo O’Hara invites us into remembering the medicine of sitting in ...
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Norman Fischer: When You Greet Me I Bow (Part 4 of 4) from 2021-12-03T12:00:21
In the last part of this 4 part series daylong with Roshi Norman Fischer, he begins to talk about engagement or spiritual activism. For Roshi Norman spirituality itself is active and it intertwines...
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Norman Fischer: When You Greet Me I Bow (Part 3 of 4) from 2021-12-02T12:00:43
In part 3 of this daylong with Roshi Norman Fischer, he takes on questions from the audience. For Program/Series description and to access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya P...
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Norman Fischer: When You Greet Me I Bow (Part 2 of 4) from 2021-12-01T12:00:19
In the second part of the morning session, Roshi Norman asks us to speak with a partner about our sense-experience of time. For this shorter session, there is a discussion with the audience. For Pr...
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Norman Fischer: When You Greet Me I Bow (Part 1 of 4) from 2021-11-30T12:00:17
When you Greet Me I Bow, Roshi Norman Fischer’s latest book came about differently from his past writing endeavors. For Norman, and his editor, the past four decades of writing can be condensed int...
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Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness from 2021-11-29T12:00:29
Ruth Ozeki introduces us to her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness” based on the question and her own investigation “Do insentient beings speak the Dharma?” She reads to us from the beginnin...
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Rhonda V. Magee: Social and Environmental Justice (Part 4 of 4) from 2021-11-26T16:30
Renowned professor of law and mindfulness teacher, Rhonda Magee, speaks to our task today to heal all separations. ‘The separation from our body to this planet, the separation from each other, elit...
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Kritee Kanko: Social and Environmental Justice (Part 3 of 4) from 2021-11-25T17:15:08
In this powerful talk, Sensei and Climate Scientist Kritee Kanko begins by underscoring the importance of addressing trauma for activism. To hear each other we need to be in our comfort zones. ‘Our...
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Dekila Chungyalpa: Social and Environmental Justice (Part 2 of 4) from 2021-11-23T12:00:43
In the second talk of the morning session, Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, differentiates between eco-anxiety, and solastalgia. She speaks...
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Heather McTeer Toney: Social and Environmental Justice (Part 1 of 4) from 2021-11-22T12:00:31
The first talk of the Social&Environmental Justice day long at Upaya, ‘recovering politician’ Heather Mcteer Toney, points to the critical role of identity in climate solutions. Because of this nat...
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John Dunne: Self Compassion& Going Forth from 2021-11-15T12:00:41
Self-hate is a particularly modern, western phenomenon. Buddhist literature up until the 21st century lacks any notion of self-compassion. Why is that? Compassion garners a large role with the adve...
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Richard C. Schwartz: Compassion for All Outer Beings is Difficult Without Compassion for All Inner Beings from 2021-11-08T12:00:51
In this Wednesday night Dharma Talk, Dr. Richard Schwartz starts us off by orienting the audience with the fundamentals of Internal Family Systems. He further expands, by suggesting that we can onl...
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Stephanie Kaza: Planting Life, Growing Justice (Part 4 of 4) from 2021-11-08T02:00:03
Here, Stephanie Kaza braids all the previous talks to present a conceptual lens in showcasing how farming, gardening, and ecology are fundamentally issues of justice. What is the role of an awakene...
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Konda Mason: Planting Life, Growing Justice (Part 3 of 4) from 2021-11-07T14:00:33
In this beautiful and eye-opening presentation, Konda Mason speaks about her work with Jubilee Justice in addressing wealth and inequality because of black land loss. To remedy the exploitation an...
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Wendy Johnson: Planting Life, Growing Justice (Part 2 of 4) from 2021-11-07T04:00:02
Wendy Johnson begins by reminding us of the previous day’s planting of the three sisters in the Upaya garden. The ancient sisters of squash, beans, and corn. In such difficult times, gardening as a...
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Roxanne Swentzell: Planting Life, Growing Justice (Part 1 of 4) from 2021-11-06T20:15:09
In the first talk of the day, renowned artist, sculptress, and Tewa leader, Roxanne Swentzell, speaks to the incredible journey of re-establishing the pre-European Tewa diet. Through the process of...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: Blue Cliff Record, Case 80 – A Newborn Baby from 2021-11-01T11:00:47
‘First, we braid grasses and play tug of war;
then we take turns singing and keeping a kickball in the air.
I kick the ball and they sing, they kick and I sing,
time i...
Kathie Fischer: Vimalakirti’s Silence from 2021-10-25T11:00:14
Sensei Kathie Fischer explores the core tenets of Mahayana Buddhism, inviting us into deeper dialogue regarding the principles of non-duality, form, emptiness, and self. She brings us into the dept...
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Wendy Johnson: Awakening from the Illusion of Separateness from 2021-10-18T11:00:14
Wendy Johnson discusses the Vimalakirti sutra and connects this text and its teachings with the living teacher Thích Nh?t H?nh. She explains that Vimalakirti is a wounded healer boddhisatva, “dange...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Gifts of the Saha World from 2021-10-18T04:30:32
Monshin Nannette Overley weaves together the talks we’ve heard during the Fall Practice Period on emptiness and compassion, while exploring the difference between sentimental compassion and true co...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Vimalakirti Chapter 5: Bondage and Liberation from 2021-10-17T22:01:08
Matthew Kozan Palevsky delves into Chapter 5 of the Vimalakirti sutra. He begins by reminding us how sickness can open up the possibility for connection and healing, saying “In illness we ca...
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Reigetsu Susan Moon: Encouragements of the Goddess from 2021-10-11T11:00:16
Reigetsu Susan Moon reviews chapter 7 of Vimalakirti, The Goddess. She shares the story of the Goddess and Shariputra and illuminates insights from the sutra involving non-duality, opposites being ...
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Robert Thurman: The Bodhisattva Way of Vimalakirti from 2021-10-04T11:00:14
Robert Thurman reads from his translation of The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti, summarizing this sutra as a text of discovering inconceivable liberation through direct realization of the interconne...
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Shinzan Palma: The Great Way of a Bodhisattva from 2021-09-27T11:00:57
Sensei Shinzan Palma speaks to us of the importance of practice to wake up. He teaches us that whether we are monastic or lay practitioners, the dharma is available to us in every aspect of our liv...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow & Reigetsu Susan Moon: The Wisdom of Zen Crones from 2021-09-20T22:25:41
Zenshin Florence Caplow and Reigetsu Sue Moon offer us the wisdom of Zen Crones through storytelling and reference of their collaboration The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awak...
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Heather McTeer Toney: Environmental Injustice: Understanding the Cost of Inaction from 2021-09-13T11:00:04
Heather McTeer Toney speaks on recovery from climate disasters as a pathway to building resilient communities. She reminds us that people of color know this pathway well and have been engaged in th...
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Ven. Dr. Pannavati: Equanimity is Established Upon Boundless Generosity from 2021-09-07T17:50:08
In this classic Dharma Talk with Venerable Pannavati Bikkhuni from the Heartwood Refuge in North Carolina, we are reminded of the deep interconnectedness of generosity and gratitude, and ultimately...
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Frank Ostaseski: Coming Home to the Body from 2021-08-30T11:00:28
Frank Ostaseski invites us back into the body to experience the fullness of life, in order to lean into the mystery of life and death. He invites us to look at life and death through the lens of th...
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Jisho Sara Siebert: Living Buddhist Practice in Social Change from 2021-08-23T20:35:24
Sensei Sara Jisho Siebert shares her journey as a Zen practitioner and the ways she has learned from the experiences in her life to stay with the unpleasant feelings and suffering that can arise in...
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William DeBuys: A Report from (and about) The Trail to Kanjiroba from 2021-08-16T11:00:28
William deBuys writes about his 2016 and 2018 medical expeditions in Upper Dolpo while participating in the Nomad’s Clinic through Upaya. He shares three excerpts from the soon-to-be-released book ...
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Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: The Shamanic Bones of Zen from 2021-08-10T02:53:55
Osho Zenju Earthlyn Manuel and Roshi Joan Halifax engage in a dialogue to discuss the shamanic practice that is zen.
She invites us into seeing za zen as a daily ceremony, a ceremonial el...
Rhonda V. Magee: Beginning Again: The Four Establishments of Mindfulness as Antidote to Identity-Based Suffering from 2021-08-02T11:00:19
In this wholly contemporary talk that is also deeply rooted in the Buddhist contemplative tradition, Rhonda Magee brings us into the classic practice of Satipatthana – mindfulness of body, fe...
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Enkyo O'Hara: What’s time got to do with it? from 2021-07-26T11:00:03
In her timely talk, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara invites us to sing along with Tina Turner, “What’s Time Got To Do With It?” and explores the process of overwhelm overwhelming overwhelm in Dogen’s fasc...
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Norman Fischer: When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen from 2021-07-19T11:00:18
When you Greet Me I Bow, Roshi Norman Fischer’s latest book came about differently from his past writing endeavors. For Norman, and his editor, the past four decades of writing can be condensed int...
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Rhonda V. Magee & Kritee Kanko: Deconstructing Race, Liberating the Racist Mind: Practice-Based Insights from Contemplating the Elements from 2021-07-12T11:00:54
Rhonda Myozan V Magee leads us in the inquiry of how the racist mind takes seed in all of us. She reminds us that we need to turn towards the legacy of racism and colonization in order to face the ...
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Stephanie Kaza: What is Moral Injury? from 2021-07-05T11:00:36
In today’s talk Stephanie Kaza explores moral injury: We can be morally injured by the damage done to the environment. The moral injury leaves us feeling ashamed, guilty, and helpless, and ‘…...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Jubilee: Exploring Radical Freedom from 2021-06-29T11:50:30
Hoshi Kozan Palevsky asks us: What has this pandemic given you and what has it allowed you to let go of? He asks us to look at this upheaval through the lens of a Jubilee, the Biblical practice of ...
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Wendy Johnson: Planting Life, Growing Justice from 2021-06-23T22:00:01
Episode Description: Sensei Wendy Johnson begins by reminding us of the previous day’s planting of the Three Sisters in the Upaya garden. The ancient sisters of squash, beans, and corn. In such dif...
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Fushin James Bristol: The Poetry of Awareness on an Ordinary Day from 2021-06-21T11:00:29
In The Poetry of Awareness on an Ordinary Day, Fushin James Bristol explores the profound practice of awareness in our day to day life–“…doing what I’m supposed to be doing...
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Wendy Johnson: Elemental Zen Gardening in Challenging Times from 2021-06-07T11:00:26
Episode Description: Sensei Wendy Johnson begins her talk by drawing our attention to the many challenges confronting us today: the extreme climate swings around the world, the death and despair fr...
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Breeshia Wade: The Cost of Losing Privilege: Addressing Grief and Fear of Loss from 2021-05-31T17:40:08
In this powerful talk, Breeshia Wade, author of the recently released Grieving While Black, explores how the underlying truth of impermanence relates to states of grief and loss, and that if we wis...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Dogen Sesshin: Using The Sky To Stand Up from 2021-05-24T11:00:57
As a prelude to the resident sesshin on Dogen which started later that night, Matthew Kozan Palevsky delves into Dogen’s language of suchness, and how we can “micro-dose” moments of med...
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Evan Thompson: Enacting Hope from 2021-05-17T11:00:05
Episode Description: In his talk on Enacting Hope, the philosopher Evan Thompson reviews Gabriel Marcel’s view on Hope through his differentiation between a conditioned, and an unconditioned hope. ...
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Larry Ward: Embracing and Healing America’s Racial Karma from 2021-05-10T11:00:55
Episode Description: In this Wednesday night, and SEBT Dharma Talk, Dr. Larry Ward speaks on sorrow and grief. Trauma, Dr. Ward points out, is a normal human occurrence rooted in the biology of th...
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Lama Rod Owens: The Path of Grief, Justice, and Liberation from 2021-05-03T11:00:28
In this Wednesday night Dharma Talk, Lama Rod Owens speaks on the importance of recognizing and being intimate with one’s own grief. This is how we can bloom to be lotuses, and serve others. Nevert...
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Kathie Fischer: SESSHIN: The Perfection of Wisdom & Dedication (Part 6 of 6) from 2021-05-01T21:40:34
In the final Dharma Talk of the Spring Practice Period, and Sesshin, Sensei Kathie Fischer speaks on the last two chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara: Wisdom and Dedication. Sensei brings up notions o...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter & Matthew Kozan Palevsky: SESSHIN: The Perfection of Wisdom (Part 5) from 2021-04-30T17:20:53
On this day 5 of the Spring Sesshin, Hoshi’s Kigaku Noah Rossetter and Matthew Kozan Palevsky tag team to speak on Prajna Paramita, or the Perfection of Wisdom in the Bodhicaryavatara. Kigaku does...
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Kigaku Noah Roen & Matthew Kozan Palevsky: SESSHIN: The Perfection of Wisdom (Part 5) from 2021-04-30T17:20:53
On this day 5 of the Spring Sesshin, Hoshi’s Kigaku Noah Rossetter and Matthew Kozan Palevsky tag team to speak on Prajna Paramita, or the Perfection of Wisdom in the Bodhicaryavatara. Kigaku does...
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Zenshin Florence Caplow: SESSHIN: On Shantideva’s the Perfection of Meditation (Part 4) from 2021-04-26T11:00:56
In this dharma talk, Zenshin Florence Caplow highlights the value and depth found with lay practice. She points to Shantideva’s sparse attention given to meditation in his chapter, The Perfection ...
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Al Kaszniak: SESSHIN: The Perfection of Meditation (Part 3) from 2021-04-23T19:46:52
On day three of the Spring 2021 sesshin, Sensei Al Kaszniak presents his views on chapter 8 of the Bodhicaryavatara, the Perfection of Meditation. He brings in parallels from Dogen’s Fukanzazengi, ...
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Irène Kaigetsu Bakker: SESSHIN: Finding Wholesome Joy (Part 2) from 2021-04-22T17:02:26
In this Dharma Talk, Sensei Irene Kaigetsu Bakker explores chapter 7 of the Bodhicaryavatara, the Perfection of Zeal. She tracks Shantideva’s progression from a fear-based warning against unwholeso...
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Shinzan Palma: SESSHIN: Patience (Part 1) from 2021-04-21T21:25:55
In this day one Sesshin Dharma Talk, Sensei Jose Shinzan De Palma speaks on Chapter 6 of the Bodhicaryavatara, The Perfection of Patience. He points out how Shantideva doesn’t directly speak about ...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Shantideva Ch 5: Guarding the Mind from its Most Subtle and Ubiquitous Thief from 2021-04-19T11:00:33
In this Dharma talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky looks at Chapter 5 of the Bodhicaryavatara through a contemporary problematic. Shantideva warns and implore’s us to maintain the mind’s awareness f...
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John Dunne: Guarding Meta-Awareness from 2021-04-16T13:00:46
Episode Description: In this Dharma Talk on Chapter 5 of the Bodhicaryavatara, John Dunne suggests the guarding of meta-awareness, better aptly describes the practice Shantideva recommends. A non-d...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Attending to the Spirit of Service from 2021-04-15T15:00:27
In this Dharma Talk, Monshin Nannette Overley speaks on Chapter 4 of the Bodhicaryavatavara, Attending to the Spirit of Awakening. Specifically, on the necessity of attentiveness in peacemaking for...
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Kathie Fischer: Adopting the Spirit of Awakening from 2021-04-12T11:00:58
In this beautiful Dharma talk on chapter 3 of the Bodhicaryavatara, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer speaks on longing and heartbreak as the opening for connection, for the spirit of awakening.
Enkyo O'Hara: The Healing Power of Atonement from 2021-04-11T15:00:50
Episode Description: Going over the second chapter, The Confession of Sin, of the Bodhicaryvatara, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara looks at the importance and function of confession for the service of all...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Raising the Bodhi Mind from 2021-04-10T17:21:02
For this Zazenkai Dharma talk, Kigaku Noah Rossetter speaks on chapter 1 of the Bodhicaryavatara, The Benefit of the Spirit of Awakening. What exactly is Bodhicitta? Why is it important? How do we ...
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Kigaku Noah Roen: Raising the Bodhi Mind from 2021-04-10T17:21:02
For this Zazenkai Dharma talk, Kigaku Noah Rossetter speaks on chapter 1 of the Bodhicaryavatara, The Benefit of the Spirit of Awakening. What exactly is Bodhicitta? Why is it important? How do we ...
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Shinzan Palma: The Great Way of the Bodhisattva from 2021-04-08T14:30:59
In this introduction to the 2021 Upaya Spring Practice Period: The Way of the Bodhisattva, Sensei Shinzan Palma walks us through the A, B, Cs of the what, how and whys of the Bodhisattva ideal, att...
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Joan Halifax: The Great Gift of Bodhicitta in Our Time: Shantideva’s Courageous Vision from 2021-04-05T11:00:58
Episode Description: In this introduction to Shantideva and his text, the Bodhicharyavatara, Roshi Joan Halifax speaks about Shantideva’s history and thematically reviews each chapter of the ...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Stonecatchers: Tenderness on the Path of Social Engagement from 2021-03-29T11:00:02
In this Wednesday night Dharma Talk Monshin Nannette Overley speaks of the ‘Stonecatcher’ Bodhisattva. A story of a woman spoken about in Bryan Stevenson’s book, ‘Just Mercy’, who lost her grandchi...
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Anthony Back & Cynda Hylton Rushton: Lessons from the Frontlines of Healthcare: What COVID has Taught Us from 2021-03-22T11:00
In this Dharma Talk, Cynda and Tony speak to their personal experience as healthcare workers during the COVID pandemic. Dr. Anthony Back mentions the reckoning which the pandemic has brought, and h...
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John Paul Lederach: Teacher Spider and the Golden Thread from 2021-03-15T11:00:48
In this Dharma Talk, accomplished peace negotiator and mediator John Paul Lederach shares his haiku on spiders to highlight some of the most important principles in peacebuilding.
Michael R. Sheehy: What is Enlightenment? (Part 5 of 5) from 2021-03-13T18:45
Episode Description: In this second afternoon talk on, What is Enlightenment, Michael Sheehy, draws on the work of the 14th century Tibetan scholar Longchenpa, from his ‘The Trilogy of Rest, Volume...
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John Dunne: What is Enlightenment? (Part 4) from 2021-03-08T12:00:19
Episode Description: In this dharma talk, John Dunne speaks about non-dual awareness, Bodhi the Sanskrit term, and what it might mean. In particular, he turns to a special instruction used to adjus...
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Adam Frank: Koans as Questions, Koans as Test: One Scientist’s Personal Perspective from 2021-03-01T12:00:22
In this dharma talk, astrophysicist Adam Frank speaks to us about his life-braiding zen and science. In particular, how ‘Koans aren’t magic, but when they are, they’re SUCH magic!’
Senator Tom Udall: Socially Engaged Buddhism: The Path of Public Service from 2021-02-22T12:00:17
In this Wednesday night Dharma Talk, Senator Tom Udall speaks about his last two decades in Congress. The support his meditation practice has provided him and about his values, aims, and goals in p...
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Anne Klein: What is Enlightenment? (Part 3) from 2021-02-20T19:00:28
Episode Description: In this talk on ‘What is Enlightenment’, Anne Klein speaks to the importance of not fetishizing awakening and rooting it in our daily lives. The awakened mind is capacious enou...
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Enkyo O'Hara: What is Enlightenment? (Part 2) from 2021-02-17T20:00:03
Episode Description: In this second-morning session, Enkyo O’Hara Roshi looks at the Buddha’s words upon his enlightenment and the understanding of the simultaneous awakening of all things.
Evan Thompson: What is Enlightenment? (Part 1) from 2021-02-16T22:00:59
Series Description: No idea is as ubiquitous across Buddhist traditions as the possibility of enlightenment. To be a buddha is to have awakened or be enlightened. Yet there is little consensus abou...
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Natalie Goldberg: The Wonder of Chocolate from 2021-02-15T12:00:36
In this Dharma Talk, Natalie Goldberg speaks to the incredible power small acts of kindness can have on individual lives. She speaks to the story of Jimmy Lai and the act which catalyzed his life. ...
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Wendy Johnson: SESSHIN: Case 6: The Buddha Twirls a Flower (Part 6 of 6) from 2021-02-14T17:00:45
Episode Description: On the last sesshin dharma talk of the Gateless Gate, Winter Practice Period, Sensei Wendy Johnson chooses Case 6 of the Mumonkan, Twirling the Flower. ‘Our practice is to see ...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: SESSHIN: Case 32: The Buddha Responds to an Outsider (Part 4) from 2021-02-12T22:30:44
On the fourth day of the Gateless Gate sesshin, Monshin Nannette Overley speaks about Case 32 of the Mumonkan, The Buddha Responds to an Outsider. “The moment of slipping is the moment of lea...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: SESSHIN: Case 24: Leaving Words and Silence Behind (Part 3) from 2021-02-11T18:00:01
In this Dharma Talk and the third full day of sesshin, Hoshi Kigaku Rossetter speaks about Case 24, Leaving Words and Silence Behind. Today, the koan tradition exists because of Fuketsu, the protag...
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Enkyo O'Hara: SESSHIN: Case 38, Genso’s Ox (Part 2) from 2021-02-09T13:00:07
Episode Description: In this Dharma Talk, Enkyo Roshi speaks to case 38 of the Mumonkan, ‘Wu-tsu’s Buffalo Passes through the Window’. Roshi speaks about the koan’s ability to open the heart, and b...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Skillful Means Without Ends: A Radical View of Socially Engaged Buddhism from 2021-02-08T12:00:41
In this Wednesday night Dharma Talk, Hoshi Kozan Palevsky delves both into his personal history in civic engagement and the broader history around Buddhist leaders engaging with their communities. ...
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Joan Halifax: SESSHIN: Case 5, Kyogen’s Man in a Tree (Part 1) from 2021-02-07T23:00:22
Series Description: The Gateless Gate January, Winter Practice Period is capped off with this 6 day sesshin. Everyday a case from the Mumonkan is selected and presented by one of the Practice Perio...
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Irène Kaigetsu Bakker: Ryutan Blows Out the Candle from 2021-02-06T13:20:48
In this week’s Dharma Talk, as part of the Winter Practice Period, Sensei Kaigetsu looks at case 28 of the Mumonkan, Ryutan Blows Out the Candle. Throughout the talk, Sensei Kaigetsu engages us in ...
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Natalie Goldberg: The Way of Wild Mind from 2021-02-05T22:05:24
In this Zazenkai Dharma Talk, Natalie Goldberg speaks to case 3 of the Mumonkan, Chüh-chih Raises One Finger. ‘Zen corrects the habit of mind that ‘freezes’ the ‘eureka’ moment…when answering a koa...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: This Very Mind is Buddha from 2021-02-01T12:00:08
In this week’s Dharma Talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky continues the Practice Period theme of Koan practice by looking at case 30, This Very Mind is Buddha. What does Mao-tsu mean when he says he...
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Wendy Johnson: The Oak at the Gateless Gate from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this inspiring Winter Practice Period Dharma talk, Wendy Johnson uses the koan of the Oak in the Courtyard as a threshold to bring us into the ‘the root system of the great heart, of the great m...
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Wendy Johnson & Matthew Kozan Palevsky & Kigaku Noah Rossetter & Joan Halifax: Winter Practice Period 2021 INTRO: Passing through the Gateless Gate from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Series Description: Practice Period (Ango or “peaceful dwelling”) is a traditional intensive training period common to most schools of Buddhism. Ango traces its history to the time of Shakyamuni Bu...
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Kaz Tanahashi & Enkyo O'Hara & Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 12 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this last Rohatsu Teisho, Sensei Kaz speaks about ‘home-stretch’ mindfulness, it’s joy, and the value of these remaining moments of silence; Roshi Enkyo speaks to the parabl...
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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 11 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this Rohatsu Teisho Roshi Enkyo speaks on Wisdom Beyond Wisdom and Bodhisattva Action.
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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 10 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this Teisho Sensei Kaz gives us 10 points or reminders to assist our practice.
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Wendy Johnson & Joan Halifax: A Koan for these Strange Times from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this week’s Dharma talk Roshi Joan Halifax and Sensei Wendy Johnson set the stage for the Winter Practice Period, the Gateless Gate, by looking at the role and importance of...
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Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 9 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this Teisho, Roshi Joan speaks to the intimacy of not knowing, and it’s capacity to use all circumstances to ‘make music.’
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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 8 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this Teisho Sensei Kaz gives tips on how to deal with overly gripping emotions and explores the notion of the ‘self’ in relation to Wisdom Beyond Wisdom.
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Everything is Fresh and New from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this last dharma talk of the year, Hoshi Kigaku Noah Rossetter reflects on his gratitude for the lessons of the pandemic, commitments to the coming year, and then turns toward a discussion of no...
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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 7 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this Rohatsu Teisho Roshi Enkyo speaks on Dogen’s Time – Being in relation to Wisdom Beyond Wisdom.
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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 6 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this dharma talk Sensei Kaz speaks on the heart in relation to wisdom beyond wisdom.
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Natalie Goldberg: Writing Practice: The Way of Wild Mind from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week’s Dharma talk, Natalie Goldberg speaks intimately to us about the passing of a close friend, and shares the insights of great Haiku masters by reading from her new book on Haikus.
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Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 5 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this second full day of Rohatsu, Roshi Joan begins her Teisho with an inquiry. What are we learning from this pandemic, how can we be upright in the face of it all, what are...
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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 4 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this second full day of Rohatsu, Sensei Kaz speaks about Wisdom Beyond Wisdom in our minds and its inseparability from our bodies.
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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 3 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this first full day of Rohatsu, Roshi Enkyo’s teisho speaks on how ‘Not-knowing’ is prajnaparamita, compassionate wisdom, through the dropping of the judging mind, and the o...
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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 2 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this first full day of Rohatsu, Sensei Kaz’s teisho begins with the linguistic origins of Rohatsu, the meaning of Wisdom Beyond Wisdom in our bodies, and how we can ma...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Entire Body in a Speck of Dust from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week’s Dharma talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky speaks on the fifth paramita of meditation. He looks at meditation from the perspective of Homeless Kodo, and inquires as to what he meant b...
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Enkyo O'Hara & Kaz Tanahashi & Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 1 of 12) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Series Description: Rohatsu Sesshin marks the enlightenment of the Buddha. It is a powerful gathering of practitioners and friends who are dedicated to realizing the way. Roshis Joan Halifax, Enkyo...
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John Dunne & Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 9 of 9) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: Roshi Joan and John Dunne reflect on each other’s respective traditions. Specifically, awakening inhabiting every activity, and awakening as Enaction.
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John Dunne & Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 8) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this talk, Roshi Joan guides us with a step-by-step process of the ‘body mudra’, how to minimize one’s defenses in order to expand your subjectivity to include that of...
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Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 6) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In these next two talks, Roshi Joan gives an overview of some of the Zen traditions most important practices: not knowing is most intimate, sacred activity, and Bodhidharma’s l...
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John Dunne: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 5) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this eye-opening presentation of verses 10 and 11, by John Dunne, an experiential exercise gets to the root of the nature of confusion and Buddha-nature.
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John Dunne: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 4) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In this session, John reviews the stages of practice: view, meditation, and conduct, with a reading of verses 7 & 8.
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Konda Mason: Who are we really? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week’s Dharma Talk, Konda Mason walks us through her journey reconciling the paradoxical doctrine of the Two Buddhist Truths. Her very real, relative reality as a black woman, and simultane...
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John Dunne: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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John Dunne & Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Episode Description: In John’s first session from Day 2, he begins to unpack and review line by line (1-7), the foundational 13th-century text, The Mind of Mahamudra: Advice from the Kagyu Masters ...
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John Dunne & Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World Introduction (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Series Description: For nondual Buddhist traditions, one who knows the primordial nature of the mind also knows the nature of all things, and that experiential insight is the manifestation of one’s...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Life in the Balance: Practice, Study, Community, Livelihood & Service from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
On the day before Thanksgiving, Kigaku Noah Rossetter begins this talk with a recollection of atonement as well as gratitude. He then invokes Dogen’s Continuous Practice as the deepest expres...
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Mark Donatelli: Prison Cruelty and Capital Punishment – A Messy Message of Hope from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this week’s moving Dharma Talk, the attorney at law Mark Donatelli talks about what got him into the criminal justice field, his practice to keep him going, the current state of the criminal jus...
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John Dunne: On Uncertainty from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this episode, John Dunne talks to us about how certainty from a non-dual perspective can potentially be an obstacle. Cognitively, the brain functions to predict as a means to alleviate confusio...
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Joan Halifax: Practicing Radical Uncertainty in a World of Turmoil – Upaya Election Series (Talk #5 of 5) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this last episode of Upaya’s Election Series. Roshi Joan Halifax initiates an inquiry into uncertainty during difficult times. The election is over, the President-Elect is Joe Biden, yet so many...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Vow We Make When Nobody is Listening from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this hybrid Zazenkai/Ease and Joy in the Morning’s Dharma talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky returns us back to our practice by reading from Dogen’s Fukanzazengi. A day after 7 residents took Ju...
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Eve Myonen Marko: Don’t Win Too Quickly from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two years after Roshi Bernie Glassman’s passing and the day after the Presidential Election, Roshi Eve Myonen Marko explores the need to accept the ‘not knowing mind’. To accept the limited, libera...
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Lama Rod Owens: Love, Fear, and Resilience as the World Falls Apart – Upaya Election Series (Talk #4) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Resilience is about intentionally remembering. Remembering that there is love, space, and compassion. That there are so many of us doing important work on behalf of all of us.” – Lama Rod Ow...
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Sharon Salzberg: Real Change – Upaya Election Series (Talk #3) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Election Series Talk, Sharon Salzberg talks about having a sense of agency and committing to taking a step even if it doesn’t seem like much. She also talks about moving from grief to resil...
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Shinzan Palma: The Zen Collective from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Dharma Talk, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, speaks to the importance of Sangha in cultivating a spiritual practice. Zen awakening is realized within the domain of our relationships.
Rhonda V. Magee: The Dharma of Good Trouble – Upaya Election Series (Talk #2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Election Series Talk, Rhonda V. Magee, Professor of Law and Mindfulness Teacher, asks us to reflect on how our spiritual practice can support us at this moment so we can engage in the world...
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Carol Moldaw: Poetry Series: Carol Moldaw from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the Upaya Poetry Series, Carol Moldaw reads from recent and older work. In the work, she examines her personal lineage coming from her mother and father, as well as its meeting point with her li...
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Reggie Hubbard: Joyful Defiance in the Call to Courageous Action – Upaya Election Series (Talk #1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Reggie Hubbard brings together his background in yoga and political activism to address the relevant issues regarding the national election in November of this year.
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Shinzan Palma: Mazu’s Heart Sutra – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (7 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the last talk of Fall Practice Period SESSHIN, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma talks about showing up and building the bridge between our practice on the cushion and our practice in the world. He also...
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Kathie Fischer: The Heart Sutra: There’s No Place Like Home – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (6 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Fall Practice Period Sesshin talk, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer talks about the nature and texture of our sensory realms. Sensei Kathie Fischer also looks at the Koan “Zhaozhou and the Monk...
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Stephen Batchelor: The Ethics of Uncertainty – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (5 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Fall Practice Period SESSHIN talk, Stephen Batchelor talks about the ethics of uncertainty. He looks at how the silence of Gautama invites us to stay with questions instead of reaching for ...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Heart of Patience – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (4 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Fall Practice Period Sesshin talk, Matthew Kozan Palevsky explores the often overlooked paramita of patience. Kozan reads poetry from Louise Glück, uses teachings from Shantideva’s “A...
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Monshin Nannette Overley: Embody Profound Serenity – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (3 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“Samsara is the world confused by our grasping. Without grasping samsara and nirvana are the same.” – Monshin Nannette Overley
In this Fall Practice Period SESSHIN talk, Monshin Nannett...
Jane Steinberg: Continuous Practice – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (2 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Fall Practice Period SESSHIN talk, local Upaya Sangha member Jane Steinberg talks about continuous practice, the circle of the way, the road of our great Buddhist ancestors, and the state o...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: The Heart of Practice – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (1 of 7) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Fall Practice Period SESSHIN talk, Kigaku Noah Rossetter talks about the heart of practice. He focuses on the practice of letting go of concepts and the importance of resetting in practice ...
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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Fall Practice Period: The Heart of Freedom from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this Dharma talk, Matthew Kozan Palevsky talks about noticing our habit of fear and the different ways fear manifests in our lives. He also looks at the relationship between the fear erected wal...
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Norman Fischer: Fall Practice Period: Full Inclusion in the Heart and Lotus Sutra from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“The Buddha way is about radical freedom in this world and radical love in this world which is so resistant to freedom and love. To hold on to a fixed truth is to limit this love in this world and ...
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Enkyo O'Hara: Fall Practice Period: The Heart Sutra’s Protection from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the midst of this suffering world, Roshi Enkyo talks about how we can find protection in the Heart Sutra. The teaching of Prajna – experiencing our world before knowing; before “other” and...
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Kathie Fischer: Baizhang’s Fox from 2021-01-30T12:45:32
In this Dharma talk, Sensei Kathie Fischer speaks to case #2 of the Mumonkan, Baizhang’s Fox, the importance of showing up, and the strength of living by vow. “Showing up wholly, not dismissi...
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Norman Fischer: Everyday Mind is the Way from 2021-01-25T12:00:02
In this Wednesday evening Dharma Talk, Roshi Norman Fischer speaks on case # 19, Ordinary Mind is the Tao. He dedicates the talk to the passing of his teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi and speaks to...
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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Life in the Balance: Practice, Study, Community, Livelihood & Service from 2020-11-30T13:00:48
On the day before Thanksgiving, Kigaku Noah Rossetter begins this talk with a recollection of atonement as well as gratitude. He then invokes Dogen’s Continuous Practice as the deepest expres...
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Mark Donatelli: Prison Cruelty and Capital Punishment – A Messy Message of Hope from 2020-11-23T13:00:17
In this week’s moving Dharma Talk, the attorney at law Mark Donatelli talks about what got him into the criminal justice field, his practice to keep him going, the current state of the criminal jus...
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Joan Halifax: Practicing Radical Uncertainty in a World of Turmoil – Upaya Election Series (Talk #5 of 5) from 2020-11-14T17:45:42
In this last episode of Upaya’s Election Series. Roshi Joan Halifax initiates an inquiry into uncertainty during difficult times. The election is over, the President-Elect is Joe Biden, yet so many...
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