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San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

San Francisco Zen Center

Dharma Talks given at San Francisco Zen Center

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00:35:44

Calling the Earth to Witness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/27

04/27/2025, Myoju Erin Merk, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Myoju Erin Merk reflects on the yogic power of simplicity in Zen practice, emphasizing how grounding ourselves in the present moment can restore steadiness and wholeness amid overwhelm.

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00:41:44

Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/26

04/26/2025, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Miglioli explores the vertical and horizontal dimensions of practice. Understanding this balance between depth and breadth, between going deep and going wide, is key. In today's world, we often lean too far toward one at the expense of the other.

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00:40:39

Keizan's Pure Land Right Here

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/24

04/23/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin uses Keizan Zenji’s teachings to explore the questions: What is intentional service? And, how does this help very different people build an environment of wholeness and trust?

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00:28:24

Like Spring Arising In Everything

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/17

04/16/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo David Haye reflects on the upcoming lay ordination ceremony at Beginner's Mind Temple, and talks about how a teacher sees a student: both how they are right now, and the potential of who they will become through practice.

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00:47:26

Freedom from Spring and Autumn

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/13

04/13/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on comments from Suzuki Roshi’s talks on Case #36 of the Blue Cliff Record, exploring lines like “Buddhists resign from the world of suffering in order to live in the world of perpetual joy” and “human beings prefer the unreal to the real.”

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00:28:31

Wisdom Stories of Tibet

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/12

04/12/2025, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at City Center. Ryuko Laura Burges, a lay entrusted teacher, talks about the timeless power of story and shares her recent book, Wisdom Stories of Tibet: Tales of Magic, Adventure, and Bravery.

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01:09:11

Like a Fool, Like an Idiot

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/06

04/06/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Kokyo Henkel concludes sesshin and a 6-week study of Zen Ancestor Dongshan's "Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi.”

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00:39:21

Buddha’s Birthday: I Am the World-Honored One

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/05

04/05/3035, Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman marks Buddha’s birthday by recounting the story of Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth over 2500 years ago while exploring the meaning of some of the more fantastical details.

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00:32:40

The Art of Just This

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/04/03

04/02/2025, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center.So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson examines the rich intersection between Zen practice and artistic expression—not as a pursuit of perfection, but as a way to return to our true nature.

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00:38:30

The End of the World

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/30

03/30/2025, Fu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Senior Dharma Teacher Fu Schroeder uses one of the Jataka Tales to illustrate the Mind Only teachings of the Yogacara tradition—one of the two major schools underlying what came to be called Zen.

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00:40:54

Nothing in the Entire Universe Is Hidden

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/29

03/29/2025, Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center. Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel explores how the spirit of Dogen’s “Tenzo Kyokun” extends beyond sesshin, inviting us to discover how zazen mind manifests in our homes and workplaces.

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00:34:00

Be a Caretaker

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/28

03/28/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel explores the idea of a ‘caretaker’ as it relates to the Parental Mind that Dogen encourages in his Tenzo Kyokun text.

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00:38:25

The Dharma Between the Stimulus and the Response

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/23

03/23/2025, Gil Fronsdal, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gil Fronsdal explores the profound importance of pausing between stimulus and response.

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00:41:53

What is the Shape of My Mind?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/22

03/22/2025, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at City Center. Onryu Mary Stares speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji’s text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

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00:30:24

Rolling Up Your Sleeves

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/20

03/19/2025, Judith Keenan, dharma talk at City Center. Judith Keenan explores the relationship between temple kitchen work and other types of work practice, and presents a short video interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman.

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00:58:10

You Are Not It, In Truth It Is You

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/16

03/16/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Stories of our Chinese Zen Ancestor Dongshan, and his poem about nonduality: our life is like facing a jewel mirror - form and reflection behold each other. Both our sense of subjectivity and sense of objectivity are merely changing reflections on the unchanging mirror of buddha-nature.

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00:39:03

We Are Always Cooking

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/15

03/15/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord looks at Zen kitchen practice and work practice generally, connecting to the joy of activity, learning to care and venerate all things, and how to have a broad vast mind for holding what arises.

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00:45:30

Here is the Mystic Peak

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/09

03/09/2025, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler explores the practice of seeing the present moment, just as it is, as “the mystic peak” of spiritual fulfillment, with reference to Suzuki Roshi’s comments on case #23 of the Blue Cliff Record.

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00:51:26

Dogen in the Western Zen Kitchen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/08

03/08/2025, Zenki Mary Mocine, dharma talk at City Center.Zenki Mary Mocine speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji’s text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

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00:27:39

Dogen’s Kitchen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/06

03/05/2025, Teah Strozer, dharma talk at City Center. Teah Strozer speaks about Eihei Dogen Zenji’s text “Tenzo Kyokun (Instruction to the Cook)” as part of the March 2025 intensive focus on kitchen practice.

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