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00:43:49

Jewel Mirror Samadhi

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/02

03/02/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. An introduction to this ancient Zen poem that is often recited at SF Zen Center and Soto Zen temples around the world. The metaphor of a mirror and its reflections to clarify buddha-nature and the world of experience is offered by the Buddha in various sutras, and by many Zen ancestors as well.

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00:52:13

You’re the Cook

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/03/01

03/01/2025, Edward Brown, dharma talk at City Center. Edward Espe Brown shares teachings from Eihei Dogen’s “Tenzo Kyokun”, and stories from practicing as tenzo (head cook) at Tassajara under the guidance of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

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00:39:35

Renewed Space, Timeless Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/22

02/22/2025, Dōshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center. Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel explores the dharma teachings of the past year-plus of renovation work, community cooperation and trying new forms.

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00:30:51

Mind, Memory and the Fire

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/20

02/19/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith asks “How can we study and engage with memory and mind processes in such a way that it allows for skillful, discerning activity?”

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00:42:25

The Path of Priest Ordination

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/16

02/16/2025, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman explores the nature of the commitment that a priest makes, shares his own journey to ordination, and describes the responsibility that comes with the archetypal role.

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00:44:15

Online Zen Is Real Zen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/08

02/08/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.Doshin Dan Gudgel offers suggestions and principles for providing and engaging in online practice, and celebrates the connection between ‘sacred’ and ‘everyday’ activities in Soto Zen.

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00:41:37

Real Kindness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/02

02/02/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler suggests that to meet the current moment, we might practice a deep-rooted kindness, like the kindness of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, whose imperturbable compassion is born of the study of perfect wisdom.

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00:45:03

Black History Month

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/02/01

02/01/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center.Sozan Michael McCord uses the lens of "The Harmony of Difference and Equality" by Shitou Xiqian, to unpack the relevance of remembrances such as Black History Month and how such events are not in conflict with our ultimate truth, that we are all one interconnected humanity.

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00:36:56

Embracing Our Connectedness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/01/18

01/18/2025, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. This talk by Jisan Tova Green weaves together themes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sermons, teachings of Zen ancestor Eihei Dogen and the late Hozan Alan Senauke, and stories from Tova's life.

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00:30:24

Rice and Big Ideas

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/01/15

01/15/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith examines two koans (Zen teaching stories) from the Blue Cliff Record that have to do with duality, and rice.

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00:44:14

Way-Seeking Mind: Responding to the Cries of the...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/01/11

01/11/2025, Keiryu Liên Shutt, dharma talk at City Center. Keiryu Liên Shutt discusses how the hands and eyes of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, need to be directed towards ourselves, too. Especially in times of crisis.

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00:22:26

Whole-Hearted, Open-Hearted

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/01/09

01/08/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, Shundo reflects on the qualities that practice can imbue us with, which are much needed in the world at this time.

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00:44:20

Renewal

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/01/04

01/04/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin asks: How does Zen training help us find a sense of refreshment in ordinary, simple activities?

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00:43:06

Harmony, Respect, Purity, Tranquillity

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/28

12/28/2024, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center.Sozan Miglioli explores the four fundamental principles of Wa, Kei, Sei, and Jaku—core teachings rooted in Zen and essential to the Way of Tea.

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00:49:36

Solstice: In the Darkness There is Light

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/21

12/21/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. On the occasion of the Winter Solstice, Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman delves into the themes of stillness, rest, liminality, and balance.

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00:29:07

The River of Transmission

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/19

12/18/2024, Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard explores the idea of transmission — how it flows in all directions, how we experience it in our lives, and how Eihei Dogen wrote about it in “Twining Vines.”

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00:35:06

In This Dark Time, Cherish All Beings, Including...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/14

12/14/2024, Zenki Mary Mocine, dharma talk at City Center. Zenki Mary Mocine asks: How should we practice with dis-ease, fear and even anger? Remember your connection with and compassion for all beings, including yourself.

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00:30:18

The Womb of Emptiness and the Paramitas

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/10

12/10/2024, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at Tassajara.

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00:37:43

Everything Is Connected

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/12/07

12/07/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. Jisan Tova Green weaves together several themes in this final talk of the City Center Fall 2024 Practice Period: welcoming beginner's mind and the ten ox-herding pictures, Buddha's enlightenment, and seeing our path of practice as a journey, not unlike Buddha's journey.

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00:48:27

Zen at Work: Using Zen Principles in the Modern Work Day

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/11/30

11/30/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center.Sozan Michael McCord discusses where the concept of work practice came from in the Zen Buddhist tradition and how the principles found in the monastic setting can be used in any modern work context.

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