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00:36:17

Beginner’s Mind: Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Practice...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/11/02

This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by visiting teacher Gaylon Ferguson. During the Fall 2024 Practice Period at Beginner’s Mind Temple, the community is studying Dr. Ferguson’s book “Welcoming Beginner’s Mind: Zen and Tibetan Buddhist Wisdom on Experiencing Our True Nature.” Dr. Ferguson begins by talking about the historical and continuing connection between San Francisco Zen Center and the Shambhala International Buddhist community where he was trained. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and

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00:24:59

Feeding Our Hungry Ghosts

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/31

10/30/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Jisan Tova Green describes the Sejiki Ceremony, in which hungry ghosts are cajoled and offered food, including the sweet dew of the Dharma. She likens this to the experience many of us have when we set out on a spiritual path and describes the first of the Ten Oxherding Pictures, in which a person is walking in nature, seeking, looking a little lost. Something is missing. We all have within us

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00:45:57

Just Stop At Feelings

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/27

10/27/2024, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Senior dharma teacher Furyu Schroeder examines a variety of approaches for working with the difficulties in our life, all of them include bringing our attention to our thoughts and to our feelings.

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00:40:29

The Great Storm

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/26

10/26/2024, Tenku Ruff, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by visiting teacher Tenku Ruff. How can we stay present during this great storm of the present moment?

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00:34:05

Welcoming All

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/24

This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Fall 2024 Practice Period co-leader So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson. This talk centers on the Zen practice of welcoming, rooted in Suzuki Roshi's teachings. We explore how welcoming everything—joy, discomfort, and impermanence—brings us into deeper alignment with the present moment. Through the metaphor "The body is the temple, and awareness is the host," we uncover how zazen allows us to meet life with openness, breaking down the boundaries between

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00:45:06

Heroic Bodhisattva Goes To Practice Period

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/20

10/20/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Linda explores how the mind of a Bodhisattva is able to meet the challenges of our lives, and celebrates the traditional forms of Practice Period, that help us to be able to fully express an “appropriate response” to our world.

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00:23:45

Wu-tsu's Buffalo Passes Through the Window

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/19

10/19/2024, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple’s October one-day sitting, held at Unity Church, by Tanto (head of practice) Gengyoko Tim Wicks. Using this famous koan (Zen teaching story) Tim discusses the connection that our pasts have with the present and how it is that we practice with our difficulties.

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00:36:19

You Are Zen Center

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/13

10/13/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. This dharma talk was given at Green Gulch Farm by San Francisco Zen Center president Sozan Michael McCord. While we honor and treasure the memories, lessons and times with people who we knew in the past, it is that very memory of how temporary this life is — that everything is changing — which helps us treasure those we have in our lives today. This also serves as scaffolding to do the work of being here now, in this moment. It

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00:47:26

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/12

10/12/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman. In Case 36 of the ‘Gateless Gate’ (Mumonkan), Zen teacher Wuzu poses a question to his students: “Meeting a person of the Way, not using words or silence, how will you greet them?” Abbot David explores this koan, weaving throughout an account of his recent travels to meet various ‘persons of the Way’ as well as reflections on intimacy in Zen

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00:30:36

Words, Bridges, and the Buddha

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/10

10/09/2024, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson. Words are powerful, but they can also lead us astray—especially when teachings cross cultures and languages. In this talk, we’ll explore how mistranslations and misunderstandings of Buddhist concepts shape our practice and how we can move beyond intellectualization to a deeper, more direct experience of the Dharma.

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00:35:42

Use Your Gift-Bestowing Hands

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/06

10/06/2024, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, from Green Gulch Farm by Gyokuden Steph Blank, Steph reflects on practice in the temple and in the marketplace with an abiding love for both environments.

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00:35:27

Zen Practices for Anger

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/05

10/05/2024, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Shosan Victoria Austin. When we are challenged by anger, it's easy to react and difficult to respond. How might Zen practices of giving, tolerance and enthusiasm help us let go of relational barriers, transforming them into gateways to increased intimacy? In times of conflict and unwanted change, what tools might the tradition offer to refresh our deeper intention? What do we need

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00:36:09

Acknowledging Karma and Taking Refuge in Buddha

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/10/03

10/02/2024, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at City Center. Our narratives and our histories shape our conditioned being. Acknowledging this conditioning, we take Refuge in Buddha, the innate capacity to awaken. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Ryushin investigates how our stories and narratives influence our experience of the world. By examining the truth of our lives, we can recognize that our experience is just one, subjective version of reality. After briefly getting the community

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00:29:59

Taking Refuge

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/29

This talk was given at Green Gulch Farm by Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道. The talk is an exploration of taking refuge in our true nature as we navigate the seasons of life.

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00:40:08

Moving Towards Right Speech

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/28

This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Onryu Mary Stares. In this talk Onryu Mary Stares discusses the five considerations the Buddha lists that allow us to practice Right Speech. These considerations shape our relationship with ourselves and with all beings.

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00:27:26

What Will You Take Care Of?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/26

This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by Hondo Dave Rutschman. One of the most important questions each of us has to work out in our life is deciding what it is we will take care of. In this talk, Dave considers what it might mean to take care of our practice through time—to appreciate all those who have maintained it for us in the past, and to uphold it for future generations. Then he considers what it might mean to practice in a way that completely lets go of past and future.

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00:33:02

The Conventional and Ultimate Meaning of the Precepts

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/22

09/22/2024, Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. This dharma talk was given at Green Gulch Farm by Tanto Thiemo Blank. The talk gives an introduction into the precepts of the Zen lineage as well as Thiemo's personal path in finding meaning in the precepts beyond a seemingly rule-driven moral guideline.

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00:42:17

Clearing the Mind

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/15

09/15/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.In this talk given at Green Gulch Farm, Abiding Abbott Jiryu Rutschman-Byler continues to explore four core elements of zazen practice: low belly, upright spine, clear mind, and wide-open welcoming. He focuses in particular on the practice of "clearing the mind," using teachings of the Buddha and from the Platform Sutra to discuss the dynamic between, on the one hand, welcoming everything including thought, and on the other hand,

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00:29:27

Practicing with a Broken Heart

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/14

09/14/2024, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at City Center. In this dharma talk, given at Beginner’s Mind Temple by tanto (head of practice) Gengyoko Tim Wicks, Tim speaks about working with everything that arises in zazen including grief and difficult emotions, for it is all a part of being awake.

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00:40:06

Dragons, Karma and Unsurpassed Everydayness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/08

09/08/2024, Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. This talk was given at Green Gulch Farm by Gyokuden Steph Blank. In the talk, Gyokuden invokes dragon energies and invites us to awaken together right now; heartbreak welcome, dharma companions manifest, failure being no obstacle to practice. Discussing the role of intention as the determiner of karmic consequences, she encourages us to plunge into the stream of practice and express ourselves fully for the benefit of All Beings… and — TO

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