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00:23:58

A Thief of the Heart

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/07

09/07/2024, James Ishmael Ford, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk was given at Beginner’s Mind Temple’s pop-up zendo at Unity Church on Page Street, by visiting teacher James Ishmael Ford. In the talk, Roshi Ford tells a story from his latest book, “The Intimate Way of Zen: Effort, Surrender, and Awakening on the Spiritual Journey.” In his book James addresses the arc of a spiritual life. He uses the 12th-century Zen verses of Kuoan Shiyuan's Ox Herding Pictures as a scaffolding for an

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00:40:56

The Zen of Participation

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/09/01

09/01/2024, Gil Fronsdal, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. This extemporaneous talk was given at Green Gulch Farm by Gil Fronsdal. In the talk, Gil brings forward the teachings that arose in that moment.

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00:38:14

The Posture of Welcoming

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/31

08/31/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, Abbot Jiryu describes the fundamental Zen practice of "welcoming everything," and emphasizes the posture - grounded belly, upright spine, and clear mind - that we can care for in order to fully embody and actualize that practice.

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00:40:00

Prajna Paramita - A History Of The Feminine In Our...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/31

08/30/2024, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at Tassajara.

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00:37:27

Everyone Comes Out Of This Place

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/30

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Heather Shoren Iarusso. Heather highlights one of the most striking stories about Buddhist women, from the "The Hidden Lamp" collection - Miaozong's dharma interview. She talks about how the story's frankness helps reclaim women's power. Recorded on August 30, 2024.

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00:27:39

It Is Always Our Own Effort, And We Are Always...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/29

08/28/2024, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Shundo reflects on a recent visit to Tassajara, which included the monthly Full Moon Ceremony and the Obon Ceremony. He encourages us to remember our place in the ongoing lineage of Buddhas and Ancestors.

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Mountains Are Mountains

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/29

08/28/2024, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at Tassajara.

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00:55:13

Aryan Society and Culture in 6th century BCE India

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/28

08/27/2024, Jan Willis, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, Jan Willis discusses the conditions around the time of Buddha's lifetime, and how the Buddhist community was created.

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00:34:46

Thoughts Regarding Reality

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/25

08/25/2024, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk Onryu Mary Stares discusses reality: how our attachments and karma lead us to obscure reality; how practice guides us to seek what is real in each moment.

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00:20:54

Wholeness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/23

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Shogen Danielson. Shogen's talk touches on the absolute, the inconceivable aspects of the human condition, that we also call Buddha Nature. Recorded on August 23, 2024.

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00:31:45

Avowing Karma, Admitting My Faults

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/22

08/21/2024, Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. In this dharma talk, given at Beginner’s Mind Temple, Dan uses the Soto Zen standard “Confession” verse to explore the connections between personal and collective karma. The verse is: “All my ancient twisted karma, from beginningless greed, hate and delusion, born through body speech and mind, I now fully avow.” Avowing karma — acknowledging and accepting the reality of the situation a person is in — is a crucial first step in stopping further

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00:34:16

Sustaining The Buddha Field That Is Tassajara

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/22

08/21/2024, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, Shundo explains the elements and significance of the Full Moon Ceremony to those who had participated in it on their arrival day at Tassajara, and encourages everyone to understand their role in creating and sustaining the monastery and the community.

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00:42:16

The Sixth Ancestor of Zen on the Practice of Zazen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/18

08/18/2024, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The Sixth Chinese Zen Ancestor, defining "zazen" (sitting meditation), said " 'za' (sitting) means not to be obstructed by anything and not to activate thoughts about objects, and 'zen' means to see our original nature without being confused." In this talk, Kokyo explores what it means to reify thoughts and to see true nature by not seeing anything.

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00:37:04

Zen’s Women Ancestors

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/17

08/17/2024, Sokaku Kathie Fischer, dharma talk at City Center.In this dharma talk, given at Beginner’s Mind Temple, Kathie references Eihei Dogen's work, "Receiving the Marrow by Bowing," to tell the stories of important Zen women ancestors in the light of changing demographics over the millennia, and discuss Zen master Dogen's courageous and uncompromising defense of women's practice. "Receiving the Marrow by Bowing” (“Raihai Tokuzui” in Japanese) is a fascicle from Eihei Dogen’s (12th-century

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00:27:10

Simply Sitting

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/16

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Shindo Gita Gayatri. Shindo discusses the unique quality of zazen, and references Dogen's Fukanzazengi, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Ayurvedic medicine in her talk. Recorded on August 16, 2024

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00:24:57

Traveling the Path With Ordinary Mind

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/15

08/14/2024, Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given at Beginner's Mind Temple, by Roger Hillyard. The path is sometimes dark and difficult, sometimes smooth and joyous. It is always circuitous and doesn't proceed in a linear direction, so we cannot resist its call. When we seek the extraordinary we miss what is before us, beneath our feet. There is a direction we can go in, but not a place where we arrive. The only place we take steps is HERE, on the ordinary ground with

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00:27:27

The Freedom of Each Moment and Existence

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/15

In this talk, given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji), Shindo Gita Gayatri reflects on times of change at Zen Center and in the wider world, using Dogen's fascicle Uji (Being Time) and the non-dual Advaita Vedanta teachings from her native India to illustrate her thoughts. Recorded on August 14, 2024.

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00:49:38

Belly, Spine, Clear, Welcome

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/11

08/11/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk Jiryu discusses four fundamental, inter-related aspects of the Zen posture of body and mind which we can care for in sitting and in daily life: 1) grounded in the belly, 2) upright and strong in our spine, 3) clear and empty in our mind, and 4) warmly welcoming of the whole wide, bright, constantly changing, utterly unknowable field of experience.

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00:29:12

Mountains Belong To Those Who Love Them

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/11

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Joan Amaral. In this talk, Joan invites everyone to cherish and enjoy the shared body practice of being in the mountains. Recorded on August 10, 2024.

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00:33:38

Mountain, Rivers and Trees

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/04

08/04/2024, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. An exploration of the the koan: Zhaozhou's Cypress Tree in the Courtyard.

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