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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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00:35:58

Zen Gossip, Rumors, Speculation, and Idealization

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/04

01/04/2026, Nyokai Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Nyokai Kristin Diggs addresses the importance of reflecting upon ourselves as storytellers and our practice of zazen as "just looking" at the stories that we tell, as an entry point to recognizing the truth of our interdependent, inconceivable lives.

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00:35:33

Undivided Giving: Empty Hands, Full Life

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/12/27

12/27/2025, Nyokai Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at City Center. Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the non-separation of feeling, sensing, and thinking as they relate to giving, as a whole-being practice and a state of mind that reflects the always-unhindered, underlying truth of our undivided lives.

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00:46:34

Scrooge’s Buddhist Lessons

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/12/20

12/20/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at City Center. Gyokuden Stephanie Blank considers Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as a dharma story that reveals the transformative power of illumination, intimacy, and karmic fruition.

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00:28:32

Great Is The Matter

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/12/18

12/17/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo reflects on two recent deaths in his family, and what our practice can teach us about facing death and cherishing life.

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00:45:39

Two Directions, One Way: Reflections on U.S. Soto Zen...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/12/13

12/13/2025, Keiryu Liên Shutt, dharma talk at City Center. Keiryu Liên Shutt presents an informal comparison of Soto Zen and Insight practices within the context of The Three Marks of Existence.

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00:54:00

Opinions and “The Way”

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/12/07

12/07/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on a line from the Song of the Trusting Mind, “If you want the Way to manifest, then hold no opinion for or against,” by drawing on five aspects of practice in Suzuki Roshi’s teaching: posture, breathing, warm heart, empty mind, and oneness with things.

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00:35:22

Awakening Through Harmonious Differences

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/11/22

11/22/2025, Thich Nu Thuan Tue, dharma talk at City Center.

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00:43:33

Arising in Unimaginable Awareness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/11/16

11/16/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho teaches that sometimes it is necessary to be for or against but there is a broader context in which this is not always necessary.

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00:39:42

Awakening Together is APT

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/11/02

11/02/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Steph Blank honors the effort and awakening of our ancestors and calls on us—the living—to rise up in support of Decency, Dignity and Awakening.

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00:42:22

Tend to Your Spirit: Teachings from Illness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/11/01

11/01/2025, Zenshin Florence Caplow, dharma talk at City Center. Zenshin Florence Caplow offers stories and teachings from her life as both a Zen practitioner and person with chronic illness, and readings from her new book, “Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living With Chronic Illness.”

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00:20:44

Suzuki Roshi's Legacy and Our Path of Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/26

10/26/2025, Sessei Meg Levie, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sessei Meg Levie reflects on Suzuki Roshi’s dedication to zazen, his work with early students in San Francisco, and the creation of the San Francisco Zen Center.

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00:31:55

Cultivating Stillness in Turbulent Times

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/25

10/25/2025, Dainin Marsha Angus, dharma talk at City Center. Dainin Marsha Angus teaches about cultivating and mental and physical capacity to settle into stillness.

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00:39:16

Freedom in Limitation

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/19

10/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the “Finding Yourself” chapter of “Becoming Yourself,” in which Suzuki Roshi teaches that finding real freedom is not about overcoming the limitations of our life, but rather embracing them: “To find true joy under some limitation is the way to realize the whole universe."

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00:43:08

Expanding How We See Things

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/18

10/18/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at City Center.Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho teaches that when we remain in the mode of discovery we open to new portals to engage and activate in tending to today’s suffering.

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00:39:59

Perception and Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/12

10/12/2025, Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson uses the image of bubbles and the teaching of the Three Marks of Existence to explore how Zen practice helps us meet impermanence, suffering, and no-self in the body, not through ideas, but through presence.

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00:45:14

The Power of Non-Retaliation

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2025/10/11

10/11/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin teaches that we can deepen our understanding of the causes and cures of dispute, and practice with a unifying value of kindness that has the power to transform our conflicts to occasions for mutual curiosity, intimacy, and growth.

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00:42:56

A New Here: How Practice Opens Different Worlds

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/10/05

10/05/2025, Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Tatsudo Nicole Baden explores how Zen practice literally shifts the architecture of our experience — from a narrow, biographical “here” into a living, embodied field of contact.

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00:32:21

A Request for Jukai

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/27

09/27/2025, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at City Center. Chikudo Catherine Spaeth teaches that zazen shows us what to care for, and leads the way in our request to study the precepts with a teacher. In this caring we become a good friend to our practice.

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00:40:16

Engaged Buddhism

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/21

09/21/2025, Hoka Chris Fortin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Hoka Chris Fortin asks: How do we—individually and as one—not turn away but bear witness, and respond to the suffering of the world with clear-hearted wisdom and compassion as we awaken together to our True Nature and shared humanity.

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00:40:02

A Journey Toward Boundless Connection

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/20

09/20/2025, Tenmyo Dojima 堂島典明, dharma talk at City Center. Tenmyo Dojima 堂島典明 shares how her early struggles with depression led her to rediscover Buddhism in the U.S., begin monastic training in Japan, and continue the joy of walking the Buddha Way—together with others, rooted in connection.

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