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00:34:01

Warm-heartedness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/04

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Kodo Conlin. Recorded on August 3, 2024.

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00:29:57

Deep Listening

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/08/01

07/31/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given at Beginner's Mind Temple, by Tova Green. Tova explores deep listening on the personal, relational, community, and global levels. Investigating the meaning of her dharma name, MyoCho, Wondrous or Subtle Listening, Tova shares stories that express the compassionate nature of Avalokitesvara, or Kuanyin, Hearer of the Cries of the World. These stories encourage us to experience the entire universe as not separate from

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00:38:47

Not Doing Group Harm

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/28

07/28/2024, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Studying Zen precepts, our tradition transmits a wealth of teachings to help us stop harming at personal and interpersonal levels. At this time in the West, we need to develop our ability to stop supporting harm and evil in groups and systems. Understanding and admitting how we may have supported collective harm actively, by collusion or tolerance, consciously or unconsciously, we can remove the hidden supports of collective harm

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00:40:29

Chronic Pain and Suffering, a Way Out…

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/21

07/21/2024, Dr. Grace Dammann, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Dr. Grace Dammann, a previouse Green Gulch Resident and physician, who was honored by the Dalai Lama for her extraordinary work speaks about the difference between suffering and pain from her experience as a doctor, practitioner and patient.

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00:51:37

The Bodhisattva’s Four Embracing Actions

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/20

07/20/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given at one of Beginner's Mind Temple’s pop-up events at Unity Church, by Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman. Dogen Zenji’s beautiful and inspiring essay “Bodaisatta Shishobo” addresses four central practices of a bodhisattva ─ giving, loving speech, beneficial action, and identity action. Abbot David provides an overview of these four “embracing actions” which can heal our sense of separateness, deepen our connection

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00:35:29

We Are All Travelers

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/14

07/14/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Each life is a journey and we are all travelers. Some are forced to travel, displaced by wars or the climate crisis, others are unhoused, others travel for work, study, or recreation. The roles of host and guest are heightened by travel. Many come to Green Gulch and other Zen centers for refuge and renewal. How can we welcome these travelers?

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00:35:04

Navigating Not-Knowing

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/14

In this talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji), Horin Nancy Petrin talks about the new Zen-Inspired Senior Living Facility, Enso Village, and about ageing as a practice. Recorded on July 13, 2024.

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00:25:45

Koan Study in the Rinzai and Soto Traditions

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/13

07/13/2024, Kogen Jamie Howell, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given by Kogen Jamie Howell at one of Beginner’s Mind Temple’s pop-up events at Unity Church, San Francisco. Jamie discusses his lay (i.e., not ordained clergy) Zen life in both the Rinzai and Soto traditions in the west, highlighting similarities and differences in their approaches to Buddhist practice. Jamie spent most of his 45-year practice at the San Francisco Zen Center but also studied with teachers at the Mount Baldy

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00:30:25

Practicing With The Mirror Of Zazen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/13

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Inryũ Poncé-Barger. IInryũ invokes stories about the beloved Zen poet Ryokan, and discusses other koans and commentaries. Recorded on July 12, 2024.

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00:38:53

Practicing Wonder

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/07

07/07/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Jiryu discusses traditional Zen practices of generating doubt and wonder - through meditating on "huatou" questions like "who drags this corpse around?" - and discusses how Soto Zen practice expresses that same wonder in a more subtle way as a point of posture in sitting and daily life.

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00:39:23

The Mantra Of Our Life

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/07

In this talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji), Andrea Thach reflects on on stories from the life of her teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman, and talks about careful attention and devotion in our activities. Recorded on July 6, 2024.

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00:42:21

Stumbling On the Path: A Short History of a...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/06

07/06/2024, Peter Coyote, dharma talk at City Center.This talk was given by Zen teacher, actor, poet and artist Peter Coyote. The talk, which Peter describes as “disguised as a dharma-way talk” recounts how the deepening grip of the precepts, as his practice deepened, made a wiser and more effective person, trying to model the life of a Buddha in his own life. Recorded on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at Unity Church, Page St., San Francisco.

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00:38:47

A Journey Along The Path

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/07/04

07/03/2024, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at Tassajara.

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00:40:10

Grandmotherly Kindness: Models for Practice

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/29

06/29/2024, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given by Shosan Victoria Austin at one of Beginner’s Mind Temple’s pop-up events at Unity Church on Page St in San Francisco. Sōtō Zen teaches that compassion underlies wisdom, and wisdom underlies compassion. When we take up the question of how to become compassionate humans, it helps to have role models such as The Bodhisattva "Hearer of the Cries of the World" (Kannon Bosatsu), our grandmothers and grandfathers. Some

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00:49:13

Which is the True Qian?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/23

06/23/2024, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Case 35 in the Gateless Barrier koan collection tells the story of Qian's spirit being divided between following her heart and being responsible by following obligations. Is one path more true than the other or not?

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00:30:42

Home and Refuge

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/22

06/22/2024, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, the last given at Beginner's Mind Temple before the zendo closed for renovation, Shundo David Haye reflects on ideas of home, and taking refuge in the Three Treasures of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

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00:34:35

The Thousand Natural Shocks

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/16

06/16/2024, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Laura talks about how we can practice with grief, loss, and ordinary everyday suffering, She weaves in stories from her recent book from Shambhala, The Zen Way of Recovery, and shares practices that can help us--no matter what we may be recovering from.

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00:43:07

The Dharma Gate of Repose and Bliss

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/15

06/15/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given at Beginner's Mind Temple, by Sozan Michael McCord. The Zen Buddhist path can seem like one that is spare, determined and somewhat serious; addressing the primary root of suffering as its main purpose. Yet, the practice is full of examples and instructions about liberation, joy and the connection to the beating heart of NOW. How do these seemingly disparate views reconcile?

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00:42:09

Shikantaza

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/06/09

06/09/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Jiryu reflects on the practice of shikantaza, just sitting, as a Way that is fundamentally different than technique-based meditation.

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