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00:37:05

Buddha’s Story is Our Story

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/04/06

04/06/2024, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Ryuko Laura Burges opens the City Center temple’s celebration of Buddha’s Birthday by recounting the story of the Buddha’s birth for the children in attendance, before further unpacking this story for the congregation. Buddha’s early life of privilege, renunciation, spiritual seeking and eventual awakening have powerful parallels in our modern world.

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00:39:41

Our Own True Home—Dedicated to Caroline Meister

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/24

03/24/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.This talk by Eijun Linda Cutts was offered and dedicated to Caroline Meister, a Tassajara resident whose accidental death touched so many with sorrow. The talk looks at the Koan “Daowu’s Condolence Call” Case 55 in the Blue Cliff Record, and the non-dual life of zazen and precepts.

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00:51:04

Living A Full Life

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/23

03/23/2024, Marc Lesser, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk Marc Lesser examines some instructions from Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, for living a full life; a life of practice, joy, grief, ordinary, and sacred.

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00:40:58

Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/21

03/20/2024, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Gendo Lucy Xiao explores case number 3 from the koan collection "The Blue Cliff Record” — the case known as “Master Ma is Unwell.” In the talk, Lucy discusses entering the path of awakening from right here, in the life we are living.

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00:51:44

Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life And Teachings...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/16

03/16/2024, Sojun Mel Weitsman - Norman Fischer - Andrea Thach - Susan Moon, book release at City Center. In this discussion, three long-time Zen practitioners discuss their experiences with Sojun Mel Weitsman, and highlight key portions of his autobiography and teachings. The discussion was held in celebration of the release of a new book about Sojun’s life and practice.

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00:39:39

Walking into Loss and Grief – Walking Out Together!

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/14

03/13/2024, Koshin Steven Tierney, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Koshin Steven Tierney discusses the experience of loss and grief, and how these very natural and individual human experiences unfold within spiritual community. We must attend to our grief, individually and collectively, in order to maintain healthy relationships and communities. Featuring Clint Smith’s poem “Expedience,” Grace Noll Crowell’s “Let Me Come in Friend,” and the Eihei Koso

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00:56:30

Song of the Trusting Mind

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/10

03/10/2024, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The great Way is not difficult for those who hold no preferences, it is like vast space with nothing lacking and nothing extra. At the moment awareness turns around and illuminates itself, there is going beyond appearance and emptiness.

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00:31:56

Everything Leans

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/09

In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Teah Strozer reminds us everyone is enough — you, yourself, are perfect just as you are, even if, as Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said, we can also ‘use a little improvement.' In the talk, Teah shares stories about dependent arising and its relevance for today. She highlights the importance of not making divisions — not creating ideas of separate self and others — especially as the world deals with continued armed conflicts and political divisions.

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00:28:39

The New Chevy V8

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/07

"In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Gengyoko Time Wicks, the current tanto (head of practice) at SFZC City Center, uses the koan “Shishuang's 100 Foot Pole” to discuss deepening our practice. He also uses Eihei Dogen's “Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon” in discussing faith in practice and overcoming karmic responsibilities.

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00:29:52

Walls Are Gates Of Liberation

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/03

03/03/2024, Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk Thiemo Blank uses a scene from "Harry Potter" to playfully teach about penetrating the "Walls" in our lives as a journey of liberation.

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01:01:22

Zen Is Good For You!

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/03/02

In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, visiting monk Yogetsu Akasaka discusses the contrasts he’s seen between Soto Zen in Japan and in the United States. Yogetsu explains the path he’s taken from touring as a beatbox musician, to preparing to one day inherit the temple that this father currently runs — with a particular focus on his interest in bringing the wisdom and teachings of Zen to the lives of everyday people. Featuring the virtues of toilet cleaning, herding 100 cats, and ending

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00:43:09

Save Me, Save Us: ‘Salvation’ in Zen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/25

02/25/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The first of the four Great Bodhisattva Vows is to “save all beings”, but what exactly does this mean and how might I engage in such an impossible endeavor? Abbot David explores the concept of “salvation” from a Zen perspective, using as a springboard an amusing koan in which Zen master Nanquan saves his disciple Zhaozhou from falling into a well.

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00:43:18

Save Me, Save Us: ‘Salvation’ in Zen

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/24

The first of the four Great Bodhisattva Vows is to “save all beings,” but what exactly does this mean and how might I engage in such an impossible endeavor? In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, central abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman explores the concept of “salvation” from a Zen perspective, using as a springboard an amusing koan in which Zen master Nanquan saves his disciple Zhaozhou from falling into a well.

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00:29:50

Swimming Together In The Ocean Of Enlightenment

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/22

02/21/2024, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Shundo reflects on how a community based on zazen can help human flourishing and offer much-needed connection. Featuring an examination of selected sections of Eihei Dogen’s “Genjo Koan.”

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00:44:23

Every Moment Is A Crossroads - How Will You Meet It?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/18

02/18/2024, Sonja Gardenswarz, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zazen, a yogic practice, a word, an invitation, a posture, a pause in time, a space, a clearing between the edges of here and then. A space to breathe, to feel, to connect. What we choose to emphasize determines our lives. To be a disciple to and enact in each moment what matters is building a Seamless Monument, is living like a river flows. "To live as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is

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00:58:52

Right View and Not-Knowing

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/17

In this talk, given during the second one-day sitting of the winter 2024 practice period, Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel discusses the power and peace of not-knowing. In the Zen tradition, ‘not-knowing’ is not the same as the ignorance or delusion of everyday life. When we deeply and fully ‘don’t know’ we are more able to be at peace with things as they really are, and can see and respond to circumstances of our world as they arise and pass in each moment. This talk was recorded during the

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00:28:34

Vow to Live the Life You’re Already Living

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/15

02/14/2024, Kim Kōgen Daihō Hart, dharma talk at City Center.In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Kim does a deep dive into the five remembrances to support us to live the life that we are already living with all its pain and preciousness.

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00:43:08

Becoming Yourself

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/11

02/11/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Abbot Jiryu reflects on Suzuki Roshi's core teaching that Zen practice is fundamentally about "becoming yourself," and explores the strong resonance there with the Silent Illumination teaching that awakening is right there when we sit still, exactly as we are.

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00:42:09

Ceasefire

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2024/02/10

02/10/2024, Shogen Jody Greene, dharma talk at City Center. This talk was given at Beginner's Mind Temple by Shogen Jody Greene. While Dōgen Zenji once described 'shikantaza' (just sitting) as “the dharma gate of repose and bliss,” our teachers have also reminded us of the ways in which working with our minds on the cushion can surface irritability, judgment, even hatred. Many of us struggle with our thoughts and struggle with our selves. This talk returns to the story of Seiko and the dragon to

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