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San Francisco Zen Center

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00:43:58

The Struggle Is the Medicine

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/18

09/17/2025, Kim Kogen Daiho Hart, dharma talk at City Center. Kim Kōgen Daihō Hart explores her personal journey through anxiety to the realization that it is our own, all too real human struggles that light the path to liberation.

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00:32:00

How Can We Not Pick and Choose?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/14

09/14/2025, Sokaku Kathie Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sokaku Kathie Fischer examines the Xin Xin Ming (Faith in Mind, or Trusting the Mind), a text by the third Chinese Chan (Zen) ancestor, Jianzhi Sengcan.

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00:41:24

Indiscriminate Devotion

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/11

09/10/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.Doshin Dan Gudgel discusses gratitude and devotional practices, using his personal altars as examples, and reading “The Angel Handed Me a Book” by Paul Valéry.

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00:41:15

What Is the Role of a Monastery in Today’s World?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/07

09/07/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sozan Michael McCord considers the deeper purpose of monasteries—not only as places of study and community, but as spaces that preserve and sustain collective practice, creating lasting impact beyond the moment of gathering.

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00:45:00

Zazen: Outer and Inner Sitting

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/09/06

09/06/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin points out that most of us are trying to find stability in less-than-perfect places, times, and conditions. How do we build an external and internal environment that supports us to meditate in peace?

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00:46:54

Is It Enough to Be Kind?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/31

08/31/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler discusses practicing kindness as an overflowing of the direct experience of non-separation, and explores the teachings of Suzuki Roshi on ethical precepts by analyzing each word in a questionable statement that he heard: "You should be kind, and that's enough."

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00:46:54

Is It Enough to Be Kind?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/31

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00:44:18

Study the Self

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/30

08/06/2025, Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at City Center. Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the centrality of self-study in the context of Soto Zen, the interdependent nature of body-mind-self and all phenomena, and wise view within the context of Big Mind, which includes the whole universe.

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00:23:14

Ancestor Warmth

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/28

08/27/2025, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson explores what it means to be a good ancestor now: carrying warmth, witnessing others into fullness, and tending the ceremonies of life with reverence.

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00:53:09

Live What You See, Not What You Know

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/24

08/24/2025, Marc Lesser, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Marc Lesser points out that “And yet” is a way of seeing differently, with greater confidence and greater humility. “And yet” could be how we describe history, our lives, and our futures.

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00:36:32

Bearing Witness to the Tension in Our Life

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/23

08/23/2025, Myles Cowherd, dharma talk at City Center. Myles Cowherd explores the transformative power of sincerity and acceptance as a counterpoint to a life of seriousness and fear.

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00:34:36

Meditating at Night

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/21

08/20/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin teaches that when we train our posture and breathing in a manner that helps us sit at night, aided by traditional images and teachings, we can hold the dreamy parts of experience in stillness and understanding.

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00:34:10

Lucky to Be Alive

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/17

08/17/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Doshin Dan Gudgel explores how feeling the preciousness of life can support deep practice, kindness and gentleness.

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00:47:03

Sitting as Your True Self

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/16

08/16/2025, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman unpacks what it might mean to become yourself through the simple but challenging practice of shikantaza (just sitting), referencing Suzuki Roshi’s teachings and two Zen koans.

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00:39:35

Three Turning Phrases

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/14

08/13/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith examines case 96 from the Blue Cliff Record which holds suggestions about how to frame one’s practice and warnings about the many ways we can get it wrong.

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00:39:18

To Expound the Dharma with This Body

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/10

08/10/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho discusses the reality that a human body will turn to dust and yet it is the body in which we carry the dharma and come to know it. As Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen, taught, "To expound the dharma with this body is foremost."

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00:34:34

Stories and Silence

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/09

08/09/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo David Haye reflects on the way we hold stories about ourselves and others, and how our practice of dwelling in silence can help us change our relationship with them.

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00:35:35

The Three Poisons: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/07

08/06/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses working with and growing in our awareness of how the three poisons—greed, hatred and delusion—manifest in our lives, on this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

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00:43:02

Hello, My Other Self

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/08/03

08/03/ 2025, Sessei Meg Levie, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sessei Meg Levie offers the teaching of the Four Elements and how seeing Dharma in nature can help us open our hearts to all beings.

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00:39:28

Gratitude and Grief

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/27

07/27/2025, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenshin Greg Fain talks about gratitude and grief in the context of Thusness. Gratitude and grief can both be dharma gates to bring us closer to a felt sense of connection with each other, and all of existence.

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