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00:36:26

Finding Awareness in the Everyday

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/24

07/23/2025, Yogetsu Akasaka, dharma talk at City Center. Yogetsu Akasaka, a priest from the Sōtō Zen School in Japan, asks What if cleaning a bathroom could be one of your most profound spiritual practices?

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00:38:02

Goodbye and Hello

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/20

07/20/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on recent departures from Green Gulch of the elder teachers of the founding generation, and how at the same time as that loss, a new flower of teaching blossoms as "Becoming Yourself," the new book of Suzuki Roshi's talks, is released.

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00:45:11

Introducing "Becoming Yourself"

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/19

07/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler celebrates together with the sangha the launch of the first new book of Suzuki Roshi's teachings in over 20 years, "Becoming Yourself," sharing about its fundamental teachings and how it came about.

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00:31:00

Lay Entrustment and Dharma Gates

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/17

07/26/2025, Henzan Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard offers a look into the origins of Lay Entrustment and how it has manifested in American Zen.

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00:23:51

Virya / Hypernormalisation

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/13

07/13/2025, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gengyoko Tim Wicks explores cultivating joyful energy in times of crisis, with reference to Eihei Dogen Zenji and the Dhammapada.

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00:34:43

The Unique Role Tassajara Plays in the Times We Live

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/13

07/12/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at Tassajara. The world has so many issues that need people's time and attention yet we squester ourselves for days or weeks on end at Tassajara. While it may seem indulgent or even escapist to retreat to practice in the wilderness, it is surviving vital purpose for these times.

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00:37:47

This Human Body

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/12

07/12/2025, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores the dharma of living and practicing in a human body.

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00:41:24

Chanting the Name of Kanzeon

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/06

07/06/2025, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.Zoketsu Norman Fischer discusses a forthcoming book by the Japanese Zen Master Kosho Uchiyama about his experience practicing chanting the name of Kanzeon Bodhisattva.

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00:27:31

How To Be Of Service: Breathe, Smile, Live

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/05

07/05/2025, Mark Lesser, dharma talk at City Center. Marc Lesser discusses a teaching from Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: Breathing, smiling and living are three ways to practice.

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00:32:27

Caught in a Net, Together

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/07/03

07/02/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel explores the image of Indra’s Net and how it relates to life in this complicated, messy modern world.

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00:44:04

What is Dharma Transmission in Zen?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/29

06/29/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Kokyo Henkel explores what is really transmitted from teacher to student, and some classic Zen stories about Dharma transmission.

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00:38:30

Harmony Within and Beyond

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/29

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道. Lucy reflects on different aspects of harmony. Recorded on June 28, 2025.

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00:52:40

Not Disregarding A Single Thing

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/22

06/22/2025, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. As senior dharma teacher Linda Ruth Cutts prepares to move from Green Gulch and SFZC residency after 54 years she brings up the practice of being upright in the midst of great change.

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00:26:01

A Larger Bowl

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/22

06/21/2025, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at Tassajara.

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00:42:04

In This Body, In This Lifetime

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/21

06/21/2025, Esho Sudan, dharma talk at City Center. Esho Sudan explores the life-story and great legacy of Sozen Nagasawa Roshi, a Soto Zen abbess and teacher, founder of the only women's training monastery in WW2-era Japan.

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00:27:37

Responding to the Cries of Our World

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/19

06/18/2025, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. Jisan Tova Green shares how Zen practice has influenced her long engagement with peace and justice issues, and draws from the words and actions of three of her mentors, Joanna Macy, Maylie Scott, and Alan Senauke.

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00:41:05

Grief and Gratitude on Father's Day

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/15

06/15/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Steph Blank shares her experience of grief and gratitude arising through the intimate process of accompanying her father during his recent transition from the miracle of life into the miracle of death.

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00:39:58

The Color of True Practice: Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon,...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/14

06/14/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the final section of the Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon by Dogen Zenji.

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00:40:01

Awakening Bodhi Mind: Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon, Part 2

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/13

06/13/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the second section of the Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon by Dogen Zenji.

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00:41:19

Hearing the True Dharma: Eihei Koso Hotsugonmon, Part 1

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/12

06/12/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the opening paragraphs of the Eihei Koso Hotsugonmon by Dogen Zenji.

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