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San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

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00:40:18

Silent Illumination: Unlearning Suffering

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/12

06/11/2025, Rebecca Li, dharma talk at City Center. Dr. Rebecca Li explains how the practice of Silent Illumination is to actualize the Buddha’s teachings to be free from suffering.

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00:40:54

Messy Zen: Honoring Our Women Ancestors

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/07

06/07/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the stories of our early women ancestors, Mahapajapati and Yasodhara.

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00:43:25

A Mind that Abides Nowhere

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/05

06/04/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the life of Huineng and living a life of vow, in this talk from the summer 2025 practice intensive at Beginner’s Mind Temple.

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00:37:40

Being Completely Yourself

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/06/01

06/01/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler takes up the theme of “Becoming Yourself,” the title of a new book of talks by Suzuki Roshi, by reflecting on two lines from the book.

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00:39:50

Not Knowing Is Most Intimate

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/31

05/31/2025, Teah Strozer, dharma talk at City Center.Teah Strozer explores the ways that our assumptions and fixed ideas about people or situations can blind us to change and to what’s actually in front of us.

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00:41:57

An Oath We Take, A Vow We Make

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/25

05/25/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Shosan Victoria Austin examines the Memorial Day holiday through a Buddhist lens, particularly looking at the ethical dilemmas in the oaths taken in our society.

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00:41:26

Two Zen Stories: Sanctuary and Compassion

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/24

05/24/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the twin themes of refuge and compassion in Cases 4 and 54 of the Book of Serenity.

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00:53:14

Finding True Refuge

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/22

05/21/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the theme of True Refuge as reorientation and wholehearted dedication to awakening, truth and love.

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00:37:35

The Heart Sutra and Suffering

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/22

This talk was given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinji) by Shoren Heather Iarusso. Shoren discusses how we get stuck in concepts and cause our own suffering. Recorded on May 21, 2025.

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00:37:53

Living in Relationality

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/17

05/17/2025, Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi, dharma talk at City Center. Former Abbot Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi discusses lessons from a life of practice, and from close observation of Shunryu Suzuki’s life and teachings.

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00:29:10

How Views Shape the World

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/15

05/14/2025, Tatsudo Nicole Baden, dharma talk at City Center. Tatsudo Nicole Baden explores two foundational Buddhist perspectives: that everything changes (impermanence) and that everything is interconnected (interdependence).

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00:27:01

The Bodhisattva Way

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/15

05/14/2025, Myogen Kathryn Stark, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, Myogen Kathryn Stark talks about Shantideva, his work on the Way of the Bodhisattva, and how we apply this to our own lives.

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00:44:48

Innate Love, Innate Wonder

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/11

05/11/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, drawing on Suzuki Roshi’s teachings, points to Zen practice as fundamentally about opening to the innate love and innate wonder that is our basic nature as human beings.

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00:29:31

What Is The Most Important Thing?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/11

05/10/2025, Jisho Lisa Hoffman, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, Jisho Lisa Hoffman reflects on Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, and her teacher Darlene Cohen.

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00:47:46

What Do You Call the World?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/10

Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman takes up Case 12 from the Book of Serenity, titled ‘Dizang Planting the Fields’, which touches upon a number of key practice questions that can be beneficial to consider as we encounter and navigate the distressing state of the world.

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00:38:36

Darlene Cohen's Practice of Vow

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/08

05/07/2025, Ryotan Cynthia Kear, dharma talk at Tassajara. During a study week devoted to her teachings, Cynthia shares her memories of her teacher, Darlene Cohen.

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00:34:15

Is Anything Sacred?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/08

05/07/2025, Kim Kōgen Daihō Hart, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk Kim explores where we find the sacred. She considers the foundational Buddhist teaching of the Three Marks of Existence and considers how they might influence what we hold as sacred.

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00:43:06

The Precepts As the Way of Our Life

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/04

05/04/2025, Myles Cowherd, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Myles Cowherd outlines core Zen Buddhist teachings and practices, emphasizing the discovery of inherent Buddha-nature, a guided meditation for presence and compassion, and a positive reframing of the precepts as a guide for life.

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00:26:35

Understanding and Appreciation

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/04

05/03/2025, Peter van der Sterre, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, given at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Zenshinnji), Peter van der Sterre reflects on his years of practice at Zen Center, the people who particularly inspired him, and the value of sitting in community.

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00:45:10

Finding Your True Self

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2025/05/03

05/03/2025, Yogetsu Akasaka, dharma talk at City Center. Yogetsu Akasaka discusses ikigai, a Japanese concept that refers to having a purpose in life.

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