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San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

San Francisco Zen Center

Dharma Talks given at San Francisco Zen Center

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00:35:00

Can Stillness Be Trusted?

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/03/08

03/08/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho explores stillness and silence as a response to the great suffering we are facing today. Can we trust the discovery promised in a practice of silence to lead us to resolve or peace?

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00:32:32

Building a Posture of Love

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/03/05

03/04/2026, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin explores love as an internal posture, rather than a feeling. A stable base for our posture of love is awareness and patience with the negative emotions that often come up without our noticing them.

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00:43:04

Left Hand, Right Hand

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/03/01

03/01/2026, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the classical Zen teaching "the ten thousand things are one body," exploring how understanding that truth plants seeds of peace in our hearts and in this world of confusion and violence, in which we see the "left hand" and "right hand" of this "one body" choose again and again to go to war with each other.

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00:28:35

On Presence

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/26

02/25/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, dharma talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo reflects on full presence as direct, embodied, moment-to-moment awareness beyond judgment or self-narrative, illustrated by a wordless encounter with a newborn and cultivated through zazen as “practice 24/7.”

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00:35:00

Tending to the Cries of the Earth

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/22

02/22/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho speaks to the fear of being consumed by great suffering while being turned towards the expansion of life at the same time.

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00:38:37

Cultivating the Art of Tenderness

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/21

02/21/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores meeting everything that presents itself to our awareness with tender and gentle attention.

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00:37:27

Expectations

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/20

02/20/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, sesshin dharma talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo explores how lifelong, internalized expectations—shaped by personal history and conditioning—distort perception and create suffering by separating us from present-moment experience.

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00:34:34

The Practice of Settling Down

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/19

02/19/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, sesshin dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores how resting our attention on our breath coming in and going out for a while, unites body and mind, calms them and brings them into the present moment.

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00:44:16

One Hiss and I Lost What I Know

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/15

02/15/2026, Heather Shoren Iarusso, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Heather Shōren Iarusso discusses an encounter with a rattlesnake when, in the flash of danger, there is no “Heather,” no narrative, no arising mental formations—only pure perception and appropriate response.

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00:52:11

Message of Peace

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/14

02/14/2026, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center. Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道 invites us to welcome the Lunar New Year by settling into inner stability and ease—remembering that peace is not something we chase outside ourselves, but something we can return to right where we are.

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00:31:23

Buddha's Robe as the Body

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/12

02/11/2026, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at City Center. Gengyoko Tim Wicks speaks about the history of the robes we wear (Buddha's Robe) and how it follows the geographic travel of Zen Buddhism.

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00:36:04

The Gates to Practice Multiply

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/07

02/07/2026, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at City Center. Onryu Mary Stares explores how external stimuli can act as a gate to practice if we use intention and curiosity.

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00:42:21

Work Practice and The "One Who Is Not Busy"

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/02/01

02/01/2026, Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Thiemo Blank guides us towards awakening to "the one who is not busy" in everyday activity.

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00:49:30

Agents of Peace and Change

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/31

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00:58:24

Disentangling Karma

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/29

01/28/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, Shuso Way-Seeking Mind talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo unpacks the shuso’s way-seking mind by framing practice as an everyday exercise of holding internal conflict without fixing it, allowing harmony to arise naturally, and walking one’s vows through ordinary activities.

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00:35:48

Cultivating Intimacy With Our Body

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/24

01/24/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores how the body is completely and inseparably intertwined and interconnected with the mind and with everything in this universe, and how the practice of slowing down a fraction in all our activities can support us in becoming intimate with our body.

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00:34:34

Virya, Joyful Effort and M.L.K.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/17

01/17/2026, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson reflects on Dr. King’s legacy as a practice of staying human in the face of fear, polarization, and fatigue. Through Zen teachings on virya or joyful effort, we explore how commitment, courage, and hope can be sustained without hardening the heart.

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00:30:41

I Don’t Exist!: The Self in Buddhism

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/15

01/14/2026, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel discusses our human experience of feeling like a completely distinct and separate self, and unpacks the fundamental Buddhist teaching of ‘no fixed self’ that answers this experience.

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00:36:22

Embodying Wonderment: Zen 2.0

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/10

01/10/2026, Mushim Patricia Ikeda, dharma talk at City Center. Mushim Patricia Ikeda asks how is our Zen Buddhist practice showing up within the "burning house" of global "forever wars," environmental crisis, and U.S. global and national actions in 2026? What might different forms and schools of Zen be able to learn from one another?

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00:35:37

Patience: The Buddhist Practice of Showing Up for the...

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks ·

2026/01/08

01/07/2026, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord explores how waiting is not necessarily patience. And it is not a passive default. In this talk, the subject of patience is explored as one of the Buddhist "paramitas" (perfections) that are both fruits of practice and an area of one's life that is actively cultivated.

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