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PODCAST

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast

Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot

The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya’s diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & nonviolence, compassionate care training, and delivering healthcare in the Himalayas.

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As The Wheel Turns

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/23

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Butsumon Tuck Stibich — a resident priest at Upaya — opens with a teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh. No stranger to war, Thich Nhat Hanh explains that our anxiety about the world’s suffering is an obstacle to service: that fear and worry do not help us cultivate peace, or become a refuge for others. Reflecting on this and the vows made in Jukai…Source

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40:22

Finding Our Way

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/16

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin addresses what so many of us are carrying right now — the weight of a world in upheaval, the accumulation of personal grief, and the stories we tell ourselves at three in the morning when everything feels urgent and nothing feels within reach. Drawing on the Lotus Sutra’s parable of the burning house, Fushin reframes the question entirely… Source

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1:01:54

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is Seeds

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

In the final session of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, participants share their overnight translations of Hanshan’s poems — working from character-to-word guides across five poems. The range and depth of what emerges moves Peter Levitt and Kaz Tanahashi to reflect openly on the nature of creative work. Peter observes that the participants had nothing but seeds — elements borrowed from a poet writing… Source

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1:24:54

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: You Ask the Way to Cold...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

In Part 6 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the evening session gathers around two offerings. Kaz Tanahashi gives a live calligraphy demonstration, rendering Hanshan’s poem “You Ask the Way to Cold Mountain” first in formal script, then in semi-cursive — pausing to explain how each style reveals something different about the characters, the poem, and the calligrapher’s mind. Sensei Dainin reads each… Source

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39:53

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Stone Bridge

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

In Part 5 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the session opens with a participant unexpectedly sharing two pieces of calligraphy prepared before the retreat — Hanshan poems rendered by hand as an act of study and care. Kaz Tanahashi and Peter Levitt then open the floor to another round of participant poetry. Kaz offers his own poem, inspired by Hanshan’s eccentricity: As in the previous session… Source

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1:01:45

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Open Sharing

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

In Part 4 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the session opens into a shared creative space. Kaz Tanahashi and Peter Levitt shape the afternoon around two fundamental poetry practices — writing from the present moment and listening. Peter offers a generative prompt: use lines from Hanshan as scaffolding, borrowing one to begin a poem, one to anchor the middle, one to close. What follows is an open… Source

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1:25:21

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Quality of Mind

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

In Part 3 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, Peter Levitt offers a deep dive into the craft and consciousness of Hanshan’s poetry. Drawing on three defining qualities of Hanshan’s work — plain speech, imagery that moves between the literal and the symbolic, and last lines of sudden, inevitable surprise — Peter shows how each poem both instructs and enacts the journey it describes. Source

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1:10:10

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Road Does Not Go...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

Roshi Joan Halifax opens this first full session (Part 2) of The Poetry of Cold Mountain by acknowledging the violence unfolding in Iran, holding the gravity of the world alongside the refuge of practice and community. She then turns the session to Kaz Tanahashi. Kaz introduces the structure of classical Chinese characters and verse — one character, one syllable, one word — before exploring the… Source

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1:06:36

The Poetry of Cold Mountain: A Journey with Legendary...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/15

The Poetry of Cold Mountain weekend program opens with an evening of orientation and anticipation, as world-renowned calligrapher Kazuaki Tanahashi and poet and Zen teacher Peter Levitt — co-translators of The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan — introduce the hermit poet whose words have endured for over a thousand years. Kaz situates Hanshan in his time: the sacred… Source

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46:18

A Time to Mark the Reality of Vow: The Presence of Care

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/09

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Monshin opens by acknowledging the 33 practitioners preparing to receive jukai — and the vow to carry non-harming actions into the world. She reads from Thich Nhất Hạnh’s Go As a River, encouraging us to understand community as refuge from despair. Roshi Joan Halifax speaks into our heavy hearts — the outbreak of new war, the deep karmic wounds that will…Source

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1:21:38

Sitting with Original Love: Closing Session

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/04

This final session of Sitting with Original Love opens once again with Nicolle Reigetsu leading the community in singing the Metta Sutta — words of loving kindness from the Pali canon — before Henry Shukman and Roshi Joan Halifax offer their final teaching of the retreat. Henry leads a guided reflection, then reads from his book: a passage about a grieving mother who finds herself unexpectedly…Source

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1:04:42

Sitting with Original Love: Wisdom, Love, and the...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/04

This Saturday evening session of Sitting with Original Love opens with a beautiful performance from Nicolle Reigetsu, drawing the community into tender connection. Roshi Joan Halifax and Henry Shukman engage in warm dialogue exploring what it means to embody Original Love — not as theory but as the lived meeting of wisdom and compassion. Henry offers his own, luminous poem, Slow… Source

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52:42

Sitting with Original Love: First Love and Bodhicitta

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/04

In this Saturday afternoon session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax and Henry Shukman guide participants into an exploration of bodhicitta — the awakened heart — through the intimate terrain of first love. Roshi draws on Thich Nhat Hanh’s account of falling in love with a young nun at Plum Village, and how that particular love became a doorway for him into boundless compassion. Source

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56:37

Sitting with Original Love: The Love That Will Not Die

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/04

In this Saturday afternoon session of Sitting with Original Love, Henry Shukman frames the direction of spiritual practice — not as a solitary ascent away from suffering but as a descent into the heart of it. Reading from Pema Chödrön, he offers a vision of awakening that moves downward: Through guided meditation and calm instruction, he invites participants to stop treating practice as a… Source

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51:16

Sitting with Original Love: Beneath the Categories

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/04

In this mid morning session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax leads a passionate and sweeping teaching on the many faces of love — from the Greek expressions of eros, philia, storge, pragma, ludus, philautia, and agape — to the early Buddhist concepts of Samvega and Pasada, the existential unease that drives us toward practice and the quiet radiance that meets us there. Source

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1:22:20

Sitting with Original Love: Two Tracks

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/03

In this morning session of Original Love, Henry Shukman introduces a central metaphor from early Chinese Buddhism: a cart drawn on two wheels — one wheel of mindfulness practice, where we “get better” incrementally, and one wheel of our Original Nature, which “is not really subject to improvability.” Through guided meditation, poetry, and a reading about the Tibetan master Karma Thinley… Source

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55:23

Sitting with Original Love: Opening Session

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/03

In this opening session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax and Henry Shukman share the personal crucibles that led them to explore a more intimate and spacious relationship with their own lives. Shukman describes how a concussion and heartbreak stripped away his cognitive reliance, turning him unexpectedly toward the heart: “I found I was just living in my heart more. Source

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1:55:21

The Measure of Our Humanity: COURAGE

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/03

This session of The Measure of Our Humanity brings together Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit, and Christiana Figueres to reflect on courage, interconnection, and moral responsibility amid social and ecological rupture. Rebecca Solnit offers a passionate and lucid articulation of our moment as a struggle between an ideology of isolation and a shift back into the cosmology of interconnection. Source

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Dharma Discussion: Cold Mountain, Companionship, and...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/03/02

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo hosts a conversation with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and poet-translator Peter Levitt in anticipation of their upcoming weekend retreat on the poetry of Cold Mountain poet Hanshan. Rather than a formal dharma talk, the evening unfolds as sharing and inquiry, touching on the nearly 40-year friendship between Kaz and Peter — a companionship born… Source

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59:10

Hungry Ghosts and the Five Buddha Families

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/02/23

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk coinciding with Lunar New Year, Senseis Kodo and Dainin Lau guide viewers through a recording of Upaya’s Gate of Sweet Nectar — a monthly new moon ceremony of radical hospitality toward all hungry and wandering spirits. These hungry ghosts become a mirror for the parts of ourselves blinded by greed, aversion, and delusion — the states that make us unable to…Source

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