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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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46:03

What Silence Holds

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/02/09

In this dharma talk following Upaya’s Winter Practice Period, Sensei Fushin explores silence not as absence but as presence itself—”our own true nature looking back at us.” Through his work as a family law attorney and former Chaplain intern, he reveals three moments when silence showed its active power: In his conference room after a disappointing court ruling, twenty-five seconds of excruciating…Source

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1:24:48

The Measure of Our Humanity: INTERCONNECTEDNESS

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/02/01

This opening session of The Measure of Our Humanity series gathers over 1,000 participants worldwide to reflect on what sustains our humanity in difficult times. Roshi Joan Halifax welcomes longtime friend Jon Kabat-Zinn, framing the series as a shared ‘commons’ grounded in solidarity, truth-telling, and radical care, recognizing the gathering itself as an act of collective sanity.Source

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44:28

Just Doing One Thing

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/26

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Dainin collects our attention from the many paths we feel pulled in—gathering it toward one-pointed effort as a genuine way of relieving the suffering of self and other. Illustrating Roshi Joan’s reflection—“it’s good to stay in one place, watch the seasons change, and just do one thing”—through photographs of… Source

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47:13

Standing Stone

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/19

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Wendy Johnson explores Dōgen’s Tenzo Kyokun (Instructions for the Cook) through the metaphor of standing stones like those erected in England and the British Isles by Neolithic ancestors—ancient, grounded monuments embodying power and presence. She traces the text’s origins to Tang Dynasty monastics who created… Source

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45:18

Open Dharma: Peaceful Dwelling

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/12

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax is joined by Senseis Kodo, Dainin, and longtime Upaya friend and master Zen gardener Sensei Wendy Johnson to set the roots of the month-long Winter Ango (peaceful dwelling). Roshi traces Ango’s history to ancient traditions of seasonal retreat and offers careful instruction not to trample what arises—no longer avoiding snakes, insects…Source

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47:53

Rohatsu 2025: Day 6 – Full and Seamlessness

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/10

On the final day of Rohatsu sesshin, the faculty turn toward presence as the heart of the bodhisattva way. Sensei Kaz Tanahashi reflects on the final full day not as a rush toward the end, but as an invitation to be more fully present with each moment, as practice settles into quiet confidence and seamless activity. Roshi Joan Halifax deepens this inquiry by asking, What is a bodhisattva?Source

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46:06

Rohatsu 2025: Day 5 – Indra’s Net and One...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/10

On the fifth day of Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi explores Indra’s Net—jewels “reflecting one another forever” in “inter-illumination”—showing how Buddhist teachings illustrate the reality of interconnected actions and outcomes. Kaz assures us that every humble action contributes to breakthrough. Reflecting on his anti-nuclear activism in the 1970s and ’80s, he says, “Everything I did… Source

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42:55

Rohatsu 2025: Day 4 – Ethics and the Awakened...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/10

On the fourth day of Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi reflects on the previous evening’s full moon atonement ceremony, revealing that “I think to be ethical is … life with ease and joy. You don’t have to hide anything. You don’t have to fear.” Kaz references the teaching to “thoroughly engage in each activity” to transform the world. He reframes “continuous failure” as “continuous missing”… Source

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Rohatsu 2025: Day 3 – The Circle of the Way

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/10

On the third full day of Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi illuminates the radical teaching at the heart of Zen practice: we begin with enlightenment itself. Tracing the tension between seventh-century China’s scholarly Huayan school—requiring lifetimes of gradual study—and Huineng’s “illiterate school” of sudden enlightenment, Kaz reveals how Dogen went even further… Source

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Rohatsu 2025: Day 2 – Vow, Liturgy, and...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/10

On the second full day of Rohatsu sesshin, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi explores the Avatamsaka Sutra’s vision of Shakyamuni Buddha as Vairocana—the Dharmakaya itself—and the bodhisattva path through its metaphoric landscape. Kaz teaches that bodhisattvas become bridges, letting beings cross the ocean of life and death. He offers practical guidance for working with sleepiness… Source

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1:32:57

Gratefulness & Generosity 2025

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/05

In this year’s Gratefulness and Generosity program Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski explore gratefulness and generosity as essential Buddhist practices for navigating “the pressure of the time we’re in.” Roshi Joan situates generosity as the first paramita—a boundless state of mind—and invites participants to hold both sorrow and beauty, acknowledging the painful histories and difficult… Source

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1:31:21

Awareness In Action: Going Forth with Joan Halifax,...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/05

In this penultimate session of Awareness in Action (2025), Roshi Joan Halifax gathers with Sharon Salzberg and Frank Ostaseski to explore love as the foundation for engaged Buddhism, acknowledging the collective “upwelling of perturbation” many feel about the body politic. Roshi describes how spiritual community calls us back into love, noting the nation’s parallel journey: “We fell out of love… Source

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1:30:18

Awareness In Action: Love with Frank Ostaseski &...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2026/01/05

In this penultimate session of Awareness in Action (2025), Roshi Joan Halifax gathers with Sharon Salzberg and Frank Ostaseski to explore love as the foundation for engaged Buddhism, acknowledging the collective “upwelling of perturbation” many feel about the body politic. Roshi describes how spiritual community calls us back into love, noting the nation’s parallel journey: “We fell out of love… Source

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Eko Hensho – Turning the Light Around: Winter...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/29

In this Winter Solstice gathering, Roshi Joan Halifax offers a grounded teaching on awareness amid darkness. Speaking during the longest night of the year, she introduces the Zen phrase ekō henshō—“turning the light around”—as the practice of directing awareness toward awareness itself. Through a story from a vinaya gathering in Thailand and a single word—“phenomena”—Roshi explores how we meet…Source

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Wandering in the Treasury of Radiant Light

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/15

In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Hoshi Senko reflects on Radiant Light as the everyday experience of being alive. Drawing on Dōgen Zenji’s Komyō (Radiant Light) and Koun Ejō’s sole surviving work, Komyōzō Zanmai (The Practice of the Treasury of Radiant Light), Senko traces how the ancestors point to what is closest and most easily missed—summarized by Wittgenstein: “It is not how things are in…Source

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1:10:26

Awakened Action: Moral Beauty and The Great Turning...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/07

In the fifth talk of the Awakened Action series, Rebecca Solnit invites participants to name acts of moral beauty—from tribal leaders honoring Japanese American internment survivors to the Rainbow Defense Coalition protecting LGBTQ+ events. […]

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Awakened Action: The Divinity Tree and the Practice...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/07

In the fourth session of the Awakened Action series, Terry Tempest Williams shares the quiet, touching story she “could never write”—the killing of Harvard Divinity School’s beloved 200-year-old red oak in 2019. Sleeping beside […]

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Awakened Action: Liberating Imagination –...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/07

In part three of the Awakened Action series, Roshi Joan Halifax invites participants to imagine the world in 20 years, revealing how we’re often “living in dread” rather than envisioning liberating possibilities. She distinguishes between […]

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1:21:56

Awakened Action: The Charnel Ground –...

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/07

In this second session of Awakened Action, Valerie Brown explores where we encounter the charnel grounds—a Buddhist metaphor for places where deep suffering is present, including in our own minds. Valerie shares her […]

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1:03:45

Awakened Action: Opening Session (Part 1)

Upaya Zen Center"s Dharma Podcast ·

2025/12/07

The opening session of Awakened Action lead by Roshi Joan, Rebecca Solnit, Valerie Brown, and Terry Tempest Williams, participants are invited to explore how futures are shaped through attention, relationship, and imagination. The teachers […]

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