Ryūshin Paul Haller discusses pivotal life events and their role in causing us to pause, reflect, and recalibrate. From the perspective of practice, this can happen in a momentary way and sometimes in the broader sense, changing the very direction our lives are taking.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk about renunciation and priest ordination in the zen tradition. The talk is given on a Saturday morning before an ordination ceremony with one of Ryūshin Paul Haller's students at the San Francisco Zen Center.

Ryūshin Paul Haller describes how mindfulness practice is a process over time. He explains how, in this process, it is possible to cultivate a greater awareness of our own unique mental, emotional and psychological life as well as an experiential insight into Buddhist teachings.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk on the 7th day of sesshin (a period of intensive meditation). He describes the process of practice during sesshin and how sesshin supports the unfolding of awareness.

Ryūshin Paul Haller talks about the breath in zazen and offers some guided instruction for engaging the breath in sitting meditation.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers three short guided meditations as an experiential exercise in receptive and applied awareness.

Ryūshin Paul Haller speaks about cultivating samadhi in daily life - a practice of pausing, noticing, and directly experiencing what is with honesty and awareness.

Ryūshin Paul Haller talks about what it is to practice with the challenges that life presents us with.

Ryūshin Paul Haller speaks to students participating in the Winter practice period at the San Francisco Zen Center about the role of wholehearted intention in practice. In this talk, he also offers a few experimental exercises.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives the first talk of the 2010 winter practice period at the San Francisco Zen Center and explores the importance of intention, connection and insight in engaging practice in our lives.