Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at the San Francisco Zen Centre about a koan (zen story) from approximately 1100 years ago. In a conversation between a teacher and student, the student asks the teacher if he has any more teachings. The teacher says, “there is only one mystery. That's the teaching.”

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the start of a one day sit at the San Francisco Zen Center. He explores the koan - "Medicine and disease subdue each other. The whole earth is medicine. What is your self?”

During a retreat in Northern Ireland, Ryūshin Paul Haller talks about practice outside our comfort zone and the growth that's possible there.

Ryūshin Paul Haller explores a famous Zen story (koan) about the Second Patriarch of Zen Buddhism. When Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was meditating facing a rock wall in Shaolin-si Temple, the monk Huike came and asked to be accepted as his disciple. When Bodhidharma rejected the young priest, however, Huike chopped off his left arm to prove his firm determination to the master.

Ryūshin Paul Haller speaks offers a dharma talk at the San Francisco Zen Center about the Buddhist practice of taking refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and how we can realize this practice in the way that we engage life.

Ryūshin Paul Haller speaks about the practice of closely examining our motives, intentions and fixed habits - a practice that can elicit humility or humiliation.

Ryūshin Paul Haller speaks about bearing witness in the context of 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.

Ryūshin Paul Haller shares some stories about engaging life fully and what this tells us about awakening. One story, from his own life, is about a journey with a severely neglected 4-year-old orphan girl who spent the first two years of her life living inside a cardboard box.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at the Insight Meditation Center recently after becoming abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. He recounts a story of a conversation between the Buddha and Mahakashapa wondering about the growth of the buddha-dharma and the potential challenges this brings.