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Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk on The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings from the Lotus Sutra.

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Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie gives a talk exploring practice. Like Homer’s Odyssey, each practitioner undertakes an epic journey with others and alone within themselves.

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Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks on Dogen's "King of Samadhis" from the Shobogenzo.

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Sangha member Nendo David Pavlacky gives a talk exploring Buddha’s ancient teaching of impermanency from the Lankavatara Sutra and Katagiri Roshi’s teaching of total dynamic functioning.

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Sangha member Shin-E Kieran Rhysling facilitates a discussion about the challenges of determining an appropriate response to the harms we are seeing in the world.

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Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks on the Birth and Death chapter of the Shobogenzo.

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Guest speaker Dr. Bishal Karna gives a talk titled, “The Zen of Loving Your Neighbor”. 

This talk is a fascinating exploration of the different approaches of Christianity and Zen to loving your neighbor and how, ultimately, they seek to achieve the same end. 

Bishal Karna is a professor of comparative religion and the creator and host of The Spiritual Context Podcast. He lives in Rochester, NY, with his wife, dog, and two cats.

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Guest speaker Rev. Jisho Sara Siebert gives a talk entitled, "What is true freedom? Traditional Zen practice and our lives."

The talk addresses the question of how the forms and practices of Soto Zen can help us recognize that our limited self is not the center of the universe and instead can help us move beyond our habituated preferences.

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This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded.

The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. 

https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance

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This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded.

The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. 

https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance