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Dr. King In This Moment

01.15.2022

An exploration of the Buddhist practice of cutting through the delusion of our disconnectedness highlighting Dr. Martin Luther King and Eihei Dogen's teaching of Uji (Time Being) 01/15/2022, Chimyo Atkinson, dharma talk at City Center.

San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks episodes:

01.15.2022 Dr. King In This Moment An exploration of the Buddhist practice of cutting through the delusion of our disconnectedness highlighting Dr. Martin Luther King and Eihei Dogen's teaching of Uji (Time Being) 01/15/2022, Chimyo Atkinson, dharma talk at City Center.
01.13.2022 The Thread of Time and Space Guided by the great Mahāyāna teachings of Prajñāpāramitā our Zen training asks us to join with all beings and follow the investigation of our karmic responsibilities from even the distant past to where we practice today without preference for where ...
01.09.2022 Directly Realizing the Buddha Way A rhapsody by Tenshin Roshi on a theme provided by our great ancestor Eihei Dogen. 01/09/2022, Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
01.08.2022 Snow and Plum Blossoms Transforming: one season to another. Practicing and transforming through difficult times. 01/08/2022, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center.
01.06.2022 One By One Is Enough As we enter the third year of the pandemic, reflecting on how our practice, and the legacy of Suzuki Roshi, can help us to keep moving forward. 01/05/2022, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center.
12.23.2021 Beginner’s Mind, Inmost Mind Recommendations for practice. 12/22/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.
12.19.2021 Suzuki Roshi’s Precepts A talk about some of Suzuki Roshi’s teachings on the Sixteen Great Bodhisattva Precepts. 12/19/2021, Ango Sara Tashker, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
12.18.2021 The Fullness Of Things An exploration of impermanence through literature and poetry, focusing on the words of poet Jane Hirshfield, "Everything changes, everything is connected, pay attention." As well as Ruth Ozeki's teachings from The Book of Emptiness, as well as others. 12/18/2021, Jisan ...
12.12.2021 Reckoning How Zen practice supports us in having an ongoing relationship to the past and all the ways we are conditioned; and to move upright through the Dharma gates of our individual and collective delusions. 12/12/2021, Dojin Sarah Emerson, dharma talk ...
12.11.2021 What Do You Need? Needs can be basic. They can also arise from values. What happens when needs are born from karma? 12/11/2021, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center.
12.09.2021 The End of the Year as a Beginning There are various New Year's traditions that involve reflection on how each person lives their life. One fascinating example from the history of the U.S. of how a person lived is that of Kit Carson, a trapper, guide, courier, and ...
12.04.2021 Setting the Course of Freedom A talk on Shakyamuni's Buddha's karmic journey. 04/12/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
11.28.2021 Zen In America In 2021 Rev. Kobiyama of Green Dragon Temple, a Japanese, female-embodied Zen priest who encountered Zen in the West, speaks on the question of "What Is Zen?" and tries to navigate through the crashing waves of two cultures and traditions while knowing ...
11.27.2021 The Karma That Becomes Dharma Everything that we do is karma but with foundations in our precepts our karma becomes Dharma. 11/27/2021, Jose Shinzan Palma, dharma talk at City Center.
11.21.2021 How Do We Really Help? Drawing on her own experience and the teachings of Suzuki Roshi, Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Linda Cutts reflects on the mind of a bodhisattva and the practice of helping self and other. 11/21/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green ...
11.20.2021 What Am I Leaving Out? In the context of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Kaira Jewel Lingo explores the Buddhist teaching of "the perceiver and the perceived." Getting close to life, ourselves and each other through the practice of the intimacy of Dharma to see what ...
11.18.2021 Clarifying and Shaping our World An exploration of our collective karma. Where our shared mindsets and behaviors intersect and ultimately affect the entire world, including our collective well-being and inevitably our shared liberation. 11/17/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
11.14.2021 Listen To Your Inner Voice: Can’t Miss Using Suzuki Roshi's teaching, some reflections on the practice of "listening to your inner voice." 11/14/2021, Steve Weintraub, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
11.13.2021 Invoking the Help of our Ancestors A talk exploring the healing of dehumanization that comes with naming, remembering and reparation in Buddhist tradition. 11/13/2021, Duncan Ryuken Williams, dharma talk at City Center
11.07.2021 The One Great Vow This talk is about the source and the many forms of the Bodhisattva Vow, that vow to devote ourselves to the welfare of others which is the heart of our community life. 11/07/2021, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at Green ...
11.06.2021 Karmic Consciousness And Buddha Nature How it is that our fundamental human affliction ─ our everyday messy karmic consciousness ─ is none other than the unchanging, ever-present clear, and luminous knowledge of Buddhas? Abbot David explores this inquiry through an exploration of Case 37 of ...
11.04.2021 Transforming Our Karma Through Vow The Avatamsaka Sutra tells us that “Ordinary beings live according to their karma, being their karmic habitual tendencies, while a bodhisattva lives according to vow.” How might we understand this teaching? How can we learn to transform our karma ─ ...
10.31.2021 Sandokai and Racial Justice Scholar, author, priest and social activist Duncan Ryuken Williams teaches in the talk on the text Sandokai, situating it in its context among Buddhist teachings on shifting vantage points, and correlates the wisdom of this ancient Zen text with the ...
10.30.2021 Sejiki Ghost Ceremony A history of Sejiki Cermony, feeding of the hungry ghost. An open-hearted wish to welcome all beings without discrimination. 10/30/2021, Doshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center.
10.24.2021 Zazen As The Practice of Absolute Reality Continuing the conversation on the harmony of absolute and relative truths, this talks suggests that we zazen is a good place to focus on the inconceivable reality, to discover, as Suzuki Roshi says, "who we are and what things are ...
10.23.2021 Karma: An Opportunity to Heal A talk exploring how the study the self is an opportunity to understand and heal our individual and collective karma. 10/23/2021, Horin Nancy Petrin, dharma talk at City Center.
10.21.2021 Karma, Choice, and Free Will Abbot David shares some approaches for how we might view karma in relation to the concepts of choice, free will, and determinism from a Buddhist orientation. 10/20/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
10.17.2021 The Secret Is In Learning How To Fly This talk is based on Suzuki roshi’s lectures (from the book Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness) on Zen Master Shitou’s poem about the relationship between the ultimate truth and the relative truth, The Harmony of Difference and Equality. 10/17/2021, ...
10.16.2021 Power and Control: Letting Go A Dharma talk exploring the themes of karma, love, power and control and the Dharma practices of non-attaching or letting go. 10/16/2021, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
10.13.2021 Let It Register 10/13/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.
10.12.2021 Shuddering Upon Entering The Warmth 10/12/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.
10.11.2021 Turning Towards (Not Away) 10/11/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.
10.10.2021 Walking On The New Zendo Floor 10/10/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.
10.10.2021 Zen Responsiveness What are reactivity and responsiveness? How do they work in terms of inner process, impact and relational practice? 10/10/2021, Korin Charlie Pokorny, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
10.09.2021 Zazen 10/09/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.
10.09.2021 Karma and Its Interdependent Workings To study Buddhism is a process of being taken apart and put back together again; this includes karma and atonement. 10/09/2021, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center.
10.07.2021 Mind Streams and Eddies An exploration of clinging, attachment, selfing, karma and liberation through the metaphor of eddies. 10/06/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
10.03.2021 Non-Duality of Precepts-Zazen-Zen Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Cutts reflects on a familiar yet upside-down way of understanding the practice of the precepts, and explores the teaching of Kanno Doko, Calling and Responding. 10/03/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
10.02.2021 Karma and Zazen The study of karma, and the importance of practicing zazen and non-doing for the study of self/the study of karma. 10/02/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
09.30.2021 Karma - An Overview A talk by Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman to open the practice period, which will focus on karma. 09/29/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
09.26.2021 Yunmen’s Every Day is a Good Day In the talk, Abbot Ed Sattizahn uses the "Every Day is a Good Day" koan, and Suzuki's Roshi's teaching, to explore how it may be genuinely beneficial, to ourselves and others, to appreciate our life beyond the "good" and "bad" ...
09.25.2021 Karma and Self-Care The importance of unwiring ourselves and developing deep self-care in order to take up the great vow of liberation for ourselves and all beings. 09/25/2021, Dr. Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe Ward, dharma talk at City Center.
09.19.2021 Both Truths Are True A talk about our Zen’s Chinese ancestors based in Suzuki Roshi’s teaching on Sekito Kisen’s Harmony of Difference and Equality. 09/19/2021, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
09.18.2021 The Ancestors' Breath The ancient foundation of the breath, creating an environment for a skillful response. 09/18/2021, Myogan Djinn Gallagher, dharma talk at City Center.
09.12.2021 Within a Dream Expressing the Dream The buddhas and Zen ancestors encourage us to become lucid dreamers - realizing that we are dreaming while remaining within the dream, where subject and object appear as separate but are really just manifestations of one mind. 09/12/2021, Kokyo Henkel, ...
09.11.2021 Priest Ordination A personal reflection on priest ordination in the Soto Zen Lineage from their own live as priests. 09/11/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller and Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at City Center.
09.09.2021 Being Like A Bee Beekeeping as a temple art. The shared qualities of honeybees and bodhisattvas, hives and sangha, enjoying the taste of honey. 09/08/2021, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk at City Center.
09.08.2021 Corona – Teaching of Impermanence and Permanent Transition 09/07/2021, Jisan Anna Thorn, dharma talk at Tassajara.
09.05.2021 Small Things Matter In this talk Eijun Roshi reflects on the path of relieving our suffering, highlighting the importance of being in relationship with everything in our life—from people to the smallest detail—and on the basic interconnection of pleasure and pain. 09/05/2021, Eijun ...
09.04.2021 Appreciate Your Life Yunmen’s Every Day is a Good Day. 09/04/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.

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San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks episodes:

Dr. King In This Moment

The Thread of Time and Space

Directly Realizing the Buddha Way

Snow and Plum Blossoms

One By One Is Enough

Beginner’s Mind, Inmost Mind

Suzuki Roshi’s Precepts

The Fullness Of Things

Reckoning

What Do You Need?

The End of the Year as a Beginning

Setting the Course of Freedom

Zen In America In 2021

The Karma That Becomes Dharma

How Do We Really Help?

What Am I Leaving Out?

Clarifying and Shaping our World

Listen To Your Inner Voice: Can’t Miss

Invoking the Help of our Ancestors

The One Great Vow

Karmic Consciousness And Buddha Nature

Transforming Our Karma Through Vow

Sandokai and Racial Justice

Sejiki Ghost Ceremony

Zazen As The Practice of Absolute Reality

Karma: An Opportunity to Heal

Karma, Choice, and Free Will

The Secret Is In Learning How To Fly

Power and Control: Letting Go

Let It Register

Shuddering Upon Entering The Warmth

Turning Towards (Not Away)

Walking On The New Zendo Floor

Zen Responsiveness

Zazen

Karma and Its Interdependent Workings

Mind Streams and Eddies

Non-Duality of Precepts-Zazen-Zen

Karma and Zazen

Karma - An Overview

Yunmen’s Every Day is a Good Day

Karma and Self-Care

Both Truths Are True

The Ancestors' Breath

Within a Dream Expressing the Dream

Priest Ordination

Being Like A Bee

Corona – Teaching of Impermanence and Permanent Transition

Small Things Matter

Appreciate Your Life