04/23/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin uses Keizan Zenji’s teachings to explore the questions: What is intentional service? And, how does this help very different people build an environment of wholeness and trust?

04/05/3035, Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman marks Buddha’s birthday by recounting the story of Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth over 2500 years ago while exploring the meaning of some of the more fantastical details.

07/06/2025, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer discusses a forthcoming book by the Japanese Zen Master Kosho Uchiyama about his experience practicing chanting the name of Kanzeon Bodhisattva.

07/05/2025, Mark Lesser, dharma talk at City Center.

Marc Lesser discusses a teaching from Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: Breathing, smiling and living are three ways to practice.

07/02/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.

Doshin Dan Gudgel explores the image of Indra’s Net and how it relates to life in this complicated, messy modern world.

06/29/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

Kokyo Henkel explores what is really transmitted from teacher to student, and some classic Zen stories about Dharma transmission.

06/22/2025, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

As senior dharma teacher Linda Ruth Cutts prepares to move from Green Gulch and SFZC residency after 54 years she brings up the practice of being upright in the midst of great change.

06/21/2025, Esho Sudan, dharma talk at City Center.

Esho Sudan explores the life-story and great legacy of Sozen Nagasawa Roshi, a Soto Zen abbess and teacher, founder of the only women's training monastery in WW2-era Japan.

05/25/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Shosan Victoria Austin examines the Memorial Day holiday through a Buddhist lens, particularly looking at the ethical dilemmas in the oaths taken in our society.

05/14/2025, Myogen Kathryn Stark, dharma talk at Tassajara. In this talk, Myogen Kathryn Stark talks about Shantideva, his work on the Way of the Bodhisattva, and how we apply this to our own lives.