Musho kicks off our new Tuesday Night Senior Student Talks with “To Study the Shelf,” a virtual tour of the many Buddhas that live on the top of a bookcase in Musho’s room. You will meet C3P0 Buddha, Eagle Kachina Buddha, Daitsu Chisho, Master Zhongyi, Infinite Nothing Buddha, Gumby Buddha and many others! As it […]

In her talk, Senior Student Eko demonstrates permutations of assertion and denial, and the many opportunities to create awareness of acting in service of the individual and in service of the community. Recorded Sunday March 28th, 2021 Podcast audio:

In this talk, Senior Student Kenko points to, explores, and engages in the practice of this moment. Joko Beck’s four practice commitments offer a framework for seeing how we get caught in separating (and suffering), how we hold tight onto “me,” “myself,” and “mine” (and how we can experience that holding in the body).  Each […]

In his talk, Senior Student Seizan discusses his experience of not knowing and how he listens to the Time Being. Recorded March 18th, 2021 Podcast audio here:

In this talk, Ryoshin examines the meaning of Dogen’s Uji in his own life, and how it has expanded his understanding of time as another dimension of Indra’s net, through which we are all connected

In this talk, Jisei reflects on practice as love and explores The Way of Love as we face the inevitable challenges and difficulties in our lives

In his Dharma talk senior student Jiryu reminds us that Buddha urged us to do good for everyone, without partiality toward ourselves or our families. Western philosophers say the same thing. But few people act this way! It’s hard to make sacrifices for strangers. He urges us to train ourselves to act with universal goodwill, […]

January 24, 2021 Senior student Sal Gessho Randolph speaks to the way our nation’s history expresses itself in the present, using lines from Dogen’s “Uji” and the koan “Dongshan’s No Cold or Heat.” For audio only, click below or use your podcast app.

In his Dharma talk senior student Soten refers to how the long, complex story of a Zen teacher’s last day (Book of Serenity #41, “Luopu About to Die”) displays the fruits of Zen practice in moment-by-moment everyday life (as well as a bunch of other things along the way!) Recorded January 21, 2021 Podcast audio-only […]

In this talk, Fusho looks to the Three Pure Precepts as a guide in these difficult times [NB: due to a technical error, the very beginning of this talk opens mid-sentence — nothing is lost]