In Enkyo Roshi’s Dharma talk, “Where is your Sanctuary?“ she implores us, “With a koan, with a phrase from “Uji- Being Time’” we can re-inhabit our sanctuary right now.” Recorded October 18th, 2020. Podcast audio version here:

October 17, 2020 Ryotan Roshi asks, “What is it to be intimate with a flower, our lives and all beings?” For audio podcast version, please click below or use your podcast app.

In Tokuyu Hoshi’s Dharma talk, “One Note Can Save the World,” he explores the source of our “triggers” and coming out the other side of trauma experiences. Here is a link for the song by Kenny Dorham that has the ‘one note,’ and here is a link for the imdb page for the movie “Touching The Void.” […]

September 27, 2020 Bokushu Hoshi discusses the suffering that lies at the root of our many disagreements today.  He brings up the koan “Nansen Kills a Cat” as a means to show how our Zen practice can help us to live more skillfully in this era of heightened conflict. For audio only, please click below […]

In his talk Shinryu Sensei draws on the Fifth Grave Precept of Not Doping the Mind. He discusses the difficulty of facing today’s turmoils and the problem of attempting to escape from them.     Audio only podcast version:

In her online talk, “Healing the Unrest,” Enkyo Roshi offers a teaching from Dongshan (Tozan)’s last days: taking care of others is taking care of self. Recorded September 20th, 2020.     Audio only Podcast version:

In his Dharma talk, Jo An shares with us the difficulty of opening the school in which he works during the pandemic. He brings up case 20 from The Book of Serenity, “Diang’s Nearness,” to show the difficulties and potential pitfalls of cultivating a mind of not knowing. He encourages us to lean in to our practice […]

September 12, 2020 Douglass Fugan Dineen, Hoshi explores how Hakuin’s monkey can empower us and afford us space to be responsive in these challenging times.   For audio only please click below or use your podcast app.

September 10, 2020 Lisa Soshin Dufour, Hoshi discusses how our Zen practice can help us to pay attention to our unconscious — both personal and collective — to help us wake up as individuals and as a civilization. For audio podcast please click below or use your favorite podcast app!

In this talk Roshi reminds us that our own storehouse consciousness and its mani jewel rely on our conscientious practice of Precepts, Zazen, and the Prajna wisdom arising within us.