July 12, 2020 Ryotan Roshi discusses how we receive and transmit the Dharma within the dream of our lives.   For Audio only, click below or use your favorite podcast app.

In this Dharma talk, Jo An explores the emptiness teachings of three of our Zen ancestors and cautions us to not fall prey to the temptation that recognition of interdependence is the end of the road. He asks us to look at our own bias deeply and use it as an adjunct therapy to the […]

In this talk Soshin Hoshi explores her conflicted feelings by looking at the teachings of the koan “Sen-jo and Her Soul Are Separated.” Recorded by video July 2, 2020. Audio only podcast version here:

In this talk, Bokushu brings up case 87 of the Blue Cliff Record to diagnose the disease beneath the disease. He urges us to look steadily at the root of all illness — and to keep reaching for the medicine compounded from that root.

June 25, 2020 In his talk, “Cultivating the Rice Field,” Ryotan Roshi reminds us to manifest this very life as wisdom and compassion, exactly as the people we are.   Audio only podcast version here:

On Sunday, June 21st, the Village Zendo community was privileged to receive a Dharma talk given by T. Griffith Foulk, Professor of Religion at Sarah Lawrence College. Professor Foulk’s talk centered on Eihei Dogen’s Gabyo (aka “Painted Cake” or “Painting of a Rice Cake”). He offered a line-by-line discussion of much of the text, provided […]

In this talk Bokushu Hoshi brings up the function of Zen practice amidst our twin epidemics of racism and covid-19. By looking honestly and deeply at ourselves, we can honor the truth of this moment and serve as healing agents in our burning world.

In this very personal talk, Tokuyu Hoshi explores how we can use the dharma to help and heal ourselves during these overwhelming times.

In her Dharma talk Myoko Sensei looks at the importance of atonement to create peace in this time of great crisis. She urges each of us to see our own capacity for creating harm and to take responsibility for our own actions. Recorded at the Village Zendo’s online zendo on 5/28/20     Audio […]

Shinryu Sensei talks about “the crisis as method” and about alienation and intimacy in these times of quarantine, drawing from Bolivian thinker René Zavaleta Mercado and the Zen koan “Dizang Planting the Fields.”