Ryotan Sensei explores the famous koan where Master Joshu points to the bridge of the Dharma that allows all beings to cross. Recorded July 11th 2019.

June 23, 2019 Bokushu bears witness to his own habitual separation as a means to stop separating from the Buddha Way.

June 20, 2019 Ryo explores the Four Noble Truths as an expression of Ordinary Mind.

June  16, 2019 In her talk, Roshi asks us to look at the forms of practice we use, how they change, and what remains?

June 13, 2019 In this talk, Soten offers teachings from our Dharma ancestors Yunmen and Robert Genjin Savage.  “Yunmen’s two sicknesses” and the “AIDS Ward Scherzo” illuminate notions of sickness and health in our zen practices and our lives.

June 9, 2019 In this talk, Fugan Hoshi explores the meaning of sanctuary within the challenges and trials of daily life.

June 8, 2019 Joshin Sensei talks about the rupture in connection that personal and collective trauma creates, and how it benefits us to become aware of our autonomic nervous system to become better able to regulate it.

May 19, 2019 Bokushu Hoshi explores how Zazen benefits our suffering world.

Roshi explores the nourishing quality of the idea of the mother: in the matrileneal Lenape, in Prajna Paramita, in the koan about the monk who asked why Daitsu Chiso did not attain Buddhahood, and in Kuan Yin’s response to a seeker.

Ryotan Sensei looks at the basis of the precepts and finds it in our zazen. Recorded at our monthly Zazenkai on May 11th 2019.