Myoko Sensei speaks at The Grail during Summer Ango. In this talk Myoko explores what it is like to be in dialogue with the pot, and with others; both looking at form and looking at what is going on inside of ourselves. Recorded July 26, 2016.

Oshin talks about our own everyday ordinary mind, and reveling in our mistakes as part of practice. He also offers up a discussion of American Sign Language as a tool for awakening. Second day of Daisesshin, July 25th 2016.

Enkyo Roshi’s first Dharma talk for Summer Ango 2016. This Dai Sesshin, at The Grail, Roshi speaks about making a home for our true nature, and coming back to what is real for us. Recorded  July 24th, 2016.

In this talk Shinryu Sensei considers the importance of ethics in our meditation practice, and how this aspect is often left out of newly emerging secular meditation centers. Recorded on June 16, 2016. This talk is a follow-up to his talk on April 1st 2016 “Finding Meditation.”

Joshin talks about the importance of where we place our attention, for what we attend to is what we will find.

The openness of heart and mind that sustains practice, and arises from it.

Women have been systematically excluded from computer programming for decades. But it wasn’t this way in the past, and it doesn’t need to be in the future. Programmers are waking up overnight to how unfairly women and minorities are treated, and are beginning to take action to fix it. A talk by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis at the […]

Roshi gave this talk at our May 2016 Zazenkai retreat. She comments on a story from The Hidden Lamp called “Sonen’s Shadeless Tree” and talks about how we can connect our Dharma practice to our lives as they are right now. She talks about letting go of ideas of success and failure, quotes President Obama, George […]

In her talk from Sunday, April 24th, Joshin Sensei talks about the challenges of allowing ourselves to be where we are in each moment without preferences.

In KaKu Hoshi’s talk during our April Zazenkai, he discusses his relationship to Dogen’s most well know work, the Genjokoan.