Date Title & Details Speaker Listen Download
06/30/2024
Making Sense

Jyoshin tells three stories that illustrate some aspect of non-verbal ways to experience the world.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
06/16/2024
The Dharma Gate of Joyful Ease

“All beings want to move toward a state of ease.” What is ease in the Buddhist sense? And how do we move towards it?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Todd Tsuho Sattersten
06/09/2024
Identity and the Self

Genko explores the relationship between pride in an identity that has experienced oppression and attachment to a constructed self.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko Rainwater
06/02/2024
Staying Sane and Compassionate in this Wired World

Faced with the ongoing barrage of emotionally-hooked news of all that’s wrong in the world, we may experience reactivity. How can we lighten up on our reactivity, and find ways to meet global dukkha with wisdom, compassion, and non-separation? Gyoshi explores these challenges in his dharma talk.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Mike Gyoshi Kaplan
05/29/2024
Koans

This 8-week series explores koans. Koans are brief exchanges that reveal an aspect of enlightening activity. If you’ve ever wondered what these mysterious stories are, why they are useful, how to practice with them, this class is for you. The class is participatory, and consists of a mix of lecture, discussion, and mindfulness exercises. Koans explored draw from both classic and modern collections.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
05/22/2024
Koans

This 8-week series explores koans. Koans are brief exchanges that reveal an aspect of enlightening activity. If you’ve ever wondered what these mysterious stories are, why they are useful, how to practice with them, this class is for you. The class is participatory, and consists of a mix of lecture, discussion, and mindfulness exercises. Koans explored draw from both classic and modern collections.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
05/19/2024
Taking Refuge

Most of us can identify one (or more) of the Three Poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that most closely matches our karmic patterns. This sometimes results in shame, which makes it difficult to progress in practice. In her student talk this Sunday, Zonnyo explores how taking refuge in the Three Treasures of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha can help in our work with the Three Poisons.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Zonnyo Riger
05/12/2024
Temple

Jyoshin asks “What is a temple?” and goes on to explore different ways of viewing that. She talks about Nagarjuna’s The Precious Garland of Advice for a King, which contains myriad Buddhist Teachings, with a concise summary at the end.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
05/08/2024
Koans

This 8-week series explores koans. Koans are brief exchanges that reveal an aspect of enlightening activity. If you’ve ever wondered what these mysterious stories are, why they are useful, how to practice with them, this class is for you. The class is participatory, and consists of a mix of lecture, discussion, and mindfulness exercises. Koans explored draw from both classic and modern collections.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
05/05/2024
Talk by Jiko

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
04/28/2024
Listening to the Insentient

It’s said that all beings, sentient and insentient, expound the Dharma. How can we listen to the Dharma of trees, rocks and compost buckets? How can we meet them?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Shin’yu Vitells
04/24/2024
Koan Class

This 8-week series explores koans. Koans are brief exchanges that reveal an aspect of enlightening activity. If you’ve ever wondered what these mysterious stories are, why they are useful, how to practice with them, this class is for you. The class is participatory, and consists of a mix of lecture, discussion, and mindfulness exercises. Koans explored draw from both classic and modern collections.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
04/21/2024
Talk by Kakumyo

Kakumyo speaks about Nyogen Senzaki, Hongshi, and meditation practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
04/17/2024
Koans Class

This 8-week series explores koans. Koans are brief exchanges that reveal an aspect of enlightening activity. If you’ve ever wondered what these mysterious stories are, why they are useful, how to practice with them, this class is for you. The class is participatory, and consists of a mix of lecture, discussion, and mindfulness exercises. Koans explored draw from both classic and modern collections.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
04/14/2024
Sangha Forum

Twice a year, the sangha has an opportunity to hear from our governing bodies and to ask questions and give feedback. In the spring, the forum is sponsored by the Dharma Council, giving updates on liturgy, classes, etc. The Board and Dharma Garden Council will also give updates.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Dharma Council
04/07/2024
Regrets Dosage Recommendations

Regret is one of those phenomena that can go different directions; it can provide wholesome clarity or throw us off our seat. How we perceive and relate to responsibility, and the quality of awareness that we offer the arising of regret plays a major role here. Kakumyo explores this dynamic.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
04/03/2024
Sutra Study – Sutra of Golden Light

The Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Jyoshin Clay
03/31/2024
Wishes and Questions

We all have three wishes, and one is a secret.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
03/27/2024
Sutra Study – Satipatthana Sutta

Dharma Teachers and senior members present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Todd Tsuho Sattersten
03/24/2024
Flying Fish Dharma Talk

Categories: Dharma Talks

Flying Fish Murphy
03/20/2024
Sutra Study – Platform Sutra

The Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Rick Hogetsu Mitchell
03/17/2024
ESLT Dharma Talks

Three participants in the ESLT (Emerging Sangha Leadership Training) program each give a short Dharma Talk.

Categories: Dharma Talks

ESLT Participants
03/13/2024
Sutra Study

The Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Flying Fish Murphy
03/10/2024
Jyoshin’s Dharma Talk

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
03/06/2024
Sutra Study – Diamond Sutra

The Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Shin’yu Vitells
03/03/2024
Visible Mind

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
02/28/2024
Sutra Study – Rhinoceros Sutra

The Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism. This week Genko presents the Rhinoceros Sutra.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Genko Rainwater
02/25/2024
Ambivalence, Resistance, and Vow

What happens when we set an intention, make a vow to change something in our lives? Often, resistance arises. What is that, what causes it, and how can we work with it?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko Rainwater
02/21/2024
Sutra Study – What is a Sutra

Jiko introduces this series, wherein the Active Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras. It is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, the hope is to get into some depth and have some good discussion and an enhanced understanding of the richness of the teachings in Buddhism.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
02/11/2024
Dharma Talk by Kakumyo

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
02/07/2024
Precepts – 6

This class is about the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts, the ethical guidelines of Zen practice. The class prepares those who wish to take Jukai in February, as well as allowing everyone to explore how to work with these in everyday life. This year’s preceptor is Gyoshi.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Mike Gyoshi Kaplan
02/04/2024
Thoughts on Buddhism and Love

What if the whole of Zen practice, from meditation to the precepts to kensho and back again, is all about learning how to love? What if the only reason we come into being is to learn to love?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Robert Reian Glass
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