Date Title & Details Speaker Listen Download
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
01/31/2024
Precepts Class – 5

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
01/28/2024
Integration of Formal Practice

This talk centers around questions of how to integrate formal practice into ordinary daily life. Our formal practice can feel separate from our everyday way, and at times, we might long for it to be otherwise. Questions around integrating precept work, mindfulness, sesshin, and zazen are not uncommon.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Mark Sosetsu Stauffer
01/24/2024
Precepts Class – 4

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
01/21/2024
Hiding the Self

Jiko explores a concept from Developmental Psychology of the true self and the false self in the light of Buddhist practice. In what ways do we hide, and in what ways do we hope to be seen?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
01/14/2024
Bodhisattva Posture

This isn’t a talk on body mechanics, but on how, as aspiring bodhisattvas, we situate ourselves in relation to the suffering around and within us. How do we structure our life, how do we frame the events and interactions around us in a way that nurtures and expresses our bodhisattva nature?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
01/10/2024
Precepts Class – 2

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
01/07/2024
The Perfect Quilt

Jyoshin uses an illustration from her hospital chaplain work to talk about some of the ways we get caught trying to be perfect and in so doing lose sight of the reality and importance being present with things as they are.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
01/03/2024
Precepts Class – 1

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
12/17/2023
Everyday Practice

Dogen says, “Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day of your life”. What does continuous practice look like in our everyday lives?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Shin’yu Vitells
12/03/2023
We Can’t Help but Smile

As Rohatsu begins, we consider our relationship to awakening. Is it near or far? Vast or ordinary? Sometimes we can’t help but smile.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
11/29/2023
Foundational Teachings – 10

This annual class explores Buddhism’s foundational teachings, covering topics such as the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, Karma and Rebirth, Dependent Origination, the Paramitas and other aspirational practices, as well as contributions from some of our important Zen ancestors.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Daigai Filbert, Shin’yu Vitells
11/26/2023
Include Everything

Chan Master Hongzhi instructed us, “Contact phenomena with total sincerity, not a single atom of dust outside yourself.” Gyoshi explores implications of this instruction.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Mike Gyoshi Kaplan
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