Recordings

Ko’in shares her insights about merit followed by questions and reflections.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Our practice is serious and sometimes intense. What does it mean to be lighthearted in Zen? A talk about goofing around, telling jokes, and joy.

Categories: Dharma Talks

In Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki likens Zen practice to learning to bake dough into bread. “Just to practice zazen and put ourselves in the oven is our way.” It sounds so uncomfortable. Why would we want to do this?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo explores how we pursue, receive, integrate, and make use of insight.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Some things we really need to hold on to and other things we need to let go of. But both of these have traps to fall into – clinging/attachment with one, passivity/indifference or aversion with the other. How do we discern when to do which, and how to do so skillfully?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Categories: Dharma Talks

What’s moving with tech mind?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Let us consider that morning meal, which has so much to offer.

Categories: Dharma Talks

The Buddha pointed to the benefit of reflecting on intoxication. Daigai followed this guidance during the Spring Ango term. In this Student Talk he shares what he learned.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Over four sessions in May, we look at the vows, verses, and gathas that support and center our daily practice.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Categories: Dharma Talks

Over four sessions in May, we look at the vows, verses, and gathas that support and center our daily practice.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Three participants from the ten-day Emerging Sangha Leadership Training offered brief talks and took questions.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Over four sessions in May, we look at the vows, verses, and gathas that support and center our daily practice.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Yes, Gyoshi revisits this central teaching with you. He intends to go beyond basic definition and philosophy, instead concentrating on why you might want to invite Impermanence into your active practice and how you might do that.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Over four sessions in May, we look at the vows, verses, and gathas that support and center our daily practice.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Interdependence, Social Engagement, and Abundance

In his new book, Inside the Flower Garland Sutra, Zen teacher Ben Connelly explains the significance of Huayan teachings for Buddhist practice, providing a broad overview of Huayan teachings and their practical implications for contemporary life, with a mix of testimonies from real-life situations and references to influential Buddhist texts.

Categories: Special Event

This Wednesday evening class series will look at sutras. Senior Practitioners and Dharma Rain Teachers will be presenting some of their favorite teachings from the sutras, so there will be a lot of variety. At that, it will be only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, we hope 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

Categories: Dharma Talks

Twice a year, our governing bodies share updates and news with the sangha and invite questions and feedback. In the Spring, the forum is sponsored by the Dharma Council, giving updates on liturgy, classes, programs, etc.

Categories: Sangha Forum

This Wednesday evening class series looks at sutras. Senior Practitioners and Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras, so there is a lot of variety. At that, it is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, we hope 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

Kakumyo discusses a parable from the Lotus Sutra on the koan of perceiving support. Something we all need to stretch into during challenging times.

Categories: Dharma Talks

This Wednesday evening class series looks at sutras. Senior Practitioners and Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras, so there is a lot of variety. At that, it is only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, we hope 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

Equanimity is one of the qualities of a seasoned Buddhist practitsioner that is most frequently misunderstood. Kakumyo explore how equanimity functions, its cultivation, and what that says about the workings of mind.

Categories: Dharma Talks

This Wednesday evening class series looks at sutras. Senior Practitioners and Dharma Rain Teachers present some of their favorite teachings from the sutras, so there is a lot of variety. At that, it only a taste of each sutra and a small sample of all of the sutras out there. Still, we hope 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

Reiju discusses her own experience with chronic pain, a workshop she took with others on practicing with chronic pain and illnesss, and some of the ways she finds practicing with pain connects her to dharma and sangha.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sometimes the effort to awaken seems to be entirely up to us alone. Sometimes the effort seems to require much more than we ourselves can give. We will explore the idea of ‘self-power and other-power’ in our lives and practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko continues to look at the Precept “Do not dwell on past mistakes.” This time she focuses on the second paragraph of the commentary. What does it mean to say, “One path, one dharma, one realization, one practice”? How does that relate to fault-finding and haphazard talk?

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Kakumyo shares a Dharma Talk.

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Tsuho talks about forms of the kesa worn in our lineage and how they are inseparable from our practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks