Recordings

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

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 speaks about Nyogen Senzaki, Hongshi, and meditation practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

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

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

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

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

Categories: Dharma Talks

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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