Date Title & Details Speaker Listen Download
10/05/2022
Foundational Teachings 4

This annual class looks at Buddhism’s foundational teachings, covering things like the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, Karma and Rebirth, and on into Dependent Origination, Emptiness, Thusness, and Suchness. A seminary requirement, and pre-requisite for many other seminary classes. Kakumyo is leading this class, along with Sokuchu.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sokuchu Mader, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
10/02/2022
Walking Innocent

Interdependence and layers of causation have come up a lot recently. Kakumyo will explores these themes and how they relate to the activity of witnessing our self and being witnessed.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
09/28/2022
Foundational Teachings 3

This annual class looks at Buddhism’s foundational teachings, covering things like the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, Karma and Rebirth, and on into Dependent Origination, Emptiness, Thusness, and Suchness. A seminary requirement, and pre-requisite for many other seminary classes. Kakumyo is leading this class, along with Sokuchu.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sokuchu Mader, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
09/25/2022
Dharma Rain

Jyoshin looks at two verse summaries from the Lotus Sutra that talk about Dharma Rain. This recording only includes the last 20 minutes of the talk.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
09/21/2022
Foundational Teachings 2

This annual class looks at Buddhism’s foundational teachings, covering things like the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, Karma and Rebirth, and on into Dependent Origination, Emptiness, Thusness, and Suchness. A seminary requirement, and pre-requisite for many other seminary classes. Kakumyo is leading this class, along with Sokuchu.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sokuchu Mader, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
09/18/2022
The Gift of Practice

As we become more aware of the workings of mind, our sense of who we are, our responsibility, and what our practice is keeps changing. Kakumyo explores this by taking a look at two paramitas and Dogen’s Eight Realizations to see how they interweave.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
09/14/2022
Foundational Teachings 1

This annual class looks at Buddhism’s foundational teachings, covering things like the Buddha’s life, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, Karma and Rebirth, and on into Dependent Origination, Emptiness, Thusness, and Suchness. A seminary requirement, and pre-requisite for many other seminary classes. Kakumyo is leading this class, along with Sokuchu.

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sokuchu Mader, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
09/11/2022
Paths of Practice

As we settle into Ango and witness the public ceremonies of one person becoming an ordained priest and another entering postulancy toward that same path, Genko looks at some of the different ways we practice. Each of our lives is different, and each of us has our own unique path. And yet, when we come together, we create something that supports all of us in our practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko Rainwater
09/04/2022
Three Minds

We discuss the Three Minds of practice and how many Buddhists it takes to screw in a light bulb.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
08/21/2022
Brittleness and Beauty

There’s a deep-seated yearning we all tap into that guides how we live our life. It’s vulnerable to let its voice be prominent, and it takes skill to be able to listen to it consistently. One of the misses we make is we substitute rules and procedures for this subtle guidance. Kakumyo explores this edge in practice.  

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
08/14/2022
Almost Here, Almost Gone

Jyoshin describes the liminal space of this time of year.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
08/07/2022
The Dharma of Desire

Desire is one of the root causes of suffering in Buddhism. Using the teaching of the buddha, we will look at how desire entangles us and how to unravel its grip. Releasing our mind and body from the confusion desire creates, we open to wisdom and compassion.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Flying Fish Murphy
07/31/2022
Archetypes

Sometimes we find ourselves in stereotyped roles with another person, responding to another as though we are parent, child, hero, or villain. Why do enter into archetypal roles and how do we work with these in practice?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
07/24/2022
Things I Learned in Prison

Recently over breakfast, several residents expressed interest in learning more about what goes on in our prison groups. The conditions there suggest new and different ways to approach familiar teachings. Genko shares some of the learning/teaching opportunities from Dharma Rain’s prison program.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko Rainwater
07/17/2022
Remarkable and Unexpected

Kyogen used to quote his teacher, Roshi Kennett, as saying “you chase enlightenment until it catches you.” There is both an active, effortful, element to this phrase as well as an its-not-all-up-to-you-entirely element. What happens when, after throwing ourselves wholeheartedly into practice, something remarkable and unexpected occurs?

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
07/10/2022
Being Shuso

The shuso role is a visible and important training position at Dharma Rain. Tsuho talks about his experience serving as shuso, how temple roles shape one’s practice, and how our edges find us no matter where we go

Categories: Dharma Talks

Todd Tsuho Sattersten
07/03/2022
Reflections and Refractions

Kakumyo talks about the endless work of skillfully shifting perspectives in order to meet the world around us with a curiosity, dignity, and joy.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
06/26/2022
How to be Alone

We emphasize sangha and the benefits of practicing together. Then we engage in a kind of solitary practice in the same room. We will talk about the differences between being together and being alone, and what ‘alone’ means.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
06/12/2022
No Beginning, No End

How does the vastness of no beginning and no end inspire an intimate heart? Flying Fish gives a talk that explores the relationship between the meaning of these two statements and the implications on our practice and how we meet our daily life.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Flying Fish Murphy
06/05/2022
Fitting Zazen into Buddhism

Soto Zen’s core practice of just sitting is subtle and profound, and it’s also quite mysterious. It’s usually described via negation or in poetry, which is helpful for some, but not for all. This Sunday, Kakumyo will talk about some of the ways we approach shikan taza and what that may mean for our practice.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Kakumyo Lowe-Charde
05/29/2022
Coping with Tragedy and Loss

So much has happened recently. So much tragedy; so much pain. This week Jyoshin brings together threads of Buddhist teachings, practices, and reminders as ways of coping with tragedy and loss.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Jyoshin Clay
05/22/2022
Wandering Around

Genko explores the landscape of practice as it unfolds in sometimes unexpected ways.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Genko Rainwater
05/18/2022
Sutra Study: Vimalakirti Sutra

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Rick Fumyo Mishaga
05/15/2022
Emerging Sangha Leaders student talks.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Rick Fumyo Mishaga
05/11/2022
Sutra Study: Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Rick Fumyo Mishaga
05/08/2022
Avatamsaka Sutra

Categories: Dharma Talks

Gyokuko Carlson
05/04/2022
Sutra Study: Avatamsaka Sutra

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Gyokuko Carlson
05/01/2022
Being Born

Shin’yu explores the implications of Wesak.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Shin’yu Vitells
04/27/2022
Sutra Study: Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Genko Rainwater
04/24/2022
Like a Fool

Function secretly, like a fool? What kind of advice is that? We talk about fools and secrets, and also about that ever-elusive host within the host.

Categories: Dharma Talks

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
04/20/2022
Sutra Study: Tathagatagarbha Sutra

Categories: Wednesday Classes

Sallie Jiko Tisdale
04/17/2022
The Bodhisattva Vows

In this talk we explore together these challenging and powerful vows. We consider the koan nature of these vows and some of the rather different formulations of them. And we’ll look at how these vows might assist you in your practice.  

Categories: Dharma Talks

Mike Gyoshi Kaplan
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