San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

Dec 28 2024 50 ep. 36 mins 6.5k

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Public lectures given at San Francisco Zen Center

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Harmony, Respect, Purity, Tranquillity

Dec 28 2024 43 mins

12/28/2024, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Miglioli explores the four fundamental principles of Wa, Kei, Sei, and Jaku—core teachings rooted in Zen and essential to the Way of Tea.

Solstice: In the Darkness There is Light

Dec 21 2024 49 mins

12/21/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. On the occasion of the Winter Solstice, Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman delves into the themes of stillness, rest, liminality, and balance.

The River of Transmission

Dec 18 2024 29 mins

12/18/2024, Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard explores the idea of transmission — how it flows in all directions, how we experience it in our lives, and how Eihei Dogen wrote about it in “Twining Vines.”

The Womb of Emptiness and the Paramitas

Dec 10 2024 30 mins

12/10/2024, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at Tassajara.

Everything Is Connected

Dec 07 2024 37 mins

12/07/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. Jisan Tova Green weaves together several themes in this final talk of the City Center Fall 2024 Practice Period: welcoming beginner's mind and the ten ox-herding pictures, Buddha's enlightenment, and seeing our path of practice as a journey, not unlike Buddha's journey.

Zen at Work: Using Zen Principles in the Modern Work Day

Nov 30 2024 48 mins

11/30/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses where the concept of work practice came from in the Zen Buddhist tradition and how the principles found in the monastic setting can be used in any modern work context.

THANKS – GIVING

Nov 24 2024 53 mins

11/24/2024, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Kiku Christina Lehnherr teaches that practicing and overtly expressing appreciation, gratitude and generosity towards all the people, situations and things, great and small, that support our lives and fill them with love and beauty, is a powerful antidote to challenging situations.

Enjoying the Source

Nov 23 2024 41 mins

11/23/2024, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center. This dharma talk by former central abbot Rinso Ed Sattizahn examines Suzuki Roshi’s open, inviting practice, and unpacks Wang Wei’s poem “In my middle years…”

Finding Freedom

Nov 20 2024 28 mins

11/20/2024, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. In this dharma talk by Fall 2024 practice period co-leader Jisan Tova Green, Tova investigates how it's possible to find inner freedom in a world in which so many beings are not free to fully be who they are.

Eternal Peace

Nov 17 2024 49 mins

11/17/2024, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, closing a five day sesshin, Jiryu talks about the unborn, undying aspect of reality, opened to through the practice of stopping, dropping off everything, and just being our ordinary self.