Speak Up If You're Stuck in a Zazen Rut
Certain topics seem off-limits in Zen, like: What's the goal of meditation? How do I get better at it? What is everyone else experiencing wh...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis's dharma talks
Zen talks by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, senior student at the Village Zendo.
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Which Beings Are Sentient?
Which animals are sentient, and how can we liberate them from suffering? I review the philosopher Jonathan Birch's book "The Edge of Sentien...
Is an Enlightened Person Afraid of Illness and Death?
This is a dharma talk I gave at the Village Zendo December 12, 2024, about my mother's brain surgery and end-of-life decisions. Here's the v...
Are You Prepared To Save A Life?
You can find yourself in a critical situation without warning. Is Zen practice preparing you? Here's a dharma talk I gave to the Village Zen...
Bodhisattvas Always Smile
Bodhisattvas smile, though they hear the suffering cries of the world. You should smile too! A Zen talk I gave against doomerism.
Give Something Away to a Stranger
Rich countries and drug firms act selfishly the COVID pandemic. Selfishness is natural, but we can strengthen our universal goodwill through...
These Unreliable United States
The United States as we know it will someday come to an end. It's shocking to see how vulnerable our democracy is, but as Buddhists we aren'...
American Religion in America's Time of Crisis
Buddhists must respond to the current political crisis, just as abolitionists like Frederick Douglass did in the 19th Century. A talk at the...
Who Can You Trust?
Our leaders are plainly untrustworthy. And when we hear about toilet paper hoarders, or protestors storming the Michigan governor's office,...
How Buddhism Survived The Japanese Internment
Japanese Americans founded our practice, and they preserved and adapted it to life in the internment camps during WWII. Today we must adapt...
How Not To Panic
Panic obliterates the self. We need a strong self to face fear in meditation and all of life. Dharma at the Village Zendo, February 23, 2020...
You Look So Zen
On a visit to some Buddhists incarcerated on a jail barge, I had to improvise how to practice Zen, just like we always have to improvise our...
When The Buddha Met A Murderer
Everyone deserves a place where we can practice together. Everyone deserves the opportunity for redemption. A talk I gave at the Village Zen...
Five Ways to Establish a Rock-Solid Meditation Habit
Meditation can transform your life, but it only works if you sit regularly. You can establish a strong, serious practice following these fiv...
How To Dissolve The Self
When you do something with attention, your self merges with your activity. Watch how the self shifts and moves, and you'll start to see thro...
How To Be Free From Greed
We waste our lives chasing temporary, superficial things, and our disappointment leads to grief. Here's a practice that loosens greed's grip...
Are the Six Senses True Reality, Or Not?
When we practice mindfulness of what we're experiencing here and now, we can be at peace and free of worry. But we can go much deeper than t...
Meaningless Striving
Each new year, Americans resolve to work harder and be more austere, for no reason. Let's stop torturing ourselves.
The Day That Yunmen Broke His Foot
The old stories all have the same punchline: the monk was suddenly enlightened. What really happens when we have an experience of insight? T...
Rules for Hyenas
If we treat the Zen precepts as a set of rules to obey, that's just conformity. Let's use them instead as a tool for busting the hierarchy!...
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