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Weekly public talks recorded live at the Angel City Zen Center
In our ongoing series where brave sangha members tell us the story what they’re doing and why they’re here (while we just maybe learn someth...
What would make someone not a Buddhist?? Life is fleeting, unsatisfying, & essentially empty, and are we into, and ready to reckon with that...
In a starkly honest and personal talk, Gyokei reflects on renunciation and picking & choosing through his experience growing up as a rural t...
On a quest to find us the final answer to the problem of time, ethics, and being, Bryan stumbles into the far more fascinating conundrum of...
Sara gives us an insightful reflection on narrative and story telling, either our most powerful technology or our greatest hindrance to seei...
In an encouraging pep talk for ango, Dave unveils a new translation of the bodhisattva vows and rouses us to the impossibility of fulfilling...
Sara gives us a candid Zen look at modern dating, aka an endless opportunity for working with compassion. Does seeing the best in people bri...
Matthew brings us an encouraging and insightful talk on working with our default states, self worth, how to pay attention, karmic momentum,...
Samm spins us an ancient Zen love tragedy (that might even have a happy ending?), and helps us heal the one breakup we urgently need to mend...
Dave gives us a brass tacks intro to Zen and ACZC for beginners of all experience levels while making the case that Zen is the funniest worl...
Patrick takes on the world and people that rile us up, and how to sit down and face the wall with them without actually turning our backs. D...
Sara delivers us a timely pep talk on how to find sustainable energy in an exhausting world. What’s the difference between grinding energy a...
Dave tries to figure out what Zen meant when they said inanimate objects talk to us, and how to stay sustainably weird in a society that (fo...
Sara takes a hard hitting honest look at commitment, its phobia, and the choices we seem to be making for better or worse. What are we commi...
Chris takes a Buddhist look at burn out and bad habits and how and why we choose to make things worse when we know so much better. Zen can s...
Dave tells the story of the time Buddha preserved democracy for 2000 years and started a radical social revolution that not only didn’t get...
A well seasoned line cook takes a gig in the Zen kitchen and dishes us up a moving report on the dirt and dharma inherent to the work. How d...
Dave rings in the new year with a spirited rendition of Dogen’s Time Being and a wholehearted dissection of the idea and experience of time....
Great sangha friend Beth Kaiserman brings us the story of what she’s doing and why she’s here; a story about spirituality for the irreligiou...
In a rousing exhortation for retreat, Sara takes on the impossible question of what exactly happened to Buddha the night he sat too long und...
“ The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having an end, it will neve...
ACZC’s favorite poet in residence Matthew gives us a talk on Zen, creativity, and art and the many frictions and harmonies between them. Can...
“You can go home again, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.” - Ursula Le Guin Sara kicks off the holid...
“She said, ‘This isn’t the koan you wanted.’ And I thought about that. What do you do with a koan you don't want? Usually, if it's a koan, y...
“What are you doing if you're not trying, or trying not to be doing something? Everything you're doing.” - Dave Cuomo Dave gives us an exhor...
Sara explores the trend of abundance mentalities and the uncertain economics of trying to do what you want with your life. Do we already alw...
Heather makes some big life changes and takes the opportunity to explore the intimacy of not knowing. Do we need to find clarity before maki...
Dave brings us stories of famous Zen couples and pairings from throughout Zen history and his own life to see what we can learn about intima...
Gyokei explores what it means to seek and find a true teacher through the story of his own yearning and search for one. Is the idea of a tru...
Dave takes a historical and personal look at getting along with others and the magic sauce to finding a teacher and community you click with...
Jordan walks us through a wonderfully complicated talk on being a compassionate person in our complex modern world - what we think it means,...
Bryan brings us the story of growing up in a Zen that was not his own, going off to look for meaning everywhere else, only to find himself r...
Sara takes a Zen look at loneliness and the isolations we so often lament and long for. What’s the difference between loneliness and being a...
Dave brings us a talk on how to make peace with ourselves, guaranteed, after a difficult retreat when he’s feeling anything but peaceful. Wh...
Matthew takes us on a spiritual journey through his curious resistance to Zen’s boundless acceptance. Is acceptance a hindrance to growth an...
Samm takes us on a lyrical and lucid walk through what it means to be at home wherever you are, with some infotaining side quests into the r...
Good teachers go bad - which is confusing and upsetting. Dave does his best to walk us through best practices for managing boundaries, roles...
Sara takes an honest look at desire to see if she can afford a fulfilling life with less filling pay. How can desires lead to fulfillment? I...
Our great ancestor friend Keizan takes us on a wild ride of epically thorough zazen instruction, warnings, epiphanies, inspirations, cosmic...
Dave gets topical with a talk on AI from the Zen perspective to see if we can shed any light on what it is, what we should do with it, and w...
Gyokei gives us stories of friendly (and hungry!) ghosts as he explains the meaning and history of Obon, the summer festival of spirits in J...
Dave loses a good dog friend and gets curious about the sweet and silly human feelings that come up in a week of sweet sorrow. Should monks...
Mota gets an unexpected phone call and takes the opportunity to dig into some tough love teachings on change and transiency, and how they mi...
Jordan takes a critical look at the benefits of zazen and questions whether that was ever really the point, or even something we should rely...
Sara goes looking for healthy ambitions in certain impermanence as she rests her case on training with a deeply personal breakdown and exege...
Dave tells us the full creation myth of how Buddhism says this world came to be, how it’s going to end, and all the mishaps and miracles in...
Sara Campbell closes out our first official training ango with a flash fiction final - a brief loving study of our favorite Buddha and Bodhi...
Dave tackles the big Buddhist question of the hour - are we really learning traditional Buddhism over here or are we making up our own thing...
Poet in residence and long time ACZC collaborator, Matt, generously boils down 14 billion years of carefully cultivated circumstances into o...
Dave unpacks the Ryogone, that monster of a magical incantation we’ve recently incorporated into our laid back secular practice here, and al...