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50 episodes

The Monkey and the Machine

04/08/2026, Dan Zigmond, dharma talk at City Center. Dan Zigmond explores how the "monkey mind" the Buddha diagnosed 2,500 years ago is exac...

00:42:38Apr 9, 2026

Illusions, Delusions, and Mistaken Beliefs

04/04/2026, Marc Lesser, dharma talk at City Center. Marc Lesser weaves together personal stories, Shunryu Suzuki, Dogen, and the Enneagram,...

00:40:38Apr 4, 2026

Mountains Walk and Rivers Talk

04/01/2026, Henzan Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard explores how Dogen's most poetic sutra, Mountains and Rivers,...

00:42:19Apr 2, 2026

A Path of Zen Healing

03/18/2026, Doshin Patti Mitchell, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Patti Mitchell shares how meditation and community helped her face suf...

00:40:58Mar 19, 2026

Buddhism Is A Way of Life

03/15/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho expands the teachings of Buddha from tools he...

00:54:41Mar 15, 2026

Mahapajapati and Liberation

03/14/2026, Doshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk at City Center. Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel explores the life and lessons of Mahapajapati...

01:03:58Mar 14, 2026

Can Stillness Be Trusted?

03/08/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho explores stillness and silence as a response...

00:35:00Mar 8, 2026

Can Stillness Be Trusted?

03/08/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho explores stillness and silence as a resp...

00:35:00Mar 8, 2026

Buddha Body – Buddha Earth

03/07/2026, Jeannie Linam and Myoju Erin Merk, dharma talk at City Center. Jeannie Linam and Myoju Erin Merk explore how our individual body...

00:40:04Mar 7, 2026

Building a Posture of Love

03/04/2026, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin explores love as an internal posture, rather than a f...

00:32:32Mar 5, 2026

Left Hand, Right Hand

03/01/2026, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the classical Zen teaching "the...

00:43:04Mar 1, 2026

Awakening With the Help of Just This Body

02/28/2026, Grace Dammann, dharma talk at City Center. Dr. Grace Dammann shares her journey through medicine, Zen practice, disability, and...

00:44:17Feb 28, 2026

On Presence

02/25/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, dharma talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo reflects on full presence as direct, embodied, moment-to-mo...

00:28:35Feb 26, 2026

Tending to the Cries of the Earth

02/22/2026, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho speaks to the fear of being consumed by...

00:35:00Feb 22, 2026

Cultivating the Art of Tenderness

02/21/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores meeting everything that presents itself to...

00:38:37Feb 21, 2026

Expectations

02/20/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, sesshin dharma talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo explores how lifelong, internalized expectations—sh...

00:37:27Feb 20, 2026

The Practice of Settling Down

02/19/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, sesshin dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores how resting our attention on our b...

00:34:34Feb 19, 2026

One Hiss and I Lost What I Know

02/15/2026, Heather Shoren Iarusso, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Heather Shōren Iarusso discusses an encounter with a rattlesnake when,...

00:44:16Feb 15, 2026

Message of Peace

02/14/2026, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center. Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道 invites us to welcome the Lunar New Year by settling into inner...

00:52:11Feb 14, 2026

Buddha's Robe as the Body

02/11/2026, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at City Center. Gengyoko Tim Wicks speaks about the history of the robes we wear (Buddha's Robe)...

00:31:23Feb 12, 2026

Nothing in the Universe Is Hidden

02/08/2026, Marc Lesser, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Marc Lesser explores awareness, compassion, and the idea that nothing in the unive...

00:34:36Feb 8, 2026

The Gates to Practice Multiply

02/07/2026, Onryu Mary Stares, dharma talk at City Center. Onryu Mary Stares explores how external stimuli can act as a gate to practice if...

00:36:04Feb 7, 2026

Work Practice and The "One Who Is Not Busy"

02/01/2026, Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Thiemo Blank guides us towards awakening to "the one who is not busy" in everyday...

00:42:21Feb 1, 2026

Agents of Peace and Change

Dharma Talks given at San Francisco Zen Center

00:49:30Jan 31, 2026

Disentangling Karma

01/28/2026, Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo, Shuso Way-Seeking Mind talk at City Center. Hokyo Lorenzo Garbo unpacks the shuso’s way-seking mind by fram...

00:58:24Jan 29, 2026

Cultivating Intimacy With Our Body

01/24/2026, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center. Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores how the body is completely and inseparably...

00:35:48Jan 24, 2026

Virya, Joyful Effort and M.L.K.

01/17/2026, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson reflects on Dr. King’s legacy as a practice of...

00:34:34Jan 17, 2026

I Don’t Exist!: The Self in Buddhism

01/14/2026, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center. Doshin Dan Gudgel discusses our human experience of feeling like a completely dis...

00:30:41Jan 15, 2026

Embodying Wonderment: Zen 2.0

01/10/2026, Mushim Patricia Ikeda, dharma talk at City Center. Mushim Patricia Ikeda asks how is our Zen Buddhist practice showing up within...

00:36:22Jan 10, 2026

Patience: The Buddhist Practice of Showing Up for the World

01/07/2026, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord explores how waiting is not necessarily patience. And it...

00:35:37Jan 8, 2026

Zen Gossip, Rumors, Speculation, and Idealization

01/04/2026, Nyokai Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Nyokai Kristin Diggs addresses the importance of reflecting upon ourselve...

00:35:58Jan 4, 2026

Undivided Giving: Empty Hands, Full Life

12/27/2025, Nyokai Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at City Center. Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the non-separation of feeling, sensing, and t...

00:35:33Dec 27, 2025

Scrooge’s Buddhist Lessons

12/20/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at City Center. Gyokuden Stephanie Blank considers Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as a...

00:46:34Dec 20, 2025

Great Is The Matter

12/17/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo reflects on two recent deaths in his family, and what our practice can tea...

00:28:32Dec 18, 2025

Two Directions, One Way: Reflections on U.S. Soto Zen and Insight Buddhism

12/13/2025, Keiryu Liên Shutt, dharma talk at City Center. Keiryu Liên Shutt presents an informal comparison of Soto Zen and Insight practic...

00:45:39Dec 13, 2025

Opinions and “The Way”

12/07/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on a line from the Song of the Trus...

00:54:00Dec 7, 2025

Awakening Through Harmonious Differences

11/22/2025, Thich Nu Thuan Tue, dharma talk at City Center.

00:35:22Nov 22, 2025

Arising in Unimaginable Awareness

11/16/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho teaches that sometimes it is necessary t...

00:43:33Nov 16, 2025

Awakening Together is APT

11/02/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Steph Blank honors the effort and awakening of our ancestors...

00:39:42Nov 2, 2025

Tend to Your Spirit: Teachings from Illness

11/01/2025, Zenshin Florence Caplow, dharma talk at City Center. Zenshin Florence Caplow offers stories and teachings from her life as both...

00:42:22Nov 1, 2025

Suzuki Roshi's Legacy and Our Path of Practice

10/26/2025, Sessei Meg Levie, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sessei Meg Levie reflects on Suzuki Roshi’s dedication to zazen, his work wit...

00:20:44Oct 26, 2025

Cultivating Stillness in Turbulent Times

10/25/2025, Dainin Marsha Angus, dharma talk at City Center. Dainin Marsha Angus teaches about cultivating and mental and physical capacity...

00:31:55Oct 25, 2025

Freedom in Limitation

10/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the “Finding Yourself” chapter o...

00:39:16Oct 19, 2025

Expanding How We See Things

10/18/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at City Center. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho teaches that when we remain in the mode of di...

00:43:08Oct 18, 2025

Perception and Practice

10/12/2025, Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson uses the image of bubbles and the teaching of th...

00:39:59Oct 12, 2025

The Power of Non-Retaliation

10/11/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin teaches that we can deepen our understanding of the c...

00:45:14Oct 11, 2025

A New Here: How Practice Opens Different Worlds

10/05/2025, Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Tatsudo Nicole Baden explores how Zen practice literally shifts the...

00:42:56Oct 5, 2025

A Request for Jukai

09/27/2025, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at City Center. Chikudo Catherine Spaeth teaches that zazen shows us what to care for, and...

00:32:21Sep 27, 2025

Engaged Buddhism

09/21/2025, Hoka Chris Fortin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Hoka Chris Fortin asks: How do we—individually and as one—not turn away but...

00:40:16Sep 21, 2025

A Journey Toward Boundless Connection

09/20/2025, Tenmyo Dojima 堂島典明, dharma talk at City Center. Tenmyo Dojima 堂島典明 shares how her early struggles with depression led her to red...

00:40:02Sep 20, 2025