The Gift of Attention
Given by Dan Zigmond at City Center on August 13th, 2026 Dan Zigmond explores attention itself as a form of generosity: dana, the first of t...
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San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Dharma Talks given at San Francisco Zen Center
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20 of 79 episodesCleaning Our Environment/Cleaning Our Mind
Given by Kika Susan Hellein at Green Gulch Farm on August 9th, 2026 Kika Hellein discusses the relationship between interior and external re...
Heart-Teachings of a No-Good, Lazy Monk
Given by Jan Willis at Green Gulch Farm on August 2nd, 2026 Dr. Jan Willis discusses the life of eighth-century poet and philosopher, Shanti...
Attention: Practice to Benefit the World
Given by Eijun Linda Cutts at Green Gulch Farm on July 26th, 2026 Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts explores how caring with wholehearted attention to...
Turning the Light Around to Illuminate the Light
Given by Tenzen David Zimmerman at City Center on July 25th, 2026 Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman offers three analogies related to lig...
Joy and Responsibility in Zen
Given by Doshin Dan Gudgel at City Center on July 22nd, 2026 Doshin Dan Gudgel explores joy as a fuel for practice and shares a practice for...
Nothing Wasted
Given by So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson at Green Gulch Farm on July 19th, 2026 So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson explores a practice that rejects nothing...
We Are Buddhas and Ancestors
Given by Odo Ellen Simpson at City Center on July 18th, 2026 Odo Ellen Simpson explores the depth and complexity of Soto Zen ancestor practi...
When A Buddha Breaks
Given by Tenzen David Zimmerman at Green Gulch Farm on July 12th, 2026 Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman speaks to the loss felt by the f...
Honoring My Teacher
Given by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho at City Center on July 11th, 2026 Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho shares the experience of being a student an...
Returning and the Settled Self
Given by Horin Nancy Petrin at City Center on July 8th, 2026 Horin Nancy Petrin reflects on the 'settled self' inspired by Suzuki Roshi's le...
Taste The Truth
Given by Shundo David Haye at City Center on July 1st, 2026 Shundo David Haye reflects on the role and value of practice in imbuing us with...
The Dharma of Demi-Girls
Given by Shoren Heather Iarusso at Green Gulch Farm on June 28th, 2026 Shōren Heather Iarusso explores the intersection of Buddhism, gender...
The Historical-Political Rise of Silent Illumination, Shikantaza, and the Embodied Experiencing of this Practice
Given by Guo Gu at City Center on June 16th, 2026
Zazen Sits Zazen for the Welfare of the World
Given by Nyokai Kristin Diggs at Green Gulch Farm on June 14th, 2026 Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about zazen as a practice of realizing the n...
The Great Miracle
Given by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler at Green Gulch Farm on June 7th, 2026 Jiryu Rutschman-Byler shares the story from Dogen Zenji's chapter "Jinz...
Awakening to the Sickened Heart
Given by Chikudo Catherine Spaeth at City Center on June 3rd, 2026 Chikudo Catherine Spaeth teaches that a whole world of forms catches us u...
A Non-Buddhist Questions the Buddha
Given by Sokaku Kathie Fischer at Green Gulch Farm on May 31st, 2026 Sokaku Kathie Fischer examines examines Case 32 of the Mumonkan (The Ga...
Come Home, Come Home!
Given by Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道 at City Center on May 30th, 2026 Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道 explores the dynamic interplay between our awakened nature a...
Not Taking What Is Not Given
Given by Sozan Michael McCord at Green Gulch Farm on May 24th, 2026 Sozan Michael McCord takes a deep dive into the motivations behind accep...