Zen History: Informing our Practice and Lives Today
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk during Upaya’s Fall Practice Period, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer explores how Zhaozhou’s teachings invi...
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20 of 125 episodesAncestral Stories: A Dharma Gate of Intimacy with Our Lives
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan Kear opens up the practice of koans as part of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period devot...
Zhao Zhou’s Mu: The Threshold of Everyday Practice
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk, Sensei Shinzan explores the famous koan “Mu” from Zhao Zhou (Joshu in Japanese), leading up to Upaya’s...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Keeping Close (Part 5B)
This is the second half of the closing session for the Love and Death series: Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on what it means to practice beyon...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Keeping Close (Part 5A)
This is the first half of the closing session for the Love and Death series: Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on what it means to practice beyond...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: The Law of Change and Becoming (Part 4)
In part four of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski brings death into the room through photographs of people he accompanied at the Ze...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Guided by Grief (Part 3B)
In this second half of part three of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski continues with Guest teacher Sensei Koshin Flint Sparks, a p...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Guided by Grief (Part 3A)
This is the first half of part three of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski discusses grief as “the river running through our lives.”...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Fearless Love (Part 2B)
This is the second half of part two of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the fearless nature of love...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Fearless Love (Part 2A)
This is the first half of part two of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the fearless nature of love,...
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Opening the Great Gifts : Opening Session (Part 1)
In this opening session of Love and Death, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski return to the line that anchors this annual series: “Love...
Ordinary Mind is the Way
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk, Sensei Koshin Flint Sparks explores a simple and radical teaching: our ordinary experience is itself th...
The Measure of Our Humanity: BELONGING
In this session of the ongoing series, The Measure of Our Humanity, Frank Ostaseski along side Roshi Joan explores what it means to truly be...
Being real
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Frank Ostaseski traces what he learned sitting at the bedside of thousands of dying people: “to sit nex...
Grace in Prison
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Dainin describes bringing Roshi Joan’s G.R.A.C.E. compassion training into New Mexico’s prison s...
The Measure of Our Humanity: POSSIBILITY
This session of The Measure of Our Humanity series opens with Roshi Joan Halifax‘s welcome and a grounding meditation led by Dainin, before...
The Open Gate
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin turns to the first two folds of the Eightfold Path—right view and right intention—the wis...
Varela 2026: Closing Q&A (Part 11)
In Part 11, the closing of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax, John Dunne, Molly Crockett, and Adam Frank address...
Varela 2026: Panel Discussion – AI, Experience, and Ethics (Part 10)
In Part 10 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax, John Dunne, Molly Crockett, and Adam Frank gather as a panel to...
Varela 2026: A Conversation with Michael Pollan (Part 9)
In Part 9 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax introduces a pre-recorded conversation with author Michael Pollan...