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...
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20 of 111 episodesThe 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...
Varela 2026: Ethical Considerations in an Age of AI – Panel Discussion (Part 8)
In Part 8 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Adam, Molly, John, and Roshi Joan open the floor to important questions of our time....
The Metta Sutta: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Koshin Flint Sparks explores the Metta Sutta as a practice that asks far more of us than simple...
Varela 2026: In the Grove of Mortality (Part 7)
In Part 7 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Molly Crockett turns to a question with real stakes in the race of AI development: Ca...
Varela 2026: Kensho, Joriki, and Ordinary Mind in Zen Practice (Part 6)
In Part 6 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax leads a guided sitting before turning to what she calls the four o...
Varela 2026: Re/cognizing the Mystical (Part 5)
In Part 5 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, John Dunne returns for his second talk of the program, tracing “mystical experience”...
Varela 2026: The Blind Spot – Part B (Part 4B)
In Part 4B (the 2nd half of Part 4) of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, astrophysicist Adam Frank, PhD., turns to what comes after:...
Varela 2026: The Blind Spot – Part A (Part 4A)
In Part 4A (the first half of Part 4) of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Molly Crockett opens with a guided meditation on the brea...
Varela 2026: Panel Discussion – Time, Perception, and Not-Knowing (Part 3)
In Part 3 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, the faculty explores the nature of experience in this Day 1 panel session — reflexive...
Varela 2026: Reflexive Awareness and Encountering Reality (Part 2)
In Part 2 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, John Dunne, PhD, opens with a guided meditation on reflexive, non-dual awareness befo...
Varela Contemplative Science Retreat 2026: Opening Session (Part 1)
In this opening session (Part 1) of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax welcomes practitioners on-site and online,...
Dogen Seminar 2026: Our Care-full Attention (Part 7 of 7)
In this final session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar 2026, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer takes up Dogen’s Mountains and Waters Sutra, tracing how s...
Dogen Seminar 2026: Faculty Reflections (Part 6)
In this session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar 2026, Reverend Tenmyo Dojima introduces baika, the Soto Zen tradition of Buddhist hymn-singing, cha...
Dogen Seminar 2026: The Four Methods of Guidance (Part 5)
In this session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar 2026, Roshi Norman Fischer takes up Dogen’s fascicle Bodhisattva Shishobo, the Four Methods of Guid...
Dogen Seminar 2026: Contemporary Dogen (Part 4)
In this session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar 2026, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi traces Dogen’s contemporary journey from a Zen ancestor barely mentioned...