A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Spirituality and Governance
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Norma Wong, a Zen priest of Native Hawaiian and Hakka Chinese descent, offers a Zen and indigenou...
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A Santa Fe, NM Zen center and community with retreats, daily meditation, weekly Dharma talks on Buddhist teachings
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Listen to Upaya Zen Center, a Religion & Spirituality podcast by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot. Stream 85 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 85 episodesThe Measure of Our Humanity: WISDOM
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity series, Roshi Joan Halifax opens with a guided meditation grounded in stability, breath, and...
Open Dharma: Taking Refuge in Community
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Senseis Kodo and Dainin join Roshi Joan Halifax as she explores what it means to live and take refuge i...
Caught in the Self-Centered Dream
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Koshin Flint Sparks takes up an old question posed to the Buddha’s disciple Mahakaccana: what drives ou...
The Transformative Power of Suffering: Finding an Appropriate Response
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Genryu Clayton Dalton — emergency physician and novice priest — draws on stories from his hospital work...
Breathe with Your Ears
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Butsumon Tuck Stibich describes teaching the GRACE program — Roshi Joan’s framework for compassionate a...
Appreciate Your Life: Reflections on Interbeing
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, delivered on the eve of the 15th anniversary of her twin sister Ellie’s passing, novice priest Jimon Lo...
The Raft and the Shore
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin takes us through the currents of the Buddha’s raft metaphor — where practice becomes bind...
Planting Life 2026: Corn, Culture, and the Living Stars (Part 6b)
In the 1st part of this closing session of Planting Life , Alonso Mendez — archaeoastronomer, artist, and farmer — opens a window into the a...
Planting Life 2026: Corn, Culture, and the Living Stars (Part 6A)
In the 1st part of this closing session of Planting Life , Alonso Mendez — archaeoastronomer, artist, and farmer — opens a window into the a...
Planting Life 2026: Rewilding
In this fifth session of Planting Life , Roshi Joan Halifax gathers the community around Wendell Berry’s poem “The Person Born t...
Planting Life 2026: Indigenous Education
In this fourth session of Planting Life , Porter Swentzell of Santa Clara Pueblo — historian, anthropologist, and executive director of Hapo...
Planting Life 2026: Ancestral Knowledge
In this third session of Planting Life , Roxanne Swentzell of Santa Clara Pueblo — sculptor, farmer, and founder of Flowering Tree Permacult...
Planting Life 2026: A Little Drop of Love
In the second session of Planting Life , following the morning’s planting ceremony, Beata Tsosie of Santa Clara Pueblo brings her deca...
Planting Life 2026: Plant Life Wherever We Are
In this opening session of Planting Life , Roshi Joan Halifax , Wendy Johnson , and Alonso Mendez gather the community around a single, urge...
Nothing Extra
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk , offered during Upaya’s Young Adult Sesshin , Sensei Kodo and Sensei Dainin explore two practices...
The Measure of Our Humanity: COMPASSION
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity , Roshi Joan Halifax draws on her newly written essay “Mutual Belonging, Compassion, an...
Great Determination
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk , Sensei Monshin Nannette Overley traces an honest question back to its roots: what is determination, an...
Planting Life, Honoring Traditional Ecological Knowledge
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk preceding the weekend retreat Planting Life, longtime teacher and master gardener Wendy Johnson calls th...
Buffalo Tail: A Story of Continuous Practice
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk , Sensei Dainin — emergency physician turned dharma teacher — explores what western medicine trains us t...