Gratitude Talks

Hiro Ikushima reflects on gratitude, suffering, and the Zen practice of “just sitting.” Through stories of kindness, mistakes, competition, and retreat, this talk explores how letting go...

09/10/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.
Doshin Dan Gudgel discusses gratitude and devotional practices, using his personal altars as examples, and...

06/13/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center.
Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the second section of the Eihei Koso Hotsuganmon by Dogen Zenji.

Shindo Gita Gayatri reflects on times of change at Zen Center and in the wider world, using Dogen's fascicle Uji (Being Time) and the non-dual Advaita Vedanta teachings from her native India to...

Talk by Paul Haller at City Center on 2023-11-22

Talk by Chikudo Catherine Spaeth at City Center on 2022-11-26

Appreciation as a practice of refuge.
02/16/2022, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center.

09/02/2020, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center.

Talk by Mary Stares at City Center on 2020-02-19

Talk by Susan O Connell at Green Gulch Farm on 2019-12-29

Talk by Tim Oconner Fraisher at City Center on 2019-11-20

07/31/2019, Leslie James, dharma talk at Tassajara.

1/27/2018, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis dharma talk at City Center.

10/14/2017, Sessei Meg Levie dharma talk at City Center.

Talk by Ryushin Paul Haller at City Center on 2016-11-26

Talk by Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts at City Center on 2015-12-12

11/22/2015, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

7/7/2010, Myogen Steve Stucky dharma talk at Tassajara.

8/19/2009, Zenshin Greg Fain dharma talk at City Center.

Talk by Charlie Pokorny at Green Gulch Farm on 2007-09-26

Sunday Lecture Children's Lecture: Baby beluga; why are you here?; Dogen's Three Minds: joyful mind, kind mind, big mind; mother's love as essence of spirituality (...

How awareness of death, and our own mortality, spurs us to greater effort in practice.

The silence of 'don't know'; outer space Vimalakirti Sutra; radiant vision of alternate universes. Motivation for literary inventiveness - world is not only what we think;...