Suffering Talks

06/15/2024, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center.
This talk was given at Beginner's Mind Temple, by Sozan Michael McCord. The Zen Buddhist path can seem like...

Talk by Fu Schroeder Sangha on 2024-06-09

Talk by Dan Gudgel at City Center on 2024-05-15

04/06/2024, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Ryuko Laura Burges opens the City Center temple’s celebration...

02/25/2024, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The first of the four Great Bodhisattva Vows is to “save all beings”, but what exactly does this mean and...

In this talk, given during the second one-day sitting of the winter 2024 practice period, Abiding Abbot Dōshin Mako Voelkel discusses the power and peace of not-knowing. In the...

Talk by Fu Schroeder Sangha Sessions Koun Ejo Gui Spina on 2024-01-14

This talk, from Beginner's Mind Temple, was given by City Center tanto (head of practice) Tim Wicks. Virya Paramita is often translated as "joyful" or "enthusiastic" energy....

Talk by Linda Galijan at City Center on 2023-11-11

Talk by Steve Weintraub at Green Gulch Farm on 2023-10-08

08/20/2023, Fu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Senior Dharma Teacher Fu Schroeder concludes a 3-day sesshin with a review of the ten ox-herding frames...

08/13/2023, Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Senior Dharma Teacher Tenshin Reb Anderson illuminates Zen and why we sit. We are conversation; we are always...

07/15/2023, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
In this dharma talk from Beginner's Mind Temple, Shosan Victoria Austin asks: How do we approach barriers...

07/09/2023, Dojin Sarah Emerson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Ritual is a way to heal ourselves, each other, and the earth.

06/11/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Jiryu shares teachings on continuously welcoming our problems as our practice, by exploring Suzuki...

04/29/2023, Ben Connelly, dharma talk at City Center.
Ben Connelly, in this talk from Beginner's Mind Temple, teaches about the three natures that were expounded by...

02/12/2023, Fu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Knowing the grief and despair that humans suffer in their lifetimes, the Buddha offered teachings to lessen the...

01/14/2023, Rhonda Magee, dharma talk at City Center. In this talk, Hoshi Rhonda Myozen Magee reflects on the concept of Beloved Community through the lens of those who have...

12/09/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. December sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on cause and effect.

11/12/2022, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center. Continuing the practice period study of koans from the Blue Cliff Record and Suzuki Roshi's commentaries on them....

10/27/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.

10/09/2022, Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The teachings of Interdependence, Emptiness and Dependent Arising in Mahayana Buddhism, explained with the help...

09/17/2022, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center.
We discuss Case 5 of the Book of Serenity - “Qīngyuán and the Price of Rice” - and how, as in all good Koans...