Suzuki Roshi Talks

Talk by Eli Brown Stevenson at City Center on 2024-02-07

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

08/19/2023, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk from Beginner's Mind Temple, given as part of a one-day sitting, acting tanto Jisan Tova Green...

07/08/2023, Hozan Alan Senauke, dharma talk at City Center.
Hozan Alan Senauke, abbot of Berkeley Zen Center, in this dharma talk from Beginner’s Mind Temple, discusses...

07/02/2023, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Three barriers to pass through, from Case 47 in the Gateless Barrier koan collection: where is your buddha-nature...

06/07/2023, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at City Center.
Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, in this talk from Beginner's mind temple, investigates how communal...

05/14/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this Dharma talk, Jiryu uses the seventh century Chinese Buddhist ancestor Fazang’s analogy of “the...

04/30/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu explores the fundamental Zen practice of "total exertion" or "burning completely...

Talk by Ryushin Paul Haller at City Center on 2023-03-08

Talk by Shundo David Haye at City Center on 2022-12-20

Talk by Tenzen David Zimmerman at City Center on 2022-12-08

Talk by Tenzen David Zimmerman at City Center on 2022-12-06

Talk by Soon Eli Brownstevenson at City Center on 2022-12-05

11/13/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Reflections on the importance of rest and relaxation to wholeheartedly express our practice life.

11/02/2022, Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center.
The practice of trying on koans.

10/05/2022, Rinso Ed Sattizahn and Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
In the first dharma talk of the Fall practice period, Abbots Ed and David provide an...

09/21/2022, Kodo Conlin, dharma talk at City Center. Taking a page from Dogen's own collection of koans, we consider Guishan's conversation with Yangshan about a gift of silk...

09/14/2022, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center.
Drawing on the teachings of Suzuki Roshi and Dogen, Shundo reflects on the history of City Center and how to...

08/14/2022, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
A talk on Suzuki Roshi's statement that, while the essential truth of Buddhism is most directly...

07/13/2022, Kodo Conlin, dharma talk at City Center. Reflections from the City Center Buddha Hall on Suzuki Roshi's teaching of "Inmost Request," a pointing to both one's basic...

Talk by Pamela Weiss at City Center on 2022-06-02

04/24/2022, Steve Weintraub, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Commenting on teachings from Suzuki Roshi and Dogen Zenji, Steve Weintraub presents the Zen understanding of...

04/16/2022, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at City Center.
"Rather than taking on the enormity of the suffering world, Suzuki Roshi suggested that we choose...