City Center Talks

04/20/2022, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center.
The Heart Sutra teaches emptiness as a context for understanding Buddhist teaching as not static or rigid,...

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...

04/13/2022, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk at City Center.
Using the examples of Dogen, Suzuki Roshi, Hakuin, and Nun Abutsu, Marcia describes how koans, sutras, letters,...

Talk by Sozan Miglioli at City Center on 2022-04-06

What does it mean to practice in a time of war and pandemic? Using a couple of traditional texts, Shundo suggests ways that we can ground our practice in whatever conditions we...

Talk by Ryushin Paul Haller at City Center on 2022-03-26

The fundamental teaching of taking refuge. Repeatedly taking reguge, through the day with formal practice in zazen, in liturgy, in chanting, through stitching robes, daily...

On the 49th day of Thich Nhat Han's passing, Peggy Ward, senior Dharma teacher in Buddhist Plum Village tradition, reflects on vow and the refuges.
03/12/2022, Peggy Ward...

By engaging and practicing the Paramitas we turn our exploration of refuge outward. Including all beings.
03/05/2022, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center...

Exploring the possiblity of transformation and creating a Sangha of Belonging by giving ourselves over to each other. 03/02/2022, Horin Nancy Petrin, dharma talk at City Center...

Impermanence happens, yes, but how do we actually make change happen?
02/26/2022, Mushim Patricia Ikeda, dharma talk at City Center.

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

Examining Dogen's famous phrase, "To study the self is to forget the self." 02/12/2022, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.

Buddha's teaching on refuge and entering freedom through the refuge of coming home.
02/09/2022, Gil Fronsdal, dharma talk at City Center.

An exploration of how engaging every moment, every place, every activity can become refuge.
01/29/2022, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center.

Opening talk to the Winter 2022 Practice Period at Hosshin-ji Beginners Temple (City Center).
01/26/2022, Ryushin Paul Haller and Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at...

A dharma talk on the day of a jukai ceremony, exploring vow and the 16 Bodhisattva precepts.
01/22/2022, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, Jisan Tova Green, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma...

01/19/2022, Shoren Heather Iarusso, dharma talk at City Center.

An exploration of the Buddhist practice of cutting through the delusion of our disconnectedness highlighting Dr. Martin Luther King and Eihei Dogen's teaching of Uji (Time...

Guided by the great Mahāyāna teachings of Prajñāpāramitā our Zen training asks us to join with all beings and follow the investigation of our karmic responsibilities from even...

As we enter the third year of the pandemic, reflecting on how our practice, and the legacy of Suzuki Roshi, can help us to keep moving forward.
01/05/2022, Shundo David...

Recommendations for practice.
12/22/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.

Needs can be basic. They can also arise from values. What happens when needs are born from karma? 12/11/2021, Sozan Miglioli, dharma talk at City Center.

A talk on Shakyamuni's Buddha's karmic journey. 04/12/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.