City Center Talks

06/02/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. On the first day of sesshin, exploring Daishin, Big or Great Mind, described in Dogen’s Tenzo Kyokun, and considering a...

06/01/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. This talk invites everyone—those sitting and those practicing at home—into wholehearted engagement and simplicity as we...

05/25/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center.
This talk shares stories from Layman Pang and his daughter Ling Zhao, and considers how to respond to the cries of...

05/21/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. How do we see and see through the separation created by the binary mind? Drawing on teachings by Dogen, Suzuki Roshi and...

05/18/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center.
Here we consider the judging mind—whose aim is to keep us tight, small, bound—and share teachings and myths that...

05/11/2022, Pamela WeissDeepening Faith, dharma talk at City Center.
Breathing in inspiration, breathing out aspiration, this talk explores how living by vow reveals the...

05/04/2022, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at City Center.
A personal and intimate reflection from Sr. Dharma Teacher Paul Haller, upon his return from caretaking for...

04/30/2022, Kanshin Ruth Ozeki, dharma talk at City Center.
Rev. Kanshin Ruth Ozeki, novelist and Zen priest ordained by Zoketsu Norman Fischer, talks about the Buddhist...

04/27/2022, Chikudo Catherine Spaeth, dharma talk at City Center.
This talk explores how in the tradition of Soto Zen awakening, equanimity and vow relate to each other...

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.