City Center Talks

Talk by Roger Hillyard at City Center on 2021-11-29

In the context of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Kaira Jewel Lingo explores the Buddhist teaching of "the perceiver and the perceived." Getting close to life, ourselves and each...

A talk exploring the healing of dehumanization that comes with naming, remembering and reparation in Buddhist tradition.
11/13/2021, Duncan Ryuken Williams, dharma talk...

How it is that our fundamental human affliction ─ our everyday messy karmic consciousness ─ is none other than the unchanging, ever-present clear, and luminous knowledge of...

The Avatamsaka Sutra tells us that “Ordinary beings live according to their karma, being their karmic habitual tendencies, while a bodhisattva lives according to vow.” How...

A history of Sejiki Cermony, feeding of the hungry ghost. An open-hearted wish to welcome all beings without discrimination.
10/30/2021, Doshin Mako Voelkel, dharma talk...

A talk exploring how the study the self is an opportunity to understand and heal our individual and collective karma.
10/23/2021, Horin Nancy Petrin, dharma talk at City...

Talk by Tenzen David Zimmerman at City Center on 2021-10-20

A Dharma talk exploring the themes of karma, love, power and control and the Dharma practices of non-attaching or letting go.
10/16/2021, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma...

An exploration of clinging, attachment, selfing, karma and liberation through the metaphor of eddies.
10/06/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center....

09/29/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.

The ancient foundation of the breath, creating an environment for a skillful response.
09/18/2021, Myogan Djinn Gallagher, dharma talk at City Center.

Beekeeping as a temple art. The shared qualities fo honeybees and bodhisattvas, hives and sangha, enjoying the taste of honey.
09/08/2021, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk...

A student's reflections on a life of teachings with their teacher Sojun Mel Weitsman, and the nature of Bodhi Mind
08/28/2021, Hozan Alan Senauke, dharma talk at City...

Commentary on Case 87 from the Blue Cliff Record. Yunmen's Medicine and Disease. The whole earth is medicine. Which one's for you?
08/25/2021, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma...

An examination of what it means to both fully express ourselves and a consideration of how the world is being made in each moment (by each one of us).
08/21/2021, Furyu...

If we hurry the important and urgent nature of studying the self we are likely to miss "this" - the entire truth of who we are.
08/14/2021, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma...

08/04/2021, Yuki Kobiyama, dharma talk at City Center.

In this dharma talk Tenku Ruff explores the precept of right speech particularly what it means to practice in community/Sangha and the habit of assigning permanent status to...

In this talk, Sr. Dharma Teacher, Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts, brings forth the spirit of the Mahayana Buddhist Vimalakirti Sutra and the second turning of the wheel teachings. She...

Turning the light of attention in order to contact our true nature through an exploration of the practice instructions of Dogen Zenji's Fukanzazengi.
07/21/2021, Zesho...

What is it to take up the call of a Bodhisattva? This question is explored in this Dharma talk with Ashanti Branch of the Everforward Club and City Center Tanto, Nancy Petrin,...

A reflection on climate collapse and Zen practice. "I wonder what might happen if we tell ourselves the truth, instead of denying reality?"
07/07/2021, Shogen Jody Greene...

Zoketsu Norman Fischer, former abbot of San Francisco Zen Center and founding teacher of Everyday Zen reads and reflects on passages from the "What Is the Body?" chapter of...