City Center Talks

08/06/2025, Kristin Diggs, dharma talk at City Center.
Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the centrality of self-study in the context of Soto Zen, the interdependent nature...

08/27/2025, So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson, dharma talk at City Center.
So-on Eli Brown-Stevenson explores what it means to be a good ancestor now: carrying warmth, witnessing...

08/23/2025, Myles Cowherd, dharma talk at City Center.
Myles Cowherd explores the transformative power of sincerity and acceptance as a counterpoint to a life of...

08/23/2025, Myles Cowherd, dharma talk at City Center.
Myles Cowherd explores the transformative power of sincerity and acceptance as a counterpoint to a life of...

08/20/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
Shosan Victoria Austin teaches that when we train our posture and breathing in a manner that helps us sit...

08/16/2025, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman unpacks what it might mean to become yourself through the simple but...

08/16/2025, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman unpacks what it might mean to become yourself through the simple but...

08/09/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center.
Shundo David Haye reflects on the way we hold stories about ourselves and others, and how our practice of...

Talk by Ryushin Paul Haller at City Center on 2025-07-26

07/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler celebrates together with the sangha the launch of the first new book of Suzuki...

07/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler celebrates together with the sangha the launch of the first new book of Suzuki...

07/12/2025, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center.
Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores the dharma of living and practicing in a human body.

07/05/2025, Mark Lesser, dharma talk at City Center.
Marc Lesser discusses a teaching from Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh: Breathing, smiling and living are three...

06/21/2025, Esho Sudan, dharma talk at City Center.
Esho Sudan explores the life-story and great legacy of Sozen Nagasawa Roshi, a Soto Zen abbess and teacher, founder of...

06/18/2025, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center.
Jisan Tova Green shares how Zen practice has influenced her long engagement with peace and justice issues, and...

06/11/2025, Rebecca Li, dharma talk at City Center.
Dr. Rebecca Li explains how the practice of Silent Illumination is to actualize the Buddha’s teachings to be free from...

05/31/2025, Teah Strozer, dharma talk at City Center.
Teah Strozer explores the ways that our assumptions and fixed ideas about people or situations can blind us to...

05/24/2025, Monitsu Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Monitsu Pamela Weiss explores the twin themes of refuge and compassion in Cases 4 and 54 of the Book of Serenity...

05/17/2025, Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi, dharma talk at City Center.
Former Abbot Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi discusses lessons from a life of practice, and from close...

05/14/2025, Tatsudo Nicole Baden, dharma talk at City Center.
Tatsudo Nicole Baden explores two foundational Buddhist perspectives: that everything changes (impermanence...

05/10/2025, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.
Central Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman takes up Case 12 from the Book of Serenity, titled ‘Dizang Planting...

04/30/2025, Gengyoko Tim Wicks , dharma talk at City Center.
Gengyoko Tim Wicks speaks about the cultivation of dana paramita (giving) in our zazen practice and Eihei...

04/23/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin uses Keizan Zenji’s teachings to explore the questions: What is intentional service? And...

Talk by Shundo David Haye at City Center on 2025-04-15