City Center Talks

Talk by Paul Haller at City Center on 2024-05-25

Talk by Paul Haller at City Center on 2024-05-25

05/18/2024, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Kokyo celebrates the spirit of nonsectarianism within Buddha-Dharma,...

05/15/2024, Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Dōshin Dan Gudgel investigates how using the word and idea of ‘enemy’...

05/11/2024, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple’s monthly one-day sitting, (this time held at Haight Street Art...

Talk by Gengyoko Tim Wicks Audio Only at City Center on 2024-05-11

Talk by Gengyoko Tim Wicks Full Edited Audio Only at City Center on 2024-05-11

Talk by Eli Brown Stevenson at City Center on 2024-05-08

04/27/2024, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis discusses the Zen text "Harmony of...

04/20/2024, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Kiku Christina Lehnherr discusses the dharma implications...

04/13/2024, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center.
Zen forms work both in clear and hidden ways. In this interactive lecture, given at Beginner's Mind Temple...

04/06/2024, Ryuko Laura Burges, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Ryuko Laura Burges opens the City Center temple’s celebration...

Talk by Doshin Mako Voelkel at City Center on 2024-03-27

Talk by Marc Lesser at City Center on 2024-03-23

03/20/2024, Gendo Lucy Xiao, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Gendo Lucy Xiao explores case number 3 from the koan collection "...

03/16/2024, Sojun Mel Weitsman - Norman Fischer - Andrea Thach - Susan Moon, book release at City Center.
In this discussion, three long-time Zen practitioners discuss...

03/13/2024, Koshin Steven Tierney, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Koshin Steven Tierney discusses the experience of loss and...

In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Teah Strozer reminds us everyone is enough — you, yourself, are perfect just as you are, even if, as Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said,...

Talk by Gengyoko Tim Wicks at City Center on 2024-03-06

02/28/2024, Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, given at Beginner's Mind Temple, Roger Hillyard discusses what we mean when we “take refuge” —...

The first of the four Great Bodhisattva Vows is to “save all beings,” but what exactly does this mean and how might I engage in such an impossible endeavor? In this talk, given...

Talk by Shundo David Haye at City Center on 2024-02-21

Talk by Kim Kogen Daiho Hart at City Center on 2024-02-14