Green Gulch Farm Talks

Jiryu Rutschman-Byler shares the story from Dogen Zenji’s chapter "Jinzu" about the “great supernatural accomplishments” of the Zen ancestors Guishan and Yangshan, as they...

Sozan Michael McCord takes a deep dive into the motivations behind acceptance and rejection, and the many ways they play out in everyday life.

Jiryu Rutschman-Byler explores and invites the practice of profound ease, which we can touch by exhaling completely enough to “let go of hundreds of years,” and which can feel like, as...

Kiku Christina Lehnherr teaches that cultivating generosity, patience, tolerance, compassion, gentleness and steadfastness are essential to create, and be in intimate relationship with our body....

Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler draws on Dogen's teaching that "to carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion," and invites the question of what we may be carrying in...

Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho expands the teachings of Buddha from tools held in our hands (in our control) to a way of living that is wider than we can imagine.

Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the classical Zen teaching "the ten thousand things are one body," exploring how understanding that truth plants seeds of peace in our hearts and in this...

Heather Shōren Iarusso discusses an encounter with a rattlesnake when, in the flash of danger, there is no “Heather,” no narrative, no arising mental formations—only pure perception...

Thiemo Blank guides us towards awakening to the "one who is not busy" in everyday activity.

12/07/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on a line from the Song of the Trusting Mind, “If you want the Way to manifest, then...

11/16/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho teaches that sometimes it is necessary to be for or against but there is a broader context in...

11/02/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Stephanie Blank honors the effort and awakening of our ancestors and calls on us—the living—to rise up in...

10/19/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on the “Finding Yourself” chapter of “Becoming...

Tatsudo Nicole Baden explores how Zen practice literally shifts the architecture of our experience — from a narrow, biographical “here” into a living,...

Hoka Chris Fortin asks: How do we—individually and as one—not turn away but bear witness, and respond to the suffering of the world with clear-hearted wisdom and compassion as we awaken...

09/07/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Sozan Michael McCord considers the deeper purpose of monasteries—not only as places of study and...

08/31/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler discusses practicing kindness as an overflowing of the direct experience...

08/17/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Doshin Dan Gudgel explores how feeling the preciousness of life can support deep practice, kindness and...

07/27/2025, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Zenshin Greg Fain talks about gratitude and grief in the context of Thusness. Gratitude and grief can both...

07/13/2025, Gengyoko Tim Wicks, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Gengyoko Tim Wicks explores cultivating joyful energy in times of crisis, with reference to Eihei Dogen...

07/06/2025, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer discusses a forthcoming book by the Japanese Zen Master Kosho Uchiyama about...

06/22/2025, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
As senior dharma teacher Linda Ruth Cutts prepares to move from Green Gulch and SFZC residency after 54...