Jiryu Rutschman-Byler 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...

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...

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

07/20/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on recent departures from Green Gulch of the elder teachers of...

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...

06/01/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler takes up the theme of “Becoming Yourself,” the title of a new book of...

05/11/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, drawing on Suzuki Roshi’s teachings, points to Zen practice as...

04/13/2025, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on comments from Suzuki Roshi’s talks on Case #36 of the...

Talk by Jiryu Rutschman Byler at Green Gulch Farm on 2025-03-09

Talk by Jiryu Rutschman Byler at Green Gulch Farm on 2024-12-08

11/17/2024, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, closing a five day sesshin, Jiryu talks about the unborn, undying aspect of...

Talk by Jiryu Rutschmann Byler at City Center on 2024-08-31

Talk by Jiryu Rutschman Byler at Green Gulch Farm on 2024-08-11

07/07/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu discusses traditional Zen practices of generating doubt and wonder - through...

06/09/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu reflects on the practice of shikantaza, just sitting, as a Way that is...

04/14/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu suggests that by reflecting on the potential of Artificial Intelligence in...

02/11/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Abbot Jiryu reflects on Suzuki Roshi's core teaching that Zen practice is fundamentally...

11/19/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The one practice for every moment of our life is just to welcome and care for whatever is right here - why...

09/17/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Jiryu explores Yunmen’s statement “Everyone has a light” (from Blue Cliff Record Case 86) and...

07/30/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu encourages the practice of “Silent Illumination” from the Song Dynasty Chinese...

05/14/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this Dharma talk, Jiryu uses the seventh century Chinese Buddhist ancestor Fazang’s analogy of “the...

04/30/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu explores the fundamental Zen practice of "total exertion" or "burning completely...

02/05/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch. In this talk, Jiryu raises the line chanted before Zen lectures, "I vow to taste the truth of Tathagata's words...