Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
Kanal tafsilotlari
Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya’s diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & no...
So'nggi epizodlar
147 epizod
Forgetting the Ox, Forgetting the Self
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during the fourth day of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period sesshin, Sensei Shinzan guides us through the sev...
SPP2026: Zazenkai: Ordinary Mind
In this Zazenkai Day talk during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan surveys the first six pictures of the ox herding series, from the firs...
SPP2026: Zazenkai: Searching For The Ox
In this Zazenkai day dharma talk during the Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan takes up the first two ox-herding images — Searching for the Ox and...
SPP2026: The Ox-Herding Pictures
In this second session of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Senseis Shinzan, Monshin, and Ryotan, and Hoshi Senko introduce the text that anchors this p...
SPP2026: The Ten Ox-herding Pictures – Our journey of Awakening: Opening Session
In this opening session of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Senseis Ryotan, Monshin, and Shinzan, and Hoshi Senko welcome residents, guests, and the Cl...
The Measure of Our Humanity: REHUMANIZATION
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity, peacebuilder and Professor Emeritus John Paul Lederach — welcomed by Roshi Joan and Sensei Dainin — op...
This Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan explores a central theme of the ten ox-herding pictu...
A Glimpse of Awakened Mind. Now What?
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Monshin and Hoshi Senko guide us through the heart of the o...
Bearing Witness in Gaza
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Genryu Clayton Dalton — emergency physician, journalist, and newly ordained novice priest — reflects on what it m...
The Measure of Our Humanity: Transformation
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity, Roshi Joan Halifax opens by reflecting on six years of monthly gatherings exploring socially engaged B...
Up a Tree: Precarity, Not-Knowing, and Awakening Times
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax opens by naming her deep concern for the ongoing wars, displacement, and political upheaval se...
As The Wheel Turns
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Butsumon Tuck Stibich — a resident priest at Upaya — opens with a teaching from Thich Nhat Hanh. No stranger to w...
Finding Our Way
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin addresses what so many of us are carrying right now — the weight of a world in upheaval, the accumu...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is Seeds
In the final session of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, participants share their overnight translations of Hanshan’s poems — working from character-to-wo...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: You Ask the Way to Cold Mountain?
In Part 6 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the evening session gathers around two offerings. Kaz Tanahashi gives a live calligraphy demonstration, rend...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Stone Bridge
In Part 5 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the session opens with a participant unexpectedly sharing two pieces of calligraphy prepared before the retr...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Open Sharing
In Part 4 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the session opens into a shared creative space. Kaz Tanahashi and Peter Levitt shape the afternoon around tw...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Quality of Mind
In Part 3 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, Peter Levitt offers a deep dive into the craft and consciousness of Hanshan’s poetry. Drawing on three defin...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Road Does Not Go Through
Roshi Joan Halifax opens this first full session (Part 2) of The Poetry of Cold Mountain by acknowledging the violence unfolding in Iran, holding the...
The Poetry of Cold Mountain: A Journey with Legendary Hermit Hanshan: An Introduction to Hanshan
The Poetry of Cold Mountain weekend program opens with an evening of orientation and anticipation, as world-renowned calligrapher Kazuaki Tanahashi an...
A Time to Mark the Reality of Vow: The Presence of Care
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Monshin opens by acknowledging the 33 practitioners preparing to receive jukai — and the vow to carry non-...
Sitting with Original Love: Closing Session
This final session of Sitting with Original Love opens once again with Nicolle Reigetsu leading the community in singing the Metta Sutta — words of lo...
Sitting with Original Love: Wisdom, Love, and the Organism of Now
This Saturday evening session of Sitting with Original Love opens with a beautiful performance from Nicolle Reigetsu, drawing the community into tende...
Sitting with Original Love: First Love and Bodhicitta
In this Saturday afternoon session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax and Henry Shukman guide participants into an exploration of bodhi...
Sitting with Original Love: The Love That Will Not Die
In this Saturday afternoon session of Sitting with Original Love, Henry Shukman frames the direction of spiritual practice — not as a solitary ascent...
Sitting with Original Love: Beneath the Categories
In this mid morning session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax leads a passionate and sweeping teaching on the many faces of love — fro...
Sitting with Original Love: Two Tracks
In this morning session of Original Love, Henry Shukman introduces a central metaphor from early Chinese Buddhism: a cart drawn on two wheels — one wh...
Sitting with Original Love: Opening Session
In this opening session of Sitting with Original Love, Roshi Joan Halifax and Henry Shukman share the personal crucibles that led them to explore a mo...
The Measure of Our Humanity: COURAGE
This session of The Measure of Our Humanity brings together Roshi Joan Halifax, Rebecca Solnit, and Christiana Figueres to reflect on courage, interco...
Dharma Discussion: Cold Mountain, Companionship, and Heart of the Poet
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo hosts a conversation with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and poet-translator Peter Levitt in anticipation of th...
Hungry Ghosts and the Five Buddha Families
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk coinciding with Lunar New Year, Senseis Kodo and Dainin Lau guide viewers through a recording of Upaya’s Gate of S...
Original Love: A Path Down and Through (Not Up and Out)
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, poet, author, and meditation teacher Henry Shukman explores the topic of his latest book, Original Love, by walki...
What Silence Holds
In this dharma talk following Upaya’s Winter Practice Period, Sensei Fushin explores silence not as absence but as presence itself—”our own true natur...
WPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Direct, Ordinary, Inexhaustible: Seven Aspects of Realization
On the fifth and final day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Senseis Kodo and Dainin gather the threads of practice into...
WPP2026: Sesshin Day 4: Joy and Responsibility in Practice
On the fourth day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kodo and Sensei Dainin continue the exploration of Dōgen’s Three Minds. Kodo opens by...
WPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: The Three Minds – From Kitchen to Cushion
On the third full day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kodo and resident priest Butsumon reflect on how practice comes alive through ordi...
WPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Nyoho–Compassion, Integrity, Thussness
Day two of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin opens with Sensei Dainin recalling placing the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—both killed in recent...
WPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Zenki–Undivided Activity
On the first full day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on alignment and presence, exploring how practice begins by m...
WPP2026: Auspicious Circumstances: Responsive Recipes
In this Zazenaki Talk during the Winter Practice Period, two recently ordained priests— Butsumon and Genryu—explore Dōgen’s Tenzo Kyokun through perso...
WPP2026: Wholehearted Apamada
In this Winter Practice Period Zazenkai Day Talk, resident priest Jimon and Sensei Wendy Johnson explore apamada—careful, heedful practice—through the...