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Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk inspired by poet laureate Amanda Gordon and the 2021 Inauguration, reflecting on the alchemy available in each moment as we stand in all the causes and conditions and fullness of our being and choosing to infuse our bodhisattva vow.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a dharma talk on the Sandokai - a famous zen poem chanted daily throughout the world, and he offers an exploration of "the nourishing factors of our inter-being"

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a dharma talk on practising with the upside-down mind knowing it's the very mind of Buddha.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives insight into the inclination to reach beyond our limits. In Zen ceremonies, we vow discover a path to wider notion of wellbeing. Despite our karma, our stories, the challenges- we try to live in service of others. Navigating the paradox of existence gives vitality to each moment. This liberation and effort echoes far beyond what we can ever know.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk from Tassajara Zen Center shortly after the George Floyd and Black Live Matter protests. A dharma response to these times: deep radical presence and acceptance.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

In this series, Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a six-week class on the six paramitas (perfections) - giving, discipline, patience, effort, continuous contact and wisdom. The perfections are a traditional list of the virtues and wholesome dispositions that arise with dedicated practice. This class examines a variety of teachings on the paramitas from early Buddhism, Zen and contemporary commentaries to reveal in detail the qualities of mind and behaviour the paramitas promote and the afflictions and suffering they dissolve.

The first livestreamed talk to ever be broadcast from Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk during the Winter practice period at Tassajara on patience and what it is to turn towards unpleasant experience.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk during the Winter practice period at Tassajara on all-inclusive awareness.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk during a Winter practice period sesshin at Tassajara on what we can learn from the mind of 'giving over' and the mind of resistance.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk on the first day of sesshin during the Winter practice period at Tassajara Zen Center. This talk is about the Fukanzazengi - a famous zen essay describing and encouraging the practice of zazen.

Ryūshin Paul Haller begins with a brief 10 min guided meditation and dharma talk on cultivating continuous contact with the present moment.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland on virtue and our judgments about others and ourselves.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Belfast on entering the moment and what these moments can teach us.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Belfast, Northern Ireland about a famous koan - alive or dead?

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the San Francisco Zen Center on the spirit of religious practice. In this talk, he offers two zen stories to illustrate core teachings from the Tassajara workshop on Christianity and Zen.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Belfast, on the history and significance of the Buddist robe (okesa and rakusu).

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Northern Ireland about God, Buddha and being alive.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Belfast about the wisdom of the Heart Sutra - famous Buddhist sutra that teaches about insight into the nature of what is.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the Insight Retreat Center on cultivating resilience.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the Insight Retreat Center on cultivating tranquility and concentration in retreat and in our lives.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a 40 minute guided meditation at the Insight Retreat Center on tranquility.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the Insight Retreat Center on cultivating mindfulness in retreat and in our lives.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Northern Ireland about the three types of consciousnesses in Buddhist psychology and what it is to practice with these three minds.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland about being alive - drawing on poetry and zen koans.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk and discussion at Black Mountain Zen Center, Belfast, Northern Ireland, exploring how to engage zazen without getting stuck in clinging and aversion.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk during the Winter practice period at Tassajara about intention, vow, and arousing Bodhi mind in practice, reflecting on the question: "what does practice ask of you?".

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Tassajara Zen Center during the Winter practice period on connecting with the resolve to practice and how we support each other in this process.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, in Belfast, Northern Ireland about the importance of investigating what we think we know - and how our idea of 'knowing' can get in the way of experiencing what truly is.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, in Belfast, Northern Ireland about our ways of relating to time and what we can learn about time from practice.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Tassajara Zen Center during a weekend workshop on the Spirit of Practice -a retreat has been co-lead with Brother David David Steindl-Rast for the last 12 years.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a dharma talk at Tassajara Zen Center during a weekend retreat on the path to wholeness.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center, Norther Ireland, on the forms in zen practice and what they can teach us.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at Black Mountain Zen Center in Belfast, Northern Ireland, about religious narratives and stories in zen practice and the role of narrative in our lives.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives his fifth and final talk during his annual 5 day sesshin (meditation retreat) at Black Mountain Zen Center in Northern Ireland.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives his fourth talk during his annual 5 day sesshin (meditation retreat) at Black Mountain Zen Center in Northern Ireland.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives the third talk during his annual 5 day sesshin (meditation retreat) at Black Mountain Zen Center in Northern Ireland.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives the second talk during his annual 5 day sesshin (meditation retreat) at Black Mountain Zen Center in Northern Ireland.

Ryūshin Paul Haller gives the first talk during his annual 5 day sesshin (meditation retreat) at Black Mountain Zen Center in Northern Ireland.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a 40min guided meditation at the Insight Retreat Center.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a 40 min guided meditation on awareness of breathing at the Insight Mediation Center. At the end of the meditation, he briefly discusses this practice of attending and relating to the body and the breath.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a 20min guided meditation at the Insight Retreat Center.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a talk at the Insight Meditation Center about working with and appreciating the beauty of our humanness, fallibly and imperfection.

Ryūshin Paul Haller offers a guided meditation during a retreat at the Insight Meditation Center on cultivating awareness.