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| Love and Death 2024: Near and Far Enemies: The Four Brahmaviharas Part 2 (5 of 8) | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:42:57 | |
This episode is a continuation of the 8/24/24 afternoon session of Love and Death where … Frank Ostaseski tenderly leads participants into the concepts and practice of metta. Frank discusses near and […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: Near and Far Enemies: The Four Brahmaviharas Part 1 (4 of 8) | 01 Sep 2024 | 01:08:04 | |
In this Love and Death program session Frank Ostaseski tenderly leads participants into the concepts and practice of metta. Frank discusses near and far enemies of the four brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity) […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (8 of 9) | 12 Aug 2024 | 01:03:53 | |
In this session Roshi Norman Fischer brings the conversation to the acute point of what we lose when reading material in the non-native language of the text. He highlights the double edge […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (7 of 9) | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:57:22 | |
Roshi Joan and the faculty open this session with warm reflections and stories of friendship and gratitude. Sensei Kathie Fischer takes over the session and brings in the topic of trust, sincere trust. […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (6 of 9) | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:56:22 | |
Sensei Genzan flashes to us in this brief fifty minute session his deep knowledge and love for Dogen. He opens by offering practical study advice which he implements in his own […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (5 of 9) | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:56:54 | |
After a delightfully endearing reading of his own fist impressions of Dogen Henry Shukman explores passages of Dogen’s work and their potential implications on practice. A main theme Henry returns to is […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (4 of 9) | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:50:30 | |
In this talk Natalie Goldberg puts the focus onto the relevance of Dogen’s writings and teachings in our modern world. She shares anecdotes related to Dogen’s teachings and she embodies her prowess […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (3 of 9) | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:59:46 | |
In this session the well of Dogen’s teachings is tapped by the master translator Sensei Kazuaki. Sensei Kozan traverses the path of history with Sensei Kaz, asking questions and clarifying for participants […] | |||
| Bodhidharma’s Two Ways | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:35:26 | |
Sensei Shinzan explores the story of Bodhidharma and then delves into his teaching on the two paths: that of reason and that of practice. Shinzan emphasizes the importance of connecting […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (2 of 9) | 05 Aug 2024 | 01:13:10 | |
Steven Heine, an expert in Asian Studies and Zen Buddhism, discusses Zen master Dogen’s teachings and the tradition of koan practice. The session explores Dogen’s views on endeavor, exertion, or vinaya. It also […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (1 of 9) | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:50:09 | |
The 2024 Dogen seminar kicks off with introductions and a warm welcome. The week’s schedule is laid out, and the topics for the weekend discussions are unveiled. Each speaker gives […] | |||
| Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future (3 of 3) | 02 Aug 2024 | 00:39:51 | |
This series features thought leaders Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, and Roshi Joan Halifax as they explore the complex interplay between climate change, loss, technology, narratives, and action. Throughout the series, […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: May You Be Safe Part 2 (3 of 8) | 01 Sep 2024 | 01:14:08 | |
This episode is a continuation of the 8/24/24 morning session of Love and Death where … Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan touch into the heart of compassion through grief. Roshi Joan walks us tenderly […] | |||
| Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future (2 of 3) | 02 Aug 2024 | 01:01:03 | |
This series features thought leaders Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, and Roshi Joan Halifax as they explore the complex interplay between climate change, loss, technology, narratives, and action. Throughout the series, […] | |||
| Uncertainty and Possibility—Meeting the Climate Future (1 of 3) | 02 Aug 2024 | 00:57:23 | |
This series features thought leaders Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, and Roshi Joan Halifax as they explore the complex interplay between climate change, loss, technology, narratives, and action. Throughout the series, […] | |||
| Lost in Translation | 29 Jul 2024 | 00:52:20 | |
Sensei Genzan shares his deep and transformative relationship with the great Zen poet, practitioner, and Soto founder Dogen Zenji. He discusses the importance of wholehearted practice, receiving precepts, and how […] | |||
| Advice from Dogen for Difficult Times | 22 Jul 2024 | 00:48:24 | |
Sensei Cynthia Kear discusses the parallels between our modern socio-political crisis and those faced by Soto Zen founder Eihei Dogen 800 years ago. Sensei Kear goes over Dogen’s four methods […] | |||
| Writing on Empty | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:44:05 | |
Natalie Goldberg, best selling author of Writing Down the Bones and fifteen other celebrated works, discusses and reads a selection from her newest publication, Writing on Empty: A Guide to […] | |||
| Gathering Dharma with Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski: Bridging the Divide | 14 Jul 2024 | 01:29:52 | |
Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski lead this tenderly delivered Gathering Dharma session. Together with participants Tara and Frank explore a range of topics including post pandemic reflections, the divide in personal narratives, and […] | |||
| Keizan’s Compassion | 08 Jul 2024 | 00:35:16 | |
In this beautiful talk, Zenshin Florence Caplow introduces us to Keizan Zenji, particularly the deep love between Keizan and his mother, and his subsequent dedication to including women in the […] | |||
| From Anatomy Lab to Dharma Lab | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:33:13 | |
Wendy Dainin Lau, MD, a Zen priest and emergency medicine physician and addiction specialist, shares her unique journey from software engineering, to working in some of the busiest emergency rooms […] | |||
| Gathering Dharma with Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Only A Buddha And A Buddha | 01 Jul 2024 | 01:34:43 | |
In this installment of Gathering Dharma, Roshi Joan sets the stage by reminding us “the terrible impact of war” and reminds the group the importance of our resolve to face this deep […] | |||
| Liberation – Always Being, Always Becoming | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:39:18 | |
On the anniversary of the emancipation of black slaves in the United States, Sensei Kodo and Sensei Kozan inquire into the meaning of freedom. For black people and many others in this […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: May You Be Safe Part 1 (2 of 8) | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:54:45 | |
In this session of Love and Death, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan touch into the heart of compassion through grief. Roshi Joan walks us tenderly and skilfully through a journey from her past, a journey […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (11 of 11) | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:54:09 | |
In this final gathering of Planting Life 2024, Roshi Joan leads an open circle of sharing with the community who participated virtually in this program. The group shares their commit to personal […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (10 of 11) | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:58:29 | |
In this talk Melissa Nelson shares her deep passion and understanding of economies of wellbeing, regenerative practices, environmental justice movements, and decolonizing philanthropy. Dr. Nelson connects the dots, identifying the […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (9 of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 01:18:04 | |
In this talk Roxanne Swentzell discusses her work in cultural continuity and the founder of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute. She speaks to the importance of preserving traditional crops and maintaining traditional foodways. […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (8B of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:19:46 | |
This is the 2nd half of the session where Porter Swentzell explores the history and culture of Pueblo peoples, focusing on the impact of Spanish colonization and American policies. He discusses […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (8A of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 01:20:18 | |
In this talk Porter Swentzell explores the history and culture of Pueblo peoples, focusing on the impact of Spanish colonization and American policies. He discusses the persistence of Pueblo culture, the transformation […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (5 of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 01:06:50 | |
The Upaya garden ceremony begins with Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez preparing elements of fire, incense, seeds, water, and flowers while discussing their significance and importance in ceremony. The session moves to the practical […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (4b of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:52:31 | |
This is a continuation of the May31st afternoon session, where Alonso Méndez explores the intriguing history and relationship between plants, particularly corn, and celestial forces. He delves into the significance of […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (4A of 11) | 19 Jun 2024 | 01:14:39 | |
In this session, Alonso Méndez explores the intriguing history and relationship between plants, particularly corn, and celestial forces. He delves into the significance of corn as a life-sustainer, its domestication process, and […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (3B of 11) | 18 Jun 2024 | 00:43:47 | |
This is a continuation of the May31st session with Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez where they delve into the symbolism and significance of various elements in indigenous communities of growers and creators. […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (3A of 11) | 18 Jun 2024 | 01:10:19 | |
Wendy Johnson and Alonso Méndez delve into the symbolism and significance of various elements in indigenous communities of growers and creators. They highlight the importance of caves, prayers, ceremonies, and the three friends […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: Opening the Great Gifts: Warm Welcome (1 of 8) | 01 Sep 2024 | 00:56:18 | |
Roshi Joan and Frank Ostaseski offer their warm welcome in this first session of Love & Death: Opening the Great Gifts. Roshi Joan reflects on the impacts of the pandemic, not only on medicine […] | |||
| Planting Life 2024: Growing Culture and Kinship (2 of 11) | 18 Jun 2024 | 00:59:31 | |
Roshi Joan, Wendy Johnson, and Alonso Méndez open this program by sharing their sincere appreciation and commitment to the value of land and ancestors and the importance of bring that value into our […] | |||
| Shoshin: Beginner’s Mind | 17 Jun 2024 | 00:36:36 | |
At the opening of Upaya’s Young Adult retreat, Sensei Shinzan speaks on the practice of beginner’s mind. In our culture, we are deeply conditioned to know, to think linearly, and […] | |||
| Mountains Are Mountains, Rivers Are Rivers | 10 Jun 2024 | 00:40:52 | |
In this dharma talk, Sensei Kozan dives into Dogen’s “Mountains and Rivers Sutra”. In this esoteric fascicle, Dogen engages in the impossible task of naming the unnamable – the fundamental […] | |||
| Gathering Dharma with Kathie Fischer: Early Buddhist Women: Messages in a Bottle Carried by the Currents | 26 Aug 2024 | 01:31:50 | |
In this Gathering Dharma 2024 program session, Sensei Kathie Fischer discusses the stories and awakenings of women ancestors. In the midst of these poems of awakening Kathie picks on an important interpretation of meditation […] | |||
| Everything is Connected, Everything Changes | 26 Aug 2024 | 00:44:13 | |
UPDATE 4:32PM MDT: As of this UPDATE, this audio is corrected. Please download it AGAIN IF you had done so PRIOR to today (8/30/24) @3:05PM MDT. Again, please accept our […] | |||
| Taking Refuge in Gaia and Responding to Her Summons: A Dharma Path for Our Times | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:45:49 | |
In this Wednesday night public Dharma talk Cynthia Jurs breathes life into our commitment to caring for the Earth. Cynthia shares her touching story of being called into a practice […] | |||
| When You Find Yourself Where You Are | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:41:17 | |
Sensei Kozan uses the koan Baizhang’s Fox to explore cause and effect. Without an understanding of cause and effect it is impossible to maintain a clear view of what aspects of […] | |||
| Dogen Seminar 2024 (9 of 9) | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:44:19 | |
This is the closing session of this program stewarded by Roshi Joan Halifax with comments from program participants. To access the resources page for this program, please sign up by […] | |||
| Living Peace, Practicing Nonviolence | 02 Sep 2024 | 00:50:18 | |
Renowned peace activist Father John Dear speaks passionately on the actively nonviolent life and introduces his new book “The Gospel of Peace.” He insists with Martin Luther King: it is […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: Grief, Loss, and a Welling Heart Part 2 (8 of 8) | 08 Sep 2024 | 01:12:33 | |
This episode is a continuation of the 8/25/24 morning session of Love and Death program where … Frank Ostaseski tenderly leads participants into the concepts and practice of metta. Frank discusses […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: Grief, Loss, and a Welling Heart Part 1 (7 of 8) | 08 Sep 2024 | 01:19:07 | |
In this Love and Death program session Frank Ostaseski tenderly leads participants into the concepts and practice of metta. Frank discusses near and far enemies of the four brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity) […] | |||
| Love and Death 2024: Sharing Their Lives with Us (6 of 8) | 08 Sep 2024 | 01:05:32 | |
In this Love and Death program session Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan guide participants to notice what attracts them and repels them in a series of photos of dying persons. Frank sobers and grounds participants before […] | |||
| Way-Seeking Mind: Instruction and Experience | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:34:49 | |
This “way-seeking mind” Dharma talk given by Tony Back, MD precedes the upcoming G.R.A.C.E. weekend program. Through the context of his work as a medical professional Tony shares his journey […] | |||
| The Responsibility to Awaken with All Beings | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:44:10 | |
Sensei Kozan discusses the practice and realization of “suchness” in Zen Buddhism. He explores Dogen’s essay of the same name, and relates the practice of suchness to our work for […] | |||
| A Posture of Unprejudiced Attention | 23 Sep 2024 | 00:36:56 | |
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk and the first talk in the Fall Chaplaincy Sesshin, we are gracefully reminded by Sensei Monshin of the roots and foundation of practice. Monshin […] | |||
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