San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks
Summary: Public lectures given at San Francisco Zen Center
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Podcasts:
11/06/2022, Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. An exploration of compassion for self and others.
11/05/2022, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at City Center. Each step of the Eightfold Path and the practices it recommends, harmonizes disciplined conduct and opening to virtuous being. The third step, Right Speech, is described in detail to illustrate this.
10/30/2022, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Different types compassion as taught by Shakyamuni Buddha, Vasubandhu, Maitreya, Chandrakirti, and Zen Ancestors Yunyan and Daowu
10/30/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.
10/29/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.
10/28/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.
10/27/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.
10/26/2022, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. As part of the exploration of koans from the Blue Cliff Record, Abbot David unpacks Case 3, “Master Ma is Unwell”. In the midst of life’s vicissitudes ─ whether we're encountering health or sickness, joy or sorrow, birth or death ─ how might we find stability and composure? Using the incredible story of the rescue of 13 Thai boys trapped in a cave, he also invites us to consider the bodhisattvic effort and fearlessness required to enter the dark cave of our karmic consciousness.
10/26/2022, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Tassajara. October sesshin series at the Tassajara fall practice period on the relative and absolute.
10/23/2022, Sokaku Kathie Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Kathie Fischer discusses Hongzhi's 12th century teaching of silent illumination and how it can inform our practice in these times.
10/22/2022, Jisan Tova Green, dharma talk at City Center. As leaves fall and nights are longer, we turn from autumn towards winter. This is a tender, transitional time for many of us. We may be more in touch with loss, grief, and death. In this talk, Tova shares her own journey toward facing death and dying as a hospice volunteer and social worker, some questions she has about death, and her recent experiences of being with two people who were dying.
10/16/2022, Tenshin Reb Anderson, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Paying homage, praising, and making offerings to great compassion with all our actions of body, speech, and mind.
10/15/2022, Gendo Lucy Xiao 玄道, dharma talk at City Center. What is your original face? Exploring Case 23 of Wumenguan (The Gateless Barrier).
10/09/2022,Thiemo Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The teachings of interdependence, emptiness and dependent arising in Mahayana Buddhism, explained with the help of a cut out paper bunny.
10/08/2022, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center. Abbot David unpacks Case 19 of the Blue Cliff Record, including the circumstances leading up to Gutei's teaching of "one-finger Zen", the practice of cutting off complications, and the poignant image of blind turtles seeking sunlight in dark waters.
