San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

To study Buddhism is a process of being taken apart and put back together again; this includes karma and atonement. 10/09/2021, Kyoshin Wendy Lewis, dharma talk at City Center.

An exploration of clinging, attachment, selfing, karma and liberation through the metaphor of eddies. 10/06/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.

Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Cutts reflects on a familiar yet upside-down way of understanding the practice of the precepts, and explores the teaching of Kanno Doko, Calling and Responding. 10/03/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

The study of karma, and the importance of practicing zazen and non-doing for the study of self/the study of karma. 10/02/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.

A talk by Abbot Tenzen David Zimmerman to open the practice period, which will focus on karma. 09/29/2021, Tenzen David Zimmerman, dharma talk at City Center.

In the talk, Abbot Ed Sattizahn uses the "Every Day is a Good Day" koan, and Suzuki's Roshi's teaching, to explore how it may be genuinely beneficial, to ourselves and others, to appreciate our life beyond the "good" and "bad" of it. 09/26/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

The importance of unwiring ourselves and developing deep self-care in order to take up the great vow of liberation for ourselves and all beings. 09/25/2021, Dr. Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe Ward, dharma talk at City Center.

A talk about our Zen’s Chinese ancestors based in Suzuki Roshi’s teaching on Sekito Kisen’s Harmony of Difference and Equality. 09/19/2021, Furyu Schroeder, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

The ancient foundation of the breath, creating an environment for a skillful response. 09/18/2021, Myogan Djinn Gallagher, dharma talk at City Center.

The buddhas and Zen ancestors encourage us to become lucid dreamers - realizing that we are dreaming while remaining within the dream, where subject and object appear as separate but are really just manifestations of one mind. 09/12/2021, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

A personal reflection on priest ordination in the Soto Zen Lineage from their own live as priests. 09/11/2021, Ryushin Paul Haller and Furyu Nancy Schroeder, dharma talk at City Center.

Beekeeping as a temple art. The shared qualities of honeybees and bodhisattvas, hives and sangha, enjoying the taste of honey. 09/08/2021, Marcia Lieberman, dharma talk at City Center.

09/07/2021, Jisan Anna Thorn, dharma talk at Tassajara.

In this talk Eijun Roshi reflects on the path of relieving our suffering, highlighting the importance of being in relationship with everything in our life—from people to the smallest detail—and on the basic interconnection of pleasure and pain. 09/05/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.

Yunmen’s Every Day is a Good Day. 09/04/2021, Rinso Ed Sattizahn, dharma talk at City Center.