Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast

Episode Description: In this Rohatsu Teisho Roshi Enkyo speaks on Wisdom Beyond Wisdom and Bodhisattva Action. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this Teisho Sensei Kaz gives us 10 points or reminders to assist our practice. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this week’s Dharma talk Roshi Joan Halifax and Sensei Wendy Johnson set the stage for the Winter Practice Period, the Gateless Gate, by looking at the role and importance of koan practice in today’s tumultuous times.

Episode Description: In this Teisho, Roshi Joan speaks to the intimacy of not knowing, and it’s capacity to use all circumstances to ‘make music.’ Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this Teisho Sensei Kaz gives tips on how to deal with overly gripping emotions and explores the notion of the ‘self’ in relation to Wisdom Beyond Wisdom. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

In this last dharma talk of the year, Hoshi Kigaku Noah Rossetter reflects on his gratitude for the lessons of the pandemic, commitments to the coming year, and then turns toward a discussion of nonconceptuality and Case 24 of the Mumonkan: Leaving Speech and Silence behind.

Episode Description: In this Rohatsu Teisho Roshi Enkyo speaks on Dogen’s Time – Being in relation to Wisdom Beyond Wisdom. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this dharma talk Sensei Kaz speaks on the heart in relation to wisdom beyond wisdom. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

In this week’s Dharma talk, Natalie Goldberg speaks intimately to us about the passing of a close friend, and shares the insights of great Haiku masters by reading from her new book on Haikus.  

Episode Description: In this second full day of Rohatsu, Roshi Joan begins her Teisho with an inquiry. What are we learning from this pandemic, how can we be upright in the face of it all, what are grief and loss teaching us? Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this second full day of Rohatsu, Sensei Kaz speaks about Wisdom Beyond Wisdom in our minds and its inseparability from our bodies. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this first full day of Rohatsu, Roshi Enkyo’s teisho speaks on how ‘Not-knowing’ is prajnaparamita, compassionate wisdom, through the dropping of the judging mind, and the opening of the inquiring one instead. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

Episode Description: In this first full day of Rohatsu, Sensei Kaz’s teisho begins with the linguistic origins of Rohatsu, the meaning of Wisdom Beyond Wisdom in our bodies, and how we can manifest it in our practice during this Rohatsu sesshin. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. For Series description, please visit Part 1. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom

In this week’s Dharma talk, Hoshi Matthew Kozan Palevsky speaks on the fifth paramita of meditation. He looks at meditation from the perspective of Homeless Kodo, and inquires as to what he meant by his statement that he ‘…wasted his whole life sitting zazen.’

Series Description: Rohatsu Sesshin marks the enlightenment of the Buddha. It is a powerful gathering of practitioners and friends who are dedicated to realizing the way. Roshis Joan Halifax, Enkyo O’Hara, and Sensei Kaz Tanahashi explore the enlightenment of the Buddha, the story and its meaning in our lives today, during this powerful annual retreat. Sesshin provides a powerful container supporting the unification of body and mind, and our individuality with the community and the world. Episode Description: In this opening Teisho for Upaya’s 2020 historic, first online Rohatsu. Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi speaks on the theme of this year’s Rohatsu: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom, Roshi Enkyo on the heart of the practice, especially given our current circumstances, and Roshi Joan clarifies how in celebrating the Buddha’s awakening, sesshin allows us to embody the Bodhisattva vows in order to bring others’ to the other shore. Please click here to access the Resource page for this series, which encompasses all aspects of the live program. To access the entire series, please click on the link below: Upaya Podcast Series: ROHATSU Wisdom Beyond Wisdom