Recordings of Inquiry at Appamada. These are open sessions where participants meet with an Appamada teacher in direct encounter.

2017 Appamada Inquiry

2017 Dharma Talks

Appamada's Precepts Course is a one-year program, meeting once a month for two hours. The basic text for the course is Diane Rizzetto's Waking Up to What You Do. At the end of the year, there is a ceremony for formally taking the Buddhist precepts for those who wish to do so. See Appamada's website for more information about the Precepts Program.

2017 Precepts Program

http://www.buddhistactionnow.org
The purpose of Buddhist Action Now is to provide in the public sphere a platform for collective action and speech that manifests and advocates for the dharma values of compassion, wisdom, connection, ethical action, and care. By our Bodhisattva Vow we speak out and take action on behalf of all beings, for their liberation and relief from suffering. 

Specifically, we confront and oppose the forces of greed, hatred, ignorance and fear. We provide exemplars of dynamic, diverse, caring and cooperative communities. We work to transform public consciousness and action toward all that is wholesome, connected, caring, and liberating, for all beings and for our planet.

Buddhist Action Now

2025-04-08 I Inquiry I The Shape of Buddha’s Mind I Flint Sparks

2025-04-13 | Dharma Talk | Your Body is Not a Thing, and It's Not Yours, Either | Nate Smalley

2025-04-14 | Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson

2025-04-15 I Inquiry I Going Gently I Flint Sparks

2025-04-20 | Dharma Talk | Genjokoan | Joel Barna

2025-04-21 Depth In Practice | Not Two: The Appamada Story | Peg Syverson

2025-04-22 I I Inquiry I Contentment I Joel Barna

2025-04-27 | Dharma Talk | Joy and Practice | Jess

2025-04-29 I Inquiry I A Responsibility to Awe I Joel Barna

2025-05-04 | Dharma Talk | The Wholehearted Way | Sandra Medina Bocangel

2025-05-06 I Inquiry I Reflections on Cause and Effect I Joel Barna

2025-05-10 | Introduction to Zen | Jess Ambiee | Class 1

2025-05-11 | Way-Seeking Mind Talk | Lesley Bradstreet

2025-05-10- Introduction to Zen -Jess Ambiee -Class 2

2025-05-13 I Inquiry I Reflections on Cause and Effect Part 2 I Joel Barna

2025-05-18 | Dharma Talk | Vow and Joy | Jess, Liya and Darcy

2025-05-19 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra

2025-05-20 I Inquiry I  Presence Within Absence I Josh Gifford

2025-05-25 | Dharma Talk | Maylie Scott Meets Loneliness | Joel Barna

2025 05 10 | Introduction to Zen | Jess Ambiee | Class 3

2025-05-27 I  Inquiry I When fear meets cluelessness surrounded by beauty.. I Trudy Johnston

2025-06-01 | Head Student Exit Ceremony | Jess

2025-06-08 | Dharma Talk | Living the Paramitas in Troubled Times | Ellen Hippard

2025-06-10 I  Inquiry I Suzuki Roshi’s “Swinging Door” I Joel Barna

2025-06-16 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra

2025-06-16 I  Inquiry I Practice supports Becoming Yourself I Suzanne Kilkus

2025-06-23 | Depth In Pracitce |Vimalakirti Sutra

The links Josh mentions

RAM DASS ON HIS MANTRA “I AM LOVING AWARENESS” (WITH PRACTICE VIDEO)
https://www.ramdass.org/loving-awareness/

The London Walker
https://thelondonwalker.com

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house
 beside Brick Lane in the East End of London
https://spitalfieldslife.com

2025-06-24 I Inquiry I I am Loving Awareness I Josh Gifford

2025-06-29 | Dharma Talk | The Brahmavihārās | Ellen Hippard

2025-06-30 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra

Link to Sunni (Sun) Brown on Substack
https://nothingintheway.substack.com

Deep Hope
https://substack.com/home/post/p-165652333

2025-07-01 I Inquiry I Bodhisattvas of the Earth I  Flint Sparks

Prompts for contemplation / discussion during this talk:
1) Is your zazen practice supported by dedication, intension, and time?
2) What hinders your zazen practice?
3) How can we support each other in our practice of zazen?
4) Any other thoughts about zazen practice?

2025-07-06 | Dharma Talk | The Light of Zazen | Ellen Hippard

2025-07-07 | Depth In Practice | Vimalakirti Sutra

Heartbreak 
          ~ written in the ER

The dull sickening pressure 
Is what got my attention.
A racing heart,
Stumbling over itself 
Is a more familiar alert.
But this blunt sensation 
Was something new,
Relentless and swelling,
Like water and dry earth
Mingling and churning
As in a flash flood
Finding its way slowly, 
Inexorably,
Blindly searching out the low places
By feel.
Nothing stopping it’s steady movement. 
And nothing did
On that day.

This intensity, 
not familiar pain,
Invaded the muscles of my chest
Stiffened with anticipation.
Slipping silently between the ribs 
Of my caged heart and lungs.
Pushing rudely up into my throat
Without asking permission
Flooding both jaws 
With a strong, strange sensation 
That signaled something wrong.
The pushy entitlement of fear
Taking over without concern 
Or consent. 

It was my heart that was 
Captured and confused
By this wild rouge energy.
Not by the eyes I couldn’t 
Turn away from in the beginning,
And still can’t. 
Not the warm young body
I sought and never left
As both our bodies
Transformed into something
More settled and real. 
Not by the steadfast will 
And stubborn Insistence
I encountered saying 
This was what mattered. 

No, I had been captured by 
That unexpected love
Years before.
Confused by its earthy and 
Ordinary magnificence. 
Irresistible and terrifying. 

And now it was breaking. 
Not the love. 
But my heart. 
A dull sickening pressure
Pushing me 
To the edge of the bed,
Over the precipice in the dark. 
Nothing cruel or personal,
Just inevitable. 
This precious breaking
The final vow 
The final bow
To you. 

2025-07-08 I Inquiry I Heartbreak I Flint Sparks

2017 - 01 - 10 - Inquiry - Flint Sparks

2017 - 01 - 03 - Inquiry - Flint Sparks

2017 - 01 - 17 - Inquiry - Flint Sparks

2017-02-05 | Dharma Talk | The Greening of the Dharma | Peg Syverson

2017-01-08 | Dharma Talk | Abuse of Power | Peg Syverson

2017-01-15 | Dharma Talk | Joel Barna

2017-01-22 | Dharma Talk | LZTA Meeting | Peg Syverson

2017-01-29 | Dharma Talk | Writing Exercise | Peg Syverson

2017 - 02 - 07 - Inquiry - Place - Peg Syverson

2017 - 02 - 14 - Inquiry - Rare Sutra - Peg Syverson

2017 - 03 - 07 - Precepts Class 3

2017 - 02 - 07 - Precepts Class 2

2017 - 01 - 10 - Precepts Class 1

2017 - 04 - 04 - Precepts Class 4

2017 - 07 - 12 - Precepts Class 6

2017 - 10 - 13 - Buddhist Action Now

2017 - 10 - 14 - Buddhist Action Now

2017 - 10 - 21 - Buddhist Action Now

2017 - 10 - 28 - Buddhist Action Now

2017 - 11 - 11 - Buddhist Action Now

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