Psalms 58

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Andvari (2025 Remaster)

06/29/2025, Kokyo Henkel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Kokyo Henkel explores what is really transmitted from teacher to student, and some classic Zen stories about Dharma transmission.

What is Dharma Transmission in Zen?

04/23/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin uses Keizan Zenji’s teachings to explore the questions: What is intentional service? And, how does this help very different people build an environment of wholeness and trust?

Keizan's Pure Land Right Here

06/15/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Steph Blank shares her experience of grief and gratitude arising through the intimate process of accompanying her father during his recent transition from the miracle of life into the miracle of death.

Grief and Gratitude on Father's Day

07/26/2025, Henzan Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard offers a look into the origins of Lay Entrustment and how it has manifested in American Zen.

Lay Entrustment and Dharma Gates

08/06/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses working with and growing in our awareness of how the three poisons—greed, hatred and delusion—manifest in our lives, on this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

The Three Poisons: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

08/10/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho discusses the reality that a human body will turn to dust and yet it is the body in which we carry the dharma and come to know it. As Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen, taught, "To expound the dharma with this body is foremost."

To Expound the Dharma with This Body

08/13/2025, Anshi Zachary Smith, dharma talk at City Center. Anshi Zachary Smith examines case 96 from the Blue Cliff Record which holds suggestions about how to frame one’s practice and warnings about the many ways we can get it wrong.

Three Turning Phrases

07/12/2025, Kiku Christina Lehnherr, dharma talk at City Center.
Kiku Christina Lehnherr explores the dharma of living and practicing in a human body.

This Human Body

08/17/2025, Doshin Dan Gudgel, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Doshin Dan Gudgel explores how feeling the preciousness of life can support deep practice, kindness and gentleness.

Psalms 58

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