How do you hold back? Whats your hesitation? Now that weve all bumped into the dharma, what next? In this recent talk, Sensei Koshin reads the 25th case from the Blue Cliff Record: The Hermit Of L

Shes not the mother I would have asked for, but shes the one that I got. In this recent talk, Sensei Chodo discusses the perfectly-imperfect and powerful women that have granted us all life: from

In the world, there is nothing that is not your practice. How vast is your role? Who will you embrace in this suffering world? Sensei Chodo Campbell gives a dharma talk on the state of the sangha in

The constant learning of this time is: how do we want to be and how do we meet each challenge, particularly in our minds? As the center adapts to a post-pandemic virtual existence, Sensei Koshin add

There is a lot of talk in dharma practice about stillness, peace and perfect alignment with life theres something beautiful about invoking that possibility but it often contrasts very much with th

What would it be like to say, with some humor, Ah, who cares if I am uncomfortable? This whole world is uncomfortable! How do we find the softness and tenderness for that fear but not live in react

In a recent book launch, Marie Howe, Victoria Redel, Tenku Ruff and Sebene Selassie read poetry from The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast. Composed around the Bud

The beauty of this practice is that you can feel your feelings without identifying who you are by what you are feeling. The Zen Masters of old would teach that those without preferences had their pa

A human beingis apart of the whole,called by usUniverse, apartlimited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest a kind of opt

Learning how to relax is a place of practice. In this vulnerable dharma talk, Sensei Chodo engages the students in the ancient art of Mondo Zen, or dialogue between teacher and pupil. He first shar