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Love and Death 2025: Photos at the Threshold (Part 4)
In Part 4 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan invite participants to “bring death into the room” through a mindfulness practice with photographs of people who stepped th…
Published on 9 hours ago
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3B)
This is the 2nd half of … part 3 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the tension between belonging and accommodation. Through personal stories of illness…
Published on 10 hours ago
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3A)
In Part 3 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the tension between belonging and accommodation. Through personal stories of illness, recovery, and care, t…
Published on 10 hours ago
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2B)
This is the 2nd half of … part two of Upaya’s Love and Death weekend program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski deepened the exploration of how personal love can open into universal compassion. …
Published on 10 hours ago
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2A)
In part two of Upaya’s Love and Death weekend program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski deepened the exploration of how personal love can open into universal compassion. Framed by the bodhisatt…
Published on 11 hours ago
Love and Death 2025: Opening the Great Gifts: Opening Session (Part 1)
In the opening session (part 1) of Love and Death, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski welcomed more than 1,300 participants into a shared inquiry of love and mortality. Framed by Rainer Maria Ril…
Published on 11 hours ago
The Ultimate Inspiration: The Lion’s Roar of Queen Srimala
In this intriguing Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo inspires us with the lion’s roar of Queen Srimala. Beginning with reflections on how motivations and intentions consciously and unconscious…
Published on 3 days, 20 hours ago
Awareness In Action: Nonviolence with Father John Dear (Part 11 – September)
In this timely session of Awareness in Action, Father John Dear confronts the urgency of our times with an echo from Martin Luther King Jr.: “The choice is no longer violence or non-violence… It’s no…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Life, Death, and Freedom
In this unique Wednesday Night Dharma Talk before the upcoming Love and Death program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski engage in an open dialogue on Life, Death, and Freedom. Departing from sc…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
The Grace of Bodhisattvas
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Dainin interweaves personal story, Buddhist teaching, and contemporary challenges to show how the Bodhisattva vow can be lived — and is urgently needed — i…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago