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FPP 2026: The Buddha Before You (Part 5)
In this Zazenkai Dharma talk during Upaya’s Fall Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan explores confidence in practice through Zhaozhou’s first meeting wit…
3 hours ago
FPP 2026: The Space All Around Thoughts (Part 3)
In this Zazenkai day Dharma talk, Sensei Kathie Fisher turns to several of Zhao Zhou’s understated koans as part of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period. She…
3 hours ago
FPP 2026: Introduction to the Text: Zhao Zhou’s Legacy and Teachings (Part 2)
In this introduction to the text during Upaya’s Fall Practice Period, Senseis Kathy Fisher, Cynthia Ryotan Kear, and Shinzan Palma open the recorded …
3 hours ago
Fall Practice Period 2026: The Teachings of Zen Master Zhao Zhou: Opening Session
In this opening session of the Fall Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan, Sensei Kathie Fisher, and Sensei Monshin invite participants to step out of ordi…
3 hours ago
Zen History: Informing our Practice and Lives Today
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk during Upaya’s Fall Practice Period, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer explores how Zhaozhou’s teachings invite the bu…
6 days, 8 hours ago
Ancestral Stories: A Dharma Gate of Intimacy with Our Lives
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan Kear opens up the practice of koans as part of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period devoted to the…
1 week, 6 days ago
Zhao Zhou’s Mu: The Threshold of Everyday Practice
In this Wednesday night Dharma talk, Sensei Shinzan explores the famous koan “Mu” from Zhao Zhou (Joshu in Japanese), leading up to Upaya’s fall prac…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Keeping Close (Part 5B)
This is the second half of the closing session for the Love and Death series: Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on what it means to practice beyond our tra…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
LOVE and DEATH 2026: Keeping Close (Part 5A)
This is the first half of the closing session for the Love and Death series: Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on what it means to practice beyond our tran…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
LOVE and DEATH 2026: The Law of Change and Becoming (Part 4)
In part four of the Love and Death series, Frank Ostaseski brings death into the room through photographs of people he accompanied at the Zen Hospice…
2 weeks, 6 days ago