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Awakened Action: Opening Session (Part 1)
The opening session of Awakened Action lead by Roshi Joan, Rebecca Solnit, Valerie Brown, and Terry Tempest Williams, participants are invited to explore how futures are shaped through attention, rel…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Open Dharma: The Three Tenets and the Noble Eightfold Path
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax, joined by Senseis Kodo and Dainin, reflects on how Thanksgiving is both a time of festivity and a day of mourning for Native peoples. She rais…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Sutra and Suture Have the Same Root
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Rebecca Solnit explores empathy as an act of imagination—the capacity to feel beyond the boundaries of one’s own body. She begins with Roshi Joan’s distinction be…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
May We Be Nourished
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Monshin explores what it means to be truly nourished. While attending to a full day of cooking chiles rellenos, Monshin opened to how her ingredients might…
Published on 1 month ago
Buddha Nature 2.0: Embodying the Four Perfections with Dōgen
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, delivered under the largest supermoon in two years, Sensei Kodo reflects on fusatsu—the full moon ceremony of vow renewal—his own marriage vows, and the absence o…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Inner Sangha: Healing and Transformation with the Life and Teachings of Larry Ward
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Valerie Brown honors the life and legacy of Dr. Larry Ward, a pioneering African-American Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition. Valerie recounts Larry’s j…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 6: Returning Home
On the closing day of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kathy, Hoshi Senko, and Sensei Monshin offer an integrated reflection on continuing practice beyond the zendo. Sensei Kathy grounds …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 5: Effort Without Desire
In this Day five talk during the Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Monshin weaves together stories of generosity, effort, and hummingbirds to explore “effort without desire”—the natural, uncalcula…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 3: The Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree
On Day three of the Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Hoshi Senko begins with Suzuki Roshi’s simple reminder: “Appreciate your life.” Senko describes sesshin as a means for this, saying sesshin is “a kin…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: Practice – Realization
In Day two of the Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kathie Fischer likens sesshin to an artist’s colony where each practitioner’s work unfolds through the act of doing itself. “Each of us is uniqu…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago