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Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4B)
This is the 2nd half of the session on Planting Life, where participants explore indigenous food ways and decolonization through cultivated ancient wisdoms. Artist and cultural preservationist Roxann…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4A)
This is the 1st half of the session on Planting Life, where participants explore indigenous food ways and decolonization through cultivated ancient wisdoms. Artist and cultural preservationist Roxann…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Planting Life 2025: Three Sisters Garden Planting Ceremony (Part 3)
In this session of Planting Life, we participate in the sacred planting ceremony that honors indigenous wisdom through the cultivation of ancestral crops—corn, beans, and squash—known as the Three Si…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Planting Life 2025: Corn, Cosmos, and the Sacred Architecture of Time (Part 2)
In this session of Planting Life, Mayan archaeoastronomer Alonso Méndez reveals the profound astronomical knowledge embedded in ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Drawing from his decades of research…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Planting Life 2025 Kinship with the Earth: Bridging Worlds (Part 1)
In this session, Roshi Joan Halifax, Troy Keido Fernandez, Sensei Wendy Johnson, and Alonso Mendez open the annual Planting Life program at Upaya Zen Center. Roshi welcomes in-person and online parti…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Mind of Absolute Trust: Practicing with Preference
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan explores the ancient Zen poem “The Mind of Absolute Trust” or “Xinxin Ming.” She unpacks how our preferences “chop up our lives and […]
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
AWARE: Opening to the Unhindered Mind
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo explores the concept of impermanence as it relates to love, loss, and appreciation through the Portuguese word saudade – the inseparable feelings of s…
Published on 2 months ago
Being Unborn: The Practice of Non-Objectification
In this Wednesday Night Public Dharma Talk, resident practitioner Hunt Anshin Hoffman offers his first Dharma talk relating to his path and relationship with practice (way seeking mind talk). Anshin …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Life Always Gives to Life: There Is Nothing to Fear
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Keido Troy Fernandez, a 13th generation native New Mexican and Zen priest at Upaya, tenderly weaves together ancestral wisdom, land-based practice, and Buddhist t…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Living with the Fundamental Truth of Impermanence
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Jan Chozen Bays provides a grounded and practical reflection on the teaching of impermanence. She explores impermanence (anicca) as one of Buddhism’s three …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago