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Liberating Intimacy – Softening Barriers to Love
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Koshin Flint Sparks — psychologist, Zen teacher, and longtime student of the intersection of mind science and co…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dharma Lab – Practicing the Truth of Our Lives
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo reflects on the just-completed Spring Practice Period sesshin as a window into a larger idea of a Dh…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 6: Entering the Marketplace
In this final talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan and Sensei Shinzan bring the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures to their close with the …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source
In this fifth-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko and Sensei Monshin explore the ninth ox-herding picture, Returning t…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys
In this third-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan takes up the habit of self-judgment — that familiar contract…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Free From The Start
During the second day of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko takes up the koan of relaxed effort — how effort and ease, far from being opposed,…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Joyful Effort
In this first formal talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Monshin takes up virya — the Sanskrit term for joyful effort — as the essenti…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Forgetting the Ox, Forgetting the Self
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, offered during the fourth day of Upaya’s Spring Practice Period sesshin, Sensei Shinzan guides us through the se…
4 months ago
SPP2026: Zazenkai: Ordinary Mind
In this Zazenkai Day talk during Upaya’s Spring Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan surveys the first six pictures of the ox herding series, from the fir…
4 months ago
SPP2026: Zazenkai: Searching For The Ox
In this Zazenkai day dharma talk during the Spring Practice Period, Sensei Ryotan takes up the first two ox-herding images — Searching for the Ox and…
4 months ago