San Francisco Zen Center Dharma Talks

06/08/2022, Henzan Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Seeking our Master far and wide is remembering our Buddha Nature

06/05/2022, Sokaku Kathie Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Our practice is simple and immense, returning over and over to just this, inhaling the earth's atmosphere, exhaling falling into the earth, meeting each other and each moment with respect.

06/04/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. On the final day of the sesshin and Intensive, we consider the source of true happiness, and take up the interwoven themes of gratitude, generosity and giving.

05/31/2022, Ryushin Paul Haller, dharma talk at Tassajara.

05/28/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Is the world full of pain, brutality and violence, or brimming with beauty, courage and generosity? This talk explores the deepening of faith as love, and shares stories from Layman Pang, his wife, and his daughter Ling Zhao.

05/25/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. This talk shares stories from Layman Pang and his daughter Ling Zhao, and considers how to respond to the cries of the world.

05/22/2022, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this dharma talk, Senior Dharma Teacher Norman Fischer tells stories about his time living at Green Gulch in the mid-1980's, and reflects about the past and present moments, and how real or unreal they are.

05/19/2022, Dojin Sarah Emerson, dharma talk at Tassajara.

05/18/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Here we consider the judging mind—whose aim is to keep us tight, small, bound—and share teachings and myths that point us toward how to engage with this persistent, psychic force with steadiness and skill.

05/15/2022, Horin Nancy Petrin, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. A consideration of the importance of kindness, care and a tender heart in taking up our Bodhisattva Vows, inspired by a talk given by Suzuki Roshi to the students at Tassajara in 1971.

05/14/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. This talk shares stories of our ancestors—Bodhidharma, Huike and Sengcan—and shows how the freedom we discover in practice is beyond what we seek or expect.

05/11/2022, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Tassajara.

05/11/2022, Pamela Weiss, dharma talk at City Center. Breathing in inspiration, breathing out aspiration, this talk explores how living by vow reveals the true mind and body of faith.

05/08/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. A tribute— with origin stories— to Green Dragon Temple - Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary.

05/06/2022, Leslie James, dharma talk at Tassajara.