Village Zendo Talks

What is our responsibility for our actions? And what does our practice have to do with it? What fox body do we crawl into when we forget ourselves?

Here is Ryotan Sensei’s Talk from the November Zazenkai: Just for Now!

Myoko Sensei gave this talk at the October Zazenkai.

10.16.14 Roshi offers some perspectives on our changing understanding of Buddhism, of Zen, of the secular and the religious in our lives.

Shinryu Sensei movingly speaks of the loss of a beloved member at Berkeley Zen Center. He speaks of the waves of suffering that arise out of life itself. What refuge is there? Isn’t it our practice itself that leads us to being awake in all of life.

On the eve of the Climate March, Hoshi Eisho opens our hearts to how to care for our earth.

Shinryu Sensei uses weeding as a way of understanding how to keep on practicing, before, during, and after ango.

YuGetsu shows us how one kindness inspires everything in its sphere. She reminds us of the kindness that is always changing and moving.

Kaku turns the Four Methods around, investigating their reception and our histories, personal, and our world.

Eisho Hoshi encourages us to experience the Three Treasures as our source of inspiration and energy, and ease in sesshin and in our lives.

Roshi investigates the fourth of the Bodhisattva Methods - Identity Action and how it manifests in our ordinary lives.

Ryotan Sensei offers a guiding teaching on finding our true sanctuary, not what we think it is!

Shinryu Sensei teaches - in spanish and english - through his own experience the paradoxes of Dogen’s Four Methods.

JoAn speaks of the power of identity-action, of really seeing the other and connecting as elements in the whole ocean.

Tokuyu expresses the power of meeting each moment directly in the pond, in the heart, in neo-realist cinema!