Village Zendo Talks

Soshin offers reflections on our minds in sesshin, in daily life, and how a settled mind can open us to playing freely with our forms, our ideas, our very life.

Myoko Sensei offers a moving vision of how we heal one another, and how that is what giving is.

Roshi encourages Sesshin participants on the first day of Dai Sesshin: release old patterns and sit zazen for the sake of zazen.

Roshi offers some thoughts on our practice - our simple, daily practice of “seeing exactly what’s left” when we put aside our immediate concerns and expereince THIS.

Roshi encourages everyone to recognize the power of our own commitment to practice, and to find a way to strengthen our practice.

Sensei turns the crucial teaching of the mind of knowing and not knowing - directly into our lives and hearts.

Roshi frames our tendency to neglect our own practice, and to believe what we’re told by our conditioning, as our stupidity.

Sensei gives an inspiring talk on the vital importance of trusting ourselves.

Shinryu Sensei offers a contemplation on what exactly we mean by identity.

Eisho offers us an encouragement to attend and respect our practice.

Roshi offers the wisdom that the Diamond Sutra teaches about the flow of our lives.

Roshi invokes the feelings we have at Easter, Passover, and if we awake, when we sit zazen.

Sensei offers a moving talk on practice and life.

Joshin Sensei explores the parable of the raft in both traditional and contemporary terms

Eisho Hoshi offers a teaching related to our theme of the Diamond Sutra, and most important for our ordinary lives: Don’t Make Anything!