Village Zendo Talks

Tokuyu offers a reflection on sesshin, shame, the seamless monument and coming from our center.

Myoko Sensei offers a view of zazen as a way to find our real home.

Roshi encourages the Beginner’s Mind Participants to realize what’s right with your life and to look at the ways that make you realize that.

Sensei encourages us to realize our empty cup, and taste it.

Roshi encourages us to see our practice AS the expression of the way - not as a means, but as the end itself.

Ryotan Sensei invites us to see clearly how ‘Dotoku’ - expression - is verified in our lives.

Myoko Sensei speaks on Dotoku’s speech and speechlessness, and how it teaches intimacy in our relationships.

Ryoshin asks us who are these Buddhas and Ancestors who are expression? And he answers with a love song.

Kaku relates the koan in Dotoku to the importance of dipping into our own unique nature, to express our lives.

Kokyo urges us to look under the hood, and to notice what is hidden, and just be with that, rather than trying to change or teach ourselves something, but rather, to look carefully.

Tokuyu invokes Dogen and Lester Young and Martha Graham to reveal our practice of True Expression

Quoting Dogen’s Dotoku, Roshi urges us all to live with integrity, finding our true expression - now.

Roshi asks us to contemplate what is important - how we are we are seen or how we are.

Myoko Sensei: Finding the Center

Thinking, not-thinking, and beyond thinking - managing a moral and ethical life.