DHARMA TALKS
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Dharma Talks
When possible, we record dharma talks given at retreats and at our weekly sits. You may listen to these talks online or download them for later listening. We also have transcripts for some talks.
Dharma Talks from 2026
- Kaszniak 1/3/2026: Beginning Again in Everyday Continuous Practice
- Kaszniak 2/7/2026: Empty of What, and Why Does it Matter?
- Kaszniak 2/20/2026: What Does it Mean to Speak of Embodied Awareness?
- Kaszniak 3/7/2026: In This Present Moment, There is No Fear
- Kaszniak 03/21/2026: A Motherless Child: Musings on Buddha, Dogen, and the Relational Heart of Compassion
- Kaszniak 04/04/2026: Distracted, Divided, and Dispersed: The Gateless Gates to Being One with Myriad Things
- Kaszniak 04/18/2026: Embracing Life and Reconnecting in the Midst of Death and Destruction
- Kaszniak 05/02/2026: Enacting the Embodiment of Zazen is Itself Awakening: Laying Down a Path in the Walking
- Kaszniak 05/16/2026: Little Things Fall Away, as Big Things Become More Clear: Reflections on Aging and Contemplative life
- Kaszniak 06/20/2026: Deconstructing Self: A Collaborative Practice of Boundlessness
- Kaszniak 07/04/2026: Grace in Complexity: Enacting the Wisdom of Embodied Interdependence
- Kaszniak 07/18/2026: Free of Old Age and Death, and Free from the End of Old Age and Death
Dharma Talks from 2025
- Kaszniak 1/4/2025: Not Getting Blown Off Course by the Eight Worldly Winds
- Kaszniak 1/18/2025: Blame, Responsibility, and Discerning What Is So
- Kaszniak 2/1/2025: An Awakening Life is Relational
- Zwinger 2/15/2025: How to Be Your Own Best (Spiritual) Friend, or, It Takes Two to Tango
- Kaszniak 3/1/2025: Renewing Life in an Arid World
- Kaszniak 3/15/2025: For the Time-Being
- Kaszniak 4/6/2025: What Does It Take to Be Happy?
- Kaszniak 4/19/2025: Walking the Path of the Bodhisattva's Four Vows
- Loy 4/26/2025: The Meaning of Life in a Dangerous Time
- Kaszniak 5/3/2025: A Beautiful Worldview of the Interdependent Universe: Why is it Important Now
- Fischer 5/17/2025: Continuous Practice - First Talk
- Fischer 5/17/2025: Continuous Practice - Second Talk and Q&A
- Kaszniak 6/7/2025: Empathy: Gateway to Compassion or Weakness
- Kaszniak 6/21/2025: When All Activity Is Sacred, There Is Only One Supreme Meal
- Kaszniak 7/5/2025: Imagining Peace and Not Boiling the Cauldron of Three Poisons
- Kaszniak 7/19/2025: Individualism, Self-Righteousness and Utilitarian Moral Relativism: Can Zen Practice Offer an Alternative?
- Kaszniak 8/16/2025: Mind of Abundance, Mind of Poverty
- Kaszniak 9/6/2025: More Equal than Others: Buddhism and the Normalization of Gendered Sexual Harm
- Zwinger 9/20/2025: Way-Seeking Mind
- Kaszniak 10/04/2025: Living Ethically in a Contingent, Uncertain Life
- Bodney 10/18/2025: Reflections on Free and Right Speech
- Kaszniak 11/01/2025: Maturity, Transformation, and Harmony with All Life
- Kaszniak 11/15/2025: Transmitting the Dharma, Warm Hand to Warm Hand
- Kaszniak 12/06/2025: Good, Evil, and Compassionate Action
- Kaszniak 12/20/2025: Radical Kindness, Generosity, and Gratitude