July 18, 2021

Dharma talk by Donna Kowal on working with habit forces and boredom. Commentary on excerpts from Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life and Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck, edited by Brenda Beck Hess (Shambhala, 2021).

June 29, 2021

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Looking for Truth in all the wrong places.   Automated Transcript  

June 20, 2021

We can celebrate the 1865 Emancipation while acknowledging the enduring shackles of systemic racism and those of our own afflictions.   Automated Transcript  

June 9, 2021

Teisho by Amala-sensei. Working with spiritual poverty.   Automated Transcript  

June 8, 2021

Teisho by Amala-sensei. Arrival, loss and return — the universe changes on its axis, but how to share this amazing experience with others? Searching for a context for 20 years and finally finding one.   Automated Transcript  

June 7, 2021

Teisho by Amala-sensei. A turning point — no need to look further than the mind itself.   Automated Transcript  

June 6, 2021

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson. Flora Courtois’ search for Reality, or the ground of being. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986.   Automated Transcript  

June 5, 2021

Teisho by Amala-sensei. Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986.   Automated Transcript  

May 30, 2021

A look at the teacher-student relationship generally, with a focus on the implications of it at the RZC now that Roshi and John Pulleyn-sensei will both be giving dokusan and formally accepting students.

May 16, 2021

The Buddha’s Way to freedom.

May 11, 2021

Roshi’s weekly podcast: Languishing and Ambivalence

May 9, 2021

Dharma talk by Donna Kowal. Reading and commentary on excerpts from an interview with Joanna Macy that explores the Buddha’s teaching of dependent co-arising, nothing exists apart from anything else. (Source: Dharma Rain, edited by Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala Publications, 2000)

May 8, 2021

Dharma talk by Donna Kowal. Reading and commentary on excerpts from Chapter One.

April 25, 2021

The Heart Sutra (Prajna Paramita) reminds us that none of the five skandhas (constituents of personhood) have any substantiality to them. To cling to any imagined identity, then, is to invite suffering.

April 20, 2021

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s weekly podcast. Come On In–the Water’s Fine!

April 18, 2021

A look at one of the Buddha’s three characteristics of existence.

April 7, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 6, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 5, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 4, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 3, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

March 21, 2021

Dharma talk by John Pulleyn. Letting go of thoughts on the mat and in our lives.

March 14, 2021

Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal

March 12, 2021

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s weekly podcast. Trust the Process – Lengthening Days and Zen Practice: Taking the Long View

March 7, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede: A look at original vs. actualized enlightenment, Dharma transmission, aspiration, and our True Self as the “Face” behind the mask.

March 2, 2021

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

March 1, 2021

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn. Source Quoted Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen. Edited by by John Crook. Element Books Ltd, 1991.

February 28, 2021

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen.

February 27, 2021

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen.

February 21, 2021

Digital overstimulation and now the pandemic has generated a culture of negation, withdrawal, and numbness. But there’s a better way to retreat, every day, from overwhelming circumstances, while engaging with the world.

February 14, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Miscellaneous reflections on love, seen through the lens of Dharma. Unedited transcript

February 10, 2021

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede’s weekly podcast. Integrating Two of the Buddhist Paramitas in Getting Scheduled for a Vaccination. Unedited transcript

February 7, 2021

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor. Unedited transcript

January 24, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. A look at what the Buddhist Sangha, or community, meant in Asia, how it has changed since coming to Western countries, and what it might become for the Rochester Zen Center. Unedited transcript

January 22, 2021

Roshi’s weeky podcast: New Government as Rebirth

January 15, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 14, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 13, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 12, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 11, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 10, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 9, 2021

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction) and The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Both translated by Norman Waddell.

January 3, 2021

Atlantic writer George Packer sees the new year as a “plastic hour,” a rare chance for the U.S. to transform sickness and dysfunction into renewal. This mirrors the catalytic potential of personal dis-ease to lead us to spiritual practice.

December 27, 2020

Dharma talk by John Pulleyn. A look at a neuroscientist’s explanation of how our brain creates the hallucination we take for reality and a modern day Stoic’s approach to the fix that puts us in.

December 20, 2020

2020 put many of us in a time warp that will run well into 2021. What’s going on, really? And how does daily Zen practice help us ride the waves?

December 17, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast on the pandemic.

December 13, 2020

Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka

December 6, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

December 2, 2020

A look back at the waves–and people’s reactions to them–in the last pandemic, so remarkably similar to today.

November 28, 2020

A look at the several elements of the ceremony. The ten cardinal precepts are examined in the context of the “five trials” of 2020: the pandemic; its financial consequences; the intensifying effects of climate change; the clearer revelation of systemic racism and its ongoing wounds; and the alarming rise of political divisiveness.

November 24, 2020

New Zealand’s Pandemic Success

November 15, 2020

Biden and Trump are dramatically different in character, but they have in common, with us, the True Self that is No-self. And all of us are continuously evolving and devolving through the world of samsara.

November 11, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 10, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 9, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 8, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 7, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 5, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast to the Sangha.

October 25, 2020

Looking at the intersecting national crises of 2020 as an opportunity for us to evolve, reading from a July column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

October 19, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Pandemic Refuge”

October 7, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

October 6, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

October 5, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

October 4, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

October 3, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

September 20, 2020

The situation in the U.S. and around the world may be more bleak than ever. But consider: as individuals we manage to carry on with the very bleakest of futures: our own certain death. Rather than dwelling on future catastrophes, practice calls for us always to be fully responsive to the present. That is the…

September 13, 2020

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

September 12, 2020

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

August 30, 2020

Dharma talk by John Pulleyn: Looking at ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) as presented by Russ Harris in his book, The Happiness Trap, and how it fits with Zen practice.

August 27, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Depression Compared and Contrasted with Boredom.”

August 23, 2020

In the midst of massive suffering from the pandemic, many people, due to their circumstances, are experiencing unexpected personal contentment (and sometimes guilt as a result). How do we come to terms with this paradox–and move through in service to our bodhisattva vows?

August 19, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Pandemic Ruin and Renaissance.”

August 16, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Philip Kaleau, played on Founder’s Day – August 16, 2020.

August 12, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Grit, competence, and zazen.”

August 9, 2020

Whatever adversities we white people have suffered in our lives, structural racism isn’t one, and in that sense, at least, we’ve been privileged. We might deny having that advantage, or distance from it, but we can use our opportunities to join with others to begin dismantling systemic racism.

August 5, 2020

In Amala-sensei’s online sesshin last week, most participants had to negotiate some accommodation to the schedule of others they live with, and now have been negotiating the transition back to full-on household life. Roshi addresses both of these challenges in this week’s coronacast.

July 31, 2020

“With total trust, roam and play in samadhi”. Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

July 30, 2020

“You must be broadminded, whole, without relying on others.” Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

July 29, 2020

The bright, boundless field — what is it? “Degrading situations” and how to avoid pursuing them. Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

July 28, 2020

The life of Master Hongzhi Main Text: Cultivating the Empty Field, The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, North Point Press San Francisco 1991

July 26, 2020

A treatise on enlightenment and practice by the Tang dynasty Chan master, a disciple of the great Ma Tsu.

July 23, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast to the Sangha.

July 19, 2020

The U.S. is faring much worse with the coronavirus than the East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, where people also are much more agreeable to wearing face masks. These differences may be seen in the context of the broad historical contrasts drawn in Richard Nisbett’s The Geography of Thought, which presents cultural-psychological studies showing the…

July 15, 2020

Roshi’s podcast to the Sangha.

July 12, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: Learning patience in the face of our unwillingness to be with things as they are.

June 28, 2020

After dedicating herself to social service for five years, the woman who would later identify herself only as Peace Pilgrim had a spontaneous awakening while walking in the woods. Then she spent the next twenty-eight years walking across the country alone, sharing her commitment to inner and world peace.

June 25, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha.

June 21, 2020

The pandemic and its massive economic consequences, when laid atop accelerating climate change, presents a perfect storm of suffering. But with the understanding that there is an Intelligence behind it all, we must be seeing corrective forces underway, a re-balancing at work. How might future generations look back and see these tumultuous times?

June 18, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha.

June 11, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 10, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 9, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 8, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 4, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha.

May 31, 2020

The pandemic shoved the unsurpassable threat of climate change out of the news, and now the outbreak of demonstrations in cities all over the country has seized our attention. Today we memorialize 100,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths with the traditional Buddhist memorial prayer, but also acknowledge the deadly virus of systemic racism and oppression of African-Americans…

May 28, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.

May 24, 2020

An overview of history’s most devastating pandemics, and a look at the timelessness of Camus’ The Plague.

May 13, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.

May 10, 2020

There is just this, here, now. That is our freedom. Yet we can live it while acknowledging our interdependence with others, being grateful to those before us and around us while also responsible for those after us.

May 3, 2020

How much might the fear of losing oneself–of not being–drive our longing to leave home even during a pandemic? The denial of death and the craving for life: two sides of one coin. (Contributions from Brother David Steindl-Rast and Steven Levine.)

May 2, 2020

Dharma talk by Trueman Taylor: Advice from an astronaut and others on maintaining a consistent schedule. Also: excerpts and comments from Roshi Robert Aitken’s book Encouraging Words.

April 30, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.

April 26, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: Staying in touch with our shared humanity rather than indulging in outrage and separation.

April 23, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.

April 19, 2020

After the U.S.’s decades of affluenza (“a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more”), to what extent might our experience of the coronavirus and isolation inoculate us from its resurgence?

April 15, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha.

April 12, 2020

Instead of engaging the coronavirus simply on a “war” footing, can we see ways in which it is educating us–right now? A pandemic reveals the consequences of our misuses of the natural world and the dis-ease we incur through the illusion of separation.

April 9, 2020

As the pandemic and social isolation stretch on, Roshi speaks again to the Sangha from his kitchen table.

April 5, 2020

A teisho by Amala-sensei, recorded in Auckland on March 10 and played in the Rochester zendo on April 5.

March 29, 2020

In his 2010 book The Active Life, acclaimed educator Parker Palmer cites three opportunities for painful growth that any of us are likely to face during our life: disillusionment, dislocation, and unbidden solitude. Zen practice enhances our ability to navigate through these three portals and to adapt to the coronavirus aftershocks that will change our…

March 26, 2020

As the pandemic ramps up, with isolation in place, Roshi speaks to the Sangha from his kitchen table.

March 22, 2020

The current crisis can help us develop a more immediate awareness of the Buddha’s fundamental teaching and encourage us to find our refuge in opening to life as it is.  – Dharma talk by John Pulleyn

March 15, 2020

Covid-19 is highlighting human contradictions: the dilemma of social distancing vs. social solidarity, as well as the tension between our ignoble reactions (e.g., panic hoarding) and our noble responses (generous helpfulness). Our True Self is neither of these alone.

March 8, 2020

A Mahayana take: it’s not just about “me” and “my.” Also, some words about worry, stress, and anxiety.

February 29, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

February 28, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

February 27, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

February 26, 2020

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

February 23, 2020

The amazing case of the 21st-century “Hermit of Maine (The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel),” whose 27 years of complete seclusion, in which he survived through burglaries, is not remotely like the solitary meditation of practitioners in Zen and other traditions.

February 9, 2020

A Sunday talk about coming to the Dharma and to the Center.

January 26, 2020

Everyday driving as a practice field for mindfulness and a test of non-reactivity and other Buddhist values.

January 19, 2020

Teisho by Bodhin Kjolhede. From a 1st-century Buddhist text. Unedited transcript

January 11, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 10, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 9, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 8, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 7, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 6, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 5, 2020

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

December 29, 2019

A presentation of studies suggesting that gratitude, compassion, and decent pride are features of morality that foster self-control and perseverance more than do will-power and grit.

December 15, 2019

Stepping back to look at the massive national and global changes we’re living through. All bets are off, yet we have Zen practice to help us ride the process and transform crisis into opportunity.

December 8, 2019

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

December 7, 2019

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

November 30, 2019

An overview of today’s ceremony of Receiving the Precepts, with a look at how the Internet adds further challenges in upholding the Ten Cardinal Precepts.

November 17, 2019

With our annual ceremony of Receiving the Precepts (Jukai) coming up, here Roshi applies those precepts to the growing threat of climate change and how we might reduce the harm we are inevitably causing to the environment.

November 9, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 8, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 7, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 6, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 5, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 4, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 3, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

October 27, 2019

Working to disarm the self.

October 20, 2019

A report on the Duke University conference celebrating the installation of Roshi Kapleau’s archives. Roshi Bodhin focuses on the unique challenges Kapleau faced–and we continue to face–in adapting Zen to the West.

October 5, 2019

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 4, 2019

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 3, 2019

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 2, 2019

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 1, 2019

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

September 30, 2019

Teachings of Maurine Stuart

September 29, 2019

Teachings of Maurine Stuart

September 22, 2019

The dichotomy of science and religion, empiricism and direct experience, falls apart in the practice of Zen. Curiosity, wonder, investigation–these are the essentials of both science and the mystical spiritual traditions such as Zen.

September 15, 2019

If it is, how would that change our behavior? Each one of us will die someday anyway, so how do we work with that? Jonathan Franzen presents the worst-case scenario, but then there are other points of view.

September 7, 2019

Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka

August 18, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Philip Kaleau, played on Founder’s Day – August, 18, 2019.

August 11, 2019

Based on a 2017 Tricycle article by Kurt Spellmeyer: “Globalism 3.0: The Secret to World Harmony Isn’t Oneness. It’s multiplicity.”

August 3, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

August 2, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 31, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 30, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 29, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 28, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 21, 2019

First Half: Our recent efforts to cool the zendo in sweltering weather. Second Half: Won Buddhism, a Korean strain of the Dharma.

June 23, 2019

Conceptualizing people of conflicting political views or of different race, ethnicity, or gender as “other” leads us to more easily react with hostility to what they say, especially in the anonymous and reckless world of social media. Based on the age-old Buddhist warning about the harm arising from attachment to views and opinions, Zen practice,…

June 15, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 14, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 13, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 12, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 11, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 9, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 2, 2019

In Zen, faith grows through practice experience, even as faith sustains practice. They co-evolve continuously, sustaining each other. This is Hakuin’s “oneness of cause and effect,” out of which awakening can emerge.

May 26, 2019

Sudama, an ordained priest at the Center,  gave this account of coming to the Dharma and coming to the Center. For more of her story, see these two Zen Bow articles: https://www.rzc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Just-Money-Luna-Ngo.pdf https://www.rzc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Commitment-the-Gift-of-Pain-Sudama-Ngo.pdf

May 12, 2019

Based on a New York Times  article “Which is Better; Rewards or Punishments? Neither” by Heather Turgeon. It describes a middle way of engaging with children, essentially based on responding out of our true nature and intuition without getting stuck in preconceptions. Link to the NYT article. Link to video featuring Anna Breytenbach, “animal communicator.”

April 28, 2019

Recently we’ve seen conspiracy theories gaining wider currency in our country, which is just the latest surge in a long history of such theories. What spawns such ideas, and why do so many people believe in even the most far-fetched ones?

April 21, 2019

An Easter Sunday look at apophatic theology, the Christian view of God as essentially unknowable or ineffable, which also insists that human language is inadequate to describe God. This insight overlaps with Zen and the famous words of its Founder: “I don’t know.”

April 6, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 5, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 4, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 3, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 2, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 1, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

March 31, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

March 17, 2019

Those who perpetrate mass shootings such as the one in New Zealand last week are often “loners.” But more people than ever in our country and elsewhere, while more “connected” than ever via social media, suffer from social isolation, which in turn can breed fear and distrust. Cultivating adult friends can help.

March 10, 2019

Losing our bearings in the world, either literally or figuratively, can provoke anxiety, but it also opens us to new vistas. Zazen at its best draws us into this state of wonder-ing, where we have the promise of losing our self and finding true freedom.

March 3, 2019

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

March 2, 2019

Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor

February 17, 2019

Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal

February 10, 2019

Commentary on the book, Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright – a look at Buddhism from the standpoint of evolutionary psychology.

January 27, 2019

In his article “America’s New Religions,” Andrew Sullivan argues that all of us–conservatives, liberals, and even atheists–have our “religions”: belief systems, ideologies, or tribal affiliations that we “worship” beyond reason because they give meaning to our lives. The deities of secular faith may be scientism, progress, self-improvement, social justice ideology, or reason itself. Other gods…

January 12, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 11, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 10, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 9, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 8, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 7, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

January 6, 2019

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

December 16, 2018

Ryokan was an eccentric 18th-century enlightened Zen  hermit-monk who is still beloved in Japan for his poetry. In this collection of his verses, One Robe, One Bowl, he captures both the beauty and pathos of human life, and like his younger contemporary Thoreau, the wonders of nature.

December 8, 2018

Dharma talk by John Pulleyn

December 7, 2018

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

December 5, 2018

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn

December 2, 2018

A non-Buddhist comes to awakening before the Buddha, sitting in silence, while his longtime disciple Ananda, standing in attendance, remains dumbfounded. How notions of identity can bind us. Who awakens? No one!

November 24, 2018

The ceremony of Jukai (Taking the Precepts) is basically an initiation into the Dharma. To be a Buddhist is to commit to aligning oneself with what is real–direct experience, not thoughts. It is to see things as they are in order to be with things as they are.

November 10, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 9, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 8, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 7, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 6, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 5, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

November 4, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.  Commentary on texts from the first Zen Masters.

October 28, 2018

Throughout much of history women’s bodies have been viewed as impure and dangerous by prevailing androcentric cultures, west and east, and unfortunately there still are many examples of this attitude in Buddhism today. In this story from the Song Dynasty, Miaozong, a Dharma heir of Dahui, courageously gives a lively demonstration of the true nature…

October 14, 2018

The minimal response we can offer our descendants, who are under more threats than ever, is to vote. This is a contemporary way to “enter the marketplace with helping hands,” the ultimate stage of Dharma practice.

October 6, 2018

”Before the tongue has moved the teaching has finished” — but take care — short of full awakening there is still work to do.

October 5, 2018

Being willing to let things fall apart

October 4, 2018

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 3, 2018

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 2, 2018

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

October 1, 2018

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

September 30, 2018

Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson

September 23, 2018

The relative nature of the terms “living” and “dead,” and how one monk’s struggle with them led him to enlightenment.

September 9, 2018

A Dharma talk by Eryl Kubicka on the second day of the September 2018 two-day sesshin.

August 19, 2018

Recording of a teisho given by Roshi Philip Kapleau on the last day of the June 1975 sesshin and played on Founder’s Day, August 19, 2018.

August 12, 2018

How our concepts of individual self-identity and linear causality are being dissolved by the wondrous workings of our gut microbes. Readings from I Contain Multitudes, by Ed Yong.

August 4, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede from the July/August 2018 sesshin. Commentary on a koan from The Book of Serenity.

August 3, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede from the July/August 2018 sesshin. Commentary on a koan from the Blue Cliff Record.

August 2, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

August 1, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 31, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 30, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 29, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

July 22, 2018

A look at the sexual misconduct, widely disclosed this month, of the head of Shambhala International, one of the major Tibetan Buddhist lineages, and the fallout in that Sangha.

June 16, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 15, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 14, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 13, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 12, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 11, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 10, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

June 3, 2018

Teisho by Sunya Kjolhede Roshi: Reclaiming Our Resilient Spirit

May 13, 2018

Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn: “Working with Habits”

May 6, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 29, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 22, 2018

Dharma Talk by Tom Kowal, “Dharma and Depression”

April 14, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

April 13, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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