November 25, 2023

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 3, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on the teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck (Part 2). Source: Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck. Edited by Steve Smith. Harper Collins, 1989. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 2, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on the teachings of Charlotte Joko Beck (Part 1). Source: Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck. Edited by Steve Smith. Harper Collins, 1989. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 1, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 4). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

October 31, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 3). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

October 30, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 2). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

October 29, 2023

November 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart (Part 1). Source: Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Edited by Sherry Chayat. Shambhala, 1996 Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

October 22, 2023

Coming to the Path Talk by Ven. Kanji Argetsinger. Automated Transcript

October 15, 2023

Practice and our lives are not two. Insight comes when the thinking mind falls silent. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

September 29, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 28, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck (Part 3). Source: Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck. Edited by Steve Smith. Harper Collins, 1989. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 27, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck (Part 2). Source: Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck. Edited by Steve Smith. Harper Collins, 1989. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 26, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on the teachings of American Zen teacher Joko Beck (Part 1). Source: Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck. Edited by Steve Smith. Harper Collins, 1989. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 25, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Zen Master Foyan. Sources: Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings (Expanded Edition) by Andy Ferguson. Wisdom Publications, 2011. Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. Shambhala Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 24, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Zen Master Yuanwu. Sources: Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings (Expanded Edition) by Andy Ferguson. Wisdom Publications, 2011. Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. Shambhala Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 17, 2023

How to engage your practice in the midst of activity, whether it involves manual work or intellectually-demanding tasks. Resources: Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks by Gary Thorp (Walker Books, 2000).  “The Value of ‘Deep Work’ in an Age of Distraction,” Hidden Brain podcast featuring Cal Newport (July 25, 2017). Teisho by Sensei Dhara Kowal. Automated Transcript

September 10, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Reading from Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

September 9, 2023

September 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Meditation: Why Bother? Developing the Right Attitude. Reading from Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

August 20, 2023

From October 1975 Sesshin, Day 1. A commentary on the koan and the teacher- student dynamic. Played on Founder’s Day – August 20, 2023. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Automated Transcript

July 28, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 27, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
A commentary on Zen Essence, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 26, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
A commentary on Zen Essence, translated and edited by Thomas Cleary. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 25, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
A commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui. (translated by J.C. Cleary). Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 24, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
A commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui. (translated by J.C. Cleary). Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 23, 2023

July 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Roshi Kjolhede begins this teisho with biographical highlights of Zen Master Ta Hui, based on Andy Ferguson’s Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Master’s and Their Teachings.   He then continues with a commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui. (translated by J.C. Cleary). Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 16, 2023

When we let go of all the ways we discriminate between self and other, we open up to the suffering of all beings, and to the transformative power of love. Sources: Anthony De Mello, The Way to Love, Image Books, 1995. bell hooks, “Contemplation and Transformation,” Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the… Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

July 9, 2023

Coming to the Path Talk by Bill Lindenfelser. Automated Transcript

June 23, 2023

Our eagerness to cut short whatever feels tedious by chasing after distractions and excitement comes to diminish our lives. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

June 19, 2023

Comments about the Center’s Board of Trustees recent decision not to display the Black Lives Matter flag (or other non-Dharma-symbol flags) on the Arnold Park building. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 16, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on dialogues between Bankei and students (Part 2). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 15, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on dialogues between Bankei and students (Part 1). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 14, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Bankei’s public talk delivered during a training period at Ryumon-ji (Part 2). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 13, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Bankei’s public talk delivered during a training period at Ryumon-ji (Part 1). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 12, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the life of 17th-century Japanese Zen Master Bankei Yotaku (Part 2). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 11, 2023

June 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the life of 17th-century Japanese Zen Master Bankei Yotaku (Part 1). Source: The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. Revised edition translated with an introduction by Norman Waddell. North Point Press, 2000. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Transcript

June 4, 2023

Two of the four Brahma-viharas. Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka. Automated Transcript

May 21, 2023

How do we embody the Precepts in our everyday lives? An overview of morality in Zen and the RZC’s Taking the Precepts Ceremony. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

May 14, 2023

Exploring the intersection between Zen practice and neuroscience on our capacity for experiencing awe in ordinary activities. Commentary on Dacher Keltner’s “The Quiet Profundity of Everyday Awe”, The Atlantic: January 13, 2023. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

May 7, 2023

May 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Question:  Should I try or should I not try? Do I apply effort in practice or do I surrender? Ought there be discipline or should it come naturally? Answer: Yes! Sources: Awakening to Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau; Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart by Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield. Dharma Talk by Ven. Jissai Prince-Cherry. Automated Transcript

May 6, 2023

May 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
How to make the most of chanting, talks, and personalized instruction during sesshin. Sharing the teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau, founder of Rochester Zen Center, on the 19th anniversary of his death. Source: Zen: Merging of East and West by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Dharma Talk by Ven. Jissai Prince-Cherry. Automated Transcript

April 27, 2023

Bodhin-roshi’s comments on the controversy surrounding the February video of “the Dalai Lama and the boy.” (Correction: the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959, not 1951 as was stated in the talk.) Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

April 23, 2023

A look at Master Dogen’s treatise ‘Instructions to the Cook,’ with reflections on my own experiences as a cook, particularly at the Zen Center, as well as on work practice in general. Dharma Talk by Ven. Kanji Argetsinger. Automated Transcript

April 16, 2023

The layering of suffering. Coming to the Path Talk by Rebecca Gilbert. Automated Transcript

April 9, 2023

Further exploration of practice off the mat. (Continuing the theme of the teisho of February 19, 2023.) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 31, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Mumonkan #13, Tokusan Carries His Bowls. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 30, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master Sheng-Yen and John Crook. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 29, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master Sheng-Yen and John Crook. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 28, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master Sheng-Yen and John Crook. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 27, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master Sheng-Yen and John Crook. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 26, 2023

March 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Illuminating Silence: Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen by Master Sheng-Yen and John Crook. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 21, 2023

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

March 19, 2023

Zen practice is a method, not a technique. As a result, practice can sometimes feel frustrating since there’s no step-by-step instruction manual telling us “Exactly What to Do.” (Nor will there ever be.) So how do we practice? Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

March 5, 2023

We’re socially conditioned to lead with the head, however Zen is not a mental activity. How do we get our practice into the body-mind? Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

February 25, 2023

February 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Blue Cliff Record #21 “Chimon and the Lotus.” Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

February 24, 2023

February 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism” by Master Sheng Yen. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

February 23, 2023

February 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Chan Buddhism” by Master Sheng Yen Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

February 22, 2023

February 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Chan Buddhism” by Master Sheng Yen. Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

February 19, 2023

Zen practice has the potential to change our lives for the better. So what are we doing when we’re not facing a wall?  (See also the teisho Stop Fixing Yourself.) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Transcript

February 12, 2023

The usual human response to trouble and uncertainty is anxiety and resistance. How can we learn to live wholeheartedly with things as they are? Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 5, 2023

A senior student speaks candidly about his time at the Center, including his intense efforts to stay with Zen practice through severe depression and cancer. Coming to the Path Talk by Jonathan Hager. Automated Transcript

January 29, 2023

Marsha Linehan is the creator of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) which was the first form of psychotherapy proven effective for suicidal people with personality disorders. Her work was driven by her own struggles and by her experience in Zen training. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 13, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 12, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 11, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 10, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 9, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter) Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 8, 2023

January 2023 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on “Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering” by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Paul Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

December 18, 2022

Separating Dharma from Dogma. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

December 4, 2022

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

December 4, 2022

Teisho by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

November 26, 2022

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 23, 2022

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

November 13, 2022

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 4, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Description: What is my light? Why can’t I see it? How do I stop objectifying myself and those around me? Source(s): The Golden Age of Zen by John C.H. Wu, Doubleday 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

November 3, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Description: Zen practice is experiential — we each have to find our way to the truth, giving up our egoistic striving. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

November 2, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Description: Pride in our good deeds reinforces our sense of self-importance, and therefore works at cross-purposes to our efforts to free ourselves from the delusion of separation. Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

November 1, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Description: A master once said, “The taste of Zen is pain in the knees.” How do we work creatively with pain and weariness in these early days of sesshin? Source(s): Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

October 31, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Description: Practising right where we are. Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

October 30, 2022

November 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Description: Biographical material Source(s): Meetings with Remarkable Women by Lenore Friedman, Shambhala 1987; Subtle Sound by Roko Sherry Chayat, Shambhala 1996. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

October 9, 2022

How Zen practice deconstructs the self while the Dharma nourishes the Self, with a commentary on the koan “Linji’s Blind Donkey”. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 30, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 29, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 28, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 27, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Transcript

September 26, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 25, 2022

September 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 18, 2022

A look at the sanctioning next month of Donna Kowal and at my stepping aside, featuring Case 40 in the Mumonkan, “Kicking Over the Water Bottle.” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Transcript

September 11, 2022

September 2022 2-Day Sesshin, Day 2
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka. Automated Transcript

September 10, 2022

September 2022 2-Day Sesshin, Day 1
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka. Automated Transcript

August 21, 2022

By trying to wall off the inevitable pain we encounter, we make it hurt more and last longer. Acceptance and practice show us another way. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

August 14, 2022

From December 1979 Sesshin, Day 7. Played on Founder’s Day – August 14, 2022. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau. Automated Transcript

July 29, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 28, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 27, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 26, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 25, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 24, 2022

July 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 17, 2022

The images revealed by the Webb Telescope will vastly extend our knowledge. Wisdom, however, grows from looking inward. Who is seeing that projection of the mind we call the universe? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 10, 2022

The book Buddhism, by Smith and Novak, identifies six aspects of religion. How many fit with Zen? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 26, 2022

Faith is the anchor of Zen practice, but faith in what? Not a person, not a thing. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Transcript

June 19, 2022

Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka. Automated Transcript

June 11, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 10, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 9, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 8, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 7, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 6, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

June 5, 2022

June 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

May 22, 2022

A look at the first of the Ten Cardinal Precepts, particularly with respect to the Buffalo mass shooting, abortion, and self-immolation. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

May 15, 2022

A Rochester Zen Center staff member gives her account of coming to the Dharma and to the Center. Coming to the Path Talk by Desiree Jaeger-Fine. Automated Transcript

May 8, 2022

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

May 1, 2022

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

April 24, 2022

On taking refuge in Sangha (Community). Dharma Talk by Sensei Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

April 17, 2022

Advice from a 21st century Stoic. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

April 10, 2022

The leader of the Louisville Zen Center and a Rochester Zen Center staff member, gives her account of coming to the Dharma and to the Center. Coming to the Path Talk by Jeanette Prince-Cherry. Transcript

April 2, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

April 1, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 31, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 30, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 29, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 28, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 27, 2022

March 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 20, 2022

Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

March 13, 2022

Cultivating openness and awareness in the face of habit energies that pull us in the other direction. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Transcript

March 10, 2022

Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

March 6, 2022

With Russia’s invasion the world has changed. Facing up to uncertainty and suffering. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 26, 2022

February 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 25, 2022

February 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 24, 2022

February 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 23, 2022

February 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 13, 2022

Working with the body and attitudes towards the body in Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 6, 2022

Body awareness as a key to Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 31, 2022

A “CoronaCast.” Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 23, 2022

The compulsive and unsettled tenor of modern life was diagnosed well over 300 years ago by the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal, who wrote, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 15, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 7
On Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui, (trans. by J.C.Cleary). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 14, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 6
On Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui, (trans. by J.C.Cleary). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 13, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 5
On Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Peter Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 12, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 4
On Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings by Ajahn Chah (trans. by Peter Breiter). Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 11, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 10, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

January 9, 2022

January 2022 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Transcript

December 19, 2021

The three essentials of Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Transcript

December 18, 2021

Roshi’s latest podcast episode: a blur of change. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

December 12, 2021

December 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

December 11, 2021

December 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

December 5, 2021

Replacing grasping and aversion with awareness. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 27, 2021

Morality as the first of the three foundations of Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 13, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated transcript Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 12, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui, translated by J.C. Cleary. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 11, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 10, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 9, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 8, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

November 7, 2021

November 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

October 17, 2021

On Calvin Malone’s Razor-Wire Dharma: A Buddhist Life in Prison. Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka. Automated Transcript

October 10, 2021

Examining helpful (and not so helpful) ways of approaching Zen practice. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Transcript

October 1, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 30, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 6
Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 29, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. by J.C. Cleary and Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 28, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 27, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 25, 2021

September 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

September 19, 2021

To one degree or another, we allow habitual reactions to pain and anxiety to limit our lives. Zen practice shows us another way. Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

September 12, 2021

Like individuals, all nations and worlds pass. By fully facing this, with daily practice we can breathe life and even joy into our lives. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

August 15, 2021

Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

August 6, 2021

Roshi’s latest podcast: Deja Vu – Adapting to the COVID variants. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 30, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 29, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 28, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 27, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 26, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 25, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 24, 2021

July 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on The Way of Korean Zen by Kusan Sunim (trans. by Martine Batchelor) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

July 18, 2021

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). Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

June 29, 2021

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

June 9, 2021

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
Working with spiritual poverty. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

June 8, 2021

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
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. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

June 7, 2021

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
A turning point — no need to look further than the mind itself. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

June 6, 2021

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Flora Courtois’ search for Reality, or the ground of being. Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. Automated Transcript

June 5, 2021

June 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Introduction to the text by Yasutani-roshi Text: An Experience of Enlightenment by Flora Courtois. Quest Books, 1986. Teisho by Roshi Amala Wrightson. 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

May 16, 2021

The Buddha’s Way to freedom. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

May 11, 2021

Roshi’s weekly podcast: Languishing and Ambivalence. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

May 9, 2021

May 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
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) Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

May 8, 2021

May 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Reading and commentary on excerpts from Chapter One. Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 20, 2021

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

April 18, 2021

A look at one of the Buddha’s three characteristics of existence. Dharma Talk by Sensei John Pulleyn.

April 7, 2021

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 6, 2021

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Dawn, Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 5, 2021

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on The Practice of Zen, by Garma C. C. Chang. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 4, 2021

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on The Practice of Zen, by Garma C. C. Chang. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 3, 2021

April 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on The Practice of Zen, by Garma C. C. Chang. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

March 21, 2021

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

March 14, 2021

Dharma Talk by Donna Kowal. Automated Transcript

March 12, 2021

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

March 7, 2021

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

March 2, 2021

February/March 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
Source Quoted Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen. Edited by by John Crook. Element Books Ltd, 1991. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

March 1, 2021

February/March 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
Source Quoted Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen. Edited by by John Crook. Element Books Ltd, 1991. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 28, 2021

February/March 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

February 27, 2021

February/March 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn. Automated Transcript

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

February 14, 2021

Miscellaneous reflections on love, seen through the lens of Dharma. Source Referenced Soul Food: Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart. Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman. HarperOne, 1996. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

February 10, 2021

Roshi’s weekly podcast: Integrating Two of the Buddhist Paramitas in Getting Scheduled for a Vaccination Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

February 7, 2021

Sources Referenced: Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success. Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Norman Fischer. Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up. HarperOne, 2004. Jeffrey R. Young. “Researcher Behind ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice.” EdSurge, May 5, 2020. “Unconditionally Steadfast.” Tricycle interview with Pema Chödrön. Fall 1999. Dharma Talk by Trueman Taylor. Automated Transcript

January 24, 2021

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. Sources Quoted: Stephen Batchelor. “Creating Sangha.” Tricycle, Winter, 1995.  Thich Nhat Hanh. “The Fertile Soil of Sangha.” Tricycle, Summer, 2008. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 22, 2021

Roshi’s weeky podcast: New Government as Rebirth Automated transcript Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 15, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 14, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 6
Readings from Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin (mostly the Introduction), The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin (both translated by Norman Waddell) and The Zen Master Hakuin, translated by Philip Yampolsky. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 13, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 5
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 12, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 4
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 11, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 3
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 10, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 2
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

January 9, 2021

January 2021 Sesshin, Day 1
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

December 27, 2020

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. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

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? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

December 17, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast on the pandemic. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede. Automated Transcript

December 13, 2020

December 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on  Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein 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. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 24, 2020

New Zealand’s Pandemic Success Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 11, 2020

November 2020 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on  Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 10, 2020

November 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on  Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 9, 2020

November 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on  Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 8, 2020

November 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on  Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 7, 2020

November 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on  Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 5, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 19, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Pandemic Refuge” Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 7, 2020

October 2020 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 6, 2020

October 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 5, 2020

October 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 4, 2020

October 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 3, 2020

October 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary). Text from Zen Master Lanxi Daolong (Jap.: Daikaku) 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… Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

September 13, 2020

September 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soko Morinaga. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.

September 12, 2020

September 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soko Morinaga. Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.

August 30, 2020

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. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

August 27, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Depression Compared and Contrasted with Boredom.” Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

August 19, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Pandemic Ruin and Renaissance.” Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

August 16, 2020

From October 1976 Sesshin, Day 4. Played on Founder’s Day – August 16, 2020. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau.

August 12, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast: “Grit, competence, and zazen.” Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 31, 2020

July 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
“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. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

July 30, 2020

July 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
“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. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

July 29, 2020

July 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
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. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

July 28, 2020

July 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
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. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

July 26, 2020

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

July 23, 2020

Roshi’s weekly podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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… Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 15, 2020

Roshi’s podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 12, 2020

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

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 25, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 18, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 11, 2020

June 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 10, 2020

June 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 9, 2020

June 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 8, 2020

June 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen (trans. T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 4, 2020

This week’s podcast from Roshi to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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… Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

May 28, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

May 24, 2020

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

May 13, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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.) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

May 2, 2020

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

April 30, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 26, 2020

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

April 23, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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? Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 15, 2020

Roshi’s latest podcast to the Sangha. Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

April 9, 2020

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

April 5, 2020

Recorded in Auckland on March 10 and played in the Rochester zendo on April 5. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

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… Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

March 26, 2020

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

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 Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

March 8, 2020

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

February 29, 2020

February 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

February 28, 2020

February 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

February 27, 2020

February 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

February 26, 2020

February 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away: Teachings on Impermanence and the End of Suffering by Ajahn Chan (trans. by Paul Breiter) 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

February 9, 2020

A Sunday talk about coming to the Dharma and to the Center. Coming to the Path Talk by Dené Redding.

January 26, 2020

Everyday driving as a practice field for mindfulness and a test of non-reactivity and other Buddhist values. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 19, 2020

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

January 11, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 10, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 9, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei (trans. by T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 8, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 7, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 6, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

January 5, 2020

January 2020 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

December 8, 2019

December 2019 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Dogen’s How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, with commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.

December 7, 2019

December 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Dogen’s How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, with commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) Dharma Talk by Ven. 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 9, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 8, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 7, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 6, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 5, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 4, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 3, 2019

November 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (trans. by Robert Buswell) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 27, 2019

Working to disarm the self. Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

October 20, 2019

A report on the Duke University conference celebrating the installation of Roshi Kapleau’s archives. Roshi Kjolhede focuses on the unique challenges Kapleau faced — and we continue to face — in adapting Zen to the West. His archives can be found at the Duke University Libraries’ Philip Kapleau papers, 1952-2009 and undated. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 5, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
A commentary on “Ziyong’s Ship of Compassion,” from The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women by Zenshin Florence Caplow, Reigetsu Susan Moon. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 4, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 3, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 2, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 1, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart, edited by Roko Sherry Chayat Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

September 30, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart, from Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

September 29, 2019

October 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on the teachings of Maurine Stuart, from Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by Lenore Friedman Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

September 7, 2019

September 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students, by Robert Aitken Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.

August 18, 2019

From November 1976 Sesshin, Day 5. Played on Founder’s Day – August, 18, 2019. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau.

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.” Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

August 3, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

August 2, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 31, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 30, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 29, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom (trans. by Thomas Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

July 28, 2019

July 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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,… Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 15, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 14, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 13, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 5
A commentary on Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 12, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 4
A commentary on Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 11, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 3
A commentary on Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

June 9, 2019

June 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
A commentary on Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui (trans. by Arthur Braverman) 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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 Coming to the Path Talk by Sudama Ngo.

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 video featuring Anna Breytenbach, “animal communicator.” Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.

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

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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

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

December 8, 2018

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

December 7, 2018

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

December 5, 2018

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings, by Ajahn Chah 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! Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 10, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 9, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 8, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 7, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 6, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 5, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 4, 2018

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 1
 Commentary on texts from the first Zen Masters, Zen Dawn: Early ZenTexts from Tun Huang (trans. J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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… Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

October 6, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 7
”Before the tongue has moved the teaching has finished” — but take care — short of full awakening there is still work to do.  A commentary on “Satsujo Overcomes Hakuin,” from The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women by Zenshin Florence Caplow, Reigetsu Susan Moon. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 5, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 6
Being willing to let things fall apart. A commentary on “Chiyono’s No Water No Moon,” from The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women by Zenshin Florence Caplow, Reigetsu Susan Moon. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 4, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on  Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism, by Master Sheng Yen & Others. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 3, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism, by Master Sheng Yen & Others/ Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 2, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism, by Master Sheng Yen & Others. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

October 1, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism, by Master Sheng Yen & Others. Teisho by Sensei Amala Wrightson.

September 30, 2018

October 2018 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism, by Master Sheng Yen & Others. 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. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

September 9, 2018

September 2018 Sesshin, Day 2
Dharma Talk by Eryl Kubicka.

August 19, 2018

From June 1975 Sesshin, Day 7. Played on Founder’s Day, August 19, 2018. Teisho by Roshi Philip Kapleau.

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

April 12, 2018

Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

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