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Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast

Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast

70 episodes

The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya's diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & nonviolence, compassionate care training, and delivering healthcare in the Himalayas.

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What Do You Preserve?

Published: Jan. 8, 2024, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 49 seconds

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Natalie Goldberg: Petites madeleines as dharma

Published: Jan. 1, 2024, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 8 seconds

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Noah Kodo Roen & Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Turning Toward the Light

Published: Dec. 25, 2023, noon
Duration: 45 minutes 42 seconds

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Brooke Kaishin Barss: Toward an Enlightened Life

Published: Dec. 18, 2023, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 25 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi & Shinzan Palma: Breakthrough: Rohatsu Sesshin

Published: Dec. 11, 2023, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 45 seconds

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Joan Halifax: Seeing Without a Seer…Hearing Without a Hearer

Published: Dec. 4, 2023, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 8 seconds

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Christiana Figueres: What does the climate crisis teach us?

Published: Nov. 27, 2023, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 17 seconds

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Wendy Dainin Lau, MD: Taming this wild horse: listen, study, practice

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 55 seconds

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Hozan Alan Senauke: The Bodhisattvas Four Embracing Ways

Published: Nov. 13, 2023, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 51 seconds

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Cyndi Lee: Lifting the Gaze

Published: Nov. 6, 2023, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 40 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: When a fish enters the flowing stream, everything is provided

Published: Oct. 30, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: The Spiritual Source Shines Clearly in the Light

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 58 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: Warm Hand to Warm Hand

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 15 seconds

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One Body Buddha

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 42 seconds

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Rhonda V. Magee: Mindfulness and the Possibility of Living Well Together in Hard Times

Published: Oct. 2, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 46 seconds

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Rebecca Solnit: Hope Is a Discipline On Being Present and Committing to the Future

Published: Sept. 25, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 31 seconds

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Ben Connelly: Imagination, Interdependence, and Liberation Practicing Yogacara Buddhism with Vasubandhus Three Natures

Published: Sept. 18, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds

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Alcio Braz: Making Peace with our Ancestors

Published: Sept. 11, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 47 seconds

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Natalie Goldberg: The Mind of Writing

Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds

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Frank Ostaseski: Surrendering to Death

Published: Aug. 28, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 25 seconds

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Zenshin Florence Caplow: She Who Hears the Cries of the World, Stories of Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Compassion

Published: Aug. 21, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 51 seconds

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Jonathan S. Watts: Using the Four Noble Truths as a Framework for Buddhist Chaplaincy in Japan

Published: Aug. 14, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: Its all alive; Its all intelligent; Its all connected; Its all YOU

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 45 seconds

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Henry Shukman: The Cart Track: what an obscure early Chan document can teach us about the path of practice

Published: July 31, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 49 seconds

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Peter Levitt: Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women

Published: July 24, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 16 seconds

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Edoardo (Shoryu) Eusepi: Taking Time to Transition

Published: July 17, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 51 seconds

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Hozan Alan Senauke: Turning Words

Published: July 10, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 3 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: Agency, Karma, and the Four Noble Truths

Published: July 3, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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Stepping into the Turbulence: Our Walk with Fear

Published: June 26, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds

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Beginner’s Mind; Continuous Practice

Published: June 19, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 36 seconds

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Tim Burkett: Enlightenment is an Accident

Published: June 12, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 58 seconds

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Keido Troy Fernandez: How Will You Plant Your Life: What Could it Mean?

Published: June 5, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 49 seconds

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Something’s Happening Here and We Don’t Know What It Is

Published: May 29, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 29 seconds

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Rev. Issho Fujita: Zazen as a Way of Harmonizing the Self

Published: May 22, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 49 seconds

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Bhante Sanathavihari: On the Wings of Awakening

Published: May 15, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 4 seconds

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Frank Ostaseski: Grief – A Path to Wholeness

Published: May 8, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds

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Singing the Rivers Song Back to the River Part 2

Published: May 1, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 46 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: Reflecting on the Way of Ling Zhao and her Mother

Published: April 24, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 8 seconds

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Zenshin Florence Caplow: The Joys and Pitfalls of Helping: Lingzhao & Layman Pang

Published: April 17, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 4 seconds

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Ordinary Mind: Layman Pang and Maurine Stuart, Roshi

Published: April 10, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 36 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: All Moments Are Equally Precious

Published: April 3, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds

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HAIKU: The Leap

Published: March 27, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 41 seconds

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Singing the Rivers Song Back to the River

Published: March 20, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

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Engaged Attention: Enhancing Daily Life

Published: March 13, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 33 seconds

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Begin Again: Precepts for Everyday Life

Published: March 6, 2023, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 52 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: I Offer You This Bodhi Mind

Published: Feb. 27, 2023, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 47 seconds

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Zenshin Florence Caplow: On Courage and Practice

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 36 seconds

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Valerie Brown: The Heart of Sangha: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings on Building Beloved Community

Published: Feb. 13, 2023, noon
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

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Dancing with Mara: Revisiting the Life of Buddha

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, noon
Duration: 41 minutes

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Wendy Johnson: Grass Boundless: Inside the Gate, Outside the Gate

Published: Jan. 30, 2023, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 26 seconds

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John Paul Lederach: Teacher Spider and the Golden Thread

Published: March 15, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 43 seconds

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Michael R. Sheehy: What is Enlightenment? (Part 5 of 5)

Published: March 13, 2021, 6:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 2 seconds

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John Dunne: What is Enlightenment? (Part 4)

Published: March 8, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 48 seconds

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Adam Frank: Koans as Questions, Koans as Test: One Scientist’s Personal Perspective

Published: March 1, 2021, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

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Senator Tom Udall: Socially Engaged Buddhism: The Path of Public Service

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 28 seconds

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Anne Klein: What is Enlightenment? (Part 3)

Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 7 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 19 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara: What is Enlightenment? (Part 2)

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds

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Evan Thompson: What is Enlightenment? (Part 1)

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 10 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 50 seconds

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Natalie Goldberg: The Wonder of Chocolate

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 46 seconds

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Wendy Johnson: SESSHIN: Case 6: The Buddha Twirls a Flower (Part 6 of 6)

Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 36 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: SESSHIN: Case 32: The Buddha Responds to an Outsider (Part 4)

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 10:30 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Case 24: Leaving Words and Silence Behind (Part 3)

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: SESSHIN: Case 24: Leaving Words and Silence Behind (Part 3)

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 6 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara: SESSHIN: Case 38, Genso’s Ox (Part 2)

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Skillful Means Without Ends: A Radical View of Socially Engaged Buddhism

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 26 seconds

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Joan Halifax: SESSHIN: Case 5, Kyogen’s Man in a Tree (Part 1)

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 11 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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Irène Kaigetsu Bakker: Ryutan Blows Out the Candle

Published: Feb. 6, 2021, 1:20 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 1 second

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Natalie Goldberg: The Way of Wild Mind

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 10:05 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: This Very Mind is Buddha

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: Baizhang’s Fox

Published: Jan. 30, 2021, 12:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 40 seconds

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Norman Fischer: Everyday Mind is the Way

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 28 seconds

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Wendy Johnson: The Oak at the Gateless Gate

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 7 seconds

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Wendy Johnson & Matthew Kozan Palevsky & Kigaku Noah Rossetter & Joan Halifax: Winter Practice Period 2021 INTRO: Passing through the Gateless Gate

Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi & Enkyo O'Hara & Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 12 of 12)

Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 6 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 11 of 12)

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 45 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 10 of 12)

Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 11:40 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Wendy Johnson & Joan Halifax: A Koan for these Strange Times

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 2 seconds

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Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 9 of 12)

Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 5 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 8 of 12)

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 8 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds

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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Everything is Fresh and New

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 2 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 7 of 12)

Published: Jan. 2, 2021, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 6 of 12)

Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 6:20 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds

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Natalie Goldberg: Writing Practice: The Way of Wild Mind

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 36 seconds

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Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 5 of 12)

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 8:25 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 4 of 12)

Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 2:35 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Enkyo O'Hara: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 3 of 12)

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 8:45 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 25 seconds

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Kaz Tanahashi: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 2 of 12)

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 4:11 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Entire Body in a Speck of Dust

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara & Kaz Tanahashi & Joan Halifax: ROHATSU: Wisdom Beyond Wisdom (Part 1 of 12)

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 21 seconds

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Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 6)

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 14 seconds

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Konda Mason: Who are we really?

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 43 minutes 19 seconds

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John Dunne: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World (Part 3)

Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 6 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 21 seconds

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John Dunne & Joan Halifax: The Nature of the Mind, The Nature of the World Introduction (Part 1)

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 41 seconds

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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: Life in the Balance: Practice, Study, Community, Livelihood & Service

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 41 seconds

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Mark Donatelli: Prison Cruelty and Capital Punishment – A Messy Message of Hope

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, noon
Duration: 47 minutes 17 seconds

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John Dunne: On Uncertainty

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 58 seconds

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Joan Halifax: Practicing Radical Uncertainty in a World of Turmoil – Upaya Election Series (Talk #5 of 5)

Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 4:45 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 20 seconds

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Vow We Make When Nobody is Listening

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 42 seconds

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Eve Myonen Marko: Don’t Win Too Quickly

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 35 minutes

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Lama Rod Owens: Love, Fear, and Resilience as the World Falls Apart – Upaya Election Series (Talk #4)

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 8:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds

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Sharon Salzberg: Real Change – Upaya Election Series (Talk #3)

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 9:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 seconds

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Shinzan Palma: The Zen Collective

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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Rhonda V. Magee: The Dharma of Good Trouble – Upaya Election Series (Talk #2)

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 38 seconds

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Carol Moldaw: Poetry Series: Carol Moldaw

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 49 seconds

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Reggie Hubbard: Joyful Defiance in the Call to Courageous Action – Upaya Election Series (Talk #1)

Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 12:50 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 49 seconds

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Shinzan Palma: Mazu’s Heart Sutra – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (7 of 7)

Published: Oct. 20, 2020, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 26 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: The Heart Sutra: There’s No Place Like Home – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (6 of 7)

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds

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Stephen Batchelor: The Ethics of Uncertainty – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (5 of 7)

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 12 seconds

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: The Heart of Patience – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (4 of 7)

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 51 seconds

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Monshin Nannette Overley: Embody Profound Serenity – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (3 of 7)

Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 26 seconds

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Jane Steinberg: Continuous Practice – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (2 of 7)

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, noon
Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds

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Kigaku Noah Rossetter: The Heart of Practice – Fall Practice Period SESSHIN (1 of 7)

Published: Oct. 13, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 12 seconds

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Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Fall Practice Period: The Heart of Freedom

Published: Oct. 12, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 40 seconds

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Norman Fischer: Fall Practice Period: Full Inclusion in the Heart and Lotus Sutra

Published: Oct. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 50 seconds

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Enkyo O'Hara: Fall Practice Period: The Heart Sutra’s Protection

Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 5 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 11 seconds

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Shinzan Palma: Fall Practice Period: The Heart of Wisdom

Published: Oct. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 29 seconds

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John Dunne: Fall Practice Period: Ah The Heart Sutra

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 25 seconds

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Zenshin Florence Caplow: Fall Practice Period: The Path of Courage

Published: Oct. 1, 2020, 4 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 30 seconds

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Kathie Fischer & Shinzan Palma & Matthew Kozan Palevsky: Fall Practice Period Opening

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 7 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 6 seconds

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Kathie Fischer: Heart Sutra Through the Ancestors

Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 25 seconds

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