Welcome to the San Francisco Zen Center's online library of Dharma Talks. The talks listed here were given at City Center or Green Gulch Farm as part of a public dharma talk. For additional talks, please visit the classes section of our web site. We also offer our Dharma Talks as a podcast feed:
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| 12/28/2008 |
Daigan Lueck - Desire, Dharma, Identity, and Light
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| 12/21/2008 |
Zoketsu Norman Fischer - Wondrous Gift of the Sun
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| 12/20/2008 |
Steve Weintraub - Mixed Up with Everything
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| 12/17/2008 |
Lou Hartman - Old Age, Sickness, and Death
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| 12/13/2008 |
Michael Wenger - Praise and Blame
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| 12/6/2008 |
Steve Stucky - Here's Young Buddha, Sitting Under the Wake-Up Tree
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| 11/30/2008 |
Hozan Alan Senauke - Giving, Receiving and Gratitude
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| 11/23/2008 |
Edward Brown - Love and Approval
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| 11/22/2008 |
Paul Haller - Mindfulness Supporting Your Life
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| 11/19/2008 |
Döris Harder - "Jonah-Running-Away" -- The No's in our Lives
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| 11/16/2008 |
Steve Weintraub - Standing Up Where You Fall
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| 11/15/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stücky - Daddy, Are We Poor?
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| 11/12/2008 |
Steve Stucky - Destructible and Indestructible
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| 11/8/2008 |
Christina Lehnherr - All-Inclusiveness -- Interdependence and the Necessity of Active Participation -- Barack Obama's Election Night Talk
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| 11/2/2008 |
Rev. Shomei Aihara - The Life of Zazen
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| 11/1/2008 |
Jeffrey Schneider - Lying to Children
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| 10/29/2008 |
Bernie Glassman - Feeding the Hungry Ghosts
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| 10/26/2008 |
Zoketsu Norman Fischer - Applied Dharma, Plan B
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| 10/25/2008 |
Robert Thomas - Power
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| 10/18/2008 |
Blanche Hartman - The Mind that Sees into Impermanence
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| 10/16/2008 |
John Powell - Self-Process and Racialized Space
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| 10/12/2008 |
Rev. Myo Lahey - Where Buddha Meets Buddha
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| 10/11/2008 |
Steve Stucky - Peaceful Abiding
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| 10/8/2008 |
Mark Lancaster - Karma and Freedom
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| 10/4/2008 |
Marc Lesser - Friendliness
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| 10/1/2008 |
Rosalie Curtis - Practicing with Not Getting What You Want
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| 10/1/2008 |
Daigan Lueck - Prajna Paramita
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| 9/29/2008 |
Eijin Linda Ruth Cutts - Embodying the Eternal Buddha
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| 9/28/2008 |
Rev. Fu Schroeder - Angels, Compassion and Grace
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| 9/27/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - What Brings Us Here Today?
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| 9/24/2008 |
Michael Wenger - Body Exposed to the Golden Wind
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| 9/21/2008 |
Daigan Lueck - Autumn, Impermanence and Issa's Haiku
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| 9/20/2008 |
Paul Haller - Revealing your Life's Intention
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| 9/17/2008 |
Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler - Perfection of Concentration
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| 9/14/2008 |
Reb Anderson - Helping, Being Helped, and Control
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| 9/13/2008 |
Victoria Austin - Practice Now, Unswayed by Being and Non-Being
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| 9/10/2008 |
David Komito - Practicing with Nagarjuna
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| 9/10/2008 |
Wendy Lewis - Religion and Zen Practice
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| 9/9/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - About Zazen
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| 9/7/2008 |
Eijin Linda Ruth Cutts - Stone Soup (a children's talk)
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| 9/6/2008 |
Paul Haller - Contacting Core Responses to Desire, Aversion, and Confusion
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| 9/3/2008 |
Kosho McCall - Belonging to a Real Sangha
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| 8/31/2008 |
Luminous Owl - Contemplation
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| 8/30/2008 |
Anna Thorn - Affirming Life - Meeting Each Moment
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| 8/23/2008 |
Barry Magid - Ending the Pursuit of Happiness
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| 8/20/2008 |
Mark Lancaster - Cherry Pie of Enlightenment
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| 8/17/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Taking Care of Fire
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| 8/16/2008 |
Darlene Cohen - Commitment to Practice
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| 8/13/2008 |
Lou Hartman - The End of the World
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| 8/9/2008 |
Laura Burges - Serenity, Courage, Wisdom
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| 8/3/2008 |
Christina Lehnherr - Practice Affects the Entire Earth
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| 8/2/2008 |
Teah Strozer - Free in the Fire
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| 7/27/2008 |
Seido Lee deBarros - Precepts, Awakening, Kindness
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| 7/26/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - Why Zen?
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| 7/20/2008 |
Darlene Cohen - Suffering
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| 7/19/2008 |
Victoria Austin - Buddha's Response to the Human Condition
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| 7/19/2008 |
Eijun Linda Cutts - Receiving Precepts
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| 7/13/2008 |
Edward Brown - Relying on Something Great
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| 7/6/2008 |
Zoketsu Norman Fischer - Sailing Home
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| 7/5/2008 |
Michael Wenger - The Inner Fire and the Outer Fire
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| 7/2/2008 |
Blanche Hartman - Buddhism and Prayer?
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| 6/29/2008 |
Shosan Victoria Austin - Love and Commitment
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| 6/28/2008 |
Kosho McCall - Difference: Suffering and Liberation
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| 6/25/2008 |
Lou Hartman - The Five Fears
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| 6/22/2008 |
Eijun Linda Cutts - Genjo Koan
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| 6/21/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - Prajna Paramita and Impermanence
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| 6/21/2008 |
Meiya Wender - The Business Beneath the Robe
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| 6/13/2008 |
Blanche Hartman - Prajna Paramita - The Wisdom that Goes Beyond
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| 6/11/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - The Perfection of Zazen -- Dhyana Paramita
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| 6/8/2008 |
Marc Lesser - Everyday Mind
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| 6/7/2008 |
Paul Haller - Virya: The Energy of Practice
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| 6/5/2008 |
Robert Thurman - Why the Dalai Lama Matters
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| 6/4/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - Virya Paramita
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| 6/1/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Stillness and Activity
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| 5/31/2008 |
Christina Lehnherr - Living Awake in the Midst of Impermanence -- Taking Care of Everything Near
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| 5/28/2008 |
Victoria Austin - Ksanti Paramita: Practice of Patience
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| 5/24/2008 |
Paul Haller - Cultivating Trust
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| 5/21/2008 |
Michael Wenger - Pentimento
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| 5/18/2008 |
Furyu Schroeder - Yoyo Zen
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| 5/17/2008 |
Mel Weitsman - Our Meal Chant
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| 5/14/2008 |
Susan O'Connell - The 100-foot Pole
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| 5/11/2008 |
Steve Weintraub - Spirit of Zen Practice
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| 5/10/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - Generosity and Intimacy
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| 5/7/2008 |
Mangesh Dahiwale - The Revival of Buddhism in India
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| 5/4/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stücky - Buddha's Birthday
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| 5/3/2008 |
Tova Green - When the Ocean Looks Circular and Does Not Look Any Other Way
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| 4/30/2008 |
Linda Galijan - Turning Toward the Unwanted
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| 4/27/2008 |
Christina Lehnherr - Living with Dying
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| 4/26/2008 |
Mark Lancaster - Koan Study
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| 4/23/2008 |
Jordan Thorn - Lost and Found
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| 4/20/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Pure Sanctuary
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| 4/13/2008 |
Eijun Linda Ruth Cutts - Ceremony
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| 3/30/2008 |
Hozan Alan Senauke - Sentient Beings Within
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| 3/22/2008 |
Dana Velden - The Enlightenment Machine
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| 3/19/2008 |
Victoria Austin - The Dharma of Contact
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| 3/16/2008 |
Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi - Like Don't Like OK
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| 3/15/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Generous Mountains
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| 3/15/2008 |
Wendy Johnson - The Ides of March
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| 3/12/2008 |
Victoria Austin - Nourishment and Kindness
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| 3/9/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Compassion
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| 3/8/2008 |
hoitsu suzuki - Valleys and Mountains
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| 3/5/2008 |
Gil Fronsdal - Realms of Lovingkindness
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| 3/2/2008 |
Wendy Johnson - Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
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| 3/1/2008 |
Paul Haller - Do You Believe in Magic?
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| 2/27/2008 |
Seido Lee deBarros - Refuge
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| 2/24/2008 |
Luminous Owl - Shamatha and Vipassana
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| 2/23/2008 |
Teah Strozer - Every Day Dharma
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| 2/23/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Four Foundations of Mindfulness
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| 2/20/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - All Things Are Equal
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| 2/20/2008 |
Anna Thorn - The Place of Kindness
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| 2/17/2008 |
Myogen Steve Stucky - Parinirvana
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| 2/16/2008 |
Victoria Austin - A Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes
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| 2/13/2008 |
Dairyu Michael Wenger - Vulnerability
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| 2/10/2008 |
Edward Brown - Telling Our Deepest Darkest Secrets
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| 2/9/2008 |
Dairyu Michael Wenger - Kindness and Discipline
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| 2/6/2008 |
Renshin Bunce - Being Shuso in the Fall at Tassajara
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| 2/3/2008 |
Darlene Cohen - Difficult Conversations about Money (incl. children's talk)
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| 2/2/2008 |
Paul Haller - Attending to Pleasant and Unpleasant (incl. children's dharma talk)
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| 1/30/2008 |
Blanche Hartman - Dropping the Story, Embracing the Moment
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| 1/26/2008 |
Yvonne Rand and Mel Weitsman - Memories and Experiences of Suzuki Roshi
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| 1/16/2008 |
Wilson Riles - Communication, Culture, Race, Politics and Love
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| 1/12/2008 |
Edward Brown - Emotions, Judgment and Perception
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| 1/12/2008 |
Mark Lancaster - Horns of Success and Failure
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| 1/9/2008 |
Rosalie Curtis - Time
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| 1/6/2008 |
Fu Schroeder - Sunday (incl. children's talk)
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| 1/3/2008 |
Lou Hartman - First the Questions, then the Lecture
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