Berkeley Zen Center Dharma Talks

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Lectures, talks, and classes on Zen Buddhism from Shogakuji Temple, Berkeley Zen Center, in Berkeley, California, USA.

Episode Date
Genjokoan: Practice and Everyday Life
May 03, 2026
Inside the Flower Garland Sutra (Book Talk)
May 01, 2026
What Does it Mean to Be a Zen Priest?
Apr 26, 2026
Mindfulness in a Time of Muck
Apr 19, 2026
Miraculous Stories of the Buddha’s Birth
Apr 12, 2026
Waking Up: Awakening to Full Aliveness
Apr 05, 2026
The 10,000 Marks of Existence (Women’s Sit)
Mar 30, 2026
Fire, No Kings, and Being OK and Not-OK
Mar 28, 2026
Regulate Your (Unregulatable) Life
Mar 21, 2026
Practicing the Precepts in Dangerous Times
Mar 14, 2026
Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 2 of 4)
Mar 13, 2026
Reflections on the Mountain Seat
Mar 08, 2026
Practicing the Bodhisattva Precepts (Class 1 of 4)
Mar 06, 2026
Prelude to the Mountain Seat
Mar 01, 2026
The Buddha’s Final Reflections on Life and Practice
Feb 21, 2026
The Heart in the Heart Sutra
Feb 15, 2026
Caring for Zazen
Feb 07, 2026
Appropriate Response (Class 4 of 4)
Feb 05, 2026
practicing with illness and the eight qualities of a great person
Jan 31, 2026
Appropriate Response (Class 3 of 4)
Jan 30, 2026
Buddha Sutras Are All the Worlds in the 10 Directions
Jan 24, 2026
Appropriate Response (Class 2 o f4)
Jan 23, 2026
I’m Nobody, Who Are You?
Jan 17, 2026
Appropriate Response (Class 1 of 4)
Jan 16, 2026
Not Wind, Not Flag
Jan 10, 2026
Satipatthana Sutta #4
Dec 07, 2025
Buddha’s Enlightenment
Dec 06, 2025
Rohatsu Sesshin Day 5: How to practice with what comes up
Dec 05, 2025
Satipatthana Sutta #3
Dec 04, 2025
I Love ZAZEN
Dec 02, 2025
Satipatthana Sutta #1
Dec 01, 2025
Thus Have I heard Sojun Roshi
Nov 15, 2025
Reflections on the Sandokai
Nov 08, 2025
Aspects Class 4 of 4 on The Sandokai
Nov 07, 2025
Aspects Class 3 of 4 on The Sandokai
Oct 31, 2025
Sangha Practice: Giver, Receiver and Gift
Oct 22, 2025
Feeding the Hungry Ghosts
Oct 22, 2025
Double-consciousness, racial melancholy, and meditation
Oct 18, 2025
Aspects Class 1 of 4 on the Sandokai
Oct 18, 2025
Sandokai: One Mind; difference and equality
Oct 11, 2025
Great Robe of Liberation
Oct 04, 2025
What is Time? Time is Love
Sep 27, 2025
Buddha Ancestors, Past, Present and Future
Sep 20, 2025
WHAT’S ZEN GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Sep 13, 2025
Sahā World
Sep 06, 2025
Work as a Practice of Care and Connection
Aug 30, 2025
Not Knowing
Aug 23, 2025
Engaging Today’s Chaos With A Beginner’s Mind
Aug 16, 2025
Remembering Hozan, and What Dogen would do now
Aug 09, 2025
the meditative factors of enlightenment
Aug 02, 2025
Remembering Ron Nestor
Jul 26, 2025
Dōkan – The Circle of the Way
Jul 19, 2025
Becoming Yourself
Jul 18, 2025
Difficult Conversations as Practice
Jul 12, 2025
Some practice with the Satipatthana Sutra
Jul 05, 2025
Taking Refuge
Jun 28, 2025
Awakening Together
Jun 15, 2025
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath BCR 78 #2
Jun 14, 2025
Zen Is Eternal Life
Jun 13, 2025
The Three Pure Precepts
Jun 12, 2025
Zazen As an Act of Devotion
Jun 11, 2025
Dogen’s “Power of the Robe”
Jun 07, 2025
Lotus Sutra Class 5 of 5
Jun 06, 2025
Practicing the Prajnaparamita Mantra
May 31, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Four of Five
May 30, 2025
A Fool for the Dharma
May 24, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Three of Five
May 23, 2025
16 Bodhisattvas Enter the Bath (Case 78 BCR)
May 17, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class Two of Five
May 16, 2025
The Buddha who is Always Present and Always Teaching
May 10, 2025
The Lotus Sutra Class One of Five
May 09, 2025
The Three Refuges in Hard Times
Apr 26, 2025
Impermanence
Apr 12, 2025
Why we celebrate Buddha’s birthday
Apr 05, 2025
Talk on the Genjo Koan
Mar 29, 2025
How We Grow in Practice
Mar 22, 2025
Zen and the Pursuit of Happiness
Mar 08, 2025
Penetrating Anger as a Dharma Get in Turbulent Times
Mar 01, 2025
Impressions of Hozan
Feb 22, 2025
The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance
Feb 15, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 3 of 3
Feb 12, 2025
Family Sangha Practice
Feb 08, 2025
Taking Refuge – Mutual Affinity with the Three Treasures
Feb 01, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 2 of 3
Jan 28, 2025
Uncertainty and Change as a Field of Practice
Jan 25, 2025
Feel It to Heal It
Jan 18, 2025
Call Me By My True Names Class 1 of 3
Jan 14, 2025
Dipping a Toe into Nagarjuna’s “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”
Jan 11, 2025
Foolish Sentient Beings
Dec 07, 2024
Falling in Fragility, Waking Up to Mutuality
Dec 06, 2024
Vows of Old Ancestor Eihei Dogen
Dec 05, 2024
Falling
Dec 04, 2024
Think Not Thinking
Dec 03, 2024
The Buddha’s Instructions for Sitting Meditation
Dec 02, 2024
Zen Therapy, Talk Therapy
Nov 30, 2024
Abbot’s Update
Nov 23, 2024
Choosing Love and Freedom
Nov 17, 2024
See As Is
Nov 16, 2024
Metta and Right Effort
Nov 09, 2024
Aspects Class 4 of 4 Ordinary Bodhisattvas
Nov 08, 2024