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- Today38 min
A Raging River: Grief and the Human Condition
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during Upaya’s Being with Dying intensive, Frank Ostaseski speaks to participants from the loss of three close friends within a matter of weeks. Rather than offering technique or teaching, he […]
- Yesterday1h 28m
The Measure of Our Humanity: IMAGINATION
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity, teacher and author Tara Brach explores imagination as what she calls “an absolute miracle of the human mind” — a capacity that has shaped […]
- 1 weeks ago51 min
Liberating Intimacy – Softening Barriers to Love
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Koshin Flint Sparks — psychologist, Zen teacher, and longtime student of the intersection of mind science and contemplative practice — offers a wide-ranging inquiry into what he calls “the double helix of maturity”: the intertwined work of growing up and waking up. Drawing on attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology, and teachings from across the Zen lineage, Koshin makes the case that love is central to practice — and traces suffering to its root in the longing to be seen, held, and chosen. He frames the Bodhisattva vow as fundamentally an expansion of our capacity for love through intimacy. Suzuki Roshi put it plainly: “You have no idea how long it takes to learn to love some people.” Koshin explains awakening as irreducibly relational: “Buddhist salvation is not a liberation of any individual — but rather the liberation of intimacy itself.” Suggesting that awakening is the falling away of everything that keeps us from meeting one another through love.
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Dharma Lab – Practicing the Truth of Our Lives
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo reflects on the just-completed Spring Practice Period sesshin as a window into a larger idea of a Dharma Lab. What has been called “Contemplative Residency,” he […]
- 2 weeks ago49 min
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 6: Entering the Marketplace
In this final talk of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan and Sensei Shinzan bring the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures to their close with the tenth stage — Entering the Marketplace — the return to ordinary life, […]
- 2 weeks ago54 min
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source
In this fifth-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko and Sensei Monshin explore the ninth ox-herding picture, Returning to the Source — the stage where effort ceases and life simply flows. Drawing on Lao […]
- 2 weeks ago45 min
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys
In this third-day talk, offered during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan takes up the habit of self-judgment — that familiar contraction after a mistake, the script of not being good enough, […]
- 2 weeks ago45 min
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Free From The Start
During the second day of the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senko takes up the koan of relaxed effort — how effort and ease, far from being opposed, are expressed in the same movement. […]
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