Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
1) Hungry Ghosts and the Five Buddha Families
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk coinciding with Lunar New Year, Senseis Kodo and Dainin Lau guide viewers through a recording of Upaya’s Gate of Sweet Nectar — a monthly new moon ceremony of radic...Show More
2) Original Love: A Path Down and Through (Not Up and Out)
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, poet, author, and meditation teacher Henry Shukman explores the topic of his latest book, Original Love, by walking through four progressively deeper meanings of a...Show More
3) What Silence Holds
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk following the Winter Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Fushin explores silence not as absence or void, but as presence—”that face before we were born looking back at...Show More
4) WPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Direct, Ordinary, Inexhaustible: Seven Aspects of Realization
On the fifth and final day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Senseis Kodo and Dainin gather the threads of practice into a teaching on Magnanimous Mind, intimacy, and not ...Show More
5) WPP2026: Sesshin Day 4: Joy and Responsibility in Practice
On the fourth day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kodo and Sensei Dainin continue the exploration of Dōgen’s Three Minds. Kodo opens by situating the dharma talk itself within silence, i...Show More
6) WPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: The Three Minds – From Kitchen to Cushion
On the third full day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kodo and resident priest Butsumon reflect on how practice comes alive through ordinary activity. Butsumon opens with stories from sa...Show More
7) WPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Nyoho–Compassion, Integrity, Thussness
Day two of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin opens with Sensei Dainin recalling placing the names of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—both killed in recent shootings involving federal agents in Minneapolis...Show More
8) WPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Zenki–Undivided Activity
On the first full day of the Winter Practice Period Sesshin, Roshi Joan Halifax reflects on alignment and presence, exploring how practice begins by meeting things as they are. She emphasizes that Zen...Show More
9) WPP2026: Auspicious Circumstances: Responsive Recipes
In this Zazenaki Talk during the Winter Practice Period, two recently ordained priests— Butsumon and Genryu—explore Dōgen’s Tenzo Kyokun through personal experiences of transformation and learning. Ge...Show More
10) WPP2026: Wholehearted Apamada
In this Winter Practice Period Zazenkai Day Talk, resident priest Jimon and Sensei Wendy Johnson explore apamada—careful, heedful practice—through the lens of everyday activity. Drawing on Dogen’s Ten...Show More