Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
1) Awareness In Action: Discernment with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi (Part 12 – September)
In this session of Upaya’s Awareness in Action series, Bhikkhu Bodhi offers a penetrating teaching on discernment as the heart of engaged Buddhism in times of crisis. He reflects on his journey from 1...Show More
2) Love and Death 2025: Photos at the Threshold (Part 4)
In Part 4 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan invite participants to “bring death into the room” through a mindfulness practice with photographs of people who stepped thr...Show More
3) Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3B)
This is the 2nd half of … part 3 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the tension between belonging and accommodation. Through personal stories...Show More
4) Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3A)
In Part 3 of Upaya’s Love and Death program, Frank Ostaseski and Roshi Joan Halifax explore the tension between belonging and accommodation. Through personal stories of illness, recovery, and ca...Show More
5) Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2B)
This is the 2nd half of … part two of Upaya’s Love and Death weekend program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski deepened the exploration of how personal love can open into universal c...Show More
6) Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2A)
In part two of Upaya’s Love and Death weekend program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski deepened the exploration of how personal love can open into universal compassion. Framed by the bodh...Show More
7) Love and Death 2025: Opening the Great Gifts: Opening Session (Part 1)
In the opening session (part 1) of Love and Death, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski welcomed more than 1,300 participants into a shared inquiry of love and mortality. Framed by Rainer Maria Rilk...Show More
8) The Ultimate Inspiration: The Lion’s Roar of Queen Srimala
In this intriguing Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo inspires us with the lion’s roar of Queen Srimala. Beginning with reflections on how motivations and intentions consciously and unconsciousl...Show More
9) Awareness In Action: Nonviolence with Father John Dear (Part 11 – September)
In this timely session of Awareness in Action, Father John Dear confronts the urgency of our times with an echo from Martin Luther King Jr.: “The choice is no longer violence or non-violence… It...Show More
10) Life, Death, and Freedom
In this unique Wednesday Night Dharma Talk before the upcoming Love and Death program, Roshi Joan Halifax and Frank Ostaseski engage in an open dialogue on Life, Death, and Freedom. Departing from scr...Show More