Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
Buddhist Talk
The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya’s diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & nonviolence, compassionate care training, and delivering healthcare in the Himalayas.
Location:
Santa Fe, NM
Description:
The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya’s diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & nonviolence, compassionate care training, and delivering healthcare in the Himalayas.
Twitter:
@upayazen
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.upaya.org/
Email:
upaya@upaya.org
Episodes
FPP2025: Sesshin Day 4: Dogen’s Unconstructedness in Stillness
10/27/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk and Day 4 of Upaya’s Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Kathie Fischer brings our attention to resonance—the way one vibration awakens or encourages another. Drawing from physics, poetry, […]
Duration:00:51:06
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 1: Entering Through the True Gate
10/26/2025
In this morning talk on the first full day of the Fall Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan draws from Dōgen’s Bendōwa (“The Wholehearted Way”) to remind us that zazen itself is the true gate of […]
Duration:00:46:26
Fall Practice Period 2025: Sesshin Opening
10/26/2025
In this opening session of Upaya’s 2025 Fall Pratice Period Sesshin, four teachers—Sensei Kathie Fischer, Sensei Shinzan (joining remotely from San Diego), Sensei Monshin, and Hoshi Senko—welcome participants into the stillness and rhythm of this […]
Duration:00:42:05
FPP2025: The Ordinary Profundity of the Present Moment (Part 5)
10/26/2025
In this Zazenkai Day Talk during Fall Practice Period, Chris Senko Perez reflects on Dōgen’s Genjō Kōan through his image of sailing far out to sea, where the ocean appears perfectly round. Dōgen comments on […]
Duration:00:48:30
FPP2025: Introduction to the Text: Actualizing the Fundamental Point (Part 3)
10/26/2025
In this Fall Practice Period session, Senseis Kathie, Monshin, and Shinzan, with reflections from Hoshi Senko, open the study of Dogen’s Bendowa and Genjokoan. They invite participants to encounter Dogen not as a distant master to be analyzed but […]
Duration:01:00:05
FPP2025: Study of The Great Way (Part 2)
10/26/2025
In this Zazenkai Day talk during Upaya’s Fall Practice Period, Sensei Kathie Fischer offers her reflections on the simplicity and depth of Zen practice. She begins by exploring the role of language in […]
Duration:00:39:10
FPP2025: Actualizing the Fundamental Point – The Heart of Dogen’s Teachings Opening Session
10/26/2025
Senseis Monshin, Kathie Fischer, and Shinzan, together with Hoshi Senko, open Upaya’s Fall Practice Period by welcoming participants from around the world into a month of deep study of Dogen’s Genjokoan. “To study the way is […]
Duration:00:45:31
Awareness In Action: Embodiment with Guo Gu (Part 13 – October)
10/24/2025
In this talk from Upaya’s Awareness and Action series, Dr. Guo Gu, founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center, explores Embodiment and Engaged Practice—how awakening through the body becomes the ground for compassionate action in […]
Duration:01:31:39
Finding your place where you are
10/20/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during Fall Practice Period at Upaya, Sensei Monshin explores the meaning of dharma position. Building from Dogen’s Genjokoan, she explains dharma position as an expression of the inseparability of self and […]
Duration:00:45:40
Monkey Grasping for the Moon
10/13/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk during the Fall Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan turns to Dōgen’s Genjō Kōan, drawing on the image of a monkey grasping at the moon’s reflection to reveal how our search for […]
Duration:00:40:24
Way Seeking Mind: Head to Heart
10/6/2025
In this Way-Seeking Mind Dharma Talk, resident Tuck Butsumon Stibich offers a moving reflection on his path from intellectual inquiry to embodied Zen practice. Raised in Dayton, Ohio, in a family grounded in […]
Duration:00:44:17
Awareness In Action: Discernment with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi (Part 12 – September)
10/3/2025
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 1960s […]
Duration:01:39:06
Love and Death 2025: Photos at the Threshold (Part 4)
10/2/2025
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 through the threshold of […]
Duration:01:07:04
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3B)
10/2/2025
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 of illness, recovery, and […]
Duration:00:48:16
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3A)
10/2/2025
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 care, they show how dignity in receiving […]
Duration:00:50:38
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2B)
10/2/2025
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 compassion. Framed […]
Duration:01:04:13
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2A)
10/2/2025
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 bodhisattva path, Roshi Joan recounted […]
Duration:00:48:40
Love and Death 2025: Opening the Great Gifts: Opening Session (Part 1)
10/2/2025
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 Rilke’s insight that […]
Duration:01:03:24
The Ultimate Inspiration: The Lion’s Roar of Queen Srimala
9/29/2025
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 unconsciously impact behavior, Kodo guides […]
Duration:00:49:13
Awareness In Action: Nonviolence with Father John Dear (Part 11 – September)
9/22/2025
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’s […]
Duration:01:33:05