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PMZC offers Sunday morning Dharma talks by our own teachers and sangha members. In addition, we are privileged to have wonderful Soto Zen guest speakers from around the country.
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Send a text Sangha member Nendo David Pavlacky gives a talk exploring Buddha’s ancient teaching of impermanency from the Lankavatara Sutra and Katagiri Roshi’s teaching of total dynamic functioning.
Send a text Sangha member Shin-E Kieran Rhysling facilitates a discussion about the challenges of determining an appropriate response to the harms we are seeing in the world.
Send a text Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks on the Birth and Death chapter of the Shobogenzo.
Send a text Guest speaker Dr. Bishal Karna gives a talk titled, “The Zen of Loving Your Neighbor”. This talk is a fascinating exploration of the different approaches of Christianity and Zen to loving your neighbor and how, ultimately, they seek to achieve the same end. Bishal Karna is a professor of comparative religion and the creator and host of The Spiritual Context Podcast. He lives in Rochester, NY, with his wife, dog, and two cats.
Send a text Guest speaker Rev. Jisho Sara Siebert gives a talk entitled, "What is true freedom? Traditional Zen practice and our lives." The talk addresses the question of how the forms and practices of Soto Zen can help us recognize that our limited self is not the center of the universe and instead can help us move beyond our habituated preferences.
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text This series of talks was recorded in 2025. After each talk, the sangha engaged in lively discussion, which was not recorded. The talks were an examination of the Statement of Recognition and Repentance from the Soto Zen Buddhist conference of 2018. https://www.szba.org/szba-statement-on-recognition-and-repentance
Send a text Shin-E Kieran Rhysling begins a series of facilitated discussions that we're calling Dharma Jams from Dainin Katagiri Roshi’s book, You Have to Say Something. If the next Buddha is the Sangha, as Thich Nhat Hanh proposed, then maybe the next dharma talk should be something more collaborative and interactive, like a musicians jam session. In this episode, we start playing with the possibilities of this new format.
Send a text Guest speaker Kyosho Valorie Beer shares a Dharma talk, entitled "Stop", that offers us a different way to approach the New Year.
Send a text Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk on the Shobogenzo Chapter: "King Wants the Saindhava".
Send a text Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie gives a dharma talk entitled, "Unlocking the Door".
Send a text Sangha member Daitoku Rick Vosper gives a talk entitled, "An Appropriate Response".
Send a text Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk on chapter 77 from Dogen's Shobogenzo, entitled Space.
Send a text Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk on Dogen's chapter on all-inclusive study from the Shobogenzo.
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