In this talk Ryotan asks “Is anything to be gained from years of practice?”

In this Lunar New Year talk, Fugan Sensei directs our attention to the real dragon, the one sitting right on your cushion.

In this talk, given the day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Daishi Hoshi considers the vast and indestructible nature of liberation through an exploration of the Kesa and the persecution that gave rise to the Rakusu.

In this Dharma talk, Roshi offers some thoughts on the opening sections of our Ango text, Dogen’s UJI, Being Time. She encourages us to recognize our life, and our Zen practice, as elements in the time being that we are. Embodying, shifting, dropping, attaining – no matter what, being in that very moment! Remember: “time is not separate from you.”

The Village Zendo’s virtual zendo is privileged to present, “Not Sparing a Single Thing,” a Fusatsu dharma talk in which Fugan Sensei considers how working with our stinginess—in the context of the 8th precept—nourishes us in our practice.

The Village Zendo’s virtual zendo is privileged to present, “Zazen as Mother.” On Mother’s Day, Roshi Enkyo notes the caring and soothing qualities we associate with mothering as also aspects of zazen and samadhi. She encourages us all to allow our seated meditation to soothe us, hold us, and allow us to taste the ineffable.

In this talk, Fugan Sensei reflects on seeds of consciousness and sharing the gift of non-fear.

In this talk, Fugan Sensei reflects on seeds of consciousness and sharing the gift of non-fear.