Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk about cultivating a practice of being intimate with whatever is arising. (August 30, 2021)

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about how we practice in the midst of destruction. The text is from Joan Sutherland’s Acequias/Gates. (September 23, 2021)

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is Fasicle 52 of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. (September 22, 2021)

Julie Nelson speaks about our thoughts of gain and loss, and right and wrong. The text is Case 26 of The Gateless Gate, “Fayan Points to the Bamboo Screens.” (September 18, 2021)

Fran Ludwig gives an encouragement talk. What is the role of a teacher in Zen practice? (August 9, 2021)

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement about just wanting to see or to have “the good parts,” including the good parts of ourselves. The text is a poem by Ikkyu. (August 19, 2021)

Julie Nelson gives an encouragement talk about the place of freedom from which we meet the exigencies of life. The text used is Kosho Uchiyama’s Opening the Hand of Thought. (July 29, 2021)

James Cordova gives an encouragement talk. The text is “The Field of Boundless Emptiness” from Cultivating the Empty Field by Hongzhi Zhengjue. (August 11, 2021)

Fran Ludwig speaks about keeping company with pain that has traveled from generation to generation. The text is “The Five Remembrances.” (July 31, 2021)

James Cordova gives and encouragement talk about not knowing why we are here. The text is Case 17 in the Blue Cliff Record. (July 28, 2021)