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
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
Life, Death, and Freedom
9/22/2025
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 scripted teachings, the evening unfolds […]
Duration:00:53:15
The Grace of Bodhisattvas
9/15/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Dainin interweaves personal story, Buddhist teaching, and contemporary challenges to show how the Bodhisattva vow can be lived — and is urgently needed — in our […]
Duration:00:44:35
Awareness In Action: We Were Made for This with Rebecca Solnit (Part 10 – August)
9/14/2025
In this session of Upaya’s Awareness in Action series, writer and activist Rebecca Solnit joins Roshi Joan Halifax to explore how stories shape reality, the nature of human behavior in crisis, and the discipline of hope […]
Duration:01:38:51
Vimalakirti’s Vulnerability: Through Star to Sky to the Eye of Another
9/8/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei James Fushin explores vulnerability as a profound gateway to awakening. Drawing from the Vimalakirti Sutra and physicist Brian Cox’s question—”How do we live a finite, fragile life in […]
Duration:00:46:01
Silent Illumination and the Practice of Wonderment (Part 2)
9/1/2025
In the second part of this two-part Wednesday Night Dharma Talk mini-series, Zen teacher Guo Gu guides us into the embodiment of silent illumination. He begins not with theory but with experience: posture, presence, and body. […]
Duration:01:08:22
Awareness In Action: Earth with Terry Tempest Williams & Joan Halifax (Part 9 – August)
8/31/2025
In this session of Awareness in Action, Roshi Joan Halifax and Terry Tempest Williams guide participants to witness the world with care, presence, and courage. Roshi Joan opens with the Zen koan—“A monk asked Joshu, […]
Duration:01:36:49
Dogen Seminar 2025: Living Transmission Closing Session (8 of 8)
8/27/2025
In this closing session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar, faculty and participants reflect on how ancient teachings become living transmission through courage, friendship, and practice. Roshi Joan reminds us that discovery emerges not through […]
Duration:01:06:08
Dogen Seminar 2025: Eight Awakenings of Great Beings (7 of 8)
8/27/2025
In the seventh session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar, Sensei Genzan explores Dogen’s Eight Awakenings of Great Beings (Hachi Dainin Gaku), weaving scholarship with lived experience to reveal how Zen practice addresses the paradoxes of daily […]
Duration:01:02:03
Dogen Seminar 2025: The Art of Contextual Teaching (6 of 8)
8/27/2025
In the sixth session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar, the faculty engage in a rich exploration of Dogen’s use of language, paradox, and poetry as spiritual communication. Heine highlights how paradox functions as […]
Duration:01:07:52
Dogen Seminar 2025: Four Methods of Guidance (5 of 8)
8/27/2025
In this fifth session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar, Norman and Kathie Fischer explore Dogen’s Four Methods of Guidance (Bodaisatta Shishobo), one of the most accessible and transformative fascicles of the Shobogenzo. Building on reflections about paradox in Zen, […]
Duration:01:03:17
Dogen Seminar 2025: True Paradox (4 of 8)
8/26/2025
In this fourth session of Upaya’s Dogen Seminar, Sensei Jiryu explores the profound paradox at the heart of Zen practice: the essential teaching of non-separation. He highlights the famous line, “The great way […]
Duration:00:52:50