Houston Zen Center Dharma Talks

About Houston Zen Center Dharma Talks

Recorded Dharma Talks at the Zen Center.

Publisher

Houston Zen Center

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jan 2024

Latest episode

18 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

186 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Dōjin Sarah Emerson : The Eight Understandings of the Great Person

   Dharma Talk by Dōjin Sarah Emerson. Sarah Dōjin Emerson’s formal practice in Soto Zen began in 1996. She lived and trained at Tassajara Zen Mountain center and other sites of the San Francisco Zen Center from 1997-2007. She received Dharma Transmission from Abbot Konjin Gaelyn Godwin of the Houston Zen Center in 2015. She has a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and has worked in the fields of mental health and pastoral care with children and adults. She experiences Bodhisattva Zen practice as deeply supportive to inquiring into, challenging and transforming systems of oppression, particularly racial inequities and the harm they cause within convert Buddhist sanghas, and in U.S. society generally. Sarah has also worked for many years in grief support- clinically, ritually and in community- specializing in child loss. She lives with her partner, Charlie Pokorny (who is also a Soto Zen Buddhist priest), their children (who are her most profound and constant teachers) and numerous pets in Brooklyn, NY.

2. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Akiba Gengo Roshi : No Cold or Heat

   Dharma talk by Akiba Gengo Roshi, Sokan/Bishop of Soto Zen North America. This talk, or "Honsoku Gyocha" (Fundamental Words) was given during the formal tea ceremony preceding the Ceremony of Dharma Inquiry (Shuso Ceremony) for Hondo Dave Rutschman. These dharma words were on the koan "No Cold or Heat" from the Blue Cliff Record, which Shuso Hondo faced during the ceremony. Translation by Ejo McMullen, abbot of Buddha Eye Temple in Eugene, Oregon.

3. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Abbot Gaelyn Godwin : Karma of the Three Times

   Dharma Talk by Abbot Gaelyn Godwin, Abiding Teacher of HZC.

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