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
Buddha Meets Buddha: Teacher – No Teacher in Zen
6/30/2025
In this informative Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Zenshin Florence Caplow explores the meaning of “Buddha meets Buddha” in the context of how we might skillfully navigate our relationships with spiritual teachers. Zenshin […]
Duration:00:38:27
Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4B)
6/29/2025
This is the 2nd half of the session on Planting Life, where participants explore indigenous food ways and decolonization through cultivated ancient wisdoms. Artist and cultural preservationist Roxanne Swentzell shares her […]
Duration:01:19:07
Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4A)
6/29/2025
This is the 1st half of the session on Planting Life, where participants explore indigenous food ways and decolonization through cultivated ancient wisdoms. Artist and cultural preservationist Roxanne Swentzell shares her […]
Duration:01:09:08
Planting Life 2025: Three Sisters Garden Planting Ceremony (Part 3)
6/29/2025
In this session of Planting Life, we participate in the sacred planting ceremony that honors indigenous wisdom through the cultivation of ancestral crops—corn, beans, and squash—known as the Three Sisters. Led by […]
Duration:01:12:43
Planting Life 2025: Corn, Cosmos, and the Sacred Architecture of Time (Part 2)
6/29/2025
In this session of Planting Life, Mayan archaeoastronomer Alonso Méndez reveals the profound astronomical knowledge embedded in ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Drawing from his decades of research at Palenque, Méndez traces how corn […]
Duration:01:35:02
Planting Life 2025 Kinship with the Earth: Bridging Worlds (Part 1)
6/29/2025
In this session, Roshi Joan Halifax, Troy Keido Fernandez, Sensei Wendy Johnson, and Alonso Mendez open the annual Planting Life program at Upaya Zen Center. Roshi welcomes in-person and online participants to this sacred gathering that […]
Duration:01:13:11
The Mind of Absolute Trust: Practicing with Preference
6/23/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan explores the ancient Zen poem “The Mind of Absolute Trust” or “Xinxin Ming.” She unpacks how our preferences “chop up our lives and […]
Duration:00:42:16
AWARE: Opening to the Unhindered Mind
6/16/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo explores the concept of impermanence as it relates to love, loss, and appreciation through the Portuguese word saudade – the inseparable feelings of sorrow and joy that […]
Duration:00:41:20
Being Unborn: The Practice of Non-Objectification
6/9/2025
In this Wednesday Night Public Dharma Talk, resident practitioner Hunt Anshin Hoffman offers his first Dharma talk relating to his path and relationship with practice (way seeking mind talk). Anshin begins by invoking the […]
Duration:00:29:06
Life Always Gives to Life: There Is Nothing to Fear
6/2/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Keido Troy Fernandez, a 13th generation native New Mexican and Zen priest at Upaya, tenderly weaves together ancestral wisdom, land-based practice, and Buddhist teachings. Drawing from […]
Duration:00:38:53
Living with the Fundamental Truth of Impermanence
5/26/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Jan Chozen Bays provides a grounded and practical reflection on the teaching of impermanence. She explores impermanence (anicca) as one of Buddhism’s three fundamental marks of […]
Duration:00:42:33
Becoming Intimate
5/19/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk coinciding with Upaya’s Being With Dying program, Frank Ostaseski breaks open the conversation of caring for those near death or in the dying process. Like curling up with a good […]
Duration:00:48:51
The Meaning of Life
5/12/2025
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Buddhist philosopher David Loy traces humanity’s evolving quest for meaning through historical religious frameworks. Loy examines how humanity’s search for purpose has evolved through the ages – […]
Duration:00:37:54
Awareness In Action: Solidarity with Joan Halifax (Part 6 – May)
5/11/2025
In this powerful talk from the Awakened Action series, Roshi Joan Halifax explores how solidarity can transform our shared and interwoven world during these critical times. After a warm introduction, Roshi begins, “From a […]
Duration:01:30:23
Exploring Dharma Together
5/5/2025
In this unique and powerful Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Roshi Joan Halifax displays the poise and clarity of practice. Unexpectedly, she turns the talk into a dialogue with the audience as she reflects on […]
Duration:00:49:26
SPP 2025 Sesshin Day 6: Living the Bodhisattva Way
5/1/2025
In this closing talk from the last day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, the faculty of the practice period weave together final reflections on the vows and actions of true bodhisattvas. Sensei […]
Duration:01:07:27
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 5: Destiny of a Nation: The Bodhisattva Practice of Kind Speech
5/1/2025
In this talk during the fifth full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Cynthia Ryotan explores the fourth of the bodhisattva’s methods of guidance: kind speech. She fames the importance of […]
Duration:00:47:32
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 3: The Four Methods of Guidance: Beneficial Action, Identity Action
5/1/2025
In this third full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Monshin explores the concepts of beneficial action and identity action from Dogen’s Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance. She identifies beneficial action as “skillfully […]
Duration:00:50:14
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: The Four Bodhisattva Vows: The Nourishment of Endless Practice
5/1/2025
In this second full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan explores the Four Bodhisattva Vows as expressions of what Suzuki Roshi described as an “inflexible determination to carry out one’s will […]
Duration:00:48:40
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 1: No Gift, No Giver: Dogen’s Method of Guidance on Generosity
5/1/2025
In this talk during the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Ryotan explores the first of Dogen’s Four Methods of Guidance: Dana (generosity). Dogen himself lived in a tumultuous era of social upheaval, war, […]
Duration:00:36:44