Upaya Zen Center's Dharma Podcast
by Joan Halifax | Zen Buddhist Teacher Upaya Abbot
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Dharma Lab – Practicing the Truth of Our Lives
May 4, 2026
Unknown duration
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 6: Entering the Marketplace
May 1, 2026
49m 16s
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source
May 1, 2026
54m 10s
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys
May 1, 2026
45m 05s
SPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Free From The Start
May 1, 2026
45m 05s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/4/26 | Dharma Lab – Practicing the Truth of Our Lives | In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Kodo reflects on the just-completed Spring Practice Period sesshin as a window into a larger idea of a Dharma Lab. What has been called “Contemplative Residency,” he proposes, is better represented as “Residential Zen Training” — a rousing adaptation that places each practitioner at the center of awakening. “Both a scientific lab and Residential Zen… Source | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | SPP2026: Sesshin Day 6: Entering the Marketplace✨ | Zen Buddhismspiritual practice+3 | Sensei RyotanSensei Shinzan | — | — | SesshinTen Ox-Herding Pictures+3 | — | 49m 16s | |
| 5/1/26 | SPP2026: Sesshin Day 5: Returning to the Source✨ | Zen practiceox-herding pictures+3 | SenkoSensei Monshin | Tao Te ChingXin Xin Ming+1 | — | SesshinZen Buddhism+3 | — | 54m 10s | |
| 5/1/26 | SPP2026: Sesshin Day 3: Holding the Keys✨ | self-judgmentperfectionism+4 | Sensei Ryotan | Lotus Sutra | — | self-judgmentperfectionism+5 | — | 45m 05s | |
| 5/1/26 | SPP2026: Sesshin Day 2: Free From The Start✨ | koanrelaxed effort+3 | Senko | — | — | koaneffort+4 | — | 45m 05s | |
| 5/1/26 | SPP2026: Sesshin Day 1: Joyful Effort✨ | joyful effortvirya+5 | Sensei Monshin | ox-herding pictures | — | joyful effortvirya+6 | — | 35m 03s | |
| 4/27/26 | Forgetting the Ox, Forgetting the Self✨ | Zen awakeningDharma talk+3 | Sensei Shinzan | Upaya Zen CenterTen Ox-Herding Pictures | — | ZenDharma+3 | — | 43m 30s | |
| 4/27/26 | SPP2026: Zazenkai: Ordinary Mind✨ | Zazenkaiox herding series+3 | Sensei Shinzan | Upaya Zen Center | — | Zazenkaiox herding+6 | — | 47m 18s | |
| 4/27/26 | SPP2026: Zazenkai: Searching For The Ox✨ | Zen practiceox-herding+3 | Sensei Ryotan | Upaya Zen CenterZazenkai+1 | — | Zazenkaiox-herding+3 | — | 46m 32s | |
| 4/26/26 | SPP2026: The Ox-Herding Pictures✨ | ox-herding picturesmindful practice+3 | Sensei ShinzanSensei Monshin+2 | The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures | — | ox-herdingZen+4 | — | 46m 03s | |
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| 4/26/26 | SPP2026: The Ten Ox-herding Pictures – Our journey of Awakening: Opening Session✨ | awakeningox-herding+3 | — | Riding the Ox Home | — | ox-herdingawakening+3 | — | 1h 05m 04s | |
| 4/26/26 | The Measure of Our Humanity: REHUMANIZATION✨ | humanitydehumanization+3 | John Paul Lederach | — | — | humanitydehumanization+3 | — | 1h 32m 37s | |
| 4/20/26 | This Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey✨ | ox-herding picturesspiritual journey+3 | — | Riding the Ox HomeThis Is It: The Ox-Herding Pictures and Our Spiritual Journey | — | D.W. WinnicottJohn Daido Loori+1 | — | 46m 09s | |
| 4/13/26 | A Glimpse of Awakened Mind. Now What?✨ | spiritual maturationZen metaphor+2 | — | UpayaA Glimpse of Awakened Mind | — | Dharma TalkSpring Practice Period+1 | — | 46m 41s | |
| 4/6/26 | Bearing Witness in Gaza✨ | bearing witnesssuffering+2 | Genryu Clayton Dalton | Wednesday Night Dharma Talk | Gaza | Dharma TalkZen+3 | — | 35m 04s | |
| 4/1/26 | The Measure of Our Humanity: Transformation✨ | socially engaged Buddhismcompassion+1 | Valerie Brown | BuddhismThe Measure of Our Humanity | — | humanitytransformation+1 | — | 1h 29m 28s | |
| 3/30/26 | Up a Tree: Precarity, Not-Knowing, and Awakening Times✨ | precaritynot-knowing+3 | — | Up a TreeMan Up a Tree | — | Dharma TalkKyōgen+1 | — | 44m 17s | |
| 3/23/26 | As The Wheel Turns✨ | Dharma TalkThich Nhat Hanh+3 | — | UpayaAs The Wheel Turns | — | warsuffering+2 | — | 30m 34s | |
| 3/16/26 | Finding Our Way✨ | griefpersonal stories+3 | — | Finding Our Waythe Lotus Sutra’s | — | Dharma Talkburning house+1 | — | 40m 22s | |
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is Seeds✨ | poetrytranslation+3 | Peter LevittKaz Tanahashi | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: All You Have Is SeedsThe Poetry of Cold Mountain | — | Cold Mountainpoems+2 | — | 1h 01m 54s | |
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: You Ask the Way to Cold Mountain?✨ | calligraphypoetry+3 | Kaz TanahashiSensei Dainin | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: You Ask the Way to Cold Mountain?The Poetry of Cold Mountain+1 | — | Cold MountainZen Buddhism+2 | — | 1h 24m 54s | |
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Stone Bridge✨ | poetrycalligraphy+2 | Kaz TanahashiPeter Levitt | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Stone BridgeThe Poetry of Cold Mountain | — | Cold Mountainretreat+1 | — | 39m 53s | |
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Open Sharing | In Part 4 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, the session opens into a shared creative space. Kaz Tanahashi and Peter Levitt shape the afternoon around two fundamental poetry practices — writing from the present moment and listening. Peter offers a generative prompt: use lines from Hanshan as scaffolding, borrowing one to begin a poem, one to anchor the middle, one to close. What follows is an open… Source | — | ||||||
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: Quality of Mind | In Part 3 of The Poetry of Cold Mountain, Peter Levitt offers a deep dive into the craft and consciousness of Hanshan’s poetry. Drawing on three defining qualities of Hanshan’s work — plain speech, imagery that moves between the literal and the symbolic, and last lines of sudden, inevitable surprise — Peter shows how each poem both instructs and enacts the journey it describes. Source | — | ||||||
| 3/15/26 | The Poetry of Cold Mountain: The Road Does Not Go Through | Roshi Joan Halifax opens this first full session (Part 2) of The Poetry of Cold Mountain by acknowledging the violence unfolding in Iran, holding the gravity of the world alongside the refuge of practice and community. She then turns the session to Kaz Tanahashi. Kaz introduces the structure of classical Chinese characters and verse — one character, one syllable, one word — before exploring the… Source | — | ||||||
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20 placements across 19 markets.
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20 placements across 19 markets.