- These Unreliable United States
We're shocked how fragile our country is, but Buddha told us nothing lasts. We can rely only on the truth. A talk at Village Zendo, November 8, 2020.
- American Religion in America's Time of Crisis
Buddhists must respond to the current political crisis, just as abolitionists did in the 19th C. A talk at the Village Zendo, September 3, 2020.
- Who Can You Trust?
Our leaders are untrustworthy. When we hear about toilet paper hoarders or covidiots, we stop trusting each other. But there is someone we can trust.
- How Buddhism Survived The Japanese Internment
Japanese Americans founded our practice, and preserved and adapted it to life in internment camps. Today too, we must adapt our practice in a crisis.
- Joren's Shuso Hossen
March 8, 2020. Joren Sarah Drury gave her first dharma talk and engaged the community in dharma combat.
- How Not To Panic
Panic obliterates the self. We need a strong self to face fear in meditation and all of life. Dharma at the Village Zendo, January 23, 2020.
- Meditation at the Village Zendo
November 24, 2019. Meditation at a Zen temple in Manhattan.
- Yokoji Zen Mountain Center
August 2019. Yokoji Zen Mountain Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains.
- Year End Meditation Retreat
December 2019. Yoga and sutra-copying at the Village Zendo's year-end meditation retreat at the Garrison Institute.
- You Look So Zen
On a visit to some Buddhists incarcerated on a jail barge, I had to improvise how to practice Zen, just like we always have to improvise our practice.