Upaya Zen Center: Recent Episodes
Upaya Zen Center
A Santa Fe, NM Zen center and community with retreats, daily meditation, weekly Dharma talks on Buddhist teachings
Dharma farmer Sensei Wendy Johnson offers words to nourish our lives and to feed a hungry world. She shares her practice of “just doing zazen innocently, without any aiming,” preparing Upaya’s residence for the planting of the Three Sisters Garden.
In response to the great challenges we are facing at this time, Upaya is grateful to let you know that the content of the G.R.A.C.E.® training is now an online course. Compassion at the Edge: A Revolutionary Method for Benefitting Others without Burning Out: upaya.teachable.com/p/compassion-at-the-edge May it benefit many.
One of the powerful things about Upaya Zen Center being small, conscientious, and nimble is that we are able to respond quickly to historically important events of the times. It was clear to Roshi Joan that the online program AWAKENED ACTION on June 21 provided a rare opportunity for its remarkable faculty of women leaders and […]
Upaya is doing everything it can to bring the dharma online at a time of radical social change. We feel responsible to step forward in the midst of curfews, isolation, the pandemic, political turmoil, powerful protests against racism and police violence, to keep the channels of inspired and meaningful teachings and practice open to people […]
As countless Americans take to the streets across this country to raise their voices in response to the murder of George Floyd, none of us can stand on the sidelines as passive observers.
Many of us have had moments in deep distress where something startles us out of our stories and brings us right up against the whole universe.
Although the function of awareness may initially seem obvious, Sensei Al Kaszniak, illustrates the ways in which our ordinary sensory intuitions do not always accord with reality. Al draws a throughline between psychology, neuroscience, and Zen teachings to help us question our assumptions and move into an understanding of truth as fundamentally intersubjective.
Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma explores the stages of meditative practice through the Ox Herding Pictures of the Chinese ancestors. Interspersed with the traditional descriptions are Shinzan’s own life experiences and anecdotes about a life of Zen lived in the real world.
Poet Laureate of Santa Fe from 2010 to 2012, Joan Logghe invites us into her poetry through personal and historical narratives of wonder and loss. She weaves ghazals, villanelles, and haiku together with poetry from the ancient master Issa as well as her own granddaughter Kaleia in verses of incidental Zen.
Frank Ostaseski invites us to meet our fear face to face, viewing it as a “doorway to compassion and a pathway to transformation.” Courage, in his view, is not the opposite of fear, but a variegated response to it, one in which we come into a nurturing awareness of what is really present.