2026 Dharma Talks/Student Talks

Mar 11, 2026 Precepts Study Intro, Jyoshin Clay

2025 Dharma Talks/Student Talks

Nov 19, 2025 Denkoruku, Jyoshin Clay

Oct 29, 2025, Sejiki, Jyoshin Clay

Koin Sept 24, 2025 Koin on Faith
Shintai Dungay August 4, 2025, Metta Practice

April 7, 2025, Wesak, Jyoshin Clay

April 23, Precepts wrapup, Jyoshin Clay

April 16, 2025 Do not indulge anger (Shokai), Do not defame the three treasures (Muji)

April 10th, 2025 Do not praise self or blame others (Dixie), Do not be mean with Dharma or wealth (Monica)

April 2, 2025 Do not become intoxicatedintoxicated (Penny), Do not dwell on past mistakes (Choan)

March 26, 2025 Do not misuse sexuality (Trish), Do not speak dishonestly (Dixie)

March 19, 2025 Do Not Kill (Ruth Ann), Do Not Steal (Peter)

March 13, 2025 Contrition & Refuges (Teiko), 3 Pure Precepts (Daiō)

March 5, 2025 Introduction to Precepts Study, Jyoshin Clay

February 19, 2025 Nehan, Jyoshin Clay

February 5,2025 Sangha Forum

December 8, 2025 Teaching Focus for 2025, Jyoshin Clay

2024 Dhama Talks/Student Talks

November 20, 2024, Eightfold Path - #8 Right Concentration, Monica Smith

November 13, 2024, Eightfold Path - #7 Right Mindfulness, Penny Mock

November 6, 2024, Eightfold Path - #6: Right Effort, Emilie Teiko Cartoun

October 30, 2024, Eightfold Path - #5: Right Livelihood, Dixie Conley

October 23, Eightfold Path - #4: Right Action, Bruce Shokai Ryan

October 16, Eightfold Path - #3: Right Speech, Jonathon Muji Crighton

October 9, Eightfold Path - #2: Right Resolve, Choan Wood-Saldana

October 2, Eightfold Path #1 - Introduction and Right View, Shintai Dungay

June 19, 2024: Back to Basics, Jyoshin Clay

April 24, 2024: Precepts Wrap-up, Jyoshin Clay

April 17, 2024, Precepts Week 7: Do Not Indulge Anger, Nancy Ashley - Do Not Defame the Three Treasures, Bruce Shokai Ryan

April 10, 2024, Precepts Week 6: Do Not Praise Self and Blame Others - Choan Wood-Saldana, Do not Be Mean with Dharma or Wealth - Dixie Conley

April 3, 2024, Precepts Week 5: Do Not Become Intoxicated - Penny Mock, Do Not Dwell on Past Mistakes - Monica Smith

March 27, 2024: Precepts Week 4: Do Not Misuse Sexuality - Peter De Graaf, Do Not Speak Dishonestly - Dixie Conley

March 20, 2024: Precepts Week 3: Do Not Kill - Jyoshin Clay/Do Not Steal - Choan Wood-Saldana

March 13, 2024: Precepts Week 2, 3 Refuges 3 Pure Precepts, Jonathon Muji Crighton

March 6, 2024: Jyoshin Clay, Introduction to Precepts Study

2023 Talks

Dec 21, 2023, Jyoshin Clay, Ten Billion Illuminating Spirits

October 19, 2023 Jyoshin Clay, Unfolding Zen

September 28, Jyoshin Clay - What Is Needed

June 21, 2023, Jyoshin Clay - Summer Solstice

May 31, 2023 Emilie Teiko Cartoun - Yasadhara, She Who Stays

August 4, 2025 Metta Practice,
Shintai Dungay
Jyoshin Clay, Acceptance and Equanimity 6-22-23.m4a
5-3-23 Thomas Bruner, Sympathetic Joy.m4a
Yasadhara, She Who Stays, Teiko 5-31-23.m4a
4-5-23 Shokai - 7th Precept, Teiko - 8th Precept.m4a
4-14-23 Nancy Ashley - 9th Precept, Emelie Moon - 10th Precept.m4a
Penny Mock 3-15-23 Do Not Misuse Sexuality
Trish Carroll 3-15-23 Do Not Speak Dishonestly
Peter de Graaff 3-8-23 Do Not Kill
Monica Smith 3-8-23 Do Not Steal
3-1-23 Jyoshin Clay, Introduction to Precepts Study

2022 Talks

2-16-22 Fifth and Sixth Grave Precepts, Penny and Choan

2-23-22 7th and 8th Grave Precepts, Shokai and Kemyo

3-2-22 9th and 10th Grave Precepts, Peter and Teiko

1-19-22 Contrition and the Three Pure Precepts - Moni Smith, Dixie Conley

2-2-22 3rd and 4th Grave Precepts, Shokai and Emelie

2021 Talks

Right Thinking Jyoshin Clay, Dec 2, 2021

Mindfulness, Shintai Dungay, 2-3-2021

Home Practice, Jyoshin Clay - March 24

, 2021

2020 Talks

7th &8th Grave Precepts - Shokai Ryan, 10-14-20

Do Not Indulge Anger, 10-21-20 Monica Smith

10-28-2020 Precepts Wrapup, Shintai Dungay

Kemyo Lingley - 1st Grave Precept

Jorin Maloy - 2nd Grave Precept

3rd and 4th Grave Precepts Teiko Cartoun 9-30-29

5th and 6th Grave Precepts - Nancy Ashley and Choan Wood-Saldana

9/2/20 Jyoshin Clay: Precepts

9/9/20 Introduction to the Precepts: Shintai

9-16-20 Contrition and the 3 Pure Precepts, Shintai Dungay

7/15/20 Touching Joy, Shintai Dungay

8/5/20 Shintai Dungay - Gathas

8-19-20 Seido Martin: Liturgy of the Natural World

Practicing with the First Noble Truth, Shintai Dungay

Racial Justice and Our Path of Practice, Shintai Dunay

Working with Scriptures and Sutras, Jyoshin Clay 6/24/20

Coping in Pandemic, Jyoshin Clay

Dharma talk by Jyoshin Clay, "Look Up"

The Dharna Wheel, Jyoshin Clay

Thomas Bruner Your Buddahood Has Been Predicted
Jyoshin Clay March 11 2020 "Coronavirus Discussion, Liturgy for March 2020
Shintai Dungay 01-08-2020 "New Year Poems
Shintai Dungay 1-22-20 "Dharma From My Dad"

2019 Talks

Jyoshin Clay 12-18-2019 "Winter Holidays"
Teiko Cartoun 11-20-2019 "The Brahmaviharas: A Conversation About Love" Pt. 2
Jyoshin Clay 11/6/2019 "Liturgy and Zen Practice"
Jyoshin Clay 10-30-2019 "Working With Unresolved Karma"
Leigh Miller 10-9-2019 "Ways Of Seeing"
Jyoshin Clay 9-4-19 Returning To The Beginning
Shintai Dungay 9-18-19 Lineage, Tradition, Teachers
Thomas Bruner 8-7-19 Turinng Towards Joy
Jyoshin Clay 7-17-19 The Three Pure Precepts
Jyoshin Clay 7-25-19 Refuge and Contrition
Jyoshin Clay 7-3-2019 Precepts 7 and 8
Shintai Dungay 7-10-2019 Do Not Indulge Anger and Do Not Defame The Three Treasures
Jyoshin Clay 6-5-2019 "Precepts Studty Week 2"
Jyoshin Clay 6-12-2019 "Precepts Study Week 3"
Shintai Dungay 5-15-19 "Zen Students, Zen Teachers"
Jyoshin Clay 5-22-2019 "Precepts Study, Week One."
Jyoshin Clay 4-3-2019 "Practicing In The 21st Century"
Shintai Dungay 4-10- 19 "Freedom and Immaculacy"
Shintai Dungay 3-13-19 "Dharma Gates"
Choan Woods Saldana 3-20-2019 "Buddhanature"
Jyoshin Clay 2-20-19 Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines - Ch. XXII.1 “Good Friends”
Shintai Dungay Deep Listening
Jyoshin Clay Dogen's Shoji
Domyo Burk Directed Effort Versus Relaxation: Two Paths to Meditative Concentration
Shintai Dungay 1-9-19 Poems Of Death And Rebirth

2018 Talks

Shintai Dungay 12-13-18 Christmas Truce
Jyoshin Clay 12-19-18 Dogen Studies, Shinj
Shintai Dungay 10-3-2018 Connecting With Buddha's Life Story
Jyoshin Clay 10-17-18 Segaki
Shintai Dungay 9-12-2018 Fall Aspirations & Fall Practice Period Opening Ceremony
Kakumyo Lowe-Charde 9-5-18 Clarity
Jyoshin Clay 8-15-18 Turning toward autumn and deepening practice
Jyoshin Clay Precepts of the Mind
Shintai Dungay 5-23-18 Precepts of Speech
Jyoshin Clay 5-16-18 Precepts of the Body 1-3
Jyoshin Clay 5-9-18 The Three Pure Precepts
Jyoshin Clay 4-25-18 Introduction to the Precepts
Jyoshin Clay 4-11-18 How do you carry your spiritual past?
Jyoshin Clay 3-14-18 Demystifying Sanzen
Shinatai Dungy Sandokai and Zazen 3-7-18
Shintai Dungay The True Source Shines Clear in the Light 2-7-18
Sean Jorin Maloy The Way-Seeking Mind 1-24-18
Jyoshin Clay 1-17-18 Thoughts on Branching Streams and the Sandokai

2017 Talks

Jyoshin Clay 12-20-2017 - Solstice
Shintai Dungay 12-13-2017 Light And Dark discussion
Shintai Dungay 12-13-2017 - Light and Dark
Shintai Dungay 11-29-2017: Sudden and Gradual
Jyoshin Clay Sandokai History 11-15-2017
Shintai Dungay Sandokai, Chanting and Forms 11-1-2017
Jyoshin Clay Emptiness 10-11-2017
Thomas Bruner Right Speech, Now More Than Ever 10-4-2017
Shintai Dungay The Four Noble Truths
Jyoshin Clay 9-13-2017: Eight Worldly Conditions
Nancy Ashley 9-6-2017: Naikan Practice
Jyoshin Clay 8-16-2017 Questions and answers
Jyoshin Clay 7-26-2017: "Oryoki"
Jyoshin Clay 6-28-17 Sengcan's "Affirming Faith in Mind."
Jyoshin Clay 5-17-17 "Do not be mean with dharma or wealth."
Jorin Maloy 5-10-17 "Do not dwell on past mistakes."
Teiko Cartoun 5-10-17 "Do not become intoxicated"
Bruce Ryan 5-3-17 "Do not misuse sexuality" and "Do not speak dishonestly."
Shintai Dungay 4-26-17 Do not kill and Do not steal
Jyoshin Clay 4-19-17 The Three Pure Precepts
Shintai Dungay 4-12-17 Introduction to Precept Study
Jyoshin Clay 3-15-17 The Dharma of Silence
Shintai Dungay 3-8-17 Living the Four Bodhisattva Vows
Shintai Dungay 2-1-17 Steady Practice in Unsteady Times
Shinai Dungay and WEZC sangha 1-4-17 Poems of Death and Rebirth

2016 Talks

Jyoshin Clay 12-21-16 Resistance
Shintai Dungay 11-23-16 Action and Non-action, Speaking and Silence - Finding the Middle Way
Jyoshin Clay 11-16-16 The Ideal and the Actual in Practice
Shintai Dungay 11-2-16 Self and Emptiness - Heart Sutra
Jyoshin Clay 10-19-16 Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines
Shintai Dungay 8-24-16 Kindness and Compassion - Heart Sutra
Jyoshin Clay 8--17-16 Becoming What is Needed
Shintai Dungay 8-3-16 Interconnection and the Three Marks of Existence
Jyoshin Clay 7-20-16 Forms, Virya Paramita, and Sesshin Practice
Shintai Dungay 7-13-16 Body-Mind Practice
Jyoshin Clay 6-28-16 Fairness
Jyoshin Clay 5-18-16 Letting Go of Anger
Shintai Dungay 5-11-16 Remaining Faithful in Relationships
Jyoshin Clay 4-20-16 Do Not Become Intoxicated
Shintai Dungay 4-13-16 Do Not Praise Self or Blame Others
Shintai Dungay 3-23-16 Do Not Dwell on Past Mistakes
Shintai Dungay 3-16-16 Do Not Speak Dishonestly
Shintai Dungay 3-2-16 Introduction to Spring Precept Study
Shintai Dungay 2-17-15 Sun face Buddha, Moon face Buddha
Jyoshin Clay 1-27-16 Begininglessness

2015 Talks

Shintai Dungay 12-2-15 Buddha's Enlightenment
Jyoshin Clay 11-18-15 Engaging the Dharma
Fumyo Mishaga 11-11-15 Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage, Part 5
Fumyo Mishaga 11-4-15 Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage, Part 4
Fumyo Mishaga 10-28-15 Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage, Part 3
Shintai Dungay 9-23-15 Karma and the Six Worlds
Jyoshin Clay 8-26-15 The Dharma of Waiting
Genko Rainwater 8-12-15 Entering the Stream
Shintai Dungay 8-5-15 The Sangha Treasure
Shintai Dungay 7-22-15 Commuting, Clutter, Simplicity, Complexity
Domyo Burk 5-27-15 Your Own Buddha Nature
Shintai Dungay 5-13-15 The 9th and 10th Grave Precepts
Shintai Dungay 5-6-15 The Fifth and Eighth Grave Precepts
Shintai Dungay 4-29-15 Precepts of Speech
Shintai Dungay 4-22-15 Precepts of the Body