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- Susan Moon, May 19, 2012, Zen Koans About Women
- Kokyo Henkel, May 12, 2012, Lankavatara Sutra Part 1
- Kokyo Henkel, May 12, 2012, Lankavatara Sutra Part 2
- Kosho McCall, April 21, 2012, Step Aside From All Thinking
- Kevin Griffin, April 14, 2012, Suffering Comes From Clinging
- Glenn Noblin, April 7, 2012, Four Bodhisattva Vows
- Glenn Noblin, March 31, 2012, Not Knowing is Most Intimate
- Marc Lesser, March 24, 2012, Know Yourself, Forget Yourself
- Kosho McCall, March 17, 2012, Patience
- Kosho McCall, March 10, 2012, Observe and Accept "Things As It Is" With a Flexible Mind
- Kosho McCall, February 25, 2012, The Fundamentals of Zen Meditation
- Reb Anderson, February 18, 2012, The Bodhisattvas Mundane and Super-Mundane Meditation Practice
- Shohaku Okumura, February 11, 2012, Buddha's Parinirvana & how Dogen is the founder of Japanese Soto Zen
- Glenn Noblin, February 4, 2012, Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
- Kosho McCall, January 28, 2012, A Koan and Three Buddhist Archetypes
- David Chadwick, January 21, 2012, Musings on the Dharma and Suzuki Roshi
- Kosho McCall, January 14, 2012, What Is This Mess All About?
- Daigan Gaither, January 7, 2012, What is Buddha?
- Glenn Noblin, December 17, 2011, Dharma Gates to the Sense that All is Well
- Susan O'Connell, December 10, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: The Many Benefits of Kindness
- Kosho McCall, December 9, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: Is Suffering Optional?
- Susan O'Connell, December 8, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: Zen: It's About Liberation, for Everyone
- Kosho McCall, December 6, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: The Place of Love in Our Practice
- Susan O'Connell, December 5, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: Entering the Green Dragon Cave
- Kosho McCall, December 4, 2011, Rohatsu Sesshin: What the Buddha Got
- Susan O'Connell, December 3, 2011, How Do We Respond to Fear?
- Jared Michaels, November 30, 2011, Global Warming and the Dharma
- Peg Syverson, November 5, 2011, The Meaning of Freedom
- Jared Michaels, November 2, 2011, Confidence as the Foundation for Environmental Action
- Flint Sparks, October 29, 2011, Liberating Intimacy
- Jared Michaels, October 26, 2011, Speaking Truth About Global Warming
- Kosho McCall, October 23, 2011, How Do We Bear It?
- Kosho McCall, October 22, 2011, What Makes Us Human
- Kosho McCall, October 15, 2011, Birth and Death; The Same or Different?
- Kosho McCall, October 8, 2011, Who Are You?
- Kosho McCall, October 1, 2011, Don't Be Disturbed By Your Mind
- Kosho McCall, September 24, 2011, Relax in Every Moment
- Kosho McCall, September 17, 2011, To Be Just You Is Enough
- Kosho McCall, September 3, 2011, How To Be Happy
- Glenn Noblin, August 20, 2011, Trust Life Just As It Is
- Kosho McCall, August 13, 2011, We Are What We Think
- Steve Stucky, August 6, 2011, Zen in Seven Words
- Kosho McCall, July 30, 2011, Zen: Place of Repose and Bliss
- Kosho McCall, July 23, 2011, Sesshin Day #2 & Three Basic Things of Buddhism
- Kosho McCall, July 22, 2011, Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté Bodhi! Svaha!
- Kosho McCall, July 16, 2011, Suzuki Roshi's Sayings
- Glenn Noblin, July 9, 2011, The Eightfold Path
- Bonnie Baptist, July 2, 2011, Lojong: Practice in Daily Life
- Hozan Alan Senauke, June 29, 2011, Two Practical Tools for the Bodhisattva Path
- Peg Syverson, June 25, 2011, Five Views of Enlightenment
- Glenn Noblin, June 18, 2011, Not Holding On
- Shoryu Jim Bradley, June 11, 2011, Samsara and Nirvana
- Shotai de la Rosa, May 28, 2011, Zen Slogans
- Jamie Howell, May 21, 2011, The Great Way is Not Difficult...
- Sarah Weintraub, May 14, 2011, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Koji Dreher, May 11, 2011, Doing What You Want is Slavery
- Kosho McCall, May 7, 2011, Busy or Not Busy?
- Koji Dreher, April 27, 2011, Difficulties are the Path
- Koji Dreher, April 24, 2011, Dharma Punk Talk: Don't Use Buddhism
- Marc Lesser, April 23, 2011, Confidence
- Kosho McCall, April 12, 2011, Interview on Meditation, [1] | [2] | [3]
- Lea Seigen Shinraku, April 9, 2011, Cultivating Self-Compassion
- Susan O'Connell, April 2, 2011, Study of Busyness
- Edward Espe Brown, March 19, 2011, "Why Haven't You Enlightened Me Yet?"
- Susan Moon, March 12, 2011, This is Getting Old
- Kosho McCall, March 9, 2011, Seeing Others
- Kosho McCall, November 13, 2010, Colors
- Glenn Noblin, November 6, 2010, Impermanence is Life
- Kosho McCall, October 30, 2010, This Moment is Mind
- Colin Gipson, October 27, 2010, Perseverance
- Kosho McCall, October 23, 2010, Don't Get Hooked
- SFZC Abbot Myogen Steve Stucky, October 16, 2010, Mulamadhyamakakakarika Blues
- Kosho McCall, October 9, 2010, The Power of Awareness
- Peg Syverson, October 2, 2010, Zen as Relational Practice
- Kosho McCall, September 25, 2010, Introducing Practice Period
- Gaelyn Godwin, September 18, 2010, Body and Mind Study of The Way
- Kosho McCall, September 12, 2010, Mind, Body, and Form
- Kosho McCall, September 11, 2010, The Thousand Hands of Kanzeon
- Bright Dornblaaser, September 4, 2010, Persistence
- Kosho McCall, August 14, 2010, Compassion and Cupid's Arrow
- Kosho McCall, August 7, 2010, Practicing Patience
- Chris Lance, AZC director, July 31, 2010, What is Faith?
- Kosho McCall, July 24, 2010, Maps Don't Help Much
- Kosho McCall, July 11, 2010, Buddhas Don't Do Good or Evil
- Kosho McCall, July 10, 2010, Radical Zen
- Kosho McCall, July 3, 2010, Twelve Mindfulness Practices (part 3)
- Kosho McCall, July 3, 2010, Twelve Mindfulness Practices (part 2)
- Kosho McCall, June 26, 2010, Twelve Mindfulness Practices (part 1)
- Kosho McCall, June 12, 2010, What do we get out of generosity?
- Charles Ball (AZC board president), May 29, 2010, Serving on the Board, Serving the Sangha
- Kosho McCall, May 15, 2010, "Are you a Buddhist?"
- Ven. Cintita John Dinsmore, May 8, 2010, Lovingkindness & Generosity
- Zoketsu Normal Fischer, May 3, 2010, Zen in the Business World
- Zoketsu Normal Fischer, May 1, 2010, Friendliness
- Jill Wilkinson, Apr 24, 2010, The Urge to Control
- Kosho McCall, Apr 17, 2010, In Life, We are in Death
- Kosho McCall, Apr 10, 2010, Just The Activity Itself
- Seirin Barbara Kohn, Apr 02, 2010, Comments on Receiving the Precepts
- Shinge Roshi (of Zen Center of Syracuse), Mar 27, 2010, "Mr. Cho Drinks Wine"
- Shotai de La Rosa, Mar 20, 2010, Community Practice in Dogen's Zen
- Kosho McCall, Mar 13, 2010, [Note: Aitken Roshi is alive & well. Daido Loori Roshi died 10/09.] Who's running this place anyway?
- Sarah Weintraub, director of Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Feb 27, 2010, Joy
- Kosho McCall, Feb 20, 2010, The Five Points of Zen Training: Part 4: Extending Practice into Daily Life
- Kosho McCall, Feb 13, 2010, The Five Points of Zen Training: Part 3: The Schedule & Precepts
- Kosho McCall, Feb 6, 2010, The Five Points of Zen Training: Part 2: The Teacher
- Kosho McCall, Jan 30, 2010, [My apologies for the low quality of this recording. -Trevor.] The Five Points of Zen Training: Part 1: Zazen
- Kosho McCall, June 6, 2008, Gay Pride Day 2008, at San Francisco Zen Center
- Rev. Lisa Hoffman, Jan 23, 2010, The Wheel of Dana
- Seirin Barbara Kohn, Jan 16, 2010, Renunciation and Ordination
- Jared Michaels (of SFZC), Jan 13, 2010, My Teacher's Compassion Part 1 Part 2
- Kosho McCall, Jan 9, 2010, Where does that Come From?
- Kosho McCall, Jan 2, 2010, Why Resolutions Don't Work
- ChiSing, Dec 19, 2009, Parliament of the World's Religions
- Kosho McCall, Dec 11, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: The Place of Anger in our Practice
- Kosho McCall, Dec 10, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: Don't Go Back to Sleep
- Kosho McCall, Dec 9, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: Maybe the Buddha's Monks weren't so Dumb
- Kosho McCall, Dec 8, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: The Poison is the Medicine
- Kosho McCall, Dec 7, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: Just ask.
- Kosho McCall, Dec 6, 2009, Rohatsu Sesshin: It IS the tree spirits! RUN!
- Kosho McCall, Nov 21, 2009, What are we Grateful for, anyway?
- Anita Swann, Nov 14, 2009,
- ChiSing, November 7, 2009, A Heart-Centered Approach to Zen Living
- Kosho McCall, Oct 31, 2009, New Resident Prajna Paramita
- Grace Schireson, Oct 24, 2009, Women in Zen
- Barbara Kohn, Oct 17, 2009

- Kosho McCall, Oct 3, 2009, Not Knowing's a 'Good' Thing?
- Susan O'Connell, Sept 26, 2009, Kindness
- Kosho McCall, Sept 21, 2009, Fall Sesshin: My Play, your Play — both Poorly Written and Not By Us
- Kosho McCall, Sept 20, 2009, Fall Sesshin: I'll bite — what is the True Self?
- Kosho McCall, Sept 19, 2009, Fall Sesshin: Which am I — This or That?
- Flint Sparks, Sept 12, 2009,

- Kosho McCall, Sep 5, 2009, The Many, the One, and So What?
- Pat Yingst, Aug 22, 2009,

- Kosho McCall, Aug 15, 2009, Tell me Qhat it's All About (Denkoroku #4)
- Kosho McCall, Aug 8, 2009, Mahapajapati's Courage
- Kosho McCall, Aug 1, 2009, What do you Mean there's Nothing In-between? (Denkoroku #3)
- Kosho McCall, July 18, 2009, The Beer Can in the Yard and Love for Humanity
- Bright Dornblaser, July 11, 2009,

- Kosho McCall, June 20, 2009, Change is Scary and We Hate It
- Kosho McCall, June 13, 2009, Inner Peace —Yea, but How?
- Kosho McCall, June 6, 2009, Why all this Fighting?
- Kosho McCall, May 30, 2009, What Dharma Position do 'You' Hold?
- Jill Wilkinson, Mar 11, 2009, Zen & Creativity
- Jordan Thorn, January 21, 2009, Prajna Paramita Talk,
- Kosho McCall, Under the Bodhi Tree, Talks from Rohatsu Sesshin, 2008.
- December 11, 2008, Get a Good Karma-lawyer
- December 10, 2008, Cultivating the Four Immeasurables
- December 9, 2008, Perfuming the Seeing of the Tranquil World
- December 8, 2008, What are We Doing This?
- December 7, 2008, How do We Mess it all Up?
- December 6, 2008, Sitting Upright
- Barbara Kohn, October 18, 2008, Cause and Effect
- Kojin Dinsmore, October 4, 2008, Economy of Gifts
- Kojin Dinsmore, August 23, 2008, Karma's Many Lives
- Colin Gipson, August 9, 2008, Curious about Suffering
- "The Eightfold Path" Series
- Kojin Dinsmore, June 28, 2008, First Steps on the Path
- Barbara Kohn, July 5, 2008, Precepts
- Kojin Dinsmore, July 19, 2008, Wildflower Seeds
- Kojin Dinsmore, July 27, 2008, Wondrous Method
- Barbara Kohn, July 28, 2008,

- Kojin Dinsmore, July 29, 2008, Living the Dharma
- Barbara Kohn, July 30, 2008, Feeling Zen Fierce
- Kojin Dinsmore, July 31, 2008, The Vast Sky Does Not Obstruct the Floating White Clouds
- Barbara Kohn, August 1, 2008, Collage
- Gaelyn Godwin, June 21, 2008, On Emptiness
- Kojin Dinsmore, June 7, 2008, What Do You Call The World?
- Pat Yingst, May 31, 2008, Opening the Hand of Thought
- Daigaku Rumme, May 28, 2008, Instructions to the Cook
- Kojin Dinsmore, April 19, 2008, The Path of Renunciation
- Kojin Dinsmore, January 19, 2008, Gandhi and Dogen on Liberation
- Barbara Kohn, July 24, 2007, Nothing to Gain
- Barbara Kohn, July 23, 2007, Follow the Schedule
- Barbara Kohn, November 3, 2007, Love or Zazen?
- Barbara Kohn, October 3, 2007, The Accupuncture Needle of Zazen
- Barbara Kohn, June 18, 2005,
- Barbara Kohn, May 21, 2005,
- Barbara Kohn, April 27, 2005,
- Barbara Kohn, February 19, 2005,
- Barbara Kohn, January 8, 2005,
- Barbara Kohn, December 18, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, December 4, 2004,
- Kojin John Dinsmore, November 20, 2004, Dana
- Barbara Kohn, November 13, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, November 12, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, October 23, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, August 21, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, July 24, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, June 19, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, June 5, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, March 27, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, March 13, 2004, Renunciation
- Barbara Kohn, March 13, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, March 12, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, February 25, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, February 14, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, January 29, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, January 21, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, January 17, 2004,
- Barbara Kohn, December 13, 2003,
- Barbara Kohn, November 15, 2003,
- Barbara Kohn, October 22, 2003,
- Barbara Kohn, August 16, 2003,
- Reb Anderson, October 10, 2002,

- Reb Anderson, October 11, 2002,

- Reb Anderson, October 12, 2002, afternoon,

- Reb Anderson, October 12, 2002, part 1,

- Reb Anderson, October 12, 2002, part 2,

- Reb Anderson, October 13, 2002, part one,

- Reb Anderson, October 13, 2002, part two,

- Reb Anderson, October 14, 2002, morning, part one,

- Reb Anderson, October 14, 2002, morning, part two,

- Reb Anderson, October 14, 2002, afternoon,

- Reb Anderson, October 15, 2002, part 1,

- Reb Anderson, October 15, 2002, part 2,

- Reb Anderson, October 16, 2002, part 1,

- Reb Anderson, October 16, 2002, part 2,

- Reb Anderson, October 17, 2002, part 1,

- Reb Anderson, October 17, 2002, part 2,






Next-Step is for people who have attended a meditation instruction and who are interested in bringing what they have learned to the zendo. This is an hour and a half class where we will go over the forms and ceremonies in Soto Zen and will touch on things like how to move around in the zendo, bowing, chanting and service.
Dogen said, “Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself.” 