Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Dharma Talks

1288 Date: Sunday, June 28, 2026 Speaker: Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A Bodhisattva's First Time at the Dragon (00:01:30) - Return to Our Basic Situtation (00:09:55) - A message for the summer (00:15:03) - Zazen Mind, Beginner's Mind (00:23:57) - Sitting in Stillness with Wind Bell (00:25:18) - What Do You Realize When You Sit? (00:29:44) - The Zen practice of Relaxation (00:3...

1287 Date: Sunday June 21, 2026 Speaker: Scholar Talk: Prof. Steven Heine Chapters (00:00:00) - A Moment in Zen History (00:04:33) - 100 Shan Questions (00:08:28) - Case 16: Even at Dawn the Truth is Not Revealed (00:10:44) - Koan Collection: Proposals and the Zen Silence (00:12:01) - What, What, What Does Zen Master Say About Prudence? (00:13:42) - The Cat Sleeps Under the Peonies (00:18:18) - Th...

1286 Speaker: Pride Month Teaching: Rev. Steven Koshin Tierney, Chapters (00:00:00) - A visit to Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:02:40) - Steve Collins at Oche's Compassion (00:04:29) - A Homecoming for the Queer Dharma Group (00:12:40) - Live by Vow (00:20:26) - Coming Out: The Journey Home (00:28:45) - Walking the Buddhist Path: The LGBTQ Community (00:31:24) - A Question on Pride (00:33:39) - A mes...

1285 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Taigen Dan Leighton Chapters (00:00:00) - A Lesson from Tomoe Katagiri (00:02:55) - Dogen Eheikoroku: A Study in Buddhism (00:04:30) - The Essential Meaning of Buddhadharma (00:07:01) - Zen Ethics, The Life, Liberty (00:14:03) - John Kennedy Assassination: The CIA Role in the Murder (00:27:30) - Dogen on Karma (00:33:52) - "A Zen Buddhist's Own History" (00:...

1284 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A visit to Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:01:11) - A Spring Sacheen (00:08:28) - What It Means to Be a Shisu (00:12:10) - Being Shuso: A rite of passage (00:20:33) - A Little Chant for Winter (00:26:03) - The Dawn of Zazen (00:31:23) - A Bodhisattva Sacheen (00:32:25) - Jerry's last practice with Shu

1283 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A Taste of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:02:10) - A Taste of Green in May (00:03:41) - Sacheen (00:06:22) - Paula Arai at the Zendo (00:12:41) - The Dharma of Rags (00:22:07) - Paula Rai (00:31:13) - The Zen of Rag Rags (00:36:28) - A Little Lesson on Kintsugi (00:40:41) - Leo on Negative Self-Cling (00:42:18) -...

1282 ADZG Sunday Morning Shuso Talk about Zazen by Gerrie Griffin Chapters (00:00:00) - Meet the Head Student at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:01:34) - Sashin 8 week practice commitment period (00:03:57) - What are Koan (00:12:45) - Koan 8, Students and Teachers (00:16:19) - A Koan from the Life of Wade (00:18:12) - A Koan About A Blue Bucket (00:19:29) - Bodhidharma in the Story (00:24:10) - On Bod...

1281 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A Dharma Talk on Compassion (00:03:44) - Compassion in the face of suffering (00:16:06) - Understanding compassion in Mahayana Buddhism (00:28:51) - Compassion and Anukampa (00:34:29) - How to Extend Compassion to Others (00:35:52) - What is the Brahma Vihara? (00:36:48) - Caring in Zen: Menmitsu (00:40:34) -...

1280 ADZG Sunday Morning Shuso Talk about Zazen by Gerrie Griffin Chapters (00:00:00) - Sitting Zazen at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:00:34) - Sitting Zazen (00:09:15) - A Zen Chant About Zazen (00:12:55) - Song of Zazen (00:18:27) - The End of All Strains (00:21:58) - Sitting Zen: Embrace Everything (00:26:19) - The Thumbs in Zazen (00:29:04) - David's Talk on Zazen

1279 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer & Paula Lazarz A  look at the four immeasurables of loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity.  Hogetsu offers how these four help us deal effectively with transitions in our lives. Then (21:00), longtime sangha member, Paula Lazarz, explains why she is giving up her robes and leaving practice at Ancient Drago...

1278 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A Moment of Compassion at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:01:12) - The Great Flower Adornment Sutra (00:05:16) - Bodhisattva Flower Adornment (00:18:03) - Bodhisattva Prayer for All Beings (00:24:53) - Wishing for Pure Mind in Sodo Zen

1277 ADZG Sunday Morning Scholar’s Talk by Paul Copp Chapters (00:00:00) - A Talk on the Enmei Juku Kanangyo Kan (00:04:16) - The Heart Sutra (00:07:27) - On merit in Mahayana Buddhism (00:11:10) - Quantum resonance and the Bodhisattvas (00:15:37) - The Enmei Juku Kanangyo story (00:20:35) - The Divine Words of Veneration to the Buddha (00:22:21) - Mahaparinirvana Sutra, Conditions of Buddha, Dhar...

1276 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - Practice Committed for 8 Weeks (00:10:19) - Tong Lu's Rules for Zazen (Fukanza (00:19:44) - Zen Meditation is the Dharma Gate of Peace and Joy (00:26:51) - A Little Lesson on Zazen (00:28:55) - Zazen During This Practice Period

1275 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - Spring Zazen (00:03:53) - Warm Up for Practice Period 2 (00:06:41) - Practice Period (00:18:25) - 8 Week Practice Period (00:24:17) - Zen Practice Manual, Guidelines for Practice Periods (00:31:40) - A Short Talk on Commitments (00:37:43) - Dharma Vows and Commitments (00:39:05) - Sachin Online Zazen (00:41:11...

1274 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Taigen Dan Leighton Chapters (00:00:00) - A Taste of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:00:47) - David Chadwick's death (00:03:34) - David Chadwick (00:11:19) - Suzuki Roshi: Being a Little Wild (00:16:12) - A Lesson from Pauline Pecci (00:19:01) - David Foster's Life (00:20:56) - David Chadwick and the San Francisco Zen Center (00:23:30) - David Chadwick's Last Ta...

1273 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Douglas Floyd Chapters (00:00:00) - Dharmata Talk (00:00:59) - Koan Talk (00:06:52) - Xiao Zhou's Koan (00:11:59) - Xiaozhou and the Hermits (00:18:51) - David Weiner Unmuted Himself (00:19:57) - Zen Poem, Faith in Heart, Mind (00:26:17) - A Zen Koan, The Hermit (00:27:48) - Philosopher on The Wrong Koan (00:30:03) - Seeking the Right Answer (00:35:45) - Kok...

1272 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - The Last Teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha (00:06:06) - Practice with Diligent Energy (00:09:59) - Total Exertion in Zen Practice (00:17:31) - Yu Dao Po Uses Her Full Strength (00:26:31) - What is the realm of Bodhisattvas? (00:31:47) - Zazen and Anger (00:33:26) - A Person of No Rank in Hinduism (00:35:35) - A me...

ADZG 1271 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Eishin Nancy Easton Chapters (00:00:00) - Ancestrian Dragon Zen Gate (00:00:32) - Honorary Mayor's Day (00:00:57) - Koan 12, Duong Plants the Field (00:02:26) - How the World Is Being Stored (00:11:46) - Koan 8, What Can You Do About the World? (00:15:03) - Koan 8, Plowing the Field (00:18:43) - Understanding Jizo the Guardian of the Hell Realms (0...

ADZG 1270 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Nyozan Eric Shutt Chapters (00:00:00) - A New Year's Prayer at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:05:50) - Honoring the Hinayana Discipline (00:07:06) - Disassembly and Reassembly of Long-Standing Practices (00:09:13) - Non-Abiding and Karma (00:21:03) - The Way of Self-Realization (00:26:17) - The Problem of Non-Abiding (00:30:44) - Analogy of the Mahayana (0...

ADZG 1269 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - A Sashin at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:03:30) - How Does Our Zen Practice Impact Our Political Life? (00:18:04) - Zazen: Clear Circle of Light (00:25:23) - Practice of patience, constancy

ADZG 1268 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Douglas Floyd Chapters (00:00:00) - Ancestrian Dragon Zen Gate (00:00:29) - Hongzhi's Clean Your Bowl (00:08:10) - Wash Your Bowl (00:17:03) - The Basic Awareness of Kensho (00:18:13) - Koan Analysis and Personal Practice (00:24:21) - The Entry of Dao Joe (00:28:03) - Wash Your Bowl (00:34:49) - Understanding the Words of Enlightenment (00:35:57) - The...

ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Taigen Dan Leighton ADZG 1268 Chapters (00:00:00) - What is an Appropriate Response to Our Situation? (00:09:21) - Responding to Everything (00:16:12) - Joe Biden on ICE Agents (00:22:26) - David Weiner on the 10 Powers of Buddha (00:31:02) - The Need for Peaceful Protest (00:33:51) - Dwarf Way

ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Douglas Floyd ADZG 1267 Chapters (00:00:00) - The Forms of Zazen (00:11:37) - The practice of zazen (00:18:04) - Like Big Self or Big Life? (00:19:25) - 4 VOTES

ADZG 1265 An exploration of how this important Zen sutra makes the case for the underlying emptiness of all phenomenon — including some earlier Buddhist teachings. ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Paula Lazarz Chapters (00:00:00) - A Taste of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:01:04) - The Wheel of Dharma and its Discourse (00:08:34) - The Heart Sutra (00:11:07) - All Five Skandhas are Empty (00:17:19)...

ADZG 1264 ADZG Sunday Morning Dharma Talk by Rev. Hōgetsu Laurie Belzer Chapters (00:00:00) - Boshetsattvas at Ancient Dragon Zen Gate (00:01:44) - Sachin Sashin (00:03:50) - The Seven Noble Truths of Buddha (00:08:10) - The Wheel of the Dharma (00:16:03) - The Awakening of Bahia of the Bark Cloth (00:25:02) - A Jerk in the Wheel (00:25:36) - A Lesson on The Dragon Wheel (00:29:43) - The role of T...