Brooklyn Zen Center

Recorded on October 6, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. Technical Note: Low audio levels at the beginning and increases to normal levels after 90 seconds Resources Referenced in This Talk Bodhisattva Precepts Jewel Mirror Samadhi The Dogen story and quote from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi are from Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind . The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possib...

Recorded on September 20, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. Resources Referenced in This Talk Hospicing Modernity: Facing Modernity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliviera Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse by Kazu Haga " Death Doula to a Dying Empire " by Kazu Haga Published on One Earth Sangha " How I Became...

Recorded on September 6, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. References mentioned in the talk: Abuse, Sex and the Sangha: a Series of Healing Conversations:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpxqAk60QqWrlqnlVVWr4IvLyv1GtBw5I Resilient Sangha Project:  https://bostonzen.org/resilientsangha/ Buddhist Healthy Boundaries:  https://www.buddhisthealthyboundaries.org/ "Sexual Eth...

Recorded on July 26, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. If these teachings have benefited your life, please consider supporting the program with  a donation  (suggested $2-7/episode, or whatever feels right for you!). You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Than...

Recorded on July 12, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. Please note: The first 50 seconds of the dharma talk is not audible due to technical issue. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on June 28, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on June 21, 2025 during the One Day Sit at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on June 7, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

A Dharma Conversation about sacred activism and environmental justice as a Bodhisattva practice with  Rev. Chelsea MacMillan and Matthew Menzies   Chelsea MacMillan is an interspiritual minister, the Senior Organizer at GreenFaith, and founder of Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism. Between 2019-2021, she led direct actions and facilitated regenerative culture with Extinction Rebellion. You can fi...

Recorded on April 27, 2025 at Millerton Zendo, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on May 10, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, NY. Guest Speaker, Willie Mukei Smith gave a powerful talk on based on the Bearing Witness to Racism Retreats in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, asking what kind of people of "the way" are we going to be? We are honored to share a recording of his talk on our podcast Willie Mukei Smith is a Senior Student and Novice Zen Priest at The Village Zendo....

Recorded on May 3, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The ground that we’re on, all the time, is one that has wounds in it.  There are bodies in it, there are stories in it, there are injuries in it, wherever we’re moving.  The ground of our sangha has wounds in it. We’re going along, we think we’re fine, and then we trip, and there’s a gash in the ground. Our country, this country, th...

"Fields are greener in their description than they are in their actual greenness." - Fernando Pessoa "Yes, we want to clarify the stories that are keeping us separate and maybe causing harm for ourselves and others. That doesn't mean that we don't need stories that support community that keep us in touch with ancestors that help us make meaning of the world. I think Pessoa is talking about the pow...

Selected quotes: " Meditation is not about taming anything. It's about trusting. Trusting our bodies, trusting our breaths, trusting our minds, just trusting everything. And that releases tension. And when we do that we create the conditions to be able to see, or have the dharma reveal itself in the sitting."  "Tension is karma in the form of the body." " Something comes into our environment, and...

The intersection of mindfulness and the Bodhisattva practice of patience, as a physical, somatic practice . Recorded at Millerton Zendo in Millerton NY on March 2, 2025. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on April 19, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on April 26, 2025 during the Three Day Sesshin at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on April 5, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on March 29, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on March 22, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. " What is the ground of my life? What am I really here for? What is the ground of our life together with all beings? How do I care for this ground? " The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Th...

Recorded on March 8, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. " Can we picture it? 100 years from now, 200 years from now (...) that 'operational worldview of interdependent thriving[1]' becomes the norm...becomes the ground that everybody stands on. AND—I would say—that to get there, we have to include impermanence and not be afraid of it...and not be afraid of things changing, not be...

Recorded on March 1, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, NY. "If we say there's a right, there must be a wrong? But if we say harmonious perspective, we can embody the middle path and we don't have to make others wrong. We have to figure out how we can be harmonious with other people that we interact with. It's a radically different approach. It's non-american, and if it's non-american, it means it's s...

Recorded on February 22, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on February 23, 2025 at Millerton Zendo, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!

Recorded on February 15, 2025 at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY. The  BZC Podcast  is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. You can donate to Brooklyn Zen Center at brooklynzen.org under ‘ Giving .’ Thank you for your generosity!