The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBF

Sean is a Ph. D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________  To support our efforts...

Sozan Schellin began Zen study in LA in 1979 with Maezumi-roshi, with whom he had lay ordination in 1982; he studied at two monasteries in Japan. He was ordained in the Soto Zen Lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi by Philip Whalen at Hartford Street Zen Center, San Francisco, in 1999. His teacher is Barbara Kohn-sensei, of Austin,TX, with whom he has been head of practice for the summer practice perio...

Steve Peskind, co-founder of the Coming Home Hospice, the San Francisco Shanti Project, and the Buddhist AIDS Project, has practiced meditation since 1973. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to participate live   Find our schedule of upcoming speakers   Join our mai...

For over 20 years, Roger Corless was a professor of Buddhism and Christianity at Duke University. After settling in the Bay Area in the late 1990s, he became a frequent contributor to GBF. He was also the author of several books, including "Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree." He died in January 2007. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audi...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licen...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to participate live   Find our schedule of upcoming speakers   Join our mailing list or discussion forum  Enjoy over 900 recorded talks dating back to 1995 CREDITS Audio Production: George Hubbard Producer: Tom Bruein Music/Logo/Ar...

Sean is a Ph. D. candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is focusing his research on environmental philosophy, intersubjectivity, and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. He just recently spent five months in Bhutan, one of the last Buddhist nations, doing research on the intersection of environmental science, culture, and spirituality. ______________  To support our efforts...

Scott Hunt has written extensively on issues of social justice and human rights. His latest book, "The Future of Peace," was declared one of the best spiritual books of 2002 by Spirituality and Health Magazine. After 22 years of study, Scott was instructed to teach Tantric Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche. For more about Sco...

Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spir...

Donald Rothberg, Ph. D., a member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center, and a teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, teaches retreats and groups on concentration and insight meditation practice, lovingkindness practice, transforming the judgmental mind, mindful communication, working skillfully with conflict, and socially engaged Buddhism. He has practiced insight meditation since 197...

Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to pa...

Scott Hunt has written extensively on issues of social justice and human rights. His latest book, "The Future of Peace," was declared one of the best spiritual books of 2002 by Spirituality and Health Magazine. After 22 years of study, Scott was instructed to teach Tantric Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche. For more about Sco...

The Diamond Approach is a contemporary spiritual path that integrates ancient spiritual wisdom with modern psychology. It was developed by A. H. Almaas, a Kuwaiti American author and spiritual teacher, also known as A. Hameed Ali. He coined the term "Diamond Approach" to represent his methodology of spiritual development, with "Almaas" being the Arabic word for "diamond.&q...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Eugene Cash is the founding teacher of the San Francisco Insight Meditation Community of San Francisco. He teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and leads intensive meditation retreats internationally. His teaching is influenced by both Burmese and Thai streams of the Theravada tradition as well as Zen and Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is also a teacher of the Diamond Approach, a school of spir...

Bill Weber is a senior Vipassana practitioner and a graduate from Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders program. He has twenty-five years of extensive retreat practice and currently practices at home with his husband or sits with a small group of gay men. He is also a documentary filmmaker and video editor, whose latest projects are “To Be Takei” and “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.” ______...

Diana Elrod is an active member of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in the Nichiren tradition. She has a Masters in Philosophy and Religion with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism, from the California College of Integral Studies. ______________  To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit https://gaybuddhist.org/ There you can:    Donate   Learn how to pa...

Carol Osmer Newhouse has studied Insight Meditation for more than 30 years and has been teaching for 20. She was given Dharma transmission by The Venerable Ruth Denison, student of the great meditation master U Ba Khin of Burma. She has studied with Dr. Rina Sircar of CIIS and Dr Thynn Thynn in Daily Life Practice. She is the founding teacher of the Lesbian Buddhist Sangha in Berkeley, and a Licen...

Scott Hunt has written extensively on issues of social justice and human rights. His latest book, "The Future of Peace," was declared one of the best spiritual books of 2002 by Spirituality & Health Magazine. After 22 years of study, Scott was instructed to teach Tantric Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism by His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche. For more about S...

Jeffrey Schneider is a priest at the San Francisco Zen Center, where he has lived, worked and practiced since 1978. He is currently the coordinator of Zen Center’s outreach programs and founded, in 2000, the Buddhist recovery programs there. Jeffrey has offered retreats and teachings in a variety of Northern California venues as well as in Texas, Missouri, South Carolina and Virginia. ____________...

Cathleen Williams has been in and about the San Francisco Zen Center for 25 years or so, practicing both as a lay student and as a priest. Over the years she has found that the beginning questions of practice evolve into more refined questions that engage her whole life and that involve both her priest and her psychotherapy practice. Though she is now living away from City Center, her on-going con...

Jim Wilson is the Director of Sutra Salon, a group of Buddhist practitioners in Sebastopol, CA. He has practiced Buddhism as both a monastic and lay person for 30 years in a variety of traditions, including Zen, Theravada, Dzog Chen, and Nichiren. He is the former Abbot of the Chogye Zen Buddhist Temple in New York. More recently he was the Buddhist Chaplain at a prison for the criminally insane....

Julian Butler first read the teachings of Adi Dam in 1979. He became formally involved in the 1980s when the teachings were being established in the U.K. He is the head priest at the Mountain of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California. You can learn more about the Sanctuary and teachings of Adi Da at https://www.adidaupclose.org/Empowered_Places/mountain_of_attention.html   ______________  To s...