Dharma Talks

In conventional understanding, firewood becomes ash, and the two have a continuous relationship. We have a concept that time moves forward on a journey and thus has spatiality. But Dogen says that each thing—firewood or ash, you or me—is its own full expression in the moment. There is no separation between the time we abstract and imagine, that we control and move through, and our very being. Time is all being, and all being is time. The pine is time and the bamboo is time. W

A small child squats to look at an insect, her hair a nimbus backlit by the morning sun. Old friends reminisce, “Do you remember when. ....

Seido celebrates the life of Buddhist teacher Joanna Macy, who died last week. Macy, founder of The Work That Reconnects, emphasized...

After the ceremony commemorating the Buddha's death, Seido talks about the meaning of the Buddha's last teaching before he passed into...

After the Nehan ceremony, which commemorates the Buddha’s passing into “Parinirvana” or the final unbinding, Seido explores the...

This talk was given after the traditional Nehan ceremony commemorating the historical Buddha’s death and the teachings he gave his...

Seido talks about the ceremony of Nehan performed prior to the talk. Nehan commemorates the Buddha’s death and his entry into...