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The Upaya Dharma Podcast features Wednesday evening Dharma Talks and recordings from Upaya’s diverse array of programs. Our podcasts exemplify Upaya’s focus on socially engaged Buddhism, including prison work, end-of-life care, serving the homeless, training in socially engaged practices, peace & nonviolence, compassionate care training, and delivering healthcare in the Himalayas.
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- 2 days ago1h 24m
The Measure of Our Humanity: WISDOM
In this session of The Measure of Our Humanity series, Roshi Joan Halifax opens with a guided meditation grounded in stability, breath, and the bodhisattva’s aspiration to meet suffering with mercy and care, before introducing Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi. In the main session, Bhikkhu Bodhi explores what he calls the “world-sustaining Dharma” — the moral order that Buddhist teaching asks us to bring… Source
- 2 days ago47 min
Open Dharma: Taking Refuge in Community
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Senseis Kodo and Dainin join Roshi Joan Halifax as she explores what it means to live and take refuge in spiritual community. Drawing on decades of building and residing in community herself, she traces valences of the three jewels — Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha — to their most human dimensions. Refuge, she suggests, is not rest in the ideal alone… Source
- 1 weeks ago53 min
Caught in the Self-Centered Dream
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Koshin Flint Sparks takes up an old question posed to the Buddha’s disciple Mahakaccana: what drives our conflicts? Mahakaccana answers that conflict arises from our attachment, adherence, fixation, addiction, obsession, and holding firm to our personal views and pleasures. Koshin answers the same question, borrowing language from Joko Beck’s four-line practice… Source
- 2 weeks ago38 min
The Transformative Power of Suffering: Finding an Appropriate Response
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Genryu Clayton Dalton — emergency physician and novice priest — draws on stories from his hospital work to explore how we can meet suffering without turning away from it. Memories of long-ago encounters in the ER, returned to and turned over again, have become a kind of teacher: moments of violence, grief, and quiet tenderness witnessed at the bedside… Source
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Breathe with Your Ears
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Butsumon Tuck Stibich describes teaching the GRACE program — Roshi Joan’s framework for compassionate action — to a class of cadets training as correctional officers. Butsumon admits to having judgments and expectations going into the training, and his surprise when cadets explained their reasons for being there: faith, family, and a wish to give others the… Source
- Jun 29, 202642 min
Appreciate Your Life: Reflections on Interbeing
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, delivered on the eve of the 15th anniversary of her twin sister Ellie’s passing, novice priest Jimon Lorene Flaming tenderly opens the bittersweet space of her sister’s life and death. Jimon traces Ellie’s path — a woman who lived entirely on her own terms, spending her life in nature, deeply embodied, trusting the flow of life — and the shock of losing not just a sibling, but a twin. Alongside grief came something unexpected — awe, mystery, and the falling away of everything but the present moment: “This is so big that I must go toward it. I must fully meet it and not defend against it.” Drawing on Maezumi Roshi’s Appreciate Your Life and Dogen’s teaching that “There is death in the midst of life, and there is life in the midst of death,” Jimon explores three threads: that unity is always abiding; how ideas and judgments create separation from reality; and intimacy as the heart of the teachings. Through the expression of her own intimacy with love and loss, Jimon invites us into the fragile, luminous ground where life is most fully met.
- Jun 22, 202641 min
The Raft and the Shore
In this Wednesday Night Dharma Talk, Sensei Fushin takes us through the currents of the Buddha’s raft metaphor — where practice becomes binding together grass, twigs, and branches to cross from a shore that is dangerous and fearful to one that is safe. Drawing on Dogen’s Uji (Being-Time), Fushin challenges the notion of completion, suggesting there is actually no shore to rest on: “There’s no shore to reach, and there’s no clean sequence of this crossing and this river and this arrival.” Blending the relative and absolute, Fushin turns us away from the notion of a distant destination: “The raft and the shore aren’t two different places. They never were.” Through stories of a dying chemistry professor’s unguarded joy, a crisis counselor named Janice whose presence asked nothing, a climbing partner’s quiet word at a frozen moment, and his grandmother’s overcooked roast served as pure love, Fushin traces how we become rafts for each other without knowing it. “Sometimes we build the raft, sometimes we’re carried by it, and sometimes we’re someone else’s raft without even knowing it.”
- Jun 17, 202632 min
Planting Life 2026: Corn, Culture, and the Living Stars (Part 6b)
In the 1st part of this closing session of Planting Life, Alonso Mendez — archaeoastronomer, artist, and farmer — opens a window into the ancient Maya wisdom of corn and cosmos. Drawing on twenty years of research at Palenque and recent discoveries still unpublished, Alonso traces the deep roots of a civilization shaped by maize. Our teeth, he observes, are corn seeds — teeth surviving centuries… Source
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