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
Episodes
Rohatsu 2025: Day 6 - Full and Seamlessness
Jan 10, 2026
Duration: 00:47:53
Rohatsu 2025: Day 5 - Indra's Net and One Body Practice
Jan 10, 2026
Duration: 00:46:06
Rohatsu 2025: Day 4 - Ethics and the Awakened Heart
Jan 10, 2026
Duration: 00:42:56
Rohatsu 2025: Day 3 - The Circle of the Way
Jan 10, 2026
Duration: 00:42:41
Rohatsu 2025: Day 2 - Vow, Liturgy, and Becoming One Body
Jan 10, 2026
Duration: 00:34:50
Gratefulness & Generosity 2025
Jan 05, 2026
Duration: 01:32:58
Awareness In Action: Going Forth with Joan Halifax, Noah Kodo Roen, & Wendy Lau (Part 16 - December)
Jan 05, 2026
Duration: 01:31:21
Awareness In Action: Love with Frank Ostaseski & Sharon Salzberg (Part 15 - December)
Jan 05, 2026
Duration: 01:30:19
Eko Hensho - Turning the Light Around: Winter Solstice Talk
Dec 29, 2025
Duration: 00:36:38
No Other Life
Dec 22, 2025
Duration: 00:51:14
Wandering in the Treasury of Radiant Light
Dec 15, 2025
Duration: 00:43:03
Rohatsu: Undivided Activity
Dec 08, 2025
Duration: 00:44:55
Awareness In Action: Bridging with Tara Brach (Part 14 - November)
Dec 08, 2025
Duration: 01:30:07
Awakened Action: The Warrior's Heart, Grandmother's Wisdom, and the Path of Abundant Possibility (Part 7B)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 00:47:07
Awakened Action: The Warrior's Heart, Grandmother's Wisdom, and the Path of Abundant Possibility (Part 7A)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:12:08
Awakened Action: Making the Future Now - Presence Under Pressure (Part 6)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 00:57:54
Awakened Action: Moral Beauty and The Great Turning (Part 5)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:10:27
Awakened Action: The Divinity Tree and the Practice of Listening (Part 4)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:03:31
Awakened Action: Liberating Imagination - Making the Future in the Present (Part 3)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:15:20
Awakened Action: The Charnel Ground - Cultivating Courage and Compassion (Part 2)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:21:57
Awakened Action: Opening Session (Part 1)
Dec 07, 2025
Duration: 01:03:46
Open Dharma: The Three Tenets and the Noble Eightfold Path
Dec 01, 2025
Duration: 00:46:30
Sutra and Suture Have the Same Root
Nov 24, 2025
Duration: 00:47:12
May We Be Nourished
Nov 17, 2025
Duration: 00:36:25
Buddha Nature 2.0: Embodying the Four Perfections with Dōgen
Nov 10, 2025
Duration: 00:50:43
Inner Sangha: Healing and Transformation with the Life and Teachings of Larry Ward
Nov 02, 2025
Duration: 00:47:32
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 6: Returning Home
Nov 02, 2025
Duration: 00:45:51
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 5: Effort Without Desire
Nov 02, 2025
Duration: 00:35:08
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 3: The Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree
Nov 02, 2025
Duration: 00:47:19
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: Practice - Realization
Nov 02, 2025
Duration: 00:35:24
FPP2025: Sesshin Day 4: Dogen's Unconstructedness in Stillness
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:51:06
FPP2025 Sesshin Day 1: Entering Through the True Gate
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:46:27
Fall Practice Period 2025: Sesshin Opening
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:42:05
FPP2025: The Ordinary Profundity of the Present Moment (Part 5)
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:48:31
FPP2025: Introduction to the Text: Actualizing the Fundamental Point (Part 3)
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 01:00:05
FPP2025: Study of The Great Way (Part 2)
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:39:10
FPP2025: Actualizing the Fundamental Point – The Heart of Dogen's Teachings Opening Session
Oct 26, 2025
Duration: 00:45:32
Awareness In Action: Embodiment with Guo Gu (Part 13 - October)
Oct 24, 2025
Duration: 01:31:39
Finding your place where you are
Oct 19, 2025
Duration: 00:45:41
Monkey Grasping for the Moon
Oct 13, 2025
Duration: 00:40:24
Way Seeking Mind: Head to Heart
Oct 05, 2025
Duration: 00:44:18
Awareness In Action: Discernment with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi (Part 12 - September)
Oct 03, 2025
Duration: 01:39:06
Love and Death 2025: Photos at the Threshold (Part 4)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 01:07:05
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3B)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 00:48:17
Love and Death 2025: The Sovereignty of Solitude (Part 3A)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 00:50:38
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2B)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 01:04:14
Love and Death 2025: Four Flavors of Fearless Love (Part 2A)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 00:48:41
Love and Death 2025: Opening the Great Gifts: Opening Session (Part 1)
Oct 02, 2025
Duration: 01:03:25
The Ultimate Inspiration: The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala
Sep 29, 2025
Duration: 00:49:13
Awareness In Action: Nonviolence with Father John Dear (Part
Sep 22, 2025
Duration: 01:33:05
Life, Death, and Freedom
Sep 21, 2025
Duration: 00:53:16
The Grace of Bodhisattvas
Sep 14, 2025
Duration: 00:44:35
Awareness In Action: We Were Made for This with Rebecca Solnit (Part 10 - August)
Sep 14, 2025
Duration: 01:38:51
Vimalakirti's Vulnerability: Through Star to Sky to the Eye of Another
Sep 07, 2025
Duration: 00:46:02
Silent Illumination and the Practice of Wonderment (Part 2)
Sep 01, 2025
Duration: 01:08:22
Awareness In Action: Earth with Terry Tempest Williams & Joan Halifax (Part 9 - August)
Sep 01, 2025
Duration: 01:36:50
Dogen Seminar 2025: Living Transmission Closing Session (8 of 8)
Aug 27, 2025
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Duration: 01:06:08
Dogen Seminar 2025: Eight Awakenings of Great Beings (7 of 8)
Aug 27, 2025
Duration: 01:02:03
Dogen Seminar 2025: The Art of Contextual Teaching (6 of 8)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 01:07:53
Dogen Seminar 2025: Four Methods of Guidance (5 of 8)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 01:03:17
Dogen Seminar 2025: True Paradox (4 of 8)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 00:52:50
Dogen Seminar 2025: Paradox as a Tool of Awakening (3 of 8)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 01:08:13
Dogen Seminar 2025: Paradox, Parable, and Paradigm (2 of 8)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 01:06:14
Dogen Seminar 2025: Meeting Paradox in the Teachings of Zen Master Dogen (Part 1)
Aug 26, 2025
Duration: 01:06:36
Just One Thing
Aug 24, 2025
Duration: 00:43:00
Awareness In Action: Equity with Konda Mason (Part 8 - August)
Aug 17, 2025
Duration: 01:34:24
We Just Have to Get Quiet Enough
Aug 17, 2025
Duration: 00:32:24
Silent Illumination and the Practice of Wonderment (Part 1)
Aug 11, 2025
Duration: 00:50:10
Becoming Yourself
Aug 04, 2025
Duration: 00:40:52
Ryokan Dances Dogen
Jul 28, 2025
Duration: 00:43:39
Way Seeking Mind
Jul 21, 2025
Duration: 00:49:27
Discovering the Reality of the Five Remembrances
Jul 14, 2025
Duration: 00:39:13
To Be a Peacemaker
Jul 06, 2025
Duration: 00:46:41
Awareness In Action: Homeboys with Father Gregory Boyle (Part 7 - June)
Jul 06, 2025
Duration: 01:22:46
Buddha Meets Buddha: Teacher - No Teacher in Zen
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 00:38:27
Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4B)
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 01:19:07
Planting Life 2025: Corn And Culture (Part 4A)
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 01:09:08
Planting Life 2025: Three Sisters Garden Planting Ceremony (Part 3)
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 01:12:44
Planting Life 2025: Corn, Cosmos, and the Sacred Architecture of Time (Part 2)
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 01:35:03
Planting Life 2025 Kinship with the Earth: Bridging Worlds (Part 1)
Jun 30, 2025
Duration: 01:13:12
The Mind of Absolute Trust: Practicing with Preference
Jun 22, 2025
Duration: 00:42:17
AWARE: Opening to the Unhindered Mind
Jun 16, 2025
Duration: 00:41:21
Being Unborn: The Practice of Non-Objectification
Jun 09, 2025
Duration: 00:29:07
Life Always Gives to Life: There Is Nothing to Fear
Jun 01, 2025
Duration: 00:38:54
Living with the Fundamental Truth of Impermanence
May 26, 2025
Duration: 00:42:34
Becoming Intimate
May 18, 2025
Duration: 00:48:51
The Meaning of Life
May 11, 2025
Duration: 00:37:54
Awareness In Action: Solidarity with Joan Halifax (Part 6 - May)
May 11, 2025
Duration: 01:30:23
Exploring Dharma Together
May 04, 2025
Duration: 00:49:27
SPP 2025 Sesshin Day 6: Living the Bodhisattva Way
May 02, 2025
Duration: 01:07:27
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 5: Destiny of a Nation: The Bodhisattva Practice of Kind Speech
May 02, 2025
Duration: 00:47:32
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 3: The Four Methods of Guidance: Beneficial Action, Identity Action
May 02, 2025
Duration: 00:50:14
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: The Four Bodhisattva Vows: The Nourishment of Endless Practice
May 02, 2025
Duration: 00:48:41
SPP2025 Sesshin Day 1: No Gift, No Giver: Dogen's Method of Guidance on Generosity
May 02, 2025
Duration: 00:36:44
SPP 2025: Building the Container: Opening Remarks for Sesshin
May 02, 2025
Duration: 00:59:06
The Ten Paramitas: Crossing to the Other Shore
Apr 28, 2025
Duration: 00:48:57
True Compassion on the Bodhisattva Path: SPP2025 (Part 5)
Apr 27, 2025
Duration: 00:48:26
Aspiration in the Fire of Our Times: SPP2025 (Part 3)
Apr 27, 2025
Duration: 00:34:57
Opening the Text: Faces of Compassion: SPP2025 (Part 2)
Apr 27, 2025
Duration: 00:50:32
Entering the Bodhisattva's Embrace: SPP2025 Living In The Embrace of The Bodhisattvas (Part 1)
