Shows
San Francisco Zen CenterNot Disregarding A Single Thing06/22/2025, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
As senior dharma teacher Linda Ruth Cutts prepares to move from Green Gulch and SFZC residency after 54 years she brings up the practice of being upright in the midst of great change.2025-07-2952 min
San Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksNot Disregarding A Single Thing06/22/2025, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
As senior dharma teacher Linda Ruth Cutts prepares to move from Green Gulch and SFZC residency after 54 years she brings up the practice of being upright in the midst of great change.2025-06-2252 min
Podcasts – Valley Streams Zen SanghaApril 7th, 2025 – Dharma Talk by Rev. Tova Green
Dharma Talk given on Monday, April 7th, 2025 – Rev. Tova Green (11.9 MB, 48 min).
Rev. Tova Green
Visiting Teacher
She/her, is a resident priest at San Francisco Zen Center. She was ordained in 2003 and received Dharma transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts in 2015. Tova is the Branching Streams Director, supporting and connecting the 75+ Zen Centers and sanghas in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. She also writes blogs for SFZC’s online newsletter, Sangha News. Tova co-founded SFZC’s Queer Dharma group and has been involved in Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives during her twenty-four years as a reside...2025-04-0800 minSan Francisco Zen CenterMeeting What Scares You in Four Immeasurable Ways11/03/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this practice period talk, Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun asks: how do we practice when we are anxious and fearful —especially when there are great challenges in our life. Back to the basics!2024-12-1138 minSan Francisco Zen CenterHeroic Bodhisattva Goes To Practice Period10/20/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Linda explores how the mind of a Bodhisattva is able to meet the challenges of our lives, and celebrates the traditional forms of Practice Period, that help us to be able to fully express an “appropriate response” to our world.2024-12-1145 minPodcasts – Valley Streams Zen SanghaAugust 5th, 2024 – Dharma Talk by Rev. Eijun Linda Cutts
Dharma Talk given on Monday, August 5th, 2024 – Rev. Eijun Linda Cutts (13.7 MB, 54 min).
Eijun Linda Cutts
Visiting Teacher
Eijun Linda Cutts came to San Francisco Zen Center in 1971 and was ordained as a priest in 1975. She has lived at Tassajara and SFZC’s City Center, and has resided at Green Gulch Farm since 1993. In 1996 Linda received Dharma transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson. After having served as Abbess of SF Zen Center from 2000 to 2007, she was appointed Abiding Abbess of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in 2010, and Central Abbess of SF Zen Center in 2014. As Seni...2024-11-0100 minSan Francisco Zen CenterOur Own True Home—Dedicated to Caroline Meister03/24/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
This talk by Eijun Linda Cutts was offered and dedicated to Caroline Meister, a Tassajara resident whose accidental death touched so many with sorrow. The talk looks at the Koan “Daowu’s Condolence Call” Case 55 in the Blue Cliff Record, and the non-dual life of zazen and precepts.2024-04-0639 minSan Francisco Zen CenterPractice Compassion Without Delay02/04/2024, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Avalokiteshvara in the Avatamsaka Sutra lets us know of the powerful practice of Great Compassion to meet the great challenges of our life.2024-02-1547 minSan Francisco Zen CenterGoing On Intimate Pilgrimage11/05/2023, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. After finishing 11 days on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Linda brings up the koan, Case 20 in the Book of Serenity, "Not Knowing is Most Intimate," which brings up the practice of pilgrimage.2023-11-0845 minSan Francisco Zen CenterThe Practice and Power of Upright Speech09/03/2023, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The practice of Upright Speech touches every aspect of our life. How do we cultivate it and include all beings and the Great Earth in this practice?2023-09-2042 minSan Francisco Zen CenterEncouraging and Heartening Words from the Avatamsaka Sutra for Each of Us06/04/2023, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
The Avatamsaka Sutra says that everyone without exception is endowed with the wisdom and virtue of the Buddhas, however because of of delusion and attachments they do not realize it. The practice of bowing where self and other are not two embodies this teaching.2023-06-1542 minSan Francisco Zen CenterOut Of Compassion For The Many I Take My Rest11/13/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Reflections on the importance of rest and relaxation to wholeheartedly express our practice life.2022-11-2642 minSan Francisco Zen CenterMelting Away the Root of Transgressions09/03/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at City Center.
Reflections on the importance of the central practice of confession and repentance with stories of our ancestors.2022-09-2543 minSan Francisco Zen CenterWhat Is the Price of Rice? Confession and Repentance With Eyes Open.07/24/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Cutts takes up Case 5 of the Book of Serenity to uncover the call for confession and repentance—formal, formless, and of true reality.2022-08-0844 minSan Francisco Zen CenterPracticing 50 Years at Green Dragon Temple05/08/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
A tribute— with origin stories— to Green Dragon Temple - Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary.2022-05-2347 minSan Francisco Zen CenterThe Ancestors' Teaching of No Gaining IdeaSenior Dharma Teacher Eijun Cutts shares and reflects on teachings from Shakyamuni Buddha, Bodhidharma, Dōgen Zenji, and Suzuki Roshi that the key to practice is "no gaining idea." 03/20/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2022-03-2543 minSan Francisco Zen CenterEveryone Is On The Same PathA core teaching of the Lotus Sutra that can powerfully meet us.
02/20/2022, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2022-02-2541 minSan Francisco Zen CenterHow Do We Really Help?Drawing on her own experience and the teachings of Suzuki Roshi, Senior Dharma Teacher Eijun Linda Cutts reflects on the mind of a bodhisattva and the practice of helping self and other. 11/21/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2021-11-2937 minSan Francisco Zen CenterNon-Duality of Precepts-Zazen-ZenSenior Dharma Teacher Eijun Cutts reflects on a familiar yet upside-down way of understanding the practice of the precepts, and explores the teaching of Kanno Doko, Calling and Responding.
10/03/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2021-10-0840 minSan Francisco Zen CenterSmall Things MatterIn this talk Eijun Roshi reflects on the path of relieving our suffering, highlighting the importance of being in relationship with everything in our life—from people to the smallest detail—and on the basic interconnection of pleasure and pain. 09/05/2021, Eijun Linda Cutts, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2021-09-1246 min
Austin Zen Center Dharma TalksTaking Refuge in the Triple Treasure: Meeting Our Life TogetherRev. Eijun Linda Cutts, Dharma Talk, Saturday 31 October 2020, Austin Zen Center2020-10-311h 22
La biblioteca ZenIl sorriso della montagna. Insegnamenti di un maestro zen di Anderson RebSento che gli insegnamenti di Reb ora manifestano pienamente quel "non sprecate il vostro tempo", scritto sul gong di legno che chiama i praticanti alla meditazione. I suoi discorsi di Dharma e le sue lezioni non sono un passivo incontro con un distante docente in fondo alla sala, con gli studenti che fanno le loro domande stando al sicuro, seduti al loro posto. Oggi se si desidera fare una domanda o esprimere se stessi, viene richiesto di farsi avanti, di andare proprio davanti a Reb, e di parlare o interagire con lui personalmente, intimamente. Quanto è meraviglioso, inusuale, intenso avere questa o...2020-04-2942 min
San Antonio Zen Center Dharma TalksJisan Tova Green - On BelongingJisan Tova Green has been in residence at San Francisco Zen Center for over twenty years. She was ordained as a Zen priest and received Dharma Transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts. She is currently the Liaison for the Branching Streams Zen Centers and sitting groups -- over 70 in the U.S. and nine in other countries. Tova co-founded the SFZC Queer Dharma Group in 2009 and the group Unpacking Whiteness – Reflection and Action in 2017. Tova has worked as a hospice social worker, plays the cello, and writes poetry.
On March 7, she visited us at the San Antonio Zen Ce...2020-03-2132 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFEarth Day - Tova GreenTova Green began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1990 after many years of Vipassana practice. She became a resident there in 1999 and was ordained as a priest in 2003 by Eijun Linda Cutts. Tova co-founded the Queer Dharma Group at the Center and is currently the Director of the San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. ______________ 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...2012-04-2255 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFTova GreenTova Green began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1990 after many years of Vipassana practice. She became a resident there in 1999 and was ordained as a priest in 2003 by Eijun Linda Cutts. Tova co-founded the Queer Dharma Group at the Center and is currently the Director of the San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. ______________ 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...2011-11-2049 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFGiving - Tova GreenTova Green began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1990 after many years of Vipassana practice. She became a resident there in 1999 and was ordained as a priest in 2003 by Eijun Linda Cutts. Tova co-founded the Queer Dharma Group at the Center and is currently the Director of the San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. ______________ 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...2010-03-071h 01
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFBuddhist Alliance for Social Engagement - Tova Green and Paul ShephardTova Green began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1990 after many years of Vipassana practice. She became a resident there in 1999 and was ordained as a priest in 2003 by Eijun Linda Cutts. Tova co-founded the Queer Dharma Group at the Center and is currently the Director of the San Francisco Zen Center's City Center. Paul Shepard has been in recovery and concurrently practicing vipassana meditation since 1990. An active member of GBF since 1995, he initiated focus groups on Sexuality and Spirituality in 1998 and 1999 and has written major articles for the GBF Newsletter (10/1999 and 6/2005). Paul is a graduate of the...1998-12-2046 min