Shows
San Francisco Zen CenterInnate Love, Innate Wonder05/11/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, drawing on Suzuki Roshi’s teachings, points to Zen practice as fundamentally about opening to the innate love and innate wonder that is our basic nature as human beings.2025-07-2944 min
Mindful Leadership With Marc LesserNavigating Leadership Through Presence
Join Marc Lesser and guest Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler as we explore Zen teachings and their application to leadership and everyday life. Experience the power of navigating leadership through authentic presence.
Jiryu currently serves as a co-Abbot of San Francisco Zen Center through his role as Abiding Abbot of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. He is also co-editor of Becoming Yourself a new collection of talks by Suzuki Roshi.
2025-07-0135 minSan Francisco Zen CenterBeing Completely Yourself06/01/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler takes up the theme of “Becoming Yourself,” the title of a new book of talks by Suzuki Roshi, by reflecting on two lines from the book.2025-06-2637 min
San Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksBeing Completely Yourself06/01/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler takes up the theme of “Becoming Yourself,” the title of a new book of talks by Suzuki Roshi, by reflecting on two lines from the book.2025-06-0137 min
Cuke Audio PodcastWith Guest Jiryu Mark Rutschman-BylerJiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler is the abbot of Green Gulch Farm as a co-abbot of the SF Zen Center. In the podcast he talks about Becoming Yourself, an upcoming book of Shunryu Suzuki lectures that he worked on with Mel Weitsman. First he talks briefly about Nicole Baden and Richard Baker's recent stay at the City Center and Green Gulch and Baker's stroke of a week ago. He reads selections from Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life and we talk about that and more. Most enjoyable.
2025-05-251h 44San Francisco Zen CenterFreedom from Spring and Autumn04/13/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on comments from Suzuki Roshi’s talks on Case #36 of the Blue Cliff Record, exploring lines like “Buddhists resign from the world of suffering in order to live in the world of perpetual joy” and “human beings prefer the unreal to the real.”2025-05-2147 minSan Francisco Zen CenterHere is the Mystic Peak03/09/2025, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler explores the practice of seeing the present moment, just as it is, as “the mystic peak” of spiritual fulfillment, with reference to Suzuki Roshi’s comments on case #23 of the Blue Cliff Record.2025-05-2145 minSan Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksInnate Love, Innate Wonder05/11/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, drawing on Suzuki Roshi’s teachings, points to Zen practice as fundamentally about opening to the innate love and innate wonder that is our basic nature as human beings.2025-05-1144 minSan Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksFreedom from Spring and Autumn04/13/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on comments from Suzuki Roshi’s talks on Case #36 of the Blue Cliff Record, exploring lines like “Buddhists resign from the world of suffering in order to live in the world of perpetual joy” and “human beings prefer the unreal to the real.”2025-04-1347 min
Everyday Zen PodcastSuzuki Roshi – Becoming YourselfNorman gives a talk to the Dharma Seminar on “Becoming Yourself.” This is based on excerpts of a new upcoming book on Suzuki Roshi by Jiryu Rutschman-Byler that is to be published within the next year.
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2025-04-1038 minSan Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksHere is the Mystic Peak03/09/2025, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler explores the practice of seeing the present moment, just as it is, as “the mystic peak” of spiritual fulfillment, with reference to Suzuki Roshi’s comments on case #23 of the Blue Cliff Record.2025-03-0945 minSan Francisco Zen CenterReal Kindness02/02/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler suggests that to meet the current moment, we might practice a deep-rooted kindness, like the kindness of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, whose imperturbable compassion is born of the study of perfect wisdom.2025-03-0241 minSan Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksReal Kindness02/02/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler suggests that to meet the current moment, we might practice a deep-rooted kindness, like the kindness of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, whose imperturbable compassion is born of the study of perfect wisdom.2025-02-0241 minSan Francisco Zen CenterEternal Peace11/17/2024, Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, closing a five day sesshin, Jiryu talks about the unborn, undying aspect of reality, opened to through the practice of stopping, dropping off everything, and just being our ordinary self.2024-12-3049 minSan Francisco Zen CenterPracticing Wonder07/07/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu discusses traditional Zen practices of generating doubt and wonder - through meditating on "huatou" questions like "who drags this corpse around?" - and discusses how Soto Zen practice expresses that same wonder in a more subtle way as a point of posture in sitting and daily life.2024-11-1438 minSan Francisco Zen CenterClearing the Mind09/15/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk given at Green Gulch Farm, Abiding Abbott Jiryu Rutschman-Byler continues to explore four core elements of zazen practice: low belly, upright spine, clear mind, and wide-open welcoming. He focuses in particular on the practice of "clearing the mind," using teachings of the Buddha and from the Platform Sutra to discuss the dynamic between, on the one hand, welcoming everything including thought, and on the other hand, the fact that without a clear, empty mind the practice of welcoming often feels inaccessible to us.2024-09-2342 minSan Francisco Zen CenterThe Posture of Welcoming08/31/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at City Center.
In this talk, Abbot Jiryu describes the fundamental Zen practice of "welcoming everything," and emphasizes the posture - grounded belly, upright spine, and clear mind - that we can care for in order to fully embody and actualize that practice.2024-09-2338 minSan Francisco Zen CenterBelly, Spine, Clear, Welcome08/11/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk Jiryu discusses four fundamental, inter-related aspects of the Zen posture of body and mind which we can care for in sitting and in daily life: 1) grounded in the belly, 2) upright and strong in our spine, 3) clear and empty in our mind, and 4) warmly welcoming of the whole wide, bright, constantly changing, utterly unknowable field of experience.2024-09-1049 minSan Francisco Zen CenterShikantaza06/09/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu reflects on the practice of shikantaza, just sitting, as a Way that is fundamentally different than technique-based meditation.2024-06-2842 minSan Francisco Zen CenterAlive or Dead05/05/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Offering a talk on the day of a funeral service for Caroline Meister, Jiryu observes that in the subtle, tender mind that is truly open and present in not-knowing, we cannot even say "alive or dead".2024-06-2446 minSan Francisco Zen CenterEmbodied Presence04/14/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu suggests that by reflecting on the potential of Artificial Intelligence in Buddhism, in the form, for example, of the Suzuki Roshi chatbot, we can be led to renew our commitment to embodied presence, which is the real purpose and effort of Zen practice, and the real source of Bodhisattvas’ wisdom and compassion.2024-05-1440 minSan Francisco Zen CenterBecoming Yourself02/11/2024, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Abbot Jiryu reflects on Suzuki Roshi's core teaching that Zen practice is fundamentally about "becoming yourself," and explores the strong resonance there with the Silent Illumination teaching that awakening is right there when we sit still, exactly as we are.2024-02-2843 minSan Francisco Zen CenterNewts, Dogs, Lions, and Hara11/19/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. The one practice for every moment of our life is just to welcome and care for whatever is right here - why do we forget that so easily, and how can we train in staying with that?2023-11-2843 minSan Francisco Zen CenterNot Thinking Good and Evil10/22/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. For those who have vowed to "do all good" and "avoid all evil," Zen offers a compassionate but counter-intuitive teaching, equally relevant to meditation and to the ethics of daily living: "do not think good or evil," but include absolutely everything.2023-10-2845 minSan Francisco Zen CenterThe Light In Stillness09/17/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. In this talk, Jiryu explores Yunmen’s statement “Everyone has a light” (from Blue Cliff Record Case 86) and expresses the how the simple practice of sitting still with eyes open can fulfill our deep longing to be fully alive - while we can, and so that we can be more fully available for the suffering of the world.2023-10-0348 min
BuddhaFM PodcastBuddhizmus és MI, avagy a Roshi botJiryu Rutschman-Byler, a Suzuki Roshi által alapított Green Gulch Zen Center apátja nemrégiben olvasott a mesterséges intelligencia (MI) azon lehetőségéről, hogy múltbeli személyeket elevenítsen meg. Azt látta, hogy az emberek elhunyt személyek beszédeit, leveleit és más írásait használják fel, hogy újraélesszék őket a jelenben. Egy férfi például a halott barátnője e-mailjeit töltötte fel a GPT3 MI platformra, hogy tudjon vele beszélgetni. Egy társadalmi gazdaságtan hallgató pedig leutánzott egy bizonyos cseh-osztrák szocialista személyt...2023-08-1531 minSan Francisco Zen CenterBright Stillness07/30/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu encourages the practice of “Silent Illumination” from the Song Dynasty Chinese Chan teachings that the SFZC Soto Zen style of practice emerges from.2023-08-0738 minSan Francisco Zen CenterCoping With Our Problems06/11/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Jiryu shares teachings on continuously welcoming our problems as our practice, by exploring Suzuki Roshi’s comment that “if your everyday life is not based on this kind of spirit of repeating it forever, you cannot cope with the problems you will have day after day.”2023-06-1539 minSan Francisco Zen CenterThe Golden Lion05/14/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this Dharma talk, Jiryu uses the seventh century Chinese Buddhist ancestor Fazang’s analogy of “the golden lion” to encourage our practice of finding and fully expressing our true nature, through the Zen forms and in every moment of our life just as it is.2023-05-1945 minSan Francisco Zen CenterLiving Wholeheartedly04/30/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
In this talk, Jiryu explores the fundamental Zen practice of "total exertion" or "burning completely up" in every activity, a practice of living fully in each moment, marshaling the whole body, mind, breath, and heart to fully engage in the universal activity of life.2023-05-1648 minSan Francisco Zen CenterWalking Freely in Suffering03/26/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. This talk explores "Yusan Gansui," a Zen term for an easeful, open way of "strolling through the mountains" of life, indicating a way of being that is not stuck to any feeling but that is open to any feeling, and a way that does not just express joy and freedom for oneself, but also serves as a gateway to real compassion and presence with great suffering inside or outside.2023-04-0640 minSan Francisco Zen CenterLooking for Goldbug02/05/2023, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch. In this talk, Jiryu raises the line chanted before Zen lectures, "I vow to taste the truth of Tathagata's words," and reflects on what it could mean for us not just to listen to formal talks with this heart, but to live our whole life in every moment in this way, looking deeply for the element of truth and beauty and liberative teaching in each thing that arises.2023-02-1141 min
Simplicity Zen PodcastSimplicity Zen Podcast Episode 51 - An Interview with Jiryu Rutschman-Byler (The Zen Lamp Series)Note: Sorry about Jiryu's sound being a bit muddy. I have improved it as much as I can.Jiryu Rutschman-Byler is a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and teacher in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, with dharma transmission from Sojun Mel Weitsman. He lives and teaches at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, where he served as Tanto (Head of Practice) and is slated to become abbot of the temple next year. He also has led sanghas in Columbia and San Quinton State Prison.Jiryu has trained in Zen temples in the US and Japan since 1996. He a...2022-12-161h 55San Francisco Zen CenterRespecting The Absolute In Everything08/14/2022, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
A talk on Suzuki Roshi's statement that, while the essential truth of Buddhism is most directly reached by zazen practice, there are two teachings that characterize Mahayana Buddhism: "the absolute character of all phenomena and the possibility for ordinary people to attain Buddhahood."2022-08-2736 minSan Francisco Zen CenterWhat Good Is Zen Practice?07/17/2022, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.
Jiryu reflects on a teaching in the Diamond Sutra that one moment of insight into emptiness is more meritorious than the greatest of material gifts.2022-07-2245 minSan Francisco Zen CenterSuzuki Roshi on Precepts04/17/2022, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Suzuki Roshi had an unusual perspective on the practice of the Bodhisattva's ethical precepts. He emphasized zazen mind over rule-following, and saw precepts not as a mental moral code but as encouragements to touch and act from our innate loving and connected heart.2022-04-2141 minSan Francisco Zen CenterContinuous PracticeWhat is “continuous practice,” all day long, and with each and every thing?
02/13/2022, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2022-02-1839 minSan Francisco Zen CenterZazen As The Practice of Absolute RealityContinuing the conversation on the harmony of absolute and relative truths, this talks suggests that we zazen is a good place to focus on the inconceivable reality, to discover, as Suzuki Roshi says, "who we are and what things are in their true sense."
10/24/2021, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2021-11-0543 minSan Francisco Zen CenterFixing ThingsOnce when a student straightened a hanging picture in the temple, Suzuki Roshi went and made it crooked again - why did he do that, and what does this story show about our "fixing" mind versus Suzuki Roshi's path of "seeings things-as-it-is, accepting things-as-it-is, and nourishing things as they grow"?
08/22/2021, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm.2021-09-0344 min
ConferenciasComentarios en ceremonia del té- Jiryu- Exhalar- Abril 15 de 2019Realizados durante el Sesshin Silencio y quietud de zazen, del 13 al 20 de abril de 2019, por el reverendo JIRYU MARK RUTSCHMAN-BYLER, sacerdote budista Soto Zen y profesor en el linaje de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, con la transmisión de Dharma de Sojun Mel Weitsman.2019-05-0504 min
ConferenciasComentarios en ceremonia del té-Chanchitos- Jiryu. Abril 15 de 2019Realizados durante el Sesshin Silencio y quietud de zazen, del 13 al 20 de abril de 2019, por el reverendo JIRYU MARK RUTSCHMAN-BYLER sacerdote budista Soto Zen y profesor en el linaje de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, con la transmisión de Dharma de Sojun Mel Weitsman.2019-05-0532 min
ConferenciasCharla del Dharma-La colaboración-Por Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Abril 14 de 2019El reverendo JIRYU MARK RUTSCHMAN-BYLER es sacerdote budista Soto Zen y profesor en el linaje de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, con la transmisión de Dharma de Sojun Mel Weitsman. Vive y enseña en Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, es el maestro principal de Buddhadharma Sangha de la prisión estatal de San Quintín, y es mentor y preceptor de la Montaña de Silencio Sangha en Medellín, Colombia.2019-04-2345 min
ConferenciasCharla del Dharma-el milagro de la llave -Jiryu Mark Rutschman-abril 20 de 2019El reverendo JIRYU MARK RUTSCHMAN-BYLER es un sacerdote budista Soto Zen y profesor en el linaje de Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, con la transmisión de Dharma de Sojun Mel Weitsman. Vive y enseña en Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, es el maestro principal de Buddhadharma Sangha de la prisión estatal de San Quintín, y es mentor y preceptor de la Montaña de Silencio Sangha en Medellín, Colombia.2019-04-2245 min