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Upaya Zen Center's Dharma PodcastSPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: The Four Bodhisattva Vows: The Nourishment of Endless PracticeIn this second full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan explores the Four Bodhisattva Vows as expressions of what Suzuki Roshi described as an “inflexible determination to carry out one’s will even through an infinite series of rebirths.” While “inflexible determination” might sound rigid, Shinzan suggests this determination can be understood as dedication or surrender to our vow…
Source2025-05-0248 minPodcasts | Upaya Zen CenterSPP2025 Sesshin Day 2: The Four Bodhisattva Vows: The Nourishment of Endless PracticeIn this second full day of Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan explores the Four Bodhisattva Vows as expressions of what Suzuki Roshi described as an “inflexible determination to carry out one’s will even through an infinite series of rebirths.” While “inflexible determination” might sound rigid, Shinzan suggests this determination can be understood as dedication or surrender to our vow…
Source2025-05-0248 minUpaya Zen Center's Dharma PodcastSPP 2025: Building the Container: Opening Remarks for SesshinIn this opening talk for the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senseis Monshin, Ryotan, and Shinzan offer their remarks and suggestions to make the most of the deep quiet and practice of sesshin. Sensei Shinzan explains that the word “sesshin” means “touching your mind” or “gathering the mind” and emphasizes that Zen practice is about intimacy with oneself through simple presence rather than…
Source2025-05-0259 minPodcasts | Upaya Zen CenterSPP 2025: Building the Container: Opening Remarks for SesshinIn this opening talk for the Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Senseis Monshin, Ryotan, and Shinzan offer their remarks and suggestions to make the most of the deep quiet and practice of sesshin. Sensei Shinzan explains that the word “sesshin” means “touching your mind” or “gathering the mind” and emphasizes that Zen practice is about intimacy with oneself through simple presence rather than…
Source2025-05-0259 minPodcasts | Upaya Zen CenterThe Ten Paramitas: Crossing to the Other ShoreIn this dharma talk during Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan thoroughly explores the Ten Paramitas (Perfections) of Mahayana Buddhism. He works backward from the tenth to the first, covering knowledge, powers, vow, skillful means, wisdom, meditation, effort, patience, ethical conduct, and generosity. Shinzan clarifies that paramitas aren’t about Western-style perfection but wholeness…
Source2025-04-2848 minUpaya Zen Center's Dharma PodcastThe Ten Paramitas: Crossing to the Other ShoreIn this dharma talk during Spring Practice Period Sesshin, Sensei Shinzan thoroughly explores the Ten Paramitas (Perfections) of Mahayana Buddhism. He works backward from the tenth to the first, covering knowledge, powers, vow, skillful means, wisdom, meditation, effort, patience, ethical conduct, and generosity. Shinzan clarifies that paramitas aren’t about Western-style perfection but wholeness…
Source2025-04-2848 minUpaya Zen Center's Dharma PodcastTrue Compassion on the Bodhisattva Path: SPP2025 (Part 5)In this second Zazenkai day talk of Spring Practice Period, Sensei Shinzan explores the essence of compassion in Buddhism. He begins with a Matrix-inspired question to illustrate the Bodhisattva vow: “Somebody tells you, […]2025-04-2848 minUpaya Zen Center's Dharma PodcastEntering the Bodhisattva’s Embrace: SPP2025 Living In The Embrace of The Bodhisattvas (Part 1)In this opening session of Spring Practice Period, Senseis Monshin, Shinzan, and Ryotan warmly welcome participants to explore “Living in the Embrace of the Bodhisattva Path.” Sensei Monshin begins by speaking to the ancient tradition […]2025-04-281h 15
Paths of Practice: Conversations on Journeys into BuddhismPaths of Practice with Sensei José Shinzan PalmaSensei José Shinzan Palma was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He is an ordained Zen priest and the Dharma successor of Roshi Joan Jiko Halifax. He met Korean Zen teacher, Ven. Samu Sunim in Mexico City in 1996, and then trained in the Buddhist Maitreya Seminary while living in the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple where he stayed until 2005. He was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest by Ven. Samu Sunim in 2004.Shinzan arrived at Upaya Zen Center in 2006 where he lived and trained for over 8 years as a resident and student of Roshi Joan. He received Dharma transmission from R...2025-04-091h 03
Pobsa’s Dharma LoungeShinzan Muhan Jose Palma: Bringing Zen to the Hispanic CommunityIn this first conversation-based episode of Pobsa's Dharma Lounge, recorded on June 2, 2022, I had the delight in reconnecting to my dharma brother, Muhan Jose Palma. We met over 20 years ago when we were both students of the Korean Son (Zen) Master, Samu Sunim. While I was on the Dharma Teacher track, Muhan was on the track to become a priest. After his ordination, he went on to train with Joan Halifax Roshi at Upaya Zen Center where he also received the new dharma name, Shinzan.
Sensei Palma is now based in San Diego where he is...2022-06-1346 min
ZenLatinX: Dharma en tu idioma & English Talks¿Que es la práctica?Que entendemos como práctica, a qué nos referimos cuando decimos, “ práctica” . Platica dada por Sensei Shinzan2021-01-0521 min
ZenLatinX: Dharma en tu idioma & English TalksLiving by VowOpen Gate Zen Collective Dharma Talk on finding your vow that keeps you in your practice. By Sensei Shinzan2021-01-0533 minUpaya Zen CenterShinzan Palma: Zazenkai: Riding the Ox Back HomeSensei Jose Shinzan Palma explores the stages of meditative practice through the Ox Herding Pictures of the Chinese ancestors. Interspersed with the traditional descriptions are Shinzan’s own life experiences and anecdotes about a life of Zen lived in the real world.2020-05-2846 min
Natural WisdomSensei Shinzan Palma, on RenunciationGiven at the Chapel of Awareness November 23, 20192019-11-2325 min