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San Francisco Zen CenterLiving in Relationality05/17/2025, Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi, dharma talk at City Center. Former Abbot Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi discusses lessons from a life of practice, and from close observation of Shunryu Suzuki’s life and teachings.2025-06-2637 min
Cuke Audio PodcastWith Guest Sokaku Kathie FischerSokaku Kathie Fischer began practicing Zen in 1971 with Sojun Mel Weitsman at the Berkeley Zen Center. She was ordained a Zen priest at San Francisco Zen Center in 1980 by Zentatsu Richard Baker, and continued residential practice at Zen Center for 15 more years. She received Dharma transmission from Sojun Weitsman in 2011 while in the midst of her 28-year career as a school teacher in Mill Valley. Since retiring from teaching science to adolescents she has turned her attention to studying and teaching Dharma. Kathie and her husband Norman are parents of adult twin sons and grandparents of three children.. That's...2025-06-011h 46
San Francisco Zen Center Dharma TalksLiving in Relationality05/17/2025, Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi, dharma talk at City Center. Former Abbot Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi discusses lessons from a life of practice, and from close observation of Shunryu Suzuki’s life and teachings.2025-05-1737 min
Cuke Audio PodcastNicole Baden on the Dharma Academy launch eventTatsudo Nicole Baden is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker in the Dharma Sangha Soto Zen Lineage. Last September Richard Baker passed on the abbotship of Dharma Sangha in Germany and the US to Nicole. In this podcast she will be talking about the Launch of the Dharma Academy with a free and open event on the weekend of May 23-25--Engaging the Heart of Wisdom and Pathways for Meeting Uncertainty. Participating dharma teachers include Zentatsu Richard Baker, Joan Halifax, Jiryu Rutschuman-Byler, Valerie Brown, Ryuten Paul Rosenblum, Rahshaana Green, Sarabinh Levy-Brightman, Ravi Welch, Lien Shutt, and Tatsudo Nicole Baden...2025-05-1339 min
Young Urban Zen SFMental PostureZachary Smith reflects on a talk given by Zentatsu Richard Baker, SFZC’s second Abbot, in 2012 about the idea of “mental posture”. Zach discusses how this idea can help us both with sitting and with bringing practice to our daily activity outside the Zendo.2025-03-0500 min
Cuke Audio PodcastA Month with Dharma Sangha GermanyI talk about my recent month spent at Dharma Sangha's ZBZS , their Zen Buddhist center in the Black Forest. The high point of the trip was the passing of the abbotship of Dharma Sangha Germany and America from Zentatsu Richard Baker to Tatsudo Nicole Baden.
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Cuke Audio PodcastWith Guest Nicole Baden - an Encore PresentationTatsudo Nicole Baden is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu Baker in the Dharma Sangha Soto Zen Lineage. She has been practicing Zen since 2001 and received Dharma Transmission in 2017. She graduated as a psychologist from the University of Oldenburg in 2008. She also trained at the ‘School for Body Mind Centering’ for four years. Since 2009 she has been living and practicing either at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center or at the Zen Buddhist Center Schwarzwald (ZBZS) in Germany. At present, she is Director and a resident teacher at the ZBZS. Early this September Richard Baker will be stepping down and Nicole Bade...2024-08-312h 00
Wonderstruck19: Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi And Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi - Shifting Perception To Change The WorldFor Wonderstruck's Season 2 finale, host Elizabeth Rovere introduces a special conversation between Zentatsu Richard Baker Roshi, one of Zen's leading voices, and his Dharma Successor and Dharma Sangha colleague Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi. The mentor-protégé duo display their compassion and respect for one another while introducing vital ideas about navigating existence, seeking connection, and recalibrating perception.https://wonderstruck.orghttps://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpodhttps://www.facebook.com/wonderstruckpodhttps://www.dharma-sangha.dehttps://www.dharmasangha.orghttp...2024-07-1511 min
Wonderstruck14: Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi - Embracing Zen And The Path To Shared AlivenessNicole Baden's life in Zen began with a crisis. She was 17, overwhelmed and felt she may not survive. With help from her father, and her own intuition, Nicole looked for relief in the form of her 18th birthday gift: a trip to a Zen meditation retreat. Hoping to quiet her existential dread, what Nicole took away from that trip was even greater. It set her on a path that would entirely change her concept of self, and the way she'd experience being in the world. Now known as Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi, she is a Dharma Successor of Zentatsu R...2024-04-151h 18
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE - Wanda Badwal#117 From ‚Whoness‘ to ‚Whatness‘ & the 4 tenets of Buddhism - Interview with Zen Master Baker Roshi
NEUER PODCAST / FROM ‚WHONESS‘ TO ‚WHATNESS‘ & THE 4 TENETS OF BUDDHISM - INTERVIEW WITH ZEN MASTER BAKER ROSHI
In this podcast I am speaking to a very special guest: Zen Master Baker Roshi, teaching Zen Buddhism since 60 years.
My parents are both students of him so I know him since I was a little child playing and drawing pictures while my parents where listening to his Zen lectures or meditating.
I feel honored he took this invitation and speak to us about very important topics in this podcast.
In this episode we speak about the meaning of Zen...2022-05-2452 min
Felsentor PodcastEmila Heller: Disease and Medicine - Just one thingThis talk was given on Feb. 22, 2021. Translation by Vanja Palmers.Emila Heller has been a resident at San Francisco Zen Center since 1974. She has practiced at all three temples in various positions including work leader, shika, director, baker, and farmer. She received lay ordination from Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1976.2021-03-2226 min