# Soto Zen

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Shadeless Trees

Greetings Friends, We are moving through this wonderful collection of encounters with Buddhist Women found in the book The Hidden Lamp for our Summer Read. This week we met Keizan Zenji and Mokufu Sonin engaged in the dialogue below: Hidden Lamp Case 20: Sonin’s Shadeless Tree Master Keizan Jokin…

Embodying Our Truth: The Perfection of Queer Wisdom - Liên Shutt

Rev. Liên Shutt explores how the Buddhist path of wisdom can help us fully celebrate and embody our identities as queer people.  The concept of prajna (wisdom) is not an abstract theory, but as an interactive way of being that honors our lived experiences. Liên breaks down the traditional three lev…

The Bodhisattva Vow with Michael McCord

QUICK SUMMARY What happens when a former tech and finance professional trades spreadsheets for robes and then brings Zen back into the boardroom? In this rich, wide-ranging conversation, hosts Dave Plisky and Father John Gribowich sit down with Sozan Michael McCord, President of San Francisco Zen…

6. If Loneliness is a Best Friend, Then What?

Rev. Syd sits down with Rev. Liên Shutt to discuss what it means to experience loneliness as a “best friend,” exploring how the idea of best friendship and relational hierarchy can feel unclear and shifting. Rev. Liên defines loneliness as a visceral sense of not belonging or being made “other,” an…

Special Feature! The Dharma of Loneliness Podcast with host Rev. Syd Yang! "If Loneliness is a Best Friend, Then What?" with guest Rev. Liên Shutt!

This month, we are doing a special feature of a wonderful new podcast hosted by our friend Rev. Syd Yang: The Dharma of Loneliness podcast!  Rev. Syd sits down with Rev. Liên Shutt to discuss what it means to experience loneliness as a “best friend,” exploring how the idea of best friendship and r…

Sitting Zazen—Whole & Complete Without Striving

Given by Nyokai Kristin Diggs at City Center on May 23rd, 2026 Nyokai Kristin Diggs talks about the difference between the zazen of Soto Zen and styles of sitting practice that aim at attaining an ideal or special state of mind.

Our Bright Way Zen Lineage - Week 3 - Domyo's Training

In this episode, using journal enteries and poetry from her early life, Domyo guides the Sangha through her path of Soto Zen

The Rematriation of Science: Restoring Balance through Indigenous Knowledges - Melissa K. Nelson | Part 1

Melissa K. Nelson and Host Jaune Evans How can a rematriated science address the roots of the polycrisis? Can society move beyond an anthropocentric, male-dominated science to a relational one rooted in justice and care? As an Anishinaabe ecologist and transdisciplinary scholar-activist, Commonwea…

Compassion: How Love Responds to Suffering with Robert Cusick (Episode 57)

What if compassion is not something you need to create, but something already within you, waiting to be uncovered and cultivated? In this episode, Britta sits down with her longtime friend Robert Cusick, former Director of Compassion Education at Stanford University's CCARE, to explore compassion …

Letter to Masanori Yuno, February 1977

Yokoyama was one of the most unusual Soto Zen monks whose life reminds one of another ordained monk, Ryokan, who is best known for his poetry and love of playing with children. Neither one of them served as head of a temple or trained other monks. Their choice to live without ceremony or pretension…