Excerpt:At the heart of the teaching of impermanence is conditioned existence but what is conditioned existence?Conditioned existence is the reality that all phenomena, all things that exist arise in dependence upon other phenomena: "if this

#2 Foundational Dharma Talk: Way of the Foolish Being

Apr 21st, 2023 30m 13s

In this talk we explore the idea of bonbu - of each of us being "foolish beings" and who this informs our community and practice.Excerpt"It is our studentship that we share, not our specialness or holiness. It is with humility being aware of

Follow Your Authentic Path

Jan 23rd, 2023 28m 31s

EXCERPT"Breathing in I am aware that I am breathing in, breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. To really live life we can touch this simple reality with deep awareness – underneath my stories, religion, ideas and philosophy – I

Dharma Highway Sutra: Driving and Buddhist Practice

Jan 23rd, 2023 32m 1s

Excerpt"That aside, here I am driving to work or home from work, like I do every day and the reality that I want, the reality that I EXPECT is the following:no red lights,goodly speeds,graceful lane changes,bli

Sangha As Practice

Jan 9th, 2023 34m 49s

Excerpt"The fellowship is our training ground in our practice. It is where we come as we are and that means there is lots of opportunities to practice the virtues of patience, humility, compassion, deep listening, letting go of views and expe

#1 Attend to All and Each -The Meaning of Come as You Are.

Aug 9th, 2022 35m 50s

Here is the first of Eight Foundational Dharma Talks that share the teachings that make our community what it is and our tradition's expression of the Buddha Dharma and Everyday Buddhism.This is a dharma talk that shares what we mean when we

In Person Meetings: A Message From Sensei

Aug 6th, 2022 25m 18s

Here is a slightly longer version for our podcast followers- regrading moving back to in person meetings.

Mono No Aware: Embracing Impermanence

Aug 2nd, 2022 50m 6s

Going for Refuge - Taking Refuge in Buddha

Aug 1st, 2022 59m 13s

yearly before our Summer Retreat we review what going for refuge to the three jewels means. In this Talk Christopher Kakuyo talks about taking refuge in general and more specifically regarding taking refuge in the Buddha. As westerns we seem t

Doing Nothing as Skillful Practice

Aug 1st, 2022 43m 38s

We use an old Zen story to look at Doing Nothing as skillful action.Excerpt"A young monk is struggling and he goes to his master, telling him he is really struggling. So he asks his Master Ganto. When the three worlds threaten me, what shall

Juneteenth - a dharma talk by Rachel Koshinyo

Jul 18th, 2022 20m 44s

Here is a dharma talk from one of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship's community on Juneteenth, Enjoy

Enoughness: Reflections on the Second Precept of Buddhism.

Sep 22nd, 2020 22m 25s

ExcerptWhen I first started to explore and examine this precept, my first inclination was to feel guilt for taking paper clips from work or printing things for personal uses on my work computer. Funny, that I found ways around it Like buyin

Affirming Life: The First Precept

Sep 15th, 2020 34m 55s

Even though the precepts were not directed to the community directly, they are all about community. The precepts are about action and intention. I appreciate this from Wendell Berry,“ To act in short is to live. Living is a total act. Thinkin

The Five - The Ethical Foundation of Meditation

Sep 9th, 2020 21m 15s

What Are You Carrying?

Sep 1st, 2020 24m 11s

Excerpt from the dharma talk.The heaviest burdens we can carry are the burdens of the past- either for something that was done to us or done by us, and we spend so much time there. I have talked about this before, that we are constantly t

Attend to all and each

Aug 24th, 2020 17m 52s

From the dharma talk, "Whatever it is inside of ourselves that we are running from – that is what we attend to because we know we can come as we are. As Jung said, I would rather be whole than good. This is meeting each other in the open

Protective Anger

Jan 6th, 2020 32m 51s

This is something I have been thinking about in our current environment. With so much polarity in our greater community, we stop listening to one another and when we do we start seeing one another as enemies. The Buddha taught 2600 years ago th

Authentic Life

Nov 9th, 2019 27m 49s

Deep Listening a Call to Presence

Oct 31st, 2019 23m 49s

Before Mindfulness: The Five Precepts

Aug 10th, 2019 22m 24s

excerpt"The first thing we need to remember is that the five precepts are fields of practice and not a checklist of our failures- that sometimes the commandments were for me.Our relationship with them can be contemplative in nature and whose

Taking Refuge in the Dharma

Aug 10th, 2019 17m 11s

From the dharma talk"Many appreciate and value the teachings of the Buddha, post endless memes with quotes he said and never said, there are some who have got out of bad marriages, bad jobs because of something they read or heard on a Buddh

Repentance, Confession and Forgiveness: A Buddhist Take.

Jul 5th, 2019 24m 59s

excerpt..."Awareness practice is not just breathing in and breathing out, it's not just noticing the breathing of your lover or the dharma talk of a meadow of wildflowers, it is also going down in the muck and mud of ALL of who we are, not j

Sitting in the Dark

May 27th, 2019 22m 1s

excerpt from the Dharma talk delivered May 26th in Salt Lake City."..that brings to my mind the Mojave desert at night - the Mojave Desert Preserve is also a dark skies Preserve meaning that any artificial list is restricted and it is one

Mother's Day Dharma Talk

May 15th, 2019 31m 37s

excerpt of a talk given on May 12, 2019, in Salt Lake City.I really love this from Gyomay Kubose Sensei. He was talking to a bright you man who said his mother did nothing for him growing up, that she only caused him trouble. I appreciate th

Loving Kindness

May 6th, 2019 44m 15s

Dharma talk given May 5th in Salt Lake CityExcerpt"Here is something that many are not aware of and I have heard this before but just found this quote Samyutta Nikaya, “We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindne