Recorded on May 9, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY
This dharma offering by guest teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo addresses how grieving abides in the body and how taking refuge in ourselves offers healing and stability. Her offering includes a brief period of paired sharing, a guided meditation practice, a writing practice, a ceremony for holding grief together, and a dharma talk.
Recorded on April 25, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY
This dharma talk by BZC teacher Charlie Korin Pokorny describes the closing ceremony for the Ancestral Heart Monastery, in Millerton, NY, which took place on April 18, 2026, and offers guidance in how Zen practice addresses loss and grieving.
Please enjoy this dharma talk by BZC teacher Sarah Dōjin Emerson, which explores allowing the principle of care to guide our interactions in all settings and relationships.
Sarah Dōjin Emerson’s talk, entitled “Renewal and Reverence,” recorded on March 21, 2026, during the three-day sesshin in preparation for the Jukai ceremony, at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn. In this second and final dharma talk of the sesshin, Sarah-sensei explores engaging Zen practice tenderly, for the sake of love, as a training in reverence.
Recorded on March 20, 2026 during the three-day sesshin in preparation for the Jukai ceremony for receiving the Bodhisattva Precepts, at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.
In this first dharma talk of the sesshin, Charlie Korin Pokorny explores Jukai as a ceremony of bearing witness to radical relationality, and of asking how to allow one’s life to become a testament to the reality of non-separation.
Recorded on February 19, 2026 at at the Online Parent/Caregiver Monthly Sangha.
Over the next few months, the Parent Sangha will be exploring together the traditional cultivation of lovingkindness, or Metta, through the lens of parenting. This guided meditation is the grounding and foundational practice for this cultivation. While this practice uses the lens of caregiving, it’s a practice anyone can do.
Recorded on February 19, 2026 at at the Online Parent/Caregiver Monthly Sangha.
A short offering from the Parent Sangha exploring parenting as a path of awakening and social change. This talk is aimed at parents and caregivers, though the insights are relevant to all practitioners.
Rev. Mira Salwani speaks about “what it means to find home in the midst of chaos,” by “leaning into discomfort as a means to survival.” She explores the value of “extending home and belonging and safety to someone else … and to ourselves.”
Recorded on March 7, 2026, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, NY.
Recorded on February 28, 2026 during Rohatsu Sesshin at Boundless Mind Temple, Brooklyn, NY.