Dharma Talks by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Working with Loneliness

Zuisei offers the most powerful way to face the heart of loneliness and to shed the ignorance that sustains it.

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardJune 19, 2022S4, Shugen Roshi, sesshin, Bog Girl, Karen Russell, Mummies of Guanajuato, Mexico, loneliness, zazen, Galway Kinnell, Saint Francis and the SowComment

A Threaded Talk on Impermanence

In this first threaded talk, Zuisei introduces the realization of impermanence—from a teaching called The Eight Realizations of Great Beings—and asks the group to “thread together” their reflections on the teaching…

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardApril 21, 2021Eight Realizations of Great Beings, Four Remembrances, Galway Kinnell, poem, impermanence, Chauvin, Thich Nhat Hanh, S3

Eight Conditions for Wisdom

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardMarch 4, 2018Zen Temple of New York CityEight conditions for wisdom, Eightfold path, Galway Kinnell, Wisdom, S2

Lovingkindness Paramita

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardJanuary 31, 2016lovingkindness, paramis, paramitas, hunger for love, Galway Kinnell, S1