Dharma Talks by Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

The Merit of Giving

A talk on the power of giving and of taking refuge in self and other.

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardAugust 7, 2024s5, giving, dana paramita, be an island, be a lamp, Master Dogen, Bodhisattva's Four Methods of Guidance, merit of giving

Shikantaza

While acknowledging that practice does not always come easily, Zuisei gently and skillfully guides us in the art of shikantaza, “the gate of ease and joy” as Dogen called it…

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardSeptember 8, 2021shikantaza, zazen, Eihei Dogen, Master Dogen, Flora Courtois, Yasutani Roshi, Hakuun Yasutani, just sitting, ease and joy, failing, falling, feeling, S4

Not Leaving the Monastery

Zuisei speaks from the heart about her own spiritual journey and her ongoing commitment to practice as she steps further into lay life...

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardDecember 30, 2018Zen Mountain MonasteryWallace Stevens, Master Dogen, S3

Studying The Way with the Body

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardApril 27, 2018Zen Mountain MonasteryDogen, The Time Being, Master Dogen, Marcus Aurelius, Five Aggregates, Studying the Way Through the Body, Shobogenzo, S2

After No Comes Yes

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardMarch 30, 2018Zen Mountain MonasteryWallace Stevens, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story, Wislawa Szymborska, Studying the Way Through the Body, Master Dogen, Maharatnakuta Sutra, S2

The Incalculable

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardDecember 30, 2017Zen Mountain MonasteryAvatamsaka Sutra, Flower Garland Sutra, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Flora Courtois, Hildegard of Bingen, Master Dogen, The Book of Divine Works, S2

The Eight Awarenesses of Enlightened Beings

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardMarch 19, 2017Zen Mountain MonasteryEight Awarenesses of Enlightened Beings, Dogen, Thich Nhat Hanh, Nirvana Sutra, Eight Means to Enlightenment, Discourse on the Eight Realizations of the Great Beings, Master Dogen, S2

Human Action

Dharma Talk - Zuisei GoddardZuisei GoddardJanuary 24, 2017Zen Mountain MonasteryMaster Dogen, Women's March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin, Genjokoan, environmental action, social action, political action, human action, S2