Unzan Mako Voelkel

Dharma Talk by Unzan Mako Voelkel, the Head Priest of Austin Zen Center. Rev. Voelkel began Zen practice in 1997 and became a full-time monastic resident at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She lived and worked for ten years at Tassajara serving in several temple positions including Work Leader, Head Cook, Fire Marshal, Head of the Meditation Hall and Director. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2009 by Ryushin Paul Haller and received Dharma Transmission in 2019.

Koshin Paley Ellison

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Dharma Talk by Koshin Paley Ellison, Co-Founder and Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care

Intimacy is based on the willingness to open ourselves to many others, to family, friends, and even strangers, forming genuine and deep bonds based on common humanity. Koshin Paley Ellison’s teachings share the way forward into a path of connection, compassion and intimacy.

Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMin, is an author/editor and Soto Zen teacher and psychotherapist. Appreciated for his guidance in helping people integrate and apply time-tested Buddhist teachings as simple strategies for living in today’s chaotic world, He is a Co-Founder and Guiding Teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, the author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up and an editor of the best-selling book Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care.

Duncan Ryūken Williams

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Dharma talk by Duncan Ryūken Williams, an ordained Buddhist Priest and scholar. In his new book, American Sutra, Professor Williams reveals the little-known story of how, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American.