Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She is the author of a number of books about Buddhism, including the humor book The […]

DRINKING FROM THE WELL-SPRING OF LIFE WHERE SUFFERING AND ENLIGHTENMENT MEET
 Come participate in the Practice Circle and listen to and share ways in which your Practice Life offers self-care […]

Ryuko Laura Burges, a lay entrusted dharma teacher in the Soto Zen tradition, teaches classes, lectures, and leads retreats in Northern California. She received monastic training at Tassajara Zen Mountain […]

We are entering a New Year – an auspicious time to ‘commune with the “source”‘ and deepen our Practice life. Our practice of relinquishment is our practice of liberation. A […]

Rev. Liên Shutt (she/they) is the author of Home Is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path and a priest lineage holder in the Shunryu Suzuki tradition. Born to […]

Rev. Myō  Lahey is Abbot at Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco and Valley Streams' guiding teacher. He previously served as the monastic Prior (Tantō) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.  […]

Our guest, Rev. Taiga Ito, trained at Daihonzan Sojiji, one of the head monasteries of Soto Shu (Soto Zen in Japan). In 2016, Taiga Ito became Kokusaifukyoshi (international teacher of Soto Shu). He […]

Since 2021, Valley Streams sangha member Berry Crawford has been recording interviews with Zen teachers and practitioners for his Simplicity Zen Podcast. This evening’s program will feature a recorded interview […]

Since 2021, Valley Streams sangha member Berry Crawford has been recording interviews with Zen teachers and practitioners for his Simplicity Zen Podcast. This time Berry will talk about what he has learned in […]

Guest teacher Shōku Kathy Early came to zen practice in 1994 through classes with Tenshin Reb Anderson at the Yoga Room in Berkeley while working as a semiconductor engineer in Silicon […]