Dharma Talks & Discussions on the Zen Garland Order Vows

Taking the Zen Garland Order Vows – Study

Taking the Zen Garland Order Vows – Study Practicing the Zen Garland Order Vows means to embody Zen ethics as a way to salvation, healing, and liberation. The Vows are an essential element in the practice path of all Buddhist traditions: precepts, meditation,...

Spring Sesshin

THE ZEN GARLAND ORDER Spring 5-DAY SESSHIN (RETREAT) Sponsored by Dharma River Open to experienced and beginning practitioners...

Spring Ango

Continuing Traceless Practice Without End “The lotus arises from all its impediments. It actually needs the impurity of the water for its nourishment. In the same way, in our own personal development, we can’t just work with what we like about ourselves. We have to...
Introduction to Zen Focusing – Zoom Course

Introduction to Zen Focusing – Zoom Course

Introduction to Zen Focusing – Zoom Course Introduction to Zen Focusing 6 once-a-week classes, a Zen Focusing Manual, plus a once-a-week Zen Focusing practice session. Classes led by Roshis Genmitsu & Genki Learn an essential, emotional healing, Core...
The Zen Garland Order Vows & Zen Ethics as Koans

The Zen Garland Order Vows & Zen Ethics as Koans

Blind Men Crossing a Rope Bridge, Hakuin Zenji A course for Dharma Successors, Dharma Holders, and Senior Students Course Dates:Second and Fourth Saturdays beginning June 2022. June 11; July 9, 23; Aug. 13, 27; September 10; Oct. 22; Nov. 26; Dec. 10. Daily Times...
Elements of a Teisho and a Dharma Talk

Elements of a Teisho and a Dharma Talk

Photo by Denis Oliveira on Unsplash Course Date:Sunday, November 14Time:4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Eastern TimeCost:Sangha $10, Others $25 So how does one choose a theme for a Dharma talk? Does one begin with a life incident, a koan story from the life of a traditional...

Qi Gong Course Information

Qigong Info The information below organizes some of the qigong practice together for a resource accessible to Kisho’s ongoing students.  There are videos and documents available to review for the qigong taolu commonly practiced at Dharma River.  Check back...
Cultivating a Field of Benefaction

Cultivating a Field of Benefaction

This on-demand course offers an introduction to some foundational practices to transform the field of horror into the field of benefaction. Zen as a way of being means transforming ourselves, our lives, our being in the world into a “field of benefaction.” This is not...
Blue Cliff Record (Hekiganroku)

Blue Cliff Record (Hekiganroku)

The Hekigan-roku or Blue Cliff Record was composed by two of the greatest Zen ancestors, and they never knew one another, living in China 100 years apart. Hseueh-tou (Jp. Setcho, 980-1052), a successor in the Unmon School, gathered 100 brief excerpts from the...
Introduction to The Zen Garland Way – The Ever Intimate of Zen Practice

Cultivating a Field of Benefaction

Zen as a way of being means transforming ourselves, our lives, our being in the world into a “field of benefaction.” This is not about being nice, compliant, or passive. Zen bares the interactive, interdependent and co-creative networks that constitute life itself....
How Empty is Emptiness

How Empty is Emptiness

The Evolution of Shunyata, Master Tozan’s Goi Koans And Roshi Genki’s Five Perspectives “Emptiness that can be deemed empty is not true emptiness. Form that can be deemed form is not true form. True form is without shape. True emptiness is without name.” –...
Dogen’s Shobogenzo: Discussion on Selected Chapters

Dogen’s Shobogenzo: Discussion on Selected Chapters

Photo by Sam Moqadam on Unsplash Course Dates:April 5, May 3, June 7, July 5, August 2, September 6, October 4, November 1, December 6Time:9 am to 10:30 am Eastern TimeSeries Cost:Sangha $50, Others $100. Meeting the first Monday of each month beginning in April,...
Everyday Tenzo

Everyday Tenzo

This four-module course by Roshi Paul Kisho Stern, will provide an opportunity to roll up your sleeves and get to the work of being the tenzo in the space of our own daily life. There is some reading associated with the course as well as a good deal of outside work to...