by Roshi Genmitsu | Jan 14, 2024
by Roshi Genmitsu | Dec 9, 2023
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,...
by Roshi Genmitsu | Dec 8, 2023
The Zen Garland Way – A basic course on the Ever Intimate Path & Practice of ZEN Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn is offering a 3- months practice workshop to accompany the 14 video lectures on Roshi Genki’s “Introduction to the Zen Garland Way – The Ever...
by Monta Kuseki May | Dec 3, 2023
THE ZEN GARLAND ORDER Spring 5-DAY SESSHIN (RETREAT) Sponsored by Dharma River Open to experienced and beginning practitioners...
by Monta Kuseki May | Dec 3, 2023
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...
by Roshi Genmitsu | May 16, 2023
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...
by Roshi Genmitsu | Dec 21, 2022
Join Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, Co-Founder of the Zen Garland Order for an online series of 10 classes on essential Buddhist History. The class is held online on zoom every last Saturday of the month (except for October!) from 9:00am to 10:30am Eastern Time: January 28,...
by Roshi Genki | Mar 6, 2022
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...
by Roshi Genki | Oct 11, 2021
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...
by Roshi Kisho | Oct 23, 2021
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...
by Monta Kuseki May | Oct 12, 2021
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...
by Roshi Genki | Oct 5, 2020
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...
by Roshi Genki | Apr 8, 2021
Introduction to The Zen Garland Way – The Ever Intimate of Zen Practice The Zen Garland approach to spiritual development Ground your life and set your feet upon the path. Roshi Genki’s 14-part video Grand Tour on the foundations to a peaceful, meaningful,...
by Roshi Genki | Jun 1, 2020
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....
by Roshi Genki | Apr 11, 2020
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.” –...
by Roshi Genki | Jan 27, 2021
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,...
by Roshi Kisho | Jan 24, 2021
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...