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...
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.” –...