Zen Garland Courses & Workshops
Upcoming, On-going, and On-demand courses
The Zen Garland Order offers courses and workshops led by Zen Garland teachers, as well as workshops led by other thought leaders in our communities. Courses usually consist of multiple class sessions. Workshops are generally done in one or two sessions.
Upcoming Courses & Workshops
These courses and workshops are currently open for registration.
November 14
Elements of a Teisho and a Dharma Talk
Learn a basic approach to giving a Zen talk and how to integrate various elements from your life and the formal literature into your talk.
Saturday, November 20
Climate Crisis Workshop
Learn how to live with a smaller, gentler footprint on the earth and join the growing global community in saving the planet.
December 2 – 5
Rohatsu 2021
In this online Rohatsu we will share zazen, embodiment practices, Zen Focusing sessions, liturgy, dokusan and Dharma talks.
2022 – First Sundays
Zen Masters Series
Beginning January 2022. Explore together the major figures in the development of Zen Buddhism beginning with the enlightenment stories of the first 5 ancestors after Bodhidharma and the founders of the five Houses of Zen.
January 10, 17 & 24, 2022
Living Practice – Living Zen
Set up an attainable practice space within your life that embraces zazen as a core component to living in Presence.
Feb. 14, 2022
Intro to the Use of Personal Pronouns
Educate yourself and build respect in all relationships by understanding how to use personal pronouns when addressing others or oneself.
February 18 & 25, 2022
Finding Our Original Shape – The Meaning of Spirituality Through Womanhood
Join Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn and Sensei Trish Baishin Johnson for a series on creating a spiritual practice and path for female practitioners.
March 14, 21 & 28, 2022
ECO-Dharma: Wake Up-Save Yourself, Save Your Planet!
Leverage Zen practice in a way that supports radical transformation of ecological values and consciousness and brings about a more compassionate, life-affirming, and sustainable future.
Beginning June 12, 2022
Mountains and Rivers Away… Zen and the House of X: An Exploration of Dharma in Graphic Novel
Explore the rich, mythopoetic representation of Huayen interdependent dynamics as presented in the X-Men House of X series.
June 28, 2022
Tales of The Kumarajiva Translations
Join Roshi Genmitsu and Roshi Genki for Tales of the Kumarajiva Translators, history as you always wish it were taught.
July 9 & 10, 2022
The Quest of Sudhana: Entry into the Realm of Reality
Join Roshis Genmitsu and Genki for The Quest of Sudhana: Entry into the Realm of Reality, one of the greatest Quest Stories in world literature.
Beginning Sept. 24, 2022
The Heart “Attack” Sutra
When chanting the Heart Sutra, is the deeper meaning of the words really in your mind? Everything you need to know about Zen is contained in the Heart Sutra.
On-Demand Courses
These courses are offered as recorded, on-demand courses. Registration is open.
On-demand Course
Huineng and the Platform Sutra
This online, on-demand course introduces students to the Platform Sutra, composed sometime between the 8th and 13th centuries in China.
On-demand Course
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," however this is not about being nice, compliant, or passive.
On-demand Course
Living Through Death & Dying
A workshop for super seniors, people with terminal illness and young folks interested in widening their awareness. Roshi Shoko offers a checklist of preparations from a personal and from a legal perspective as crucial parts of a peaceful dying process.
On-demand Course
Blue Cliff Record (Hekiganroku)
The Hekigan-roku or Blue Cliff Record was composed by two of the greatest Zen ancestors, living in China 100 years apart. These “cases” bring us into the lives of these ancestors, showing their interactions with their communities and individual students.
On-demand Course
Introduction to The Zen Garland Way – The Ever Intimate of Zen Practice
Roshi Genki's 14-part video Grand Tour on the foundations to a peaceful, meaningful, ethical and magical entrance to the nondual multiverse.
On-demand Course
How Empty is Emptiness
A video lecture series tracing the evolution of emptiness in Buddhism and the practices of Zen.
Archived Courses
Access to archived courses is provided for students enrolled in the original course. Several of these courses are also offered as recorded, on-demand courses.
November 6, 13, 20, 27
Precision, Courage, and Grace
What do these concepts mean to you? What might they have to offer your life? Big Mind with Zen Focusing can help you discover.
Huineng and the Platform Sutra
This online, on-demand course introduces students to the Platform Sutra, composed sometime between the 8th and 13th centuries in China.
Dream Appreciation and the Awakened Way
Dreams are powerful gifts, which, when related to artfully, will support our emotional growth and unfolding and realization of our embodiment of the Awakened Way.
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," however this is not about being nice, compliant, or passive.
Exploring Vimalkirti
This course looks at the major themes of the Vimalakirti Sutra and challenges participants to apply these ideas in daily life settings.
Dogen’s Shobogenzo: Discussion on Selected Chapters
Meeting the first Monday of each month beginning in April, these workshops will offer discussion around themes presented in a sampling of chapters from Dogen's Shobogenzo.
The Mahayana Vision and its Indian Schools
Workshop on the major themes, figures, and literature of Mahayana Buddhism, the Prajna Paramita Psalms to Groundlessness, the Madhyamika School of Nagarjuna, and the Yogacara School of Vasubandhu and Asanga.
Everyday Tenzo
This four-week course 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.
Morningstar Takes The High Seat Course
The Morning Star Process to realize the deep, personal meanings of “The Real Buddha of Your Own Nature” and apply them to our own practice-oriented lives.
The Ever Intimate of Zen Practice Dokusan-Workshop
Roshi Monika Genmitsu Kahn is offering a free dokusan workshop to accompany the 14 video lectures on Roshi Genki's "Introduction to the Zen Garland Way - The Ever Intimate of Zen Practice."
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