Ryokan was an eccentric 18th-century enlightened Zen  hermit-monk who is still beloved in Japan for his poetry. In this collection of his verses, One Robe, One Bowl, he captures both the beauty and pathos of human life, and like his younger contemporary Thoreau, the wonders of nature. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 3
Commentary on Catching a Feather on a Fan: A Zen Retreat With Master Sheng Yen, by John Crook Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

December 2018 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha’s Teachings, by Ajahn Chah Dharma Talk by John Pulleyn.

A non-Buddhist comes to awakening before the Buddha, sitting in silence, while his longtime disciple Ananda, standing in attendance, remains dumbfounded. How notions of identity can bind us. Who awakens? No one! Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

The ceremony of Jukai (Taking the Precepts) is basically an initiation into the Dharma. To be a Buddhist is to commit to aligning oneself with what is real–direct experience, not thoughts. It is to see things as they are in order to be with things as they are. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 6
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 5
Commentary on Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.

November 2018 Sesshin, Day 4
Commentary on Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu (trans. J.C. & T. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.