December 18, 2019
Summer 2019
Buddha’s Birthday and Chapin Mill Work Retreat
News Stream
December 15, 2019
Out With the Old, In With–What?
Stepping back to look at the massive national and global changes we’re living through. All bets are off, yet we have Zen practice to help us ride the process and transform crisis into opportunity. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
December 8, 2019
“How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment” #2
December 2019 Sesshin, Day 2
Commentary on Dogen’s How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, with commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.
December 7, 2019
“How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment” #1
December 2019 Sesshin, Day 1
Commentary on Dogen’s How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (trans. by Thomas Wright, with commentary by Uchiyama Roshi) Dharma Talk by Ven. Trueman Taylor.
November 30, 2019
Jukai and the Internet
An overview of today’s ceremony of Receiving the Precepts, with a look at how the Internet adds further challenges in upholding the Ten Cardinal Precepts. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 17, 2019
The Buddhist Precepts in the Context of Environmentalism
With our annual ceremony of Receiving the Precepts (Jukai) coming up, here Roshi applies those precepts to the growing threat of climate change and how we might reduce the harm we are inevitably causing to the environment. Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 14, 2019
Kyosei’s Sound of Raindrops
If there had been some kind of answer that Kyosei could give the monk to truly settle his mind, he might have offered it up. We grow into understanding, purifying ourselves all along the way.
November 14, 2019
The Practice of Science, the Practice of Zen
This is where Buddhism can have an effect on the West: because Buddhism changes culture, and culture changes Buddhism. The metaphors and philosophical traditions in Buddhism offer another way to talk about these questions of physics.
November 9, 2019
Shoyoroku #32, “Yangshan’s ‘Mind and Environment’”
November 2019 Sesshin, Day 7
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
November 8, 2019
“Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui” #3
November 2019 Sesshin, Day 6
Commentary on Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui (trans. by J.C. Cleary) Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.