September 19, 2021
Letting Go of Fear-Based Strategies
To one degree or another, we allow habitual reactions to pain and anxiety to limit our lives. Zen practice shows us another way.
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September 16, 2021
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Last Sunday’s Teisho If you attended last Sunday morning’s sitting online (via Zoom or the Center’s audio-livestream), you know that Roshi’s teisho did not broadcast. You can now listen to it here: Recognizing the Inevitable. As a result of recent technology mishaps, we’re taking extra measures to ensure that teisho and other talks will broadcast…
September 12, 2021
Recognizing the Inevitable
Teisho by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede.
Like individuals, all nations and worlds pass. By fully facing this, with daily practice we can breathe life and even joy into our lives.
September 10, 2021
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September 7-day Sesshin (September 24 – October 1) The Zen Center’s COVID-19 Task Force met yesterday to weigh the risk-benefit considerations regarding the upcoming hybrid September 7-day sesshin. Good news: Sesshin will indeed take place in-person at Chapin Mill (as well as on Zoom). For it to occur in person, which includes the participants travelling…
August 24, 2021
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Center Closing for Break No formal sittings at the Center or Chapin Mill, starting tomorrow, Wednesday, August 25, but the regular schedule of Zoom sittings will continue. Here is the schedule. For tonight’s sitting (7:00 – 8:30), Roshi will give dokusan in place of Sensei, who is currently on vacation. We resume Wednesday morning, September…
August 22, 2021
Sangha Programs Launching Two New Groups
The Sangha Programs Office team is delighted to announce that they will be launching two new online groups in mid-September. Monthly Dharma Reflections One program is Dharma Reflections, taking place the second Sunday of each month from 1:00 to 2:15pm Eastern on Zoom, beginning September 12, 2021. Longtime RZC member and practitioner Larry McSpadden will…
August 20, 2021
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Sanctioning Ceremony: A Few More Details Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, August 21) at 2 p.m., Roshi will officially sanction John Pulleyn as a Zen teacher. The ceremony will take place in the zendo at Chapin Mill. Since COVID-19 transmission is still a concern, we’re asking that attendees be fully vaccinated and masked. During chanting, only Roshi,…
August 16, 2021
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COVID Update: In-person Teisho Will Proceed on Sunday, August 15 We are pleased and relieved that so far all COVID-19 tests for people potentially exposed during the workshop last weekend have come back negative. We are going to go ahead with Sensei’s teisho in the Arnold Park zendo tomorrow. A reminder: We now require that…
August 15, 2021
Anatta: The Teaching of Not-Self
Teisho by Sensei John Pulleyn. Automated transcript
August 10, 2021
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COVID-19 Update – Dokusan This Week Since Roshi was one of those exposed to the resident who tested positive on Saturday afternoon, he is self-isolating and, like some others on staff who were at the workshop on Saturday, will not attend sittings at the Center this week. In other news, Angela Stewart, Roshi’s wife, was…