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Jizo-An Zen Community fosters mindfulness and compassion through Zen practice, offering meditation, Dharma talks, and community engagement to help individuals explore their inner selves and cultivate peace in daily life.

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When we embrace a practice like Zen, we realize how difficult it can be to stay on a path that is so radically different from how we have been conditioned to show up. &nbsp;Deep inside, we know that we are not truly being our authentic selves and we consciously decide to search for something that can lead us to be who we naturally are. This practice is not for our personal development or growth. However, that is something that naturally happens. This practice offers the opportunity to show up in the world the way we are truly meant to, and when we do this, we are transformed and liberated. 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Zen Studies with Gessho Feb 2026

Join us for our Wednesday Evening Zen Studies.This week Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves will offer a Dharma talk on:Samsara and Nibbana - Understanding Our Suffering and Our Happiness As human beings, we all wish for happiness and peace in our lives, and we wish not to suffer. &nbsp;Yet, we experience so much sorrow, discontent, and suffering, and we are often left feeling hopeless or helpless, unable to comprehend this suffering. &nbsp;The Buddha&#39;s teachings are about liberation from suffering. &nbsp;But what does it really mean to be liberated? &nbsp;Perhaps the fundamental obstacle is that we do not really understand our suffering, nor how to truly cultivate happiness. &nbsp;This evening, we will look at suffering, happiness, peace, and liberation - how to see them more clearly. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting, a dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies with Donen Feb 2026

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Sensei Richard Emyo Bizub will share a Dharma talk on:&quot;Hui-Neng - Know Your Mind, See Your True Nature&quot;&nbsp;The Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng, the sixth patriarch of Chinese Zen is one of the most influential texts of Chan Buddhism. &nbsp;According to Hui-Neng, Buddha nature is the true nature of all beings. We therefore don&#39;t need to purify our minds, rather we need to shift our perspective so we can see our true nature. Hui-Neng was an illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment, and who went on to demonstrate the depth and clarity of this insight. His example has demonstrated to generations of Zen students and spiritual seekers that awakening is attainable in this lifetime regardless of education or social standing. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program- Sensei Emyo Feb 2026

Join us for our Wednesday Evening Zen Studies.This week Reverend Richard Daiko Smykla will offer a Dharma talk on:Acknowledging Our Silent Metamorphosis How can we let go of judgments and self-judgments, living only in the present moment? Can we see this moment as sacred, accepting ourselves and others as they are, accepting and letting go of the past? We&#39;re both separate and together, perfect and complete, revealing right here, right now. What are we waiting for? We will examine these questions, these koans together.&nbsp; Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the sutras and a Dharma talk by one of monks.

Zen Studies — Daiko

Join us for our Wednesday Evening Zen Studies.This week Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves will offer a Dharma talk on:An Appropriate Response - Living with Skillful Means. Upaya, or skillful means, is a hallmark of not only Zen practice and training, but of the entirety of the Buddha&#39;s teachings. &nbsp;How do we live skillfully, moment by moment, in a world on fire, a world with so much division, injustice, and strife? &nbsp;The Buddha&#39;s teachings are a prescription for how to liberate ourselves from this pervasive suffering. &nbsp;However, it is not a blanket, one-size-fits-all prescription, but a way of living skillfully with the ever changing circumstances, causes and conditions of life. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting, a dharma talk and discussion.

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM — Donen

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Student Presentation: Zen and the Japanese Garden

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week KEVIN GENJO LEBLANC will share a Dharma talk on:The Hypocrisy Of Desire <p fr-original-style="" id="isPasted" style="background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2); color: rgb(232, 230, 227); margin: 0px; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;">In simple terms: we crave more, different and new. When one learns how to &#39;look&#39; desire is constantly there, knocking and knocking like a sales man who has exactly what you want yet knows you don&#39;t need. This seems to be true whether it&#39;s for more love or more cars or more fear. The reality is that desire creates this constant conflict within us. This is why most humans breathe very shallowly&hellip;like a boa constrictor that&#39;s tight enough to hold you down but not tight enough to cut off the flow of air. The hypocrisy comes to life as we all become so well versed at pretending it&#39;s not so. The white lie is the art of withholding the truth&hellip;while the extreme side of dishonesty has many faces and usually easy to recognize, the subtle forms of dishonesty remain quietly hidden behind a genuine smile or friendly offer. This is not about right and wrong but simply to notice a common flaw of ego&#39;s voice&hellip;it tricks us in 10,00 ways. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program—Genjo

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">This week two of Jizo-an&#39;s students<strong fr-original-style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2); color: rgb(232, 230, 227);">, Nancy &amp; Dan Scheingold<strong fr-original-style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:inherit;" style="font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2); color: rgb(232, 230, 227);">&nbsp;will offer Dharma Talks...<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">Nancy&#39;s presentation is titled Abiding in Emptiness and will explore the Zen sensibility of emptiness. It will attempt to describe what &quot;emptiness&quot; means in lived practice rather than as a philosophical abstraction. In doing so, it will touch on how this perspective informs our understanding of experience and the nature of mind.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> Dan&#39;s talk will focus on Tao and Zen: The Similarities Between Tao, Ch&#39;an and Zen, and will examine the connections between Chan/Zen and Taoism, and how Taoist philosophy might have influenced or seeped into Buddhist philosophy and teachings when it arrived from India to China.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">

Zen Studies--Student Presentations (Dan & Nancy)

Join us for our Wednesday Evening Zen Studies.This week Reverend Richard Daiko Smykla will offer a Dharma talk on:Choosing Gratitude:Our social contract is based on mutual respect and recognition of our common&nbsp;interest. There are those who have become quite adept at pitting ourselves against ourselves; against each other when we are all truly dependent on each other. There are some who find advantage in focusing on superficial differences rather than our profound shared identity. The Eye of the Heart knows better- we all share a common heritage in the earth, the sea and the stars. We must vow to reinvigorate a view of the sacredness in all things if we are to if we are to survive and even thrive in this life. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the sutras and a Dharma talk by one of monks.

Zen Studies with Daiko

Join us for our Wednesday Evening Zen Studies.This week Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves will offer a Dharma talk on:THE CHANGING CHORDS IN THE FLOWING RHYTHM OF LIFE..Much like creating music, life is of the nature of change and flow. Just as chord changes and progressions constantly create and re-create the flowing rhythms of music, life too unfolds and is constantly in processes according to the ever changing nature of life&#39;s flowing rhythms. When we wrestle against that unfolding flow, then life, like music, becomes stagnant and its natural evolution and creativities are diminished within us. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Dai Segaki and reading the names of the deceased.

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM—Donen

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- with Donen

DAI SEGAKIJoin us for a special ceremony honoring the deceased and all those suffering in the realm of the Hungry Ghost. Bodhicitta is the raising of the heart and mind to all sentient beings of the past, present and future and it is accomplished through several practices; chanting being one of them. Chantings purpose is less about the words and meanings, then it is about the raising of the heart and mind...and so our voices become a vessel through time and space. Imagine if every human, at the same time sang together for all those who suffer to be released!!!please join the monks of Jizo-an for this beautiful ceremony Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Dai Segaki and reading the names of the deceased.

Dai Segaki- Ceremony for the Deceased and those suffering in the realm of the Hungry Ghosts

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Denise Kyosei&nbsp; will share a Dharma talk on:&quot;Leave no Trace&quot; <div dir="auto" fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" id="isPasted" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;">To &ldquo;Leave No Trace&rdquo; refers to an ideal of effortless, spontaneous activity that is completely absorbed in the present moment. The action is fully and completely expended, leaving nothing behind to cling to. Dogen described this process as a continuous, endless stream of &quot;no-trace,&quot; signifying a life of complete, selfless engagement.&nbsp;To &ldquo;leave no trace&rdquo; is not to erase ourselves, but to release our attachment to needing to be remembered, validated, or praised. It is to act purely, without clinging to outcome. It is to serve, to love, to walk through this life without demanding that the world bow to our ego.</div> Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program- Kyosei

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week KEVIN GENJO LEBLANC will share a Dharma talk on:The Lankavatara Sutra- The Form and Formless &quot;You are Buddha, you are perfect and complete&quot;. Most of us would vehemently disagree... for good reason too. We spend lifetimes unconsciously creating phantasy&#39;s about who we think we are. Just like if you took a dog and trained it to be a killer, there would be no surprise if that were to actually occur. But the dog&#39;s true essence is not a killer. We too have &#39;trained&#39; ourselves to see life through certain filters and so our actions turn out to be direct responses to the distorted lens that we unconsciously created. To understand this, one simply needs a new way of looking. Zazen was created for this exact purpose...it is the ability to recognize the formlessness in the form.Right here, right now, a mental formation...does it contain anything at all? Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program- Genjo

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Sensei Richard Emyo Bizub will share a Dharma talk on:&quot;Becoming the Mountains and Rivers&quot;&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; float: none; display: inline !important;" id="isPasted" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">Eihei Dogen, the great master of Soto Zen taught that when we know something intimately, it ceases to exist in the old way and as a result, so do we. Dogen was a lover of nature. He built his monastery deep in the mountains near streams. In the Mountains and Rivers Sutra he wrote about the mountains and rivers, the wind and clouds, as direct expressions of the great body of the Buddha, the whole earth body as well as your body, and my body. These mountains and rivers of the present are the manifestation of the way of the buddhas and ancient sages. Each abides in its own, dharma state, exhaustively fulfilling its virtues. What Dogen is pointing to is the immediate, non-dual experience of our lives using the language of our natural world.&nbsp; Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program- Sensei Emyo

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Richard Daiko Smykla will share a Dharma talk on:&nbsp;&quot;The Wisdom of Zen Master Shitou&quot; What does it mean to practice the Noble Eightfold Path&#39;s &#39;Right View&#39;? How do we walk the Buddha&#39;s teaching of the Middle Way?&nbsp;Master Shitou shared his deep insight into these questions with two profound poems that became the foundation of the Soto Zen School: The &#39;Sandokai&#39; and the &#39;Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage&#39;A look into maintaining this life of balancing the Absolute and the Relative, not two. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program with Daiko

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Orlando Donen Nieves will share a Dharma talk on:&nbsp;&quot;Herding the Ox- Maturing on the Path of Practice&quot; How does one practice without attachments to goals or gaining anything? Zen does not place an emphasis on advancing through stages or expectations of achieving anything, but when one embraces this path wholeheartedly, we mature as a result of the open heart.&nbsp;Unobstructed, the primordial mind naturally sees the Way. The Ten Ox Herding Pictures poetically captures this transformation of mind to heart as we travel along this path. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program with Donen

Join us for our monthly Zen Studies Program...This week Sensei Richard Emyo Bizub will share a Dharma talk on:&nbsp;&quot;The Great Zen Masters- &quot;Animals&quot; &quot;From a Zen perspective, animals teach profound spiritual and philosophical lessons like living fully in the present moment, unconditional love, natural joy, letting go of past hurts and the wisdom of rest.&nbsp;Through their honest communication and mindful presence, they encourage us to be more patient, compassionate and to find peace through letting go and existing in the present moment. In addition, confronting the suffering of animals enables us to develop renunciation and Bodhichitta, so that we are ever more strongly motivated to train in all the Buddhist vows that will lead to lasting mental freedom for our sake and sake of all beings. Our evening begins with seated meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) followed by chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma talk and discussion.

Zen Studies Program with Sensei Emyo

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Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;">&nbsp;join:<p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;"> Kevin Genjo LeBlanc for a discussion on-&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: inherit;">Specters in poem, entangled in rhymes. Zen Poetry <span fr-original-style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; box-sizing: inherit;">For those touched by awakening, the complexities of existence allow for words to be molded like clay&hellip; and so poetry lends itself to the wonderful mysteries of what lies beyond the temporal and transitory&hellip;not allowing the reader to fully put their finger on it, for it would just be another case of the finger pointing at the moon. Each time the Dharma is composed into intellectual and coherent vocabulary, it wrangles the reader into a fury of grasping at concepts and the tangible world. Poetry on the other hand, invites curiosity and depth as well as an openness that allows room to breathe. 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Zen Studies with Genjo

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;">&nbsp;join:<p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;"> Orlando Donen Nieves for a discussion on-&nbsp;The Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers- A Framework for responding skillfully in a divisive world.In 1994, the late American Zen master, Roshi, Bernie Glassman founded the Zen peacemakers; an organization of practitioners and teachers that has grown globally. He also established the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers, a path of practice to relieve the suffering of all beings through contemplative social action. Those three tenants &ndash; Not Knowing, Bearing Witness and Compassionate Action are a framework to work towards a more compassionate and enlightened society a wounded world that appears so divided and in need of healing. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; 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Zen Studies with Donen

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;">&nbsp;join:<p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;"> Betsy Fujin Nieves for a discussion on-&nbsp;The Significance of Taking Refuge-&nbsp;When we begin walking this path, we start the process of taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha. Then, we may come to the realization that we are ready to take formal refuge as we experience the &nbsp;transformation that naturally happens when we make the genuine commitment to fully embrace this way of being in the world. Let&#39;s explore the meaning of the powerful statement and action of taking refuge Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; 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font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;'> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; 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color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;"> <p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; 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Zen Studies with Gessho

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">&nbsp;joinREVEREND RICHARD DAIKO SMYKLA&nbsp; for one of our monthly Dharma talks... Eight Qualities of an Awakened Life...First, the Buddha, and then Dogen Zenji, in their final lessons to us, described eight qualities to guide us as Bodhisattvas in training. These eight are necessary to develop if we are to become true adults and to step past the un-resolved, erratic emotions that continue in the unconscious mind, so that we may actualize the Buddha field in our everyday life. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);'> <p fr-original-style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;" style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; 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font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3; 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Zen Studies with Daiko – July 2025

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">&nbsp;joinREVEREND ORLANDO DONEN NIEVES for one of our monthly Dharma talks... Poison or Antidote&mdash;The Kleshas (Poisons) Are They Just Foes, Or Friends?In Buddhism, the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance are regarded as mental, afflictions, that cloud the mind, and are the root cause of our suffering and discontentment. Our conditioned reaction is to see these poisons simply as enemies that must be avoided or eliminated. But, what if we see them as our teachers and the very springboard to insight and awakening?Learning to see these poisons within ourselves, to embrace them and work with them and to ultimately transfer them into understanding and wisdom, is at the heart of the Buddha&#39;s teaching. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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Zen Studies with Donen — July 2025

<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(15, 14, 91); -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);"> <p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">This week<strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">&nbsp;Sensei Richard Emyo BIzub&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: <strong data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); --noir-inline-color: #9cbaf0; background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2);">&nbsp;Bowing: The Expression of the Physical and Spiritual Laws of the Universe<div fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(17, 21, 23); border-color: rgba(140, 130, 115, 0.2); color: rgb(232, 230, 227); width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div>In Zen we do a lot of bowing. But there is so much more to a bow than just bending. Bowing is a practice of gratitude and non-duality. It is a physical expression of the Buddha&#39;s teaching. The dropping away of the ego and its myriad attachments. A bow represents the merging of heart and mind, compassion and wisdom. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p data-noir-inline-color="" fr-original-style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); --noir-inline-color: #e8e6e3;' style='margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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Zen Studies with Sensei - July 2025

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">This week&nbsp;Reverend Kevin Genjo LeBlanc&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: &nbsp;THERE IS BUT ONE REALITY WITH TWO POSSIBILITIES....<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> These two possibilities are relative and absolute or if you like, awareness and ignorance&hellip;the point of speaking about the one reality is to help an individual pull himself out of the one-sided relative reality that 99% of us live in&mdash;me and you.Like everything in life, this requires balance, diligence, and effort. just as a seesaw works best when the two weights are similar, our lives find balance when we live in a way that brings harmony to the world around us. So, awareness has the ability to recognize the stories that keep relative beliefs alive, and in that process absolute reality becomes more and more apparent.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;" 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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;"> <p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;" style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 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Zen Studies with Genjo — June 2025

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">This week&nbsp;Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: &nbsp;EFFORTLESS EFFORT - THE DHARMA GATE OF EASE AND JOY....<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> We have largely been conditioned to believe that we need to constantly push ourselves very hard and make strenuous efforts to attain, achieve, or become this or that. &nbsp;We often bring this same mentality to our spiritual practice, believing that we must make strenuous efforts to awaken and realize our true nature. Dogen Zenji described practice as the dharma gate of ease and joy. &nbsp;He emphasized diligent and wholehearted effort, just sitting, not trying to become or attain anything. &nbsp;In Zen, this is often referred to as wise effort or effortless effort. &nbsp;We will examine this dharma gate of ease and joy. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;" 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Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;" style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">

Zen Studies with Donen — June 2025

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;">This week&nbsp;Sensei Richard Emyo BIzub&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: &nbsp;GREAT DETERMINATION - There is No APP for This!...<div fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div><p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">There is a frequently quoted Zen saying - Seven times knocked down, eight times get up - that speaks to a core aspect of practice and training: namely, the cultivation of unflagging perseverance, even in the midst of the most difficult circumstances. The dharma points to the essential nature of great determination on the spiritual path because it recognizes the necessity for deep resolve in our ever changing lives and surroundings.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;" 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Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);'> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;" style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 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Zen Studies with Sensei — June 2025

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">This week&nbsp;Reverend Richard Daiko Smykla&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: &nbsp;BREATHING INTO SILENCE<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> Attending to the breath is the simplest of instructions for marshaling our attention into the current moment. Yet we tend to fall back again and again into thinking about, musing, judging and projecting our wants and needs upon our experience of it. Fortunately we can train the mind with a simple hint to maintain our focus and deepen our practice of zazen &mdash; stealing our attention back from the wandering mind and into the silent source of being. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New 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Zen Studies Program — Daiko

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">This week&nbsp;Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk: &nbsp;EMBRACING GREAT DOUBT WITH GREAT FAITH...<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> For many traditional religions, doubt is often seen as a weakness, a lack of faith, or the very antithesis of faith. &nbsp;Seen in this way, mere belief can harden into unquestioned dogma or doctrine. &nbsp;However, in Buddhism, and perhaps especially in Zen, Great Doubt is one of the foundations of practice, and is interconnected and inseparable from Great Faith. &nbsp; The great Zen Master Boshan taught that unlike the hindrance of skeptical doubt, we must always arouse Great Doubt in our practice, for it holds our continuous practice upright and awakens our sense of wonder. &nbsp;We will look at the significance of Great Doubt in our life, and its interconnectedness with Great Faith, not as dogma or doctrine, but as a living and unfolding experience. Join us for an evening of Zazen, (seated meditation) Kinhin (walking mediation) chanting of the Sutras and a Dharma discussion...both in-person and online.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New 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91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;" style="color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;"> <p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 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Zen Studies Program — Donen

<p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.<p fr-original-style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;" style="width: 100%; margin: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text; line-height: 1.5;">This week<strong fr-original-style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit;" style="color: rgb(15, 14, 91); font-weight: 700; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text;">&nbsp;Sensei Richard Emyo BIzub&nbsp;will offer a Dharma Talk:&nbsp;&nbsp;WAR, WISDOM AND COMPASSION<div fr-original-style="" style="width: 100%; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-user-drag: auto; -webkit-user-select: text;"> </div><p fr-original-style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;" style="width:100%;margin:0px;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(15, 14, 91);-webkit-user-drag:auto;-webkit-user-select:text;line-height:1.5;">It&#39;s been 50 years since the fall of Saigon, the moment that ended the Vietnam War. The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, signaled the end of South Vietnam. In the chaos leading up to that day, hundreds of thousands fled, many by sea, in search of safety and a future. The total loss of human life from the war is staggering. According to the Buddha, the mind is the source of all actions. It is most dangerous when we believe that our way is the only way for humankind. If we see deeply into the fact that all beings are interconnected, we will stop blaming, arguing, and killing. To practice nonviolence, we first need to create true harmony within ourselves.<p fr-original-style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);' style='margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New 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Zen Studies Program with Sensei

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week two of Jizo-an's students, John Johnson and Peter Jasko will offer a Dharma Talk... <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">John Johnson's talk:<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Kodo Sawaki: Zen Buddhism's Lone Wolf <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Often called “Homeless Kodo” due to his steadfast desire to not permanently affiliate with one temple and for his preference for traveling alone, his story is one of hardship and redemption. Orphaned at a young age and resigned to work in gambling dens, he found his way to the Dharma’s endless gates. While he lacked tact, his teachings quietly influenced many seekers and paved the way for laypersons to understand and receive the Dharma’s profound beauty. He sought to sit and only sit. There is nothing to gain, and nothing to fear.   <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Peter Jasko's talk:<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">"Buddha Nature" Where is it?<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">Awakening is the process of stepping back...The Buddha's quintessential question he confronted was Who Am I? When we contemplate this question, all of the definitions arise of who I've been, what I've been, which is not, who I am. This is the backwards step as Master Dogen described; unveiling the masked marauder.<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">If your able to "go back" mentally and imagine your life before the conditioned state, you'll see there was a freedom; but just like a stone is easily covered over by a sandstorm, with faith, maybe we can remember the stone never disappeared just misplaced.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Zen Studies--Student Presentation

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Kevin Genjo LeBlanc will offer a Dharma Talk:  Ambition vs. Passion Conditioned by a world that strives to "win", it's not easy to see how this sense of 'I must become something or someone' is the underlying cause of suffering. For many reasons, it's rare for us humans to recognize that what we are, at any given moment, is enough...and so ambition becomes the con-man for the ego...the dog chasing it's tail. If you can step back (or out) of the clouds of the one illusion, you may get a glimpse that even when you succeed at what ever your striving after, there is also this sense of "not enough" behind it. This is discontentment or if you like, suffering.Passion on the other hand expects nothing in return...it see's the whole process as the reward as well as the understanding that the skill in which one acquires has very little to do with them anyway. That's the gift. You simply return the favor by illuminating it which ever direction you walk.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Zen Studies Program with Genjo

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Sensei Richard Emyo BIzub will offer a Dharma Talk:  A WONDER FILLED WORLD <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">At their core, mystics and sages, regardless of their religion, ask the same fundamental questions: What is this life? What is Truth? Who am I? Who is God? Although the language of Buddhism frames the question in terms of the nature of reality, Buddhists share the same heart of inquiry as Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Sufi mystics. Our existence is a summons, to the eternal journey of the mystic ---the mystic we all are. Buddhism teaches that union with Reality is available to us right where we stand, accessible through our own minds right here, right now. Wonder is the essential ingredient in the life of a mystic.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week  Denise Kyosei Alvarez will offer a Dharma Talk: THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS (The Satipatthana Sutta) “There is, monks, this way that leads only to the purification of beings, to the overcoming of sorrow and distress, to the disappearance of pain and sadness, to the gaining of the right path, to the realization of Nirvana – that is to say the four foundations of mindfulness”.  These are the opening words of the Buddha’s discourse on mindfulness in the Satipatthana Sutta.  We will examine the Buddha’s instructions relating to the seventh practice of the Noble Eightfold Path, Right Mindfulness.  These instructions for meditations exploring the experience of our bodies, feelings, states of mind and objects of mind lead us toward the attainment of liberation and the complete end of suffering.<p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Zen Studies Program with Kyosei

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Kevin Genjo LeBlanc will offer a Dharma Talk:  KNOWING A BETTER WAY TO CATCH A SNAKE This sutra is a wonderful example of how easy it is to misunderstand teachings of the Buddhadharma. The sutra recounts a story of one of the monks Arittha who lived in the Anathapindika Monastery in the Jeta Park with the Buddha...Arittha was heard by his brothers that 'sense pleasures were not an obstacle to the practice' and which of course went contrary to the teaching of the Buddha. The monk, in his refusal to admit that he was wrong continued to spread this message wherever he went. The point to this sutra is that, not only is it easy to misunderstand the Buddha's 'word' but also the spirit of such teachings and in doing so actually bring harm to oneself and others... the Buddha uses a metaphor of knowing how to properly catch a snake and intrigues us with a very deep and intricate teaching about the six 'wrong' perceptions.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves will offer a Dharma Talk:  MAINTAINING BALANCE- THE MIDDLE WAY The Buddha's teaching of the middle way or middle path, is the very thing that set Buddhism apart from other religions and is also common to all the schools of Buddhism. Like so many of the Buddhist teachings the understanding of the middle way has evolved over more than 2500 years with new insights and understandings emerging. We will consider the two most important figures who sought to articulate the teachings of 'emptiness' that underlie all of the Mayahana texts– the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni and the great Indian monk and philosopher Nagarjuna.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Sensei Emyo will offer a Dharma Talk: THE 'GREAT WAY' BY MASTER SENG TS'AN <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">"The Great Way is not difficult, it only avoids picking and choosing" These are the words of the Third Patriarch of Chan; Seng Ts'an. This phrase is perhaps the greatest single-sentence summary of Zen practice. In other words, if we transcend all preferences, distinctions, and opinions or dualistic views, the true nature of reality is revealed and "everything becomes clear and undisguised." However, the mind experienced by us in daily life is not the True mind; it seems as though the <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit">distinctions, and opinions become like<span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; float: none; display: inline !important;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;caret-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;float:none;display:inline !important;box-sizing:inherit"> 'films' that we project onto the world and because of this it has become very difficult for us to see reality...or in the words of Suzuki Roshi "things as it is"To experience each moment without the 'film' that blurs our reality we must learn to recognize the film even exists...this is discovered through samadhi meditation.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Kevin Genjo LeBlanc will offer a Dharma Talk: A LOOK INTO AN EMPTY MIRROR For thousands of years now, and probably more, a handful of humans have come to an inner crossroads that forced them to look at life from a new place... and so, all of the spiritual traditions and practices slowly emerged from the experiences some of them had.This is wonderful, because a map was left for all those who wish to travel the road of the unknown...and, it is also a problem. For it is so easy for us to become like monkeys imitating to one another about the spiritual principles.Of course for most of us, we need teachers and guides, but so often, we hang on to them so tightly that they become another crutch.Chogyam Trungpa called this the hard way...letting go...like removing your own skin.To stand in the mirror with no mask; a temporary reflection of a temporary face.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Zen Studies Program — Genjo

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Student talks are occasionally offered on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week, students Barbara and Zach will present informal talks: <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Barbara: Shinto, Buddhism and Shinbutso-shugo in Japan Shinto is the indigenous faith of Japan with origins reaching back to the Paleolithic era. When Buddhism came to Japan, a blending of the two faiths began. This unique merger came to be called Shinbutso-shugo. All three practices still play important roles in Japanese culture today.<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Zach: Chado: Zen and the Art of Japanese Tea CeremonyTea was brought to Japan by a Buddhist monk returning from China, and was first used as a way to help monks stay awake during long hours of meditation. As it spread through wider Japanese society, it took on new meanings but retained its link to Zen. A 16th century Zen monk named Sen no Rikyū was largely responsible for elevating the tea ceremony into a formal art form, and to this day the Grand Tea Master of the Urasenke School of Tea is traditionally trained to be a Zen monk as well.

Zen Studies Program - Barbara and Zach Student Presentations

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Sensei Emyo will offer a Dharma Talk: THE VIRTUES OF HUMILITY Humility, the feeling that we all share common ground – feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. Central to our practice is the phrase. I don't know which permeates every aspect of Zen. It stands as a powerful symbol of humility and openness. It's an acknowledgment of the inherent limitations of our understanding, a conscious, letting go of certainty, and an embracing of the profound mystery that characterizes our existence. <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Kevin Genjo LeBlanc will offer a Dharma Talk: The age of disintegration- Taking the Three Refuges The lines of reality have always been blurred by the fantastic hallucinations and desires of the mind...this is at the core of the Buddha's teachings- The 'mind made reality' and Reality are very different. In the last 200 years or so, man continues to make impacts on the earth and the psyche of future generations that propel us faster and faster into a state of believing that more and more stuff will bring true happiness...stimulate me!!! Because of that, we see more hyper sensitivity, more anger, more division, more desire and less compassion, community and joy.Though the times may be different than that of Siddhartha, the mental states are the same. We all get stuck.The Buddha way is a means of returning to what is important and how to BE that in life.The Three Refuges encompass that...they show us how to live in a way that respects ALL life; How to learn from All experiences and how to share that in ALL our activities.I vow to take refuge in the BuddhaI vow to take refuge in the DharmaI vow to take refuge in the Sangha <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- The age of disintegration- Taking the Three Refuges

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Reverend Orlando Donen Nieves will offer a Dharma Talk: Silent Illumination and Sesshin- Shining the Light Ancient Chan Masters, referred to this practice of just sitting, and just looking as Silent Illumination. In the Japanese Soto Zen tradition, it is known as Shikantaza, the foundation of Zen practice. Sesshin is one of the most powerful and profound experiences in Zen practice. It is a gathering of the heart/mind in sacred silence, taking the backwards step and turning your light inward. It is the very heart of Silent Illumination, or Shikantaza. Shining the light of awareness on our delusions, our conditioning, and our habitual patterns of thinking, we can begin to see ourselves more clearly, and transcend these vexations of the mind. <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">

Zen Studies- Silent Illumination and Sesshin- Shining the Light

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week The Monks of Jizo-an will offer a ceremony called Segaki <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">Segaki is an offering and remembrance to the Buddha Ancestors as well as those who have recently passed and especially those with an unfortunate life/death. The hungry ghost symbolizes an aspect of suffering experienced by so many humans. From its mildest form of dissatisfaction and confusion, to the extremes of living a 'hell on earth'. When one suffers, the natural desire or craving arises to be free from suffering...and so we seek 'things' in the world as an anecdote...unfortunately this only enhances our suffering because those 'things' are temporary.<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">Through the act of chanting and offerings, this specific prayer, its purpose is to relieve the suffering of the Hunger Ghost, whether the hungry ghost is still alive or has passed on and that our Buddha Ancestors help them through the transitions in life and death.<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal"> <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">If you would like to add a name to the list we read aloud during the ceremony, please email us with the name as you would it like to be read.<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">

Ceremony for the Deceased- Feeding Hungry Ghosts...Segaki

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Sensei Emyo will offer a Dharma talk on: The Teachings of Hui-neng <p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-position:normal;font-variant-emoji:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;font-optical-sizing:auto;font-variation-settings:normal">The Platform Sutra of Hui- Neng, the sixth patriarch of Chinese Zen (chan) is one of the most influential texts of Chan Buddhism. Hui-Neng was an illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment, and who went on to demonstrate the depth and clarity of his insight. This 'jungle dog' the uncultured southerner, Hui- Neng, validated to generations of Zen students and spiritual seekers that awakening is attainable, regardless of education or social standing and is possible in this lifetime.

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- Sensei Emyo

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week Rev. ORLANDO DONEN NIEVES will offer a talk on: Practice Your Life- Your Practice Matters! Practice, like all our actions, ripples out into the world. We may not always realize the benefits of our practice, or the merit of our efforts and its impact, but our practice matters. Zen Master Dogen taught that there is no separation between practice and our daily life and activities. Thus, our daily efforts become the activity of all Buddhas- past, present and future. Practice and living an awakened life, or not two! This is what Master Dogen meant by "a Buddha doing his/her practice."

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- Rev. Orlando Donen Nieves

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week our Novice Monks, Gessho and Kyosei will offer a short Dharma talk on: 'Manjushri - The Bodhisattva of Wisdom' and 'Mandalas' Gessho: <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px;" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18px;box-sizing:inherit">Manjushri is the Bodhisattva that represents clear seeing and wisdom. How challenging is to SEE things as they are? Is it possible for us, humans, to access this wisdom that resides in each of us? Learning about Manjushri can help us dig a little bit into how to cultivate wisdom and perhaps rely on this bodhisattva as a vehicle for reaching into our innate wisdom. His mantra can be a wonderful instrument to access our ability to see clearly, understand our true nature, and the emptiness of self-nature.  Kyosei: <span fr-original-style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(2, 27, 38);" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(2, 27, 38);box-sizing:inherit">The beautiful art form of mandalas – from their origins in the first century BCE in India to the modern-day sand mandalas created by Tibetan Buddhist monks, these wonderful creations bring about wonder and a deeper 'pointing' towards practice.  The uses of mandalas in meditation practice and as instruments of healing will also be explored.  The various forms of mandalas and the symbolism contained in these intricate works of art can be a great inspiration to all practitioners.

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- Gessho and Kyosei

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week REV. Richard Daiko Smykla will offer a Dharma talk on: FOR THE TIME BEING We can think of a 'being' as a noun, describing an individual (as in the expression all sentient beings) Or, we can think of being as a verb describing an experience (as in being somebody) So when we hear the expression "for the time being" what do you hear? Are we speaking about a person in the context of time or simply the period of time that we inhabit temporarily in what we call 'now'? Zen Master Dogen says that time itself is being, and all being is time. Furthermore, he teaches that the self is time, and that the time being is all the time there is! So now we examine.

ZEN STUDIES PROGRAM- Rev. Richard Daiko Smykla

Our monthly Dharma discussions are always preceded by silent meditation (Zazen) and walking meditation (Kinhin) as well as chanting of the Sutras. Each week a senior monk will offer a Dharma talk on a wide variety of Buddhist topics.This week REV. ORLANDO DONEN NIEVES will offer a Dharma talk on: THE METTA SUTTA- MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER During these dark and challenging times that we're all experiencing, what is perhaps most needed in our lives is simple loving-kindness and compassion. This builds community and resilience, transforming ignorance and separation. His Holiness, the Dalai Lama has often said that his religion is simple loving-kindness. Perhaps more relevant now than ever before, the Metta Sutta can be the antidote for us humans, shrouded in obsession and anger...for each of us holds a candle within our hearts that can be re-lit. The Buddha said "To straighten the crooked, you must first do a harder thing, straighten yourself"

Join Sensei Emyo for our Zen Studies Program, an evening of zazen, walking meditation, chanting, and Dharma teaching grounded in everyday life. Together we&rsquo;ll explore how Zen practice supports mindfulness, compassion, and clear seeing. 🪷 Your registration helps us prepare the zendo, texts, and quiet space we share as a community. All levels of experience are welcome&mdash;whether you&rsquo;re taking a first step in practice or deepening a long‑held commitment. 🕯️

Zen Studies Program- Sensei Emyo Mar 2026

Zen Studies: Genjo &ndash; March 2026 invites you into quiet practice and direct study of how the Dharma shows up in everyday life. Together we sit in Zazen, walk in Kinhin, and chant Sutras, grounding Zen teachings in this present moment. 🪷 This session is guided by Jizo-An Zen Community&rsquo;s commitment to mindfulness, compassion, and shared inquiry. By registering, you support a practice space where meditation, honest reflection, and community engagement grow side by side. 🕯️

Zen Studies Mar 2026—Genjo

Zen Studies with Donen offers an evening of Zazen, Kinhin, and shared reflection on the teachings of Zen. Together we&rsquo;ll sit in silence, listen, and explore how practice meets everyday life. 🪷 This session supports our community&rsquo;s commitment to mindfulness, compassion, and steady, grounded practice. All levels are welcome&mdash;whether you&rsquo;re new to Zen or returning to deepen your study.

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