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Podcast AudioThe post Dharma talk by JoAn Sensei, “Put a Sandal on Your Head” first appeared on The Village Zendo.
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The post Dharma talk by Fugan Sensei, “Listening to the World Is Healing the World” first appeared on The Village Zendo.
Podcast AudioThe post Dharma talk by Enkyo Roshi, “The Cracked Mirror: An Appreciation of Dr. King” first appeared on The Village Zendo.
Ever since long-time editor of the Bulletin Nina Shuka Klippel came up with the wonderful idea to have Sangha members write about practicing from afar, I’ve been thinking about distance, separation, longing. (A romantic at heart, the quote above from the poet Robert Hass has always been one of my favorites). But in a practice that is, at least in part, about closing distances and finding a way to not separate—what does it mean to practice from a physical distance? And is separation just an illusion? After all, I know from experience you can be sitting in the Zendo itself and be distant from it—mind three thousand miles away. And it’s clear from reading the moving personal reflections offered below that you can be in an entirely different country and yet be fully present, right there in the Zendo, intimately connected with your fellow Sangha members.
The post October 2022 first appeared on The Village Zendo.
Summer was a season for empowerments at the Village Zendo, with five longtime practitioners receiving Dharma Transmission and some becoming newly entitled to give the Buddhist precepts. The Dharma Transmission and Preceptor ceremonies took place at the VZ’s summer ango retreat at Wisdom House in Litchfield, Connecticut. On July 29, Jeremy Tokuyu Manasia and Allan […]
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This Tuesday, January 11, 2022, Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, our beloved founder, teacher, and Abbot, will celebrate her 80th birthday. For over 35 years Roshi Enkyo, with her partner and co-founder, Roshi Barbara Joshin O’Hara, has inspired and guided the Village Zendo community. Roshi Enkyo is known for her compassionate, down-to-earth, practical teaching, her deep insight, […]
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The VZ Executive Committee is excited to announce that the Village Zendo will be moving to a new practice space in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. The move will take place in mid-December, and the Zendo will reopen in its new location in January. The Village Zendo’s new home, at 260 West Broadway, has been […]
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The post Talk by Shinryu Roshi “The Precepts Writ Small” first appeared on The Village Zendo.
Exploring case 43 of the Book of Serenity, Soten explores experiences of impermanence of material existence and how deepening Zen practice can reveal them. Can a leopard change its spots? You bet! Find out how!
The post Talk by Soten “Arising and Vanishing”: The Way (of the World) first appeared on The Village Zendo.
To Write or Not to Write–Workshop offered by Dr. Steven Heine at the Village Zendo’s online zendo on October 10, 2020 Although it is “a special transmission outside the scriptures,” Zen is well known for its voluminous writings, and especially poetry composed during the 11th to the 14th centuries in China and Japan. According to […]
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To Write or Not to Write–Workshop offered by Dr. Steven Heine at the Village Zendo’s online zendo on October 10, 2020 – Part 1 Although it is “a special transmission outside the scriptures,” Zen is well known for its voluminous writings, and especially poetry composed during the 11th to the 14th centuries in China and […]
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In her talk, “Self as City,” Senior Student Sal Gessho Randolph inquires into how we experience ourselves as everything around us changes. She speaks about self and place in light of case nine of the Blue Cliff Record, “Chao Chou’s Four Gates.” Recorded by Video May 17, 2020. Audio only podcast version here:
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You can work with fear, so long as you remember who you are and your intention to practice. Panic, however, obliterates you. It leaves you naked and alone in the dark. This talk offers two methods to prevent fear from growing into panic. Recorded January 23, 2020.
The post Talk by Jiryu “How Not to Panic” first appeared on The Village Zendo.
In this talk Senior Student Musho enters Case 36 from the Blue Cliff Record “Ch’ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains.” There he makes a case for wandering and noticing the subtle changes all around us. Recorded November 14, 2019.
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