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February 2019
Bearing Witness Study Group
In honor of Zen Peacemaker Founder Bernie Glassman Roshi who died recently, Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community will dedicate our winter study group to his book, Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Peacemaking. In it Bernie offers powerful teaching stories that illustrate ways of making…
Find out more »Day of Reflection February 23
Please join us for our February Day of Reflection, in which we invite the community to spend the day with us in service, sangha, and reflection. This day will be a Zen Peacemaker tradition that integrates practice, contemplation, service and community. The day will…
Find out more »Dharma talk: Joshin Byrnes
Wednesday February 27, Joshin will give a dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm. Joshin Byrnes is the guiding teacher of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. Joshin is a student of Upaya's founder, abbot, and guiding teacher, Roshi…
Find out more »March 2019
Ease and Joy of Mornings
Ease and Joy is a quiet morning designed to introduce you to the art of zazen, which is the word we use for Zen meditation. It is an ideal entryway for beginners, intermediate or long-time meditators who want a refresher course on this “dharma…
Find out more »Precepts Study Group
Precepts and Lay Ordination (Jukai) Join our online precepts study group, facilitated by Petra Zenryū Hubbeling on Zoom. Our weekly classes will be one hour long, beginning at 4:30pm Eastern time on March 31 and ending on May 19 (except April 21). Anyone interested…
Find out more »April 2019
Spring Practice Period with Joshin Byrnes at Upaya
Apr 02, 2019 — Apr 27, 2019 SPRING PRACTICE PERIOD: Stories From the Lotus Sutra REGISTER ONLINE NOW »Instructor(s): Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Sensei Genzan Quennell Practice Period (Ango or “peaceful dwelling”) is a traditional intensive training period common to many schools of Buddhism. Ango traces its history to…
Find out more »Zazenkai with Joshin Byrnes at Upaya
ZAZENKAI: A Daylong Silent Meditation Retreat (4/6/2019) REGISTER ONLINE NOW »Instructor(s): Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Sensei Genzan QuennellThis daylong silent retreat provides us with the experience of deep periods of uninterrupted meditation. We do sitting and walking meditation throughout the day, one hour of work…
Find out more »Zazenkai with Joshin Byrnes at Upaya
ZAZENKAI: A Daylong Silent Meditation Retreat (4/13/2019) REGISTER ONLINE NOW »Instructor(s): Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Sensei Genzan Quennell This daylong silent retreat provides us with the experience of deep periods of uninterrupted meditation. We do sitting and walking meditation throughout the day, one hour of…
Find out more »Sesshin with Joshin Byrnes at Upaya
SESSHIN: Lotus Sutra REGISTER ONLINE NOW »Instructor(s): Sensei Joshin Byrnes, Sensei Genzan Quennell Sesshin literally means ‘gathering the heart/mind’. A sesshin is an intensive multi-day Zen meditation retreat with a consistent schedule that creates a deep, quiet container for practice. Each day consists of…
Find out more »May 2019
Street Retreat Washington DC, May 2019
May 22-26, 2019 Washington DC 2,500 years ago Shakyamuni Buddha led his monks each day in the practice of begging for food, receiving whatever was offered with gratitude. In this retreat led by Joshin, we will plunge into a variation on this early Buddhist…
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