On Wednesday November 29from 5:30 - 6:30pm EST, Peggy Kendo Murray will give the dharma talk. Please e-mail us if you need the zoom link (link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Peg has cultivated a spiritual friendship with Joshin...
December 1-8, 2023 Sesshin is a time for nourishing silence and deep practice, sitting in the posture of the Buddha, unfolding your own and our collective liberation. The theme for Rohatsu this year is Hongzhi's Silent Illumination. How do you experience true freedom? How...
Join us for our monthly practice group on the Householder Koans (every second Monday of the month). Go-Go (Renée) and So'on will facilitate this monthly group on The Book of Householder Koans from Roshi Eve Myonen Marko & Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao. Next meeting:...
On each New Moon of the month we chant the Gate of Sweet Nectar liturgy, calling out to all those who are feeling lost and left behind. We commit to bring our whole selves to all who are suffering in our world, including to...
On Wednesday December 13, 5:30 – 6:30pm Colleen Jishu Brown will give her Way Seeking Mind talk Great Master Dōgen talked about “arousing the Way-seeking mind”. This is also called Bodhicitta in Sanskrit. It means the heart or the mind that seeks the Way....
On Wednesday December 20 from 5:30 – 6:30pm EST, Kosan Carla Callahan will give the dharma talk. Please e-mail us if you need the zoom link (link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Kosan Carla Callahan is a Zen nun...
Please join us this evening in person (in the Zendo) or online for a brief period of sitting meditation followed by a Dharma Talk given by the guiding teacher of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community, Sensei Joshin Brian Byrnes. All are welcome. There is...
Every month on the full moon, we recommit ourselves to the peacemaker precepts in a beautiful ceremony of chanting and bows (fusatsu) held during evening meditation. Mark Sokugen Gelula will give his reflection on the precept: Not Holding on to Anger. Email us if you need...
108 Bells on New Year's Eve at 5:30pm. We will offer into the hearth the altar names from 2023, and ring in the New Year with 108 bells. Please join us in person or on zoom for this touching annual tradition and bring in...
