Events

Reserved for a private retreat.

Please contact Bill Tresch (bftresch@hotmail.com) if you're interested in attending this retreat.

All Beings are Manifesting Buddha Activity Co-lead by Associate Teacher, Rev. Onryu Kennedy and Rev. Musho Darin Podulke-Smith Buddha activity is embodied liberation, awakening to the living dignity and infinite […]

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According to tradition, when Dogen Zenji returned from China, he wrote the Fukanzazengi, "Universal Recommendations for Zazen". A few years thereafter he composed his first work in Japanese, Bendōwa, "Discourse […]

Priest Ordination Ceremony You are cordially invited to attend the Shukke Tokudo Ceremony of Junden Gage Myers on August 15, 2026 at 1p CT Commonly called the Priest Ordination Ceremony, […]

We cordially invite you to the Mountain Seat Ceremony of Rev. Dokai Georgesen, where we will ceremonially install him as Abbot in recognition of 20 years of service to the […]

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Reserved for a private retreat.

Both zazen and Ikebana ask us to practice in the same essential spirit by abandoning our ideas about the world to meet the world where it is. The Zen practitioner […]

The liturgy used in any spiritual practice can often become wearisome or flat, a recitation of memorized words or phrases that leave us wondering, “What’s the point? How is this […]