🏵 Saturday, April 10th | RSVP: Special Online Guest Teacher Talk 🏵

 

Saturday, April 10th | RSVP: Special Online Guest Teacher Talk

Rev. Shohaku Okumura Roshi is a Soto Zen priest and is a Dharma successor of Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. Okumura practiced at Antaiji with Uchyiama Roshi from 1970 until Uchiyama retired in 1975. Okumura co-founded Pioneer Valley Zendo in Massachusetts and continued to practice Uchiyama’s style of zazen practice. Since 1981 Okumura has been translating writings of Uchiyama and Eihei Dogen from Japanese to English. Okumura has taught at Kyoto Zen Center and Minnesota Zen Center in Minneapolis and was director of Soto Zen Buddhism International Center in San Francisco from 1997 – 2010. Free registration required.   REGISTER NOW

Above: Kosho Uchiyama, Jakusho Kwong, Shohaku Okumura, and Keiko Uchiyama at Noke-in Temple in Kohata, Uji near Kyoto City, Japan in1980’s   Below: Rev. Shohaku Okumura Roshi's visit to Sonoma Mountain Zen Center in January 2015 Special Online Guest Teacher Series are presented via Zoom and require pre-registration to receive the Zoom link. SMZC offers these programs freely due to your generosity.

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Morning Zazen Reflection   Zazen is to sit with yourself and connect with others. Through just sitting we tap into silence, peacefulness, whatever is happening in the world. Things as they are right now. —Deborah Stagg, Richmond, CA

Daily Meditation Schedule   6:30 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.   Morning Zazen 7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.   Evening Zazen   Please enter the virtual zendo a few minutes early to get settled (seated and logged in before the starting bell).   Join Us Online

Saturating the peeping of a sparrow and the tender green blooms of the maple and my hand reaching out from beneath the porch roof a soft spring rain   by Russ Jakushin(寂心) Flynn, Lafayette, IN Received Jukai (Serenity/Tranquility Mind) from Rev. Shōhaku Okumura in 2014

SMZC Sangha Treasure Thank you, Brion Butsuden (佛田) Baer, Megan Backus, Jundo (純道) Mike Farrand, Mitchell Hoden (法田) Katzel, Jason Shinmei (心鳴) Nichols, Kevin Shindo (心土) Souza, and Richard Sparks for cleaning up and getting ready to reopen our Zendo at our recent Spring Workfest.   Artwork by Barbara Tanko (旦光) Médaille, Received Jukai (Dawn Light) from Kwong-roshi in 2004 and SMZC Sangha Member since 2001   Become A SMZC Member

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