Tomorrow Evening 📖 Join Us for Fall Study Group (Week 11 of 12) 📖

 

TOMORROW: Join Us for Fall Study Group (Week 11 of 12)

Hybrid In-person/Zoom Format by Weekly Registration A rare opportunity to explore the fundamental teachings of Buddhism and build a foundation for daily practice through discussions on the book "Mind Sky: Zen Teaching on Living and Dying" with the author, Jakusho Kwong-roshi. Facilitated by a transmitted teacher or a senior student assigned each week and guided by Kwong-roshi himself, making comments and answering questions, we gain ground.

Jakusho Kwong with Seung Sahn and Taizan Maezumi, visiting Seokguram Temple in Korea

Seung Sahn and Jakusho Kwong sitting in a yurt in California

Forget your small self, confined by conceptual thinking to a box from which escape is difficult. In Zen, we say that you are the box.

Jakusho Kwong and Mitsu Suzuki at Shunryu Suzuki’s stupa, SMZC

Mitsu Suzuki and Jakusho Kwong on the Sangha House porch, SMZC Kwong-roshi visiting Mitsu Suzuki at her home in Japan

Birth and death not holding on to even one thing— autumn brightness   from Mitsu Suzuki’s book of one hundred haiku, A White Tea Bowl

NOVEMBER 15 (Week 11) The Korean Mala: On Dana. Past Time Becomes Present: Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Dying Well. Remembering Mitsu Suzuki. Page 131–153     NOVEMBER 22 (Week 12) Sekito’s Hermitage. The Song of the Grass-Roof Hermitage. The Great Fire on Sonoma Mountain. Nagarjuna’s Twelve Links of Dependent Origination. Unshu Instruction. Page 155–174   Download Study Group Syllabus   Register to Attend by Week

10-20% member discount. If you are a SMZC member, be sure to log in first to get the member discount. The book is available for purchase by emailing Janet, Zen Dust store volunteer at janet [at] smzc [dot] org for $18.95 (plus tax/shipping) or at Amazon.com.

About the Author & Teacher Jakusho Kwong-roshi is the founder of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center – Genjoji Temple, authorized by the Sotoshu in Japan. He is a successor of the late Shunryu Suzuki, roshi’s lineage. Kwong-roshi travelled and taught throughout America, Asia, as well as, Poland and Iceland where Zen Practice places have been established. Also he has deep connections with the Theravadin, Shambhala/Drala Mountain Center, Rinzaiji, Soen-Korean Zen with Christian Carmelite and Benedictine Traditions. He had the good karma to meet all the Great Asian Teachers who came West. Roshi continues to deepen his insight prior to the present to share with many international sincere people.

His publications include Breath Sweeps Mind and No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen, as well as his newest book, Mind Sky: Zen Teaching on Living and Dying. Your purchase at SMZC supports the authentic Practice of SANZEN.

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