Archive for the Upcoming Events Category
Published October 27th, 2009
Please join us in a mindful walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, bringing our attention to our many traditions of mindfulness and meditation, our often busy urban lives and environment, and our own deeply awake minds.
On Thursday, October 29, 2009, at 7pm, meet at the Manhattan entrance, across the street from City Hall Park at Park [...]
Published October 21st, 2009
Please join us this weekend for our next fall fundraising event. This Sunday, October 25th starting at 9:00 pm, sangha member and percussionist extraordinaire EJ Fry will be playing a benefit concert at Barbès with a quartet that he has put together for the occasion. (Barbès is located at 376 9th Street in Park Slope, [...]
Published September 23rd, 2009
I wanted to let you all know about an interesting upcoming event featuring Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer and the composer and performer Meredith Monk (pictured at left) that will be taking place at Poets House in New York City on October 6th. Here is the event listing from the Poets House website:
Tuesday, October [...]
Published April 10th, 2009
We have scheduled three one-day sits at the temple over the next several months – on April 18th, May 30th and June 27th (all Saturdays). These sits will start at 9:00 am and go to 5:00 pm. Please check the BZC web site regularly for further details on these events as the dates draw closer.
These [...]
Published December 12th, 2008
For the philosophically inclined among us, there is an ongoing series of talks, entitled Ethics Across Traditions, held by The Columbia Society of Comparative Philosophy at Columbia University. A few of the talks included are “The Incompatibility of Two Conceptions: Dependent Origination and Emptiness in the Mulamadhyamakakarika,” ”Philosophical Problems from Nagarjuna’s Vigrahavyavartani“ (tonight), and “Buddhism and Free Will.” Check out the schedule here. Maybe some [...]
Published September 24th, 2008
At 6:30pm on October 1st and 2nd, The Vilcek Foundation will be holding two screenings of The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin, a film about a 95-year-old, female Buddhist priest in Japan. A synopsis of the story follows:
Teijun Ogawa, a proud and rare niso (female priest) of Japanese Shingon Buddhist Sect, dies after telling her story to [...]
Published September 3rd, 2008
Alisa emailed to let us know about a Buddhist practice-based workshop for those going through break up or divorce that will be offered by Gabriel Cohen in New York City this month. If you are interested, the original email from its coordinator is below:
I want to let you know about a workshop I’ll be leading [...]
Published July 21st, 2008
From July 29th through November 16th, 2008, The Metropolitaan Museum of Art will host a special exhibition of the illuminated palm leaf manuscript of the Mahanyana Buddhist text, the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, usually translated as the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines. This Sutra is believed to have been originally written down around 100 [...]
Published July 14th, 2008
Soto Zen priest and dharma teacher, Daigaku Rumme, will be visiting Brooklyn Zen Center and speaking at 7:30 pm tomorrow after Tuesday evening zazen. Daigaku is visiting Soto Zen communities across the country. So this is a very good opportunity for him to meet our sangha and get to know us.
Daigaku was ordained as a [...]
Published July 3rd, 2008
Next Wednesday, July 9th, Senior Zen Buddhist Priest, dharma teacher, and poet, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, will be speaking on his new book, Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer’s Odyssey to Navigate Life’s Perils and Pitfalls. The event will begin at 7:00 pm Wednesday evening at Brooklyn Zen Center. Due to the event, both zazen and [...]
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