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    Walking Meditation across the Brooklyn Bridge

    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 [...]

    BZC Benefit Concert this Sunday at Barbès

    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, [...]

    Norman Fischer in Conversation with Meredith Monk

    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 [...]

    Springtime One-day Sits at Brooklyn Zen Center

    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 [...]

    Columbia University Talks on Buddhist Philosophy

    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 [...]

    Film: The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin

    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 [...]

    Buddhist Practice-oriented Workshop on Breakup and Divorce

    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 [...]

    Original Prajnaparamita Sutra on Display at Met

    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 [...]

    Daigaku Rumme Talks Tuesday Evening

    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 [...]

    Norman Fischer Will Speak About his New Book, Sailing Home

    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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