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    Below are our event listings. Please click here if you would like to see a calendar view of our complete schedule of meditation times and events.


    2010 Events


    Monday, March 15th, 7:45–9:00

    Dharma Talk

    Topic: Psalms/Koans

    Zen priest, senior dharma teacher and poet, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, will be giving a dharma talk at Brooklyn Zen Center.

    Norman has spent almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center, having held many senior positions, including director and co-abbot from 1995-2000. Norman currently heads the Everyday Zen Foundation and offers teaching to many sanghas across the country. Among his numerous publications, Norman has written nine volumes of poetry as well as Opening to You: A Zen-inspired Translation of the Psalms and Taking our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up, which is based on his work mentoring young people.

    This event is cosponsored with the Jewish Meditation Center of Brooklyn.


    Thursday, May 27th through Sunday, May 30th

    Four Day Spring Sesshin

    Focus: Compassionate Care of Karmic Consciousness

    Karmic consciousness and great awakening are not separate. Zen Buddhist priest and senior dharma teacher, Tenshin Reb Anderson, will be visiting from San Francisco Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm to lead a four day sesshin at Brooklyn Zen Center. This retreat will offer a way to see how careful and compassionate care for the delusions of our karmic consciousness is a path to understanding the wondrous nature and dynamics of practice-enlightenment. The four day sesshin will begin Thursday morning, May 27th, and end Sunday afternoon, May 30th.

    Reb Anderson, Tenshin Roshi is a lineage-holder in the Soto Zen tradition. Born in Mississipi, he grew up in Minnesota and left advanced study in mathematics and Western psychology to come to San Francisco Zen Center in 1967. He practiced with Suzuki Roshi, who ordained him as a priest in 1970 and gave him the name Tenshin Zenki (“Naturally Real, The Whole Works”). He received dharma transmission in 1983 and served as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center’s three training centers (City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center) from 1986 to 1995. Tenshin Roshi continues to teach at Zen Center, living with his family at Green Gulch Farm. He is author of Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation and Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts.

    This event will likely fill up so please RSVP as soon as you are able by clicking on our contact form here. Thank you.


    June 26th through July 17th

    A Three Week Summer Intensive and Sesshin

    Zen Buddhist priest and BZC guiding teacher, Teah Strozer, will be visiting from San Francisco to lead a three week-long practice intensive that will include teaching throughout and a five day sesshin. The five day sesshin will begin Tuesday evening, July 7th, and end Sunday afternoon, July 11th.

    Teah Strozer is a Zen priest and dharma teacher in the Soto Zen tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. She has been practicing meditation since 1967 and has also studied under Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Dainin Katagiri Roshi. Teah lived at Tassajara Monastery for 11 years and was the head of practice at San Francisco Zen Center, where she now teaches primarily. Currently, she is also the Chaplain for the Bay School of San Francisco and leads retreat programs for teenagers.


    Click here for a list of teachers who have taught at Brooklyn Zen Center.