Brooklyn Zen Center | A New York City Soto Zen Buddhist Temple

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Zoketsu Norman Fischer will be visiting Brooklyn Zen Center to lead a one-day retreat and workshop on Saturday, May 25th from 9am to 5pm. The doors will open at 8:30am. The workshop will be based on his most recent book, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong.

 

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Brooklyn Zen Center will wrap up the spring teaching season with a five-day silent retreat with head teacher Teah Strozer from Wednesday, June 5th to Sunday the 9th. The retreat will officially open with an orientation on Tuesday evening, June 4th, at 7:30pm.

The retreat will feature periods of sitting and walking meditation, mindful work practice and daily dharma talks. There will also be an opportunity for participants to meet with Teah for private practice discussion. The schedule will go from 9am to 9pm on the first 4 days, and from 9am to 2pm on the last day....

Soto Zen teacher, translator and author Shohaku Okumura will be visiting Brooklyn Zen Center to lead a 5-day Genzo-e retreat from July 24-28, 2013. Genzo-e is a meditation and study retreat in which participants deeply investigate the teachings of Dogen Zenji, the 13th-century founder of Soto Zen. Rev. Shohaku Okumura is one of the world's foremost teachers on Dogen's practice and philosophy.

For this retreat, we will be studying two fascicles of Dogen's Shobogenzo, "Zenki (Total Function)" and "Tsuki (Moon)." The retreat will be limited to 50 participants...