Recurrent
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
“What is your light?” “What does the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion do with so many hands and eyes?” “Holy or ordinary?”
Dates: February 10, 17, 24, March 3, 10, 17
Time: 7:00 PM–8:30 PM ET
Location: Online via Zoom (link will be provided to registrants before the first class.)
Registration deadline — February 8, 11:59 PM ET
Financial assistance deadline — February 1, 11:59 PM ET
Fee (sliding scale) — $225-$360
Questions? If you have any questions or concerns about registration, please contact us at info@brooklynzen.org.
Charlie Korin Pokorny (he/they) grew up in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. Charlie received a masters in religious studies, focusing on Zen, from Stanford in 1994. He has been teaching graduate courses at the Institute of Buddhist Studies since 2011, including classes on Buddhist thought, history and practice, with a focus on traditions of East Asia and especially Zen. Charlie was ordained as a priest by Reb Anderson in 1999 and received dharma transmission in 2018. He practiced as a resident at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm and studied koans with Daniel Terragno. Together with his wife, Sarah Dōjin Emerson, they served as head priests at Stone Creek Zen Center 2014-2022. They were then invited to become teachers at the Brooklyn Zen Center and moved with their children to Brooklyn in 2022.
Banner image: Cover art from Book of Serenity by Thomas Cleary (Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press) 1990.
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