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BZC Sangha Summer Reading Program

This year we are offering a new Sangha Summer Reading program! We will be reading Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists by author Chenxing Han.

The Sangha will gather in person at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn to discuss Be the Refuge on the evening of Wednesday, September 13, with Chenxing joining us by zoom. Please save the date! More details coming soon.

About the book

“A must-read for modern sanghas—Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms.

More than two thirds of U.S. Buddhists are Asian American. But you’d never guess this from mainstream representations, which all too often whitewash the racial and cultural diversity of American Buddhist communities.

Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, countering the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting their stories and experiences.”

 

To kick off the Sangha Summer Reading program, Chenxing will be in conversation with BZC Director Ryan Lee Wong about her new book one long listening on Saturday, June 17, at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, at 11:20am EST. Copies of both her books will be available for purchase at the event. More details about the Saturday program are available here.

About Chenxing Han

Image by Lan Le

Chenxing Han is the author of the widely reviewed Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists, and the recently released one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care, both with North Atlantic Books. She is a regular contributor to Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Buddhadharma, and other publications, and a frequent speaker and workshop leader at schools, universities, and Buddhist communities across the nation. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Hemera Foundation, the Lenz Foundation, and elsewhere.

Chenxing holds a BA from Stanford University, an MA in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Theological Union, and a certificate in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is a co-teacher of Listening to the Buddhists in Our Backyard at Phillips Academy Andover, and a co-organizer of May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial for Asian American Ancestors.

Sewing the Rakusu

On Sunday, June 11th, sixteen people  in our community will be receiving Soto Zen precepts in a lay ordination ceremony called Jukai.

This ceremony is the culmination of an engaged month-long period of study and practice with the bodhisattva precepts. This is an ethical orientation, a ritual embodiment of teacher-student lineage going back to the Buddha, and a commitment to a particular spiritual community. As part of their training, ordinands have been sewing the rakusu, the small Buddha robe worn around the necks of lay practitioners and priests.

Here are some images and words shared by the ordinands about their sewing practice:

I appreciate the patience of sewing and the way my mind moves around. Sometimes mind is my hand. Sometimes it is the mantra. Sometimes it is my breath or the thread or the fabric or the aspiration for this robe slowly manifesting but not yet here or imaginable as a process. There is something about having to give away my sense of a whole when I come to sewing practice that is comforting and discomforting at the same time.

— Emily Mendelsohn

“I find it discouraging that vulnerability in the rakusu means a lack of integrity,” I whisper to Sarah Sensei as we look down at the inevitable: the first popped stitch on the face of what’s becoming my rakusu. My stitch is the size of a little ant, much bigger than the sesame seed we’ve been instructed to aim for. The bigger the stitch, the likelier it is to break, and the weaker the physical integrity of the robe. Learning of this mistake a few months ago prompted such a painful look in the mirror I nearly left Jukai. I resolved, with gentle encouragement from the teachers, to go with what my hands were doing, to maintain consistency, to not start over, to accept my supersized stitches. “Luckily,” Sarah responds, “the rakusu’s not a metaphor for life.” Aha! Loose ends are just loose ends. A prick from the needle is not punishment for a wandering mind. A tangle of knots isn’t a sad symbol for the mess of my life. It’s simply just the mess of my life. When my rakusu’s “all done” it’ll be vulnerable. It’ll need little repairs and care for what’s been done and how. I’ll take refuge in sangha to support the fabric of my vow. I’ll mend it most tenderly in reverence of its impermanence, in awe of the precious fact that it will unravel and come completely undone, falling headlong, thread by thread, into Buddha’s loving lap.

—Nick Morris

Into the Scars of the Burning: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2023/05/06)

The dharma talk offered by Kosen Gregory Snyder at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on May 6th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Into the Scars of the Burning: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Gregory Snyder (2023/05/06)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Letters from the Garden: Planting Trees

Dear Sangha,

When we acquired the land that is now Ancestral Heart Temple, part of what we inherited was a mature fruit orchard that had been planted about fifteen or twenty years ago by the family who built the current house. Originally there was a mix of apples, pears, and peaches; however, over the intervening decades mostly only the apple trees and a thriving Asian pear have survived. Tending to orchards requires learning a different set of knowledge and skills than growing vegetables, and for the first year that I lived here I felt completely overwhelmed by it all and left the orchard to fend for itself. We had a huge amount of rain that summer and got a bumper crop of apples that year, so I called it a success. I confess, though, that when winter came I was too afraid to prune the trees myself, and so for better or for worse I just let them grow.

The second year, I had the capacity to learn a bit more about caring for fruit trees. As I started to pay closer attention to what was happening in the orchard, I began to understand that our trees were not only old, but quite overgrown and suffering from a number of common diseases and insect pressure. In reading more about tree care, it turns out that the single most important thing you can do to keep fruit trees happy and healthy is to prune them regularly and well. Creating an open branch structure allows for good circulation of air and light, creates a strong internal architecture that can support the weight of heavy fruit, and stimulates new growth to bear fruit in the future. Most fruit trees only flower and fruit on the parts of the branch that are at least one year old, so the art of pruning is literally shaping the future growth and fruit potential of the tree as you decide which branches will stay to grow and which will disappear. Over time, fruit trees will decrease in productivity if left unpruned, because old wood doesn’t fruit as vigorously as younger wood does.

Two of the apple trees in the orchard

Knowing a bit more about some of the basic rules for good pruning—beginning with the easy ones like removing dead, damaged, or diseased branches, as well as branches that grow directly upward, downward, or inward, and moving toward more complex decisions about the overall shape of the tree—I made some cautious overtures into pruning during the second winter. I spent several weeks that February making some tentative first cuts, and then getting more and more bold as I grew more comfortable with the process.

What I did not understand until I spent hours studying and falling in love with each tree was that to look at a tree is literally to see its entire history. Its particular shape in this moment is the result of every single thing that has happened to it, including every pruning cut, every big storm, every season of drought or good weather. I learned some general rules from a book, but the trees themselves taught me how to prune them by showing me how they responded to every previous cut by my unknown predecessors, by the pattern in which the branches wanted to grow. And each tree is different—apples and pears don’t have the same growth patterns; even each apple variety is not the same; and then each individual tree has its own structural strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Pruning a tree is an incredibly intimate thing to do. I had been afraid of hurting the trees by making ignorant mistakes, but what I learned that winter was that the trees wanted to be pruned. The neglect was actually worse for them—not just my one year of ignoring them, but the whole previous decade of not being tended to. And they are actually quite forgiving of my slow learning process, because they keep growing, like hair does. Pruning is an act of care, not just for the trees, but for the humans who also benefit from the fruit they bear. By entering into such relationship with each tree, I became part of their life path, part of the conditions that shape them, as they became part of mine. Arborists talk about a well-pruned tree being “calm,” because its growth is channeled into healthy, strong, and boundaried paths, as opposed to a “reactive” tree that grows with too much energy in erratic, upward, or unproductive ways. I think people also like being pruned like this.

Above: apple blossoms; Below: pear blossoms

This past winter was my third, and I was able to return to the orchard and prune again for the second time, learning from the results of the past year’s efforts and building on them. My relationship to these trees has transformed from fear and shame to close friendship, like my kin. Now I come out all year to say hello, to see how they are doing, to hear the news about first leaves, about bees visiting, and about the summer storms. They are not “perfect” trees; most are gnarled and lop-sided, with awkward clusters of dense branches because someone long ago “headed” them without coming back to shape the growth that followed. But they are perfect in their as-they-areness, each living its unique and beautiful expression of precisely every moment up to now. There is no other way that they could be.

All of this is to say, at the bottom of this letter, that I am working on planting a new, second orchard this spring. There is not much room left inside the old one, and the trees there have diseases that I don’t want to spread to younger ones. The new spot is between the old orchard and the garden, with full sun, rich soil, and good drainage. I think fruit trees will be happy there. I have spent the last few weeks planting several baby apples, as well as a couple of nectarines, and two pawpaws. Next year I plan to add some more stone fruits, but I want to see how these do first. It is such a beautiful thing to plant a tiny sapling, investing it with all the hope and intention that it may grow into a huge tree in this exact spot, and that these trees and I will grow together and know each other, hopefully for decades.

Left: baby pawpaw tree, protected by a shade tent (they grow in the understory); Right: the new orchard in progress, just uphill from the garden

Palms together,
Wesley

 

Liberative Confession and Repentance: Audio Dharma Talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/04/29)

The dharma talk offered by Charlie Korin Pokorny at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on April 29th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Liberative Confession and Repentance: Audio Dharma Talk by Charlie Korin Pokorny (2023/04/29)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Best Effort: Audio Dharma Talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2023/04/22)

The dharma talk offered by Chimyo Simone Atkinson at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on April 22nd is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Best Effort: Audio Dharma Talk by Chimyo Atkinson (2023/04/22)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

April at AHZT: A Month in Photographs

Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Zen Temple. All Brooklyn Zen Center members are warmly invited to come practice here, and to experience Zen monastic training. Please email ahdirector@brooklynzen.org for more information.

Garden Planting Month has officially begun! On April 5, we held a garden opening ceremony, chanting Dogen’s fascicle Dharma Blossoms turn Dharma Blossoms. (From left to right: Wesley, Don, Ian, Kaishin, Erin, and Bianca)

Erin planting potatoes! This is the first time we’ve tried planting potatoes. We’ll see how they grow…

Gerardo planting vegetables seeds.

Flo and Tuna catching some rays.

We celebrated two birthdays this month, catered by wesleycakes™. (Ryan with his apple cake, and Kristin with her birthday cake).

The day’s kitchen crew taking a break in the sun (Bianca, Rachel, and Gerardo).

 

The Essential Art of Zazen: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case

The dharma talk offered by Kidō Ian Case at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on April 15th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

The Essential Art of Zazen: Audio Dharma Talk by Kidō Ian Case (2023/04/15)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Letters from the Garden: Season Three

Dear Sangha,

Just before sitting down to write this, I moved all of the tomato and pepper seedlings outdoors for the first time. It’s still early this year, but we are having a week of very warm weather right now, so they will be happier out in the real sunshine than under the cramped grow lights in my room. We also planted the peas and onions this week, and I’m excited about the arrival of a few new fruit trees to inaugurate a second orchard that I’m planting down the hill by the garden. In other words, spring has arrived just in time for our Garden Planting Month (April 18—May 15).

This is the third summer of building the garden at Ancestral Heart, and my third summer as Enju (園頭), head of the garden. Some of you may remember the first summer, when I started writing these Letters from the Garden as a way to share the fruits of the growing season at Ancestral Heart with all of you. This year I would like to bring it back again as a monthly serial, so you can look forward to updates throughout the summer.

I’ve learned a lot over the past three years, and the garden has come a long way. Many, many hours of work by beloved Sangha members have transformed this small patch of meadow into a beautiful field that offers us buckets of bok choy and beets to eat throughout the summer. I’m looking out at the bare, brown hillside right now, feeling the surge of spring energy arising all around me, and also feeling somewhat overwhelmed by the tasks that all demand attention immediately. But this year I am grounded in a faith that has also grown over the past seasons that everything will, somehow, work out just fine. I also feel the strength of ancestral wisdom in my body, which concentrates the knowledge of thousands of past summers in the way my nose knows what good dirt should smell like.

A full deck of seedlings growing big and fat before planting time.

I tell myself that my ambitions for this season are modest — grow enough vegetables to sustain our little temple through the fall; stay a bit more on top of mowing down the invasive vines and honeysuckle; plant more native flowers and bushes and keep listening to how the mountain wants to grow; and most importantly to care my best for all of the beings, whether two-, six-, eight-, or no-legged, who meet me in their fullness every day.

Altar and assembly for the third annual garden opening ceremony on April 5.
Some participants were
colder than others.

Like all of our Zen practice roles, I understand my role as Enju as fundamentally a position of service to the larger community, of humans and nonhumans alike. In one sense, the garden here, like the temple grounds, belongs to the Sangha, as much as it can be said to belong to anyone beyond the garden beings themselves. But it is more accurate to say that we all belong to each other, which is a truth that is much more difficult to accept, and yet the mountainside keeps insisting.

What does it mean to be in service to the great earth and all beings? What is the medicine that is being asked for, in this place, here and now? Can I be open to receiving it, as much as helping call it into being? Like the precepts, it is hard to find anything concrete to grasp onto, and yet in three years of living on this mountainside, my heart can point the direction where the spring wind blows.

The orchard isn’t quite blooming yet, but soon

Come join us for Garden Planting Month at Ancestral Heart this spring! All Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC) members are warmly invited to join us for short-term residential practice, anywhere from a few days to a month. Contact ahdirector@brooklynzen.org for more information.

Palms together,

Wesley

Love First: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Greg Snyder

The dharma talk offered by Kosen Greg Snyder at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on April 1th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Love First: Audio Dharma Talk by Kosen Greg Snyder (2023/04/01)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Freedom as Well-Being: New Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson

The dharma talk offered by Sarah Dōjin Emerson at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on April 8th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Freedom as Well-Being: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/04/08)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

March at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Photographs

Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Zen Temple. All Brooklyn Zen Center members are warmly invited to come practice here, and to experience Zen monastic training. Please email ahdirector@brooklynzen.org for more information.

March brought us abundant snow, which meant sledding, building huge snowballs and igloos, and laughing at the dogs.

Kaishin, Wesley, and the world’s largest snowball!

 Rachel laying the foundation for an igloo.

 Laura and Molly after playing in the snow.

Erin (right) joined as a resident last month, working in the kitchen and the garden, and sewing her rakusu!

Don, Erin, and Wesley traveled down to the city for the sewing retreat.

 

The Fire to Wake Up: new audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi

The dharma talk offered by Yoko Ohashi at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on March 25th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

The Fire to Wake Up: audio dharma talk by Yoko Ohashi (2023/03/25)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Stewarding a Tradition: Follow-up and Resources

A message from BZC’s Administrative Director Ryan Lee Wong, following the March 11 Sangha Meeting on Membership, Engagement, and Stewarding a Tradition.

Dear Sangha,

Thank you for offering your attention and wholehearted engagement at last Saturday’s Sangha Meeting on Membership, Engagement, and Stewarding a Tradition. It was a joy to share this research, history, and embodied practice with you all.

For those who weren’t able to attend, a video is now available here.

In the meantime, here are some ways to deepen engagement with this practice of dana and stewardship.

Membership
  • Existing members can check and change their membership level by emailing our Operations Assistant David Chow here.
  • New and existing members can use the Equitable Pricing Model to feel into their appropriate Membership Level (think of the Limited, Base, Sustaining, and Flourishing rates as roughly equivalent to program pricing)

Readings and Resources

  • Soto Zen in Medieval Japan by William Bodiford on the historical and economic development of earl Soto Zen
  • American Sutra by Duncan Ryuken Williams on Japanese American Buddhists during WWII and how sanghas kept their temples and practice alive
  • Zenshuji’s 100th Anniversary Lecture Series on the development of Soto Zen in America
  • Presentation slideshow
  • Dogen Zenji’s Fundraising Letter
With deep gratitude for our collective practice,
Ryan

What Are We Here For?: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/03/18)

The dharma talk offered by Sarah Dōjin Emerson at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on March 18th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

What are we here for?: Audio Dharma Talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/03/18)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

Spiritual Discipline: Audio Dharma Talk by Kaira Jewel Lingo (2023/03/04)

The dharma talk offered by Kaira Jewel Lingo at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on March 4th is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Spiritual Discipline: Audio Dharma Talk by Kaira Jewel Lingo (2023/03/04)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

About Kaira Jewel Lingo

Kaira Jewel Lingo teaches meditation and mindfulness internationally, with a focus on activists, people of color, artists, educators, families, and youth. She began practicing mindfulness in 1997. An ordained nun of 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, she is now based in Washington, D.C., leading retreats in the U.S. and internationally, offering mindfulness programs for educators and youth in schools, as well as individual spiritual mentoring. She edited Thich Nhat Hanh’s, Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children and has articles and chapters published in numerous magazines and books, including Real World Mindfulness for BeginnersTogether we are One;  and Dharma, Color and Culture. She explores the interweaving of art, play, ecology and spiritual practice and is a certified yoga teacher and InterPlay leader. She also offers spiritual mentoring to individual clients. In addition to her roots in the Zen tradition, she practices and teaches in the Insight tradition and is an affiliate teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of WashingtonVisit kairajewel.com to learn more.

Giving and Receiving

A message from Alexandra Gekas and Tom Weinreich, BZC Membership Committee co-chairs:

Dear Sangha,

Last September, forty or fifty of us gathered for a ritual of generosity. It was the beginning of the fall practice period at Brooklyn Zen Center (BZC), and we had devoted ourselves to practicing together for the coming ninety days. We sat in a circle. Each of us shared our specific intention for our practice that season, and then joined our hands and said, “giving and receiving, I take refuge in sangha.”

But what is given, and who gives? It seems that we give our intentions to the sangha. Maybe the sangha gives us support with the insecurity and doubt we feel about fulfilling our intentions. We may offer the sangha the courage of speaking up in the midst of that insecurity and doubt. Certainly the ancestors who passed on this way of supporting each other are also giving us something. Is there an offering we are making to them in return?

Actually, there is no way to break these apart. Giving and receiving, we take refuge in sangha. All enumerations and accounts of it will be incomplete. This generosity is endless, dynamic, and whole.

This month, we are having a membership drive. Becoming a BZC member, like joining a practice period, is an act of sangha generosity. In the conventional view, it looks like a practitioner making a monthly payment to support BZC, and BZC offering that practitioner discounts on programs and events. It is also a complete expression of generosity which cannot be separated out into a giver, a receiver, and a gift.

Regardless of your current membership status, we are inviting you to take some time this month to reflect on how this sangha nourishes you. The fast pace of our lives can make this difficult. See if you can slow down and savor what has been freely given.

There is no price to pay for this generosity, no debt accrued. If this reflection awakens generosity in your heart, membership is one opportunity to practice expressing that. We want to caution against the idea that one “should” become a member, or that being a member entitles us to ignore the next request which arises. We give our membership dues as freely as the dharma is given to us.

On Saturday, March 11th, please join Ryan Lee Wong, BZC Administrative Director, and dharma teachers Sarah Dōjin Emerson and Charlie Korin Pokorny Senseis for a sangha meeting on Membership, Engagement, and Stewarding a Tradition at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, from 12 noon to 1pm, followed by pizza.

In addition, on Tuesday, March 21st, from 7 to 8:30pm, we will host an online gathering on Practicing with Membership, for members and non-members alike. This will be an intimate conversation for us to share how we relate membership to the practice of dana and stewardship of Soto Zen Buddhism at a socially engaged temple in America. We will sit, reflect, and discuss our experience together. We hope to see you there! You can find more details here.

Finally, we will close out the month with a movie night for all old and new members on Friday, March 31st. The evening will include dinner and socializing at 6pm, followed by the film screening at 7pm. Join us!

With love,

Alexandra Gekas and Tom Weinreich
BZC Membership Committee co-chairs

Amid Crisis, Surrendering to Love: new audio dharma talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin

The dharma talk offered by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on February 25 is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Amid Crisis, Surrendering to Love: Audio Dharma Talk by Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin (2023/02/25)

The author mentioned during the dharma is Frank Ostaseki and the book is “The Five Invitations.”

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!

February at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple: A Month in Photographs

Each month, we’ll be sharing photographs of life at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Zen Temple. All Brooklyn Zen Center members are warmly invited to come practice here, and to experience Zen monastic training. Please email ahdirector@brooklynzen.org for more information.


Ancestral Heart Zen Temple was closed for 10 days this month, because three of us–Ian, Don, and Kaishin–caught COVID. We were extremely fortunate in that none of us had serious symptoms, and we were well cared for by Rachel, Wesley, Jeff, and Gerardo who took on all the cooking, dog care, and house care, and brought us our food on lovingly prepared trays like this one.


Molly and Milo took on the roles of Ian’s COVID nurses.


Garden season is just around the corner! This is our beautiful garden altar, built by former Shissui (work leader) Emme, who departed the monastery this month, returning to the marketplace with gift-bestowing hands.


Here’s Ryan, planting some of the first seeds of the season: Onions!


This year, Rachel stepped into the role of Shika (guest manager). They care for visitors and for the temple, embodying work that is both sacred and mundane – like folding laundry.


Gerardo (right) joined us this month, for a long-term stay! Here he is receiving instructions from the Tenzo (Don, left) on cooking lunch. This is a candid photo, we swear.


Jeff departed this month, leaving us with one of his backdoor snack masterpieces.

Being Together Differently: new audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson

The dharma talk offered by Sarah Dōjin Emerson at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn on February 18 is now available on the BZC Audio Dharma Podcast.

Being Together Differently: Audio dharma talk by Sarah Dōjin Emerson (2023/02/18)

The BZC Audio Dharma Podcast is offered free of charge and made possible by the donations we receive. A $10 suggested donation per dharma talk is recommended. You can donate to BZC here. Thank you for your generosity!