Dharma Offering

Saturday Morning Program

April 6, 2024

9:00 AM - 12:40 PM

Location
Boundless Mind Temple
326 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
View map
Description

Join us for our in-person Saturday morning program at Boundless Mind Temple in Brooklyn, which will include zazen instruction, as well as a dharma talk by BZC founding teacher Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin at 11:20am EST.

The dharma talk will also be live-streamed. For security reasons, we do not post zoom links publicly. Please sign up to the BZC Mailing List to receive the log in information.

You are welcome to come to all or just part of the program schedule:

08:45am — Doors open
09:00am — Zazen instruction
09:25am — Han (wooden board calling people to meditation)
09:40am — Zazen (seated meditation)
10:10am — Kinhin (walking meditation)
10:20am — Zazen
10:50am — Service (ceremonial chanting, bowing and incense offering)
11:20am — Dharma talk
12:20pm — Soji (temple cleaning practice)
12:40pm — Tea (informal tea time)


Childcare at Boundless Mind Temple 

Every first Saturday of the month, childcare is provided by volunteer sangha members from 9 to 11:15am. Children will be located in the “tree room,” a few steps away from the zendo (meditation hall) and/or in the courtyard when the weather is warm. At 11:15, children will be allowed to enter the zendo during the dharma talk and service. Guardians are asked to bring whatever their child may need including diapers, wipes and snacks.

While drop-ins are welcome, it is really helpful for us to know, in advance, how many children to expect, so please complete this form so we can plan accordingly and have ample hands to care for your small being(s)!


For weekly updates and upcoming events, join the BZC Mailing List here.

For community news and updates on offerings at Boundless Mind Temple, please request to join the BZC Community List here.


We rely on donations for all we do, and invite you to support our practice and teachers:

  • You can donate to BZC here or via Paypal to paypal@brooklynzen.org.
  • You can donate to a specific dharma teacher or practice leader here.

COVID Protocol: We ask that all participants be fully vaccinated and boosted. Masks are optional. Please see the BZC Covid Protocol for more.

Our Location: Boundless Mind Temple is located in the Parish House of Christ Church Cobble Hill, next to 326 Clinton Street. Enter the driveway on Clinton, go past the scaffolding, and through the double doors. There are two flights of stairs leading to the center, located on the second floor. The closest subway stop is the F/G at Bergen Street.

Instructor

Shingetsu Laura O’Loughlin is a dharma teacher and co-founder of Brooklyn Zen Center. She is also a clinical social worker in private practice since 2007. Before co-founding BZC, Laura trained and lived in various Buddhist communities since 1997, including Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, San Francisco Zen Center and Austin Zen Center where she served as Director. Laura received lay dharma entrustment from Teah Strozer in 2017. Laura is interested in how, alongside Zen training, other embodied wisdom modalities can support our collective healing and transformation from histories of racial, patriarchal and ecological violence. Laura co-created and co-facilitates the undoing whiteness program at BZC and leads retreats exploring patriarchal trauma and affirming the sacred feminine.

Fee
Free
Questions?
info@brooklynzen.org
We are in an historical building which is not wheelchair accessible. There are two flights of stairs leading to the center, located on the second floor. Chairs, benches, and extra support cushions are available. If you have any additional questions about accessibility, please contact us at info@brooklynzen.org.
Saturday Morning Program
Register