Dharma Reflection Kendo and Eisho (online and in person)

Where: At Gather, 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury VT and online via Zoom.

Details: This is a time to hear and discuss the benefits of Zen in our everyday lives. Zen teachers, Zen students, and guests offer their reflections for about 30 minutes. Community conversation about the talk follows for about another 30 minutes. Please come for the entire time so we can give our discussion time some energy and attention. It’s an open session. Always free.

Date: January 5, 2025, 8:45 am at Gather, 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury VT and on zoom (for the zoom link please register here)

Join us for our next reflection led by Kendo and Eisho

Sensei Peg Kendo Murray has been a dedicated and caring resident practitioner at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community since 2018, shortly after our founding. She has played a key role in helping our sangha grow and thrive. Kendo brings a rich background in Dharma practice, with experience in Theravada, Tibetan, and Zen traditions. She enjoys sharing insights from all three streams of Buddhist practice. Alongside her leadership in our resident practitioner program and local and online sanghas, Kendo serves our local town in a variety of ways, bringing her counseling skills to hospice workers and caretakers, as well as spending significant time at Gather, our drop-in center, fostering attentive, caring and consistent spiritual friendships with a diverse range of people in our community. She has also joyfully maintained our vegetable gardens for years. As a teacher, she is thoughtful, sincere, and skilled, often weaving joy and a good sense of Irish humor into her practice.

Sensei Eisho Sinclair has been part of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community nearly since its inception, and has served our local and online sangha with a steady, warm and trustworthy hand and heart. He brings clear insight, humility, and attentive care to his teaching, spiritual counseling, and our temple’s rituals. Eisho divides his time between the UK and the US, seamlessly engaging with the wider sangha regardless of which side of the pond he’s on. His Zen journey began when he was quite young, and over the years, he has served professionally as a Buddhist prison chaplain in the UK, and has maintained a committed life of practice, study, and service at society’s margins. Eisho carries a wealth of wisdom from the many teachers he has studied with and shares it freely. In addition to other gifts, skills, and talents, he is a Hakomi therapist and cherishes his roles as a partner, father, and grandfather.