Events

Dharma Talk with Sr. Pat Teiko Farrell, OP

Wednesday June 2, Sister Pat Farrell will give a dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm and you can join it by Zoom. Sister Pat Teiko Farrell, OP, a Dominican Sister of San Rafael, is the hosting manager of Santa Sabina Center in California. She is a trained […]

Dharma Talk with Danielle Stillman

Wednesday July 7, Danielle Stillman will give a dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm and you can join it by Zoom. Please email Petra for the zoom link. Danielle Stillman is the Rabbi and an Associate Chaplain at Middlebury College where she works with students to build […]

September 2021 Practice Intensive: Five Buddha Families

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

Five Buddha Families Online and Onsite Practice Intensive Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community Sept 1- September 28, 2021 Whether you are new to Zen or have been sitting meditation for a while, this practice intensive is a wonderful way to enter practice or deepen it in a nourishing context you can access from home or […]

Dharma Reflection by Maia Duerr

Wednesday September 15, Maia Duerr, will give a dharma reflection Starts at 5:30pm with 15 minutes of meditation. Maia is an anthropologist, writer, and longtime Zen student. In 2012, she received lay ordination from Roshi Joan Halifax as a lay Buddhist chaplain. She is a student in the Soto Zen lineage of Suzuki Roshi, and has […]

Jukai Ordination 2021

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

Priest Retreat October 2021

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

Dharma Talk by Stephanie Kaza

On Wednesday November 10, Dr. Stephanie Kaza will give a dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. We'll start at 5:30 pm with 15 minutes of zazen before the dharma talks starts. Dr. Stephanie Kaza Stephanie Kaza is professor emerita of environmental studies, University of Vermont, and Soto Zen practitioner.  Her books include Green […]

Zazenkai – January 2022

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

This Saturday retreat provides the opportunity to join the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in several periods of uninterrupted meditation in a full day of silence. We observe Noble Silence throughout the day, including meal and tea time. We engage wholeheartedly in alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, an hour of work practice, chanting […]

Sandokai Seminar – January 2022

Saturday, January 29, 2022 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Eastern Standard Time Facilitators: Novice Priests Jissan Nicolle and Taido Strube The Sandokai is a poem written in the 8th century by our Chinese Zen ancestor Seiko Kisen, (700-790). It is a fundamental text of the Soto Zen school and chanted regularly in Zen temples throughout […]

Ease and Joy of Mornings – February 2022

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

Ease and Joy is a quiet morning designed to introduce you to the art of zazen, which is the word we use for Zen meditation. It is an ideal entryway for beginners, intermediate or long-time meditators who want a refresher course on this “dharma gate of joy and ease” as described by Zen Master, Dogen-Zenji. […]

Zazenkai – March 2022

Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

This Saturday retreat provides the opportunity to join the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community in several periods of uninterrupted meditation in a full day of silence. We observe Noble Silence throughout the day, including meal and tea time. We engage wholeheartedly in alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, an hour of work practice, chanting […]