Events
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Spring 2023 Practice Period – Cooking Your Life
Stories from the Kitchen Recipes for Community Online Practice Intensive and Sesshin Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community May 1 - May 28, 2023 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 […]
Sesshin May 2023
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States
Dharma Talk with Eisho Sinclair and Jissan Michelle Nicolle
On Wednesday May 24, Eisho and Jissan will give an in-person dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center as part of the Spring Practice Period | Cooking Your Life. Please join us at Bread Loaf Mountain or on Zoom. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm. Please email us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for […]
Dharma Reflection with Hogen Raka Banerjee
On Wednesday May 31 from 5:30 – 6:30pm ET, Hogen Raka Banerjee will give the dharma reflection. You can e-mail us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Hogen Raka Banerjee is a novice priest with Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community and has been a […]
Song of the Jewel Mirror Awareness – June 2023
Date: Saturday, June 3, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time (online and in-person) Facilitators: Hogen Banerjee and Gansho Hanjian The Jewel Mirror Samadhi is one of the most famous texts in Zen Buddhism and is chanted regularly in monastic and lay communities throughout the world. Although it is often attributed to the […]
Dharma Talk with Joshin Byrnes
On Wednesday June 28, Joshin will give an in-person dharma talk at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Center. Please join us at Bread Loaf Mountain or on Zoom. The dharma talk starts at 5:30pm. Please email us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Joshin […]
Dharma Talk with Eisho Sinclair
On Wednesday July 12th, from 5:30 - 6:30pm Eisho Sinclair will facilitate the dharma talk. If you want to join the dharma talk, please email us for the zoom link (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Eisho Sinclair is a senior practitioner and a student of Joshin Byrnes. He […]
Dharma Reflection with Daigan Widell
On Wednesday July 12th, from 5:30 - 6:30pm ET, Daigan Widell will give the dharma reflection. E-mail us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Daigan Widell began his formal Zen training at Upaya Zen Center, where he received Jukai from Roshi Joan Halifax. […]
Precepts Reflection with Peggy Kendo Murray
On Wednesday July 19th from 5:30 - 6:30pm, Peggy Murray will give the precepts reflection, followed by our precepts renewal, where we recommit ourselves to the peacemaker precepts in a beautiful ceremony of chanting and bows (fusatsu) held during evening meditation. You can email us if you need the zoom link (the link is the same for all […]
Dharma Talk by Jitsujo Gauthier
Please join us for a Dharma Talk given by Jitsujo Gauthier tonight at 5:30 pm (in person in the Barndo!)
Dharma Talk with Sr. Gail Worcelo
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesGail Worcelo is a co- founder with Bernadette Bostwick and the late Passionist priest and cultural historian Thomas Berry, of Sisters of the Earth Community, the first community of Catholic sisters founded specifically for Earth Healing and Protection, honoring Earth as a Single Sacred Community. Sisters of the Earth Community has a worldwide base of […]
Way-Seeking Mind Dharma Reflection by Ben Busshin Nash
Please join us for a Dharma reflection by Ben Busshin Nash as he recounts the influences leading to his decision to ordain as a Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community Novice Priest in October 2022.
