Events
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Dharma Reflection Ben Busshin Nash
Join us for the Dharma Reflection of Ben Busshin Nash. Busshin is a former resident of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community and a student and priest of Joshin. Email us for the Zoom link.
Dharma Reflection by Colleen Jishu Brown
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesOn Wednesday January 31, 5:30 – 6:30pm Colleen Jishu Brown will give a Dharma Reflection. Colleen Jishu Brown is a student of Joshin, a board member of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community, and coordinates the volunteers for Gather, our community living room. You can email us for the zoom link, or you can join in […]
Zazenkai – February 2024
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesFacilitated by Eisho Sinclair This Sunday 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 […]
Dharma Reflection by Daigan Widell
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesPlease join us in person or online (via Zoom) for a Dharma reflection given by Daigan Widell. Daigan is an ordained novice priest with Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community, and he engages his practice locally through his work in harm reduction with Vermont Cares and his weekly offerings of Friday wellness facilitation and Saturday music […]
Zazenkai – March 2024
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesThis 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 […]
Dharma Talk with Peggy Kendo Murray
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesJoin us for the dharma talk of Peggy Kendo Murray (in person or online) Please e-mail us if you need the zoom link (link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Peg has cultivated a spiritual friendship with Joshin sensei for more than 10 years and he has recognized her as a senior practitioner […]
Dharma Reflection by Petra Zenryū Hubbeling
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesOn Wednesday March 27, 5:30 – 6:30pm Petra Zenryū Hubbeling will give the dharma reflection. This month the theme is Women in the Dharma. You can email us for the Zoom link. Petra is a dharma sister of Joshin and a long term Zen practitioner from The Netherlands. She is one of the founders of […]
Zazenkai – April 2024
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesFacilitated by Peg Kendo Murray This Sunday 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 […]
Dharma Reflection by Emily Taido Strube
On Wednesday April 24 from 5:30 – 6:30pm, Emily Taido Strube will give the dharma reflection. Register here for the Zoom link to join us online (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Emily Taido Strube (she/they) is a community engaged minister and novice at Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community. Taido’s unpaid work focuses […]
May 2024 Zen Circle
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesDylan & Dogen: Creativity and the Awakened Way Join us this May for a Zen Circle as we explore the intersecting paths of 13th Century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dogen and iconic musician Bob Dylan. Celebrated for their common spiritual journeys and profoundly poetic contributions by a contemporary generation of scholars, Zen teachers, and practitioners, […]
Dharma Talk by Joshin Brian Byrnes
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesPlease join us this evening in person (in the Zendo) or online for a brief period of sitting meditation followed by the Dharma Talk in the Cornwall house given by the guiding teacher of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community, Sensei Joshin Brian Byrnes. All are welcome. There is no charge for this event, but donations […]
Dharma Reflection Jan Gentaku Mojsa
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesOn Wednesday May 29 from 5:30 – 6:30pm ET, Jan Gentaku Mojsa will give a dharma reflection. Register here for the Zoom link to join us online (the link is the same for all public dharma talks and ceremonies). Jan Gentaku Mojsa is a registered psychotherapist and chaplain working in the West Country of England. A […]
