Events

Dharma Talk with Peggy Kendo Murray

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

Join 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 States

  On 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 States

Facilitated 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 States

Dylan & 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, […]

Free

Dharma Talk by Joshin Brian Byrnes

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

Please 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 States

On 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 […]

Dharma Talk Daiken Nelson and Joshin Byrnes

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

Please 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 Rev. Daiken Nelson, Roshi, Founder & Guiding Teacher of the Pamsula Zen Center in W. Harlem (pamsulazen.org) and Founder of The Mandala Café (mandalacafe.org) and […]

Zazenkai – June 2024

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

Zazenkai, Saturday June 8, facilitated by Taido Strube 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 […]

Free

Dharma Reflection by Emily Taido Strube

On Wednesday June 12 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 […]

Singing the Song of Zazen – A Commuter Sesshin – June 2024

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

Early morning in May: Looking at Bread Loaf Mountain. (Eisho 2022) Three full days June 13th, 14th, 15th. Let’s get together for a few days, in sesshin, a gathering of our heart-minds and bodies. Let’s spend these days in silence, with periods of sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks and lunch together. This retreat is […]

Dharma Reflection Joshin, Kendo and Eisho (online and in person)

GATHER 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States

Sunday Morning November 3 at 8:45am Where: At Gather, 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury VT and online via Zoom. Please join Joshin, Kendo, and Eisho in October for a series of dharma talks about our practice life together. Details: This is a time to hear and discuss the benefits of Zen in our everyday lives. Zen […]