Events
In-person
Rohatsu – December 2019
Buddha’s Enlightenment With Joshin Byrnes Rohatsu is Japanese for "eighth day of the twelfth month." December 8 has come to be the day Japanese Zen Buddhists observe the enlightenment of […]
Workshop on Zen Altars – December 2019
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United States
Introduction to The Brahma Viharas – February 2020
Introduction to The Brahma Viharas or How to Befriend Everything. There are four virtues mentioned in Buddhist teachings that are said to epitomize the highest expression of humanity and to be the ideal […]
Every Friday: Community Cafe in Rutland (on hold)
The Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Cafe is a community meal held every Friday in the Trinity Church Meeting Hall at the corner of Church and West Streets in Rutland. Doors […]
Ease and Joy of Mornings – March 2020
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 […]
Holy Week Street Retreat New York City, April 2020
April 8-12, 2020 New York City 2,500 years ago Shakyamuni Buddha led his monks each day in the practice of begging for food, receiving whatever was offered with gratitude. In 1996 […]
Canceled Interpersonal Meditation Retreat (on hold)
Interpersonal meditation is the practice of discovering and training new mindful ways of relating with others. The practice is done with others in pairs, small groups, and large groups. We […]
Summer Sesshin 2020
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesSesshin, meaning to gather the heart/mind, is a meditation retreat, done with others that deepens our relationship to our mind and to the world. In sesshin, the mind/body calms and […]
Street Retreat Seattle – June 2020
June 27 - July 1, 2020 Seattle 2,500 years ago Shakyamuni Buddha led his monks each day in the practice of begging for food, receiving whatever was offered with gratitude. […]
Street Retreat Boston – September 2020
"When we go...to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves." Practicing in the spirit of these words from Bernie […]
Election Retreat November 2020
Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT, United StatesStreet Retreat Montgomery – November 2020
"When we go...to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves." Practicing in the spirit of these words from Bernie […]
