Events

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 […]

Introduction to the Brahma Viharas (2 Sessions)

Introduction to The Brahma Viharas or How to Befriend Everything (2 sessions) Online program by zoom: Sunday May 3, 11:00 am Eastern time (session 1) AND Sunday May 24, 11:00 am Eastern time (session […]

Summer Sesshin 2020

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

Sesshin, 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. […]

Teaching on Our Lineage with Genzan Quennell

On Monday August 10 Genzan Quennell Sensei will teach us more about the White Plum Lineage. The teaching will be on zoom and starts at 7:00pm Eastern Time and will […]

You Can’t Fall Off The Path – August 2020

All your paths are superintended, you have always been on the Path. You can’t fall off it. Everything is conspiring to lead you home to experience your true nature. Everything […]

Teaching on Bowing by Genzan Quennell

Why are we bowing? Genzan Quennell Sensei will tell us more about the meaning of bowing in Zen. On Monday August 17 Sensei Genzan Quennell will teach us more about bowing. […]

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 […]

Zen Circle – October 2020

On Wednesday evening during our meditation time, we'll have Zen Circle time - which will be a simple online way to express some of what we might be stirring in […]

Street 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 […]