Events
Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness – February 2020
Saturday February 29, 1:00pm - 5:00pm Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Kyodo Sinclair For this afternoon, we will explore one of the core texts of Buddhist meditation practice: The Satipatthana Sutta. We will dive into this sutra with teaching, discussion and some themed meditation sessions. Kyodo Sinclair lives mainly in England and serves as a Prison […]
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 open around 10:00. Lunch is served from noon to 1:00. All are welcome to eat and to be a part of the community. There is […]
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 for beginners, intermediate or long-time meditators who want a refresher course on this “dharma gate of joy and ease” as described by Zen Master, Dogen-Zenji. […]
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 Bernie Glassman started with the Holy Week Street Retreats. In this 2020 Holy Week Street Retreat led by Joshin Byrnes, Kineret Ando Yardena and Áine […]
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 practice directly the art of seeing and being seen in relationship without needing to change ourselves or others. Interpersonal meditation is an excellent way to integrate […]
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 2) There are four virtues mentioned in Buddhist teachings that are said to epitomize the highest expression of humanity and to be the ideal mode […]
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 settles, and the mind becomes clear and open. We experience the deep stillness that lies within each of us and the tremendous strength of a […]
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. In this retreat led by Joshin, we will plunge into a modern day variation on this early Buddhist practice and become one with the streets […]
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 take 1.5 hours From Shakyamuni Buddha Daiosho - Bodaidaruma Daiosho - Eihei Dogen Daiosho - Koun Taizan Daiosho to Baisen Tetsugen Daiosho And from Mahaprajapati to Jishu Angyo Holmes […]
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 you are doing now, including all the mess-ups and screw-ups and mistakes are exactly the right thing for you to learn what you need to […]
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. The teaching will be on zoom and starts at 7:00pm Eastern Time and will take 1.5 hours Dogen Zenji once said: “As long as there […]
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 Glassman on a Street Retreat is a unique opportunity to experience the energy of the oneness of life. We go to the streets to let […]
