by ADZG | Jul 1, 2021 | Board Meeting Notes
New board member – After the resignation of board member Fushin Susan Schoenbohm in April, the board elected Carol Ko Laursen to fulfill her 2-year term. Welcome Ko! Guiding Teacher – Taigen will be offering a seminar on Dogen’s Being Time and view of...
by ADZG | May 4, 2021 | Board Meeting Notes
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by ADZG | May 4, 2021 | Board Meeting Notes
Board of Directors’ Meeting Summary April 18, 2021 The sangha board of directors had a productive meeting on Sunday April 18. Highlights from the meeting include: A decision to state the board’s intention to look for a building to purchase. It was recognized that...
by ADZG | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
As Zen Buddhist clergy, we condemn the attack on the United States congress on January 6th. We acknowledge the anguish and rage it has brought. At the center of our tradition is the understanding that violence leads to violence, compassion to compassion, ignorance to...
by ADZG | Jan 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
The impact of the January 6 siege on Congress by a mob incited by the President of the United States continues to reverberate throughout the nation. San Francisco Zen Center condemns the violence that was perpetrated, mourns the loss of lives, and bears witness to the...
by ADZG | Dec 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
The following resolution amending the Bylaws of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate NFP are adopted by the Board of Directors: Article 3 Section 3(g) of the Bylaws is amended and restated as follows: (g) Call for and hold meetings of the Participants (as defined hereafter), as...
by ADZG | Dec 21, 2020 | Chants
On this Winter Solstice, Darkest day of the year, we now resolve Not to turn away from the deep darkness of our troubled world and of our lives. We welcome the light increasing now from this day on. May we all spread this glowing light in our lives, May the...
by ADZG | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles
Being Time and Deep Time Taigen Dan Leighton From A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time edited by Stephanie Kaza © 2020 by Stephanie Kaza. Reprinted in arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boulder, CO. Joanna Macy’s work on deep...
by ADZG | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
As an effort to protect our sangha, Ancient Dragon Zen Gate has not met in our Irving Park Road city temple since mid-March, shifting focus to operating as a online practice community. This new realm of Zoom zazen has been sometimes strange but has brought many...
by ADZG | Jun 28, 2020 | Dharma Talk Videos
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by ADZG | Jun 22, 2020 | Other Articles
by Brian Taylor The following is an example of how I sometimes like to digest writings by Zen teachers. While reading one or more books written by a particular teacher, I copy short passages that strike me, putting them in verse form. Later, I rearrange these short...
by ADZG | May 27, 2020 | Other Articles
by Gyoshin Laurel Ross Driving toward my block, hoping for a parking space, I was annoyed when the pickup truck ahead of me suddenly slowed. Was he going to snag my spot? No. He turned left into the alley and as I pressed down to accelerate I saw the problem. A...
by ADZG | May 21, 2020 | Chants
Today we honor and uplift that this territory is home to the original stewards and guardians of Chicago-land: the Miami, Oceti Sakowin (“Oh-chey-tee Sha-koh-ween”), Kickapoo, Peoria, Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. The alliance of the Ojibwe, Odawa,...
by ADZG | May 1, 2020 | Dharma Talk Videos
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by ADZG | Apr 19, 2020 | Dharma Talk Videos
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by ADZG | Apr 1, 2020 | Chants
Based on my love of the world and understanding of deep interdependence of all things, I vow: To live in Earth more lightly and less violently in the food, products and energy I consume. To commit myself daily to the healing of the world and the welfare of all beings;...
by ADZG | Mar 14, 2020 | Articles
by Taigen Dan Leighton Copyright © 2020 Taigen Dan Leighton This is a much-expanded version of a talk presented at the World of Bob Dylan International Symposium, May 30 to June 2, 2019, at the University of Tulsa’s Institute for Bob Dylan Studies. Bob...
by ADZG | Mar 2, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Article for the book, Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale Wright (Oxford University Press, 2008) Buddhist meditation has commonly been considered an instrumental technique aimed at obtaining a...
by ADZG | Mar 1, 2019 | Articles
We Are All Refugees BY TAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON| OCTOBER 30, 2018 Zen teacher Taigen Dan Leighton attended the Tree of Life synagogue while growing up in Pittsburgh. He reflects on how all of us, near and far, are connected to the tragedy. Buddhist monks pay...
by ADZG | Feb 28, 2019 | Articles
Taigen Dan Leighton Published in “Shambhala Sun,” September, 1996, as “Now is the Past of the Future.” When we can fully see our own time in the dynamic fullness of time, without being blind to cause and effect, without being caught by limiting...
