Sangha News
Board Meeting Highlights – March 5, 2023
Sangha Meeting Recap Themes: desire for people to connect with other practitioners, particularly for online folks, and to volunteer more to be part of the sangha, the desire for more information of this body and the finance folks, and temple search, lingering concerns...
Board Meeting Highlights – January 15, 2023
Welcome to new and returning board members – David Wray, Ko, and Dylan Guiding Teacher report Lincoln Square zendo Going well, big improvement over previous February all-day sitting will have a maximum of 18 attendees Practice Council meeting Either 1/31 or 2/1...
Book Recommendation: Alan Senauke’s Turning Words
I want to strongly recommend a new Zen book. The book is Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers (Shambhala) by Hozan Alan Senauke, currently Abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. This book is brilliant, a masterpiece. It features illuminating...
Board Meeting Highlights – December 18, 2022
Guiding Teacher report All-day sitting scheduled for February 12th No New Year’s Eve sitting Sangha meeting scheduled for last Sunday in February to talk about progress on building search and to check in with everyone Ben Connelly to speak on second Sunday in...
Board Meeting Highlights – November 20, 2022
Guiding Teacher report December 4th one-day sitting Service will be cancelled for Christmas Upcoming guest speakers December 11th – Judith Ragir – may be in-person January 8th – Ben Connelly February 5th – Florence Caplow Position transitions Douglas is cycling...
Board Meeting Highlights – October 16, 2022
Board Meeting Highlights - October 16, 2022 New interim practice location During the month of November, we will be preparing what we are calling Giddings Zendo (for its location at 2255 W. Giddings) for our move-in. We hope to have it all cleaned, painted, and ready...
Bob Dylan’s Visions of Zen Mind
from Zen Questions: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry, by Taigen Dan Leighton (Wisdom Publications, 2011) An Off-Beat Conference and a Song Gathering the Mind Sometimes in Zen we sit for a day, or three, five, or seven days, in what is called...
Board Meeting Highlights – September 28, 2022
Some major decisions were made at this meeting, denoting progress as we move forward as a sangha: 1. The board approved the offer of Hogetsu Laurie Belzer to rent the first-floor unit in her building to Ancient Dragon for use as an interim temple location until such...
Shakyamuni at the Border
A Meditation on Peace and War Taigen Leighton, September 2022 Shakyamuni the Awakened One sat down under a tree At the border of his homeland As the invading army approached. The two warring armies Hostile and fierce Arrived at the riverside And witnessed Buddha...
Board Meeting Highlights – June 19, 2022
Guiding Teacher report: - Taigen's vacation will be from July 14 through August 4 - A Practice Council meeting will be on July 7 to talk about intensive practice opportunities - Event with author Ruth Ozeki this Friday 7pm 6.24 at Ebenezer Church, also on Zoom, ...