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Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
Image Description: Colin Beaven, a white middle aged man, is wearing grey Korean meditation robes and a red kasa. He is pointing upwards and speaking while seated in front of an altar.
Colin Beaven, JDPSN.
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We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Schedule (all times in EST):
10:00 AM – Zazen (Silent Meditation)
10:30 AM – Robe Chant and mindful break
10:40 AM – Zazen
11:10 AM – Break
9:00 AM – Break
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Join us online for Zen meditation and a Dharma talk by our Guiding Teacher, Ōshin Jennings.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in ASL and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: Headshot of Ben Connelly…
Ben began Zen practice at MZMC in 2001, was ordained in 2009, and received dharma transmission in 2015. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police training and addiction recovery groups. He works with multifaith groups focused on intersectional liberation, racial justice, and climate justice. Ben travels to teach across the United States, has written for Tricycle and Lion’s Roar magazines, and is author for Wisdom Publications of Inside the Grass Hut, Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara, Vasubandhu's "Three Natures", and Mindfulness and Intimacy. Click here to find out more about Ben's books.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Schedule (all times in EST):
10:00 AM – Zazen (Silent Meditation)
10:30 AM – Robe Chant and mindful break
10:40 AM – Zazen
11:10 AM – Break
9:00 AM – Break
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: Headshot of Kokyo Henkel, a white middle-aged monk wearing brown Okesa standing outside in front of foliage. He is smiling kindly.
Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990, in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan, and Santa Cruz Zen Center. He is a Dharma heir of Tenshin Anderson Roshi, in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Schedule (all times in EST):
10:00 AM – Zazen (Silent Meditation)
10:30 AM – Robe Chant and mindful break
10:40 AM – Zazen
11:10 AM – Break
9:00 AM – Break
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of David Loy a white man with a beard wearing glasses and a suit jacket, he is seated in a library leaning forward on a book of Tibetan art.
David Loy (http://www.davidloy.org) is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Zen Buddhism. His articles regularly appear in the pages of Buddhist magazines, including Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as in a variety of scholarly journals. David’s most recent book is Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis (Wisdom publications, 2018). He teaches nationally and internationally on various topics, focusing primarily on the encounter between Buddhism and modernity: what each can learn from the other. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A Korean painting of a robed baby Buddha taking his first steps, while being showered by dragons spraying water. The young Buddha points to heaven with one hand, and to the earth with the other. Overlaid text reads “無関寺 Buddha’s Birthday April 5, 2025”.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
Image Description: A portrait of Barbara Meido Anderson Roshi, older white presenting woman wearing glasses and formal Zen robes.
Meido Barbara Anderson is the Resident Guiding Teacher at O-An Zendo. She began practicing meditation in 1967 soon after receiving her doctorate in philosophy from Penn State University.
She began her formal study and practice of Zen with the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, receiving the Five Precepts from him in 1994. Thereafter, she studied and practiced in the Soto and Rinzai styles with Dai-en Bennage NiOsho, abbess of Mt. Equity Zen Center; Genro Lee Milton Sensei, abbot of Endless Mountain Zendo, and Jiro Andy Afable Osho of Early Light Zendo.
In 2010 she received the Ten Grave Buddhist Precepts from her guiding teacher Shoho Michael Newhall, abbot of Jikoji and Dharma heir of Kobun Chino Roshi. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2011, and transmitted to become a Dharma heir in the Cloud Phoenix lineage in 2019 by Shoho Michael Newhall.
For the past five years, Meido has studied and practiced Japanese Ceremonial Tea, and offers tea regularly to members of the O-An sangha and the larger community.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image description: Ōshin a tall white monk is smiling warmly, he is standing behind Nenzen resting his hand on her shoulder. Nenzen has long white hair and is also smiling warmly.
Chōbun Nenzen Pamela Brown was introduced to meditation practice in 1976. Forty years later, as her father was declining with a neurodegenerative disease, she decided to stay seated. Pamela met Sensei Gary Koan Janka, and practiced with and served Koan Sensei's Santa Barbara Zen Center. Koan lay ordained Nenzen and later introduced her to Jikoji Zen Center where she was ordained in Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi's lineage by Shoho Michael Newhall. She received dharma transmission from Jakko Eso Vanja Palmers at Felsentor, Switzerland in 2022.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Barbara Meido Anderson Roshi, older white presenting woman wearing glasses and formal Zen robes.
Meido Barbara Anderson is the Resident Guiding Teacher at O-An Zendo. She began practicing meditation in 1967 soon after receiving her doctorate in philosophy from Penn State University.
She began her formal study and practice of Zen with the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, receiving the Five Precepts from him in 1994. Thereafter, she studied and practiced in the Soto and Rinzai styles with Dai-en Bennage NiOsho, abbess of Mt. Equity Zen Center; Genro Lee Milton Sensei, abbot of Endless Mountain Zendo, and Jiro Andy Afable Osho of Early Light Zendo.
In 2010 she received the Ten Grave Buddhist Precepts from her guiding teacher Shoho Michael Newhall, abbot of Jikoji and Dharma heir of Kobun Chino Roshi. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2011, and transmitted to become a Dharma heir in the Cloud Phoenix lineage in 2019 by Shoho Michael Newhall.
For the past five years, Meido has studied and practiced Japanese Ceremonial Tea, and offers tea regularly to members of the O-An sangha and the larger community.
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Shodo Spring
Shodo Spring is a Dharma heir of Shohaku Okumura. Her practice focuses on our relationship with all sentient beings, through the Mountains and Waters Alliance. Shodo met the dharma through Dainin Katagiri at Minnesota Zen Center, practiced with Tenshin Anderson at Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara, and trained with Okumura Roshi at Sanshinji. In 2013 she walked across the Great Plains in the Compassionate Earth Walk, then returned to plant herself in the woods, hills, and water of southern Minnesota. She’s working on her second book.
https://mountainsandwatersalliance.org/about-shodo-spring/
We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
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Jesse Dow is a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain, a father, a restorative circle keeper, a local farmer, and a carpenter. He worked In the Boulder Valley School District for 12 years as a Family Literacy Site Manager and another 3 years as a preschool community liaison. He has been practicing meditation for 31 years in the Soto Zen tradition, first as a student of Kobun Chino Roshi, and then as a student of Michael Shoho Newhall Roshi, with whom he was ordained as a lay practitioner. Most recently, over the last four years, Jesse has also practiced in the Theravada tradition, primarily with Kittisaro and Thanissara, and Gil Fronsdal.
At a young age, Jesse lived briefly and attended school in San Cristobal De Las Casas, in South Mexico. As an adult, Jesse lived for a short while in Managua, Nicaragua, doing political reconciliation work between liberal and conservative parties that had fought against each other in the Nicaraguan Revolution and in the Contra War. Jesse is a fluent Spanish speaker, and much of his heart resides with the hispanic culture.
Jesse is a 4th generation Coloradan, and loves these mountains and these plains as family. It is his sacred lifelong duty to protect and support all of our beloved human and non-human relatives.
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We will have 2 periods of Zen meditation (30 minutes each), followed by a Dharma talk.
Join us on Zoom by following this link here, or copy paste the link below: https://zoom.us/j/778202667?pwd=T0xmSUhIK0h0QmIyUXlIMmJqK1ZmZz09
Beginning instruction in Zen meditation is available by request, please contact us in advance to set up a meeting before the event.
All are welcome! This Dharma talk will be in English and ASL-English interpreters are provided for this event. For additional accommodations or for more information please contact us.
Check back here before the event in case there are any updates.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of David Loy a white man with a beard wearing glasses and a suit jacket, he is seated in a library leaning forward on a book of Tibetan art.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
Image Description: A pair of small moss-covered Jizo statues lean on each other,
Image Description: A portrait of Ōshin Sensei smiling, wearing koromo and brown Okesa standing in front of a wooden clapboard background, behind him a welcome sign can be seen.
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