# zenhub > ZENHUB gathers successors and communities in the Lineage of D. Genpo Merzel Roshi ### 404 We apologize for this 404 - Page Not Found - error! Maybe the sitemap will help? Or a search with our special search plugin? Search for: When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to go to the desired page. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.   ### Mary Ellen Seien Sloan, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854243592{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Mary Ellen Seien Sloan, Sensei | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963174974181518890715039"][vc_single_image image="3303" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] When I received Shiho, Roshi wrote this on my rakusu: "To Seien Sensei: You now have my Shobo enjoy and use it happily and freely with wisdom and compassion. Soten Genpo" This is my aspiration as a Dharma successor. I began studying with Genpo Roshi in 2001, received Jukai in 2004, was ordained a monk in 2005, and received Shiho (Dharma transmission) September 2017. I’ve been Roshi’s assistant/attendant since February 2011 and lead a meditation group in Salt Lake City, use the Big Mind process in working with individuals, and along with other of Roshi’s senior students have organized a Big Mind process practice group in Salt Lake City. I was also designated a Certified Big Mind Facilitator by Roshi in September 2017. I'm an attorney, and in 1975 began representing Native Americans and other low-income individuals, and eventually Tribes in various matters, including shepherding legislation through the US Congress to restore federal recognition to a Utah tribe, which made it possible for the Tribe to establish health care facilities, education programs, and housing for its members. After joining the office of the Salt Lake County District Attorney in 1988, I was appointed Chief of the Tax and Revenue Unit, and the Assistant Division Administrator of the Civil Division, at that time the highest position to be held by a woman in the District Attorney’s Office. I was recognized by the Utah State Bar Association as among the first 100 women attorneys in Utah, served at President of Women Lawyers of Utah, and was an ex officio member of the Utah Bar Commission on behalf of Women Lawyers of Utah. I live in Salt Lake City and have one daughter. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Big Mind Practice Group" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963174974181518890715039"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]More to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963174974181518890715039"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963174974181518890715039"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Calendar yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963174974181518890715039"][vc_wp_text 0=""] [/vc_wp_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501843476575{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" spacing="2" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_single_image image="1042" img_size="170x270"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Venerable [glossary_exclude]Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi[/glossary_exclude], a seminal influence on the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States, was ordained as a Soto Zen monk at the age of eleven. He received degrees in Oriental Literature and Philosophy from Komazawa University and studied at Sojiji, one of the two main Soto monasteries in Japan. He received Dharma transmission from Hakujun Kuroda Roshi, in 1955. He also received approval as a teacher (Inka ) from both Koryu Osaka Roshi, and Hakuun Yasutani Roshi. In 1956, Maezumi Roshi came to Los Angeles as a priest at Zenshuji Temple, the Soto Headquarters of the United States. He devoted his life to laying a firm foundation for the growth of Zen Buddhism in the West. In1967, he established the Zen Center of Los Angeles. Its honorary founder is Baian Hakujun Daiosho, who headed the Soto Sect Supreme Court and was one of the leading figures of Japanese Soto Zen. Maezumi Roshi established six temples in the United States and Europe that are formally registered with Soto Headquarters in Japan. In addition to ZCLA, these include Zen Mountain Center in California; Zen Community of New York (Tetsugen Glassman, Abbot); Kanzeon Zen Centers of Salt Lake City, Utah and Europe (Genpo Merzel, Abbot); and Zen Mountain Monastery in New York (Daido Loori, Abbot). Affiliated centers also include the Great Mountain Zen Center in Colorado (Shishin Wick, teacher), Zen Community of Oregon (Chozen Bays, teacher); Three Treasures Zen Community in San Diego (Jikyo Miller, teacher); Centro Zen de Mexico, Coyoacan (Tesshin Sanderson, teacher), and Centro Zen de la Cuidad deMexico. In addition, there are over fifty groups in the Americas and Europe that are affiliated with ZCLA. In 1976, Maezumi Roshi established the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values, a non-profit educational organization formed to promote scholarship on Buddhism in its historical, philosophical, and cultural ramifications. The Institute serves the scholarly community by providing a forum in which scholars can gather at conferences and colloquia. The Institute also publishes a book series with the University of Hawaii Press devoted to the translation of East Asian Buddhist classics and presentations of scholarly works from its conferences. Maezumi Roshi also founded the Dharma Institute in Mexico City. Maezumi Roshi founded the White Plum Asanga, named after his father Baian Hakujun Daiosho.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]He transmitted the Dharma to twelve successors: Bernard Tetsugen Glassman (NY), Dennis Genpo Merzel (UT & Europe), Charlotte Joko Beck (CA), Jan Chozen Bays (OR), John Daido Loori (NY), Gerry Shishin Wick (CO), John Tesshin Sanderson (Mexico), Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta (CA), Charles Tenshin Fletcher (CA), Susan Myoyu Andersen (IL), Nicolee Jikyo Miller (CA), and William Nyogen Yeo (CA). These twelve successors have further transmitted the Dharma to a great number of ”second-generation” successors. In America, Maezumi Roshi ordained 68 Zen priests and gave the lay Buddhist precepts to over 500 people. As a major contribution to the transmission of Buddhist teachings to the West, Maezumi Roshi was instrumental in bringing to realization the formation of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association (SZBA) of American Soto Zen teachers. Maezumi Roshi also promoted exchange programs among priests and lay practitioners between the United States and Japan. He had published commentaries on major Buddhist works, and his collected works will be published posthumously. At the age of 64 Maezumi Roshi died suddenly in Tokyo, Japan in the early morning hours of Monday, May 15 (Japanese time), 1995. Maezumi Roshi is survived by his wife Martha Ekyo Maezumi and their three children, Kirsten Mitsuyo, Yuri Jundo and Shira Yoshimi. Intimate funeral services and cremation were held in Tokyo, Japan on May 19 to 20, 1995. The main funeral was held on Sunday, August 27, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Sangha" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text] This section is under construction as a work in progress...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d3149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text] This section is under construction as a work in progress... 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Die Webseite wird auch außerhalb Deutschlands so schnell wie möglich ausgeliefert durch die Schweizer Firma proinity GmbH durch deren „Content Delivery Network“ (CDN) „KeyCDN“. Dieses Netzwerk unterliegt den schweizerischen Datenschutzgesetzen und entspricht europäischem Datenrecht.proinity LLC Ruemikerstrasse 60 CH-8409 Winterthur Switzerland hello@keycdn.com +41 44 585 31 52 Die Erfassung dieser Daten erfolgt auf Grundlage von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Der Websitebetreiber hat ein berechtigtes Interesse an der technisch fehlerfreien Darstellung und der Optimierung seiner Website – hierzu müssen die Server-Log-Files erfasst werden. 3.2 Kontaktformular Wenn Sie uns per Kontaktformular Anfragen zukommen lassen, werden Ihre Angaben aus dem Anfrageformular inklusive der von Ihnen dort angegebenen Kontaktdaten zwecks Bearbeitung der Anfrage und für den Fall von Anschlussfragen bei uns gespeichert. Diese Daten geben wir nicht ohne Ihre Einwilligung weiter. Die Verarbeitung der in das Kontaktformular eingegebenen Daten erfolgt somit ausschließlich auf Grundlage Ihrer Einwilligung (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a DSGVO). Sie können diese Einwilligung jederzeit widerrufen. Dazu reicht eine formlose Mitteilung per E-Mail an uns. Die Rechtmäßigkeit der bis zum Widerruf erfolgten Datenverarbeitungsvorgänge bleibt vom Widerruf unberührt. Die von Ihnen im Kontaktformular eingegebenen Daten verbleiben bei uns, bis Sie uns zur Löschung auffordern, Ihre Einwilligung zur Speicherung widerrufen oder der Zweck für die Datenspeicherung entfällt (z. B. nach abgeschlossener Bearbeitung Ihrer Anfrage). Zwingende gesetzliche Bestimmungen – insbesondere Aufbewahrungsfristen – bleiben unberührt.   4. Analyse-Tools und Werbung 4.1 Google Analytics Diese Website nutzt Funktionen des Webanalysedienstes Google Analytics. Anbieter ist die Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. Google Analytics verwendet so genannte „Cookies“. Das sind Textdateien, die auf Ihrem Computer gespeichert werden und die eine Analyse der Benutzung der Website durch Sie ermöglichen. Die durch den Cookie erzeugten Informationen über Ihre Benutzung dieser Website werden in der Regel an einen Server von Google in den USA übertragen und dort gespeichert. Die Speicherung von Google-Analytics-Cookies und die Nutzung dieses Analyse-Tools erfolgen auf Grundlage von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Der Websitebetreiber hat ein berechtigtes Interesse an der Analyse des Nutzerverhaltens, um sowohl sein Webangebot als auch seine Werbung zu optimieren. 4.1.1 IP Anonymisierung Wir haben auf dieser Website die Funktion IP-Anonymisierung aktiviert. Dadurch wird Ihre IP-Adresse von Google innerhalb von Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union oder in anderen Vertragsstaaten des Abkommens über den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum vor der Übermittlung in die USA gekürzt. Nur in Ausnahmefällen wird die volle IP-Adresse an einen Server von Google in den USA übertragen und dort gekürzt. Im Auftrag des Betreibers dieser Website wird Google diese Informationen benutzen, um Ihre Nutzung der Website auszuwerten, um Reports über die Websiteaktivitäten zusammenzustellen und um weitere mit der Websitenutzung und der Internetnutzung verbundene Dienstleistungen gegenüber dem Websitebetreiber zu erbringen. Die im Rahmen von Google Analytics von Ihrem Browser übermittelte IP-Adresse wird nicht mit anderen Daten von Google zusammengeführt. 4.1.2 Browser Plugin Sie können die Speicherung der Cookies durch eine entsprechende Einstellung Ihrer Browser-Software verhindern; wir weisen Sie jedoch darauf hin, dass Sie in diesem Fall gegebenenfalls nicht sämtliche Funktionen dieser Website vollumfänglich werden nutzen können. Sie können darüber hinaus die Erfassung der durch den Cookie erzeugten und auf Ihre Nutzung der Website bezogenen Daten (inkl. Ihrer IP-Adresse) an Google sowie die Verarbeitung dieser Daten durch Google verhindern, indem Sie das unter dem folgenden Link verfügbare Browser-Plugin herunterladen und installieren: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. 4.1.3 Widerspruch gegen Datenerfassung Sie können die Erfassung Ihrer Daten durch Google Analytics verhindern, indem Sie auf folgenden Link klicken. Es wird ein Opt-Out-Cookie gesetzt, der die Erfassung Ihrer Daten bei zukünftigen Besuchen dieser Website verhindert: Google Analytics deaktivieren. Ihr Browser muss die Speicherung von Cookies also hierzu grundsätzlich erlauben. Löschen Sie Ihre Cookies regelmäßig, ist ein erneuter Klick auf den Link bei jedem Besuch dieser Website vonnöten. Mehr Informationen zum Umgang mit Nutzerdaten bei Google Analytics finden Sie in der Datenschutzerklärung von Google: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de. 4.1.4 Speicherdauer Bei Google gespeicherte Daten auf Nutzer- und Ereignisebene, die mit Cookies, Nutzerkennungen (z. B. User ID) oder Werbe-IDs (z. B. DoubleClick-Cookies, Android-Werbe-ID) verknüpft sind, werden nach 14 Monaten anonymisiert bzw. gelöscht. Details hierzu ersehen Sie unter folgendem Link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=de   5. Plugins und Tools 5.1 OpenStreetMap Wir nutzen den Kartendienst von OpenStreetMap (OSM). Anbieterin ist die Open-Street-Map Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom. Wenn Sie eine Website besuchen, auf der OpenStreetMap eingebunden ist, werden u. a. Ihre IP-Adresse und weitere Informationen über Ihr Verhalten auf dieser Website an die OSMF weitergeleitet. OpenStreetMap speichert hierzu unter Umständen Cookies in Ihrem Browser. Das sind Textdateien, die auf Ihrem Computer gespeichert werden und die eine Analyse der Benutzung der Website durch Sie ermöglichen. Sie können die Speicherung der Cookies durch eine entsprechende Einstellung Ihrer Browser-Software verhindern; wir weisen Sie jedoch darauf hin, dass Sie in diesem Fall gegebenenfalls nicht sämtliche Funktionen dieser Website vollumfänglich werden nutzen können. Ferner kann Ihr Standort erfasst werden, wenn Sie dies in Ihren Geräteeinstellungen – z. B. auf Ihrem Handy – zugelassen haben. Der Anbieter dieser Seite hat keinen Einfluss auf diese Datenübertragung. Details entnehmen Sie der Datenschutzerklärung von OpenStreetMap unter folgendem Link: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy. Die Nutzung von OpenStreetMap erfolgt im Interesse einer ansprechenden Darstellung unserer Online-Angebote und einer leichten Auffindbarkeit der von uns auf der Website angegebenen Orte. Dies stellt ein berechtigtes Interesse im Sinne von Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO dar. Privacy Policy 1. An Overview of Data Protection 1.1 General information The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit our website. The term „personal data“ comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy. 1.2 Data recording on our website Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e. the „controller“)? The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact information is available under section „Information Required by Law“ on this website. How do we record your data? We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into our contact form. Our IT systems automatically record other data when you visit our website. This data comprises primarily technical information (e.g. web browser, operating system or time the site was accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access our website. What are the purposes we use your data for? A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns. What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned? You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified, blocked or eradicated. Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section „Information Required by Law“ on this website if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues. You also have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency. Moreover, under certain circumstances, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. For details, please consult the Data Protection Declaration under section „Right to Restriction of Data Processing.“ Analysis tools and tools provided by third parties There is a possibility that your browsing patterns will be statistically analysed when your visit our website. Such analyses are performed primarily with cookies and with what we refer to as analysis programmes. As a rule, the analyses of your browsing patterns are conducted anonymously; i.e. the browsing patterns cannot be traced back to you. You have the option to object to such analyses or you can prevent their performance by not using certain tools. For detailed information about the tools and about your options to object, please consult our Data Protection Declaration below.   2. General information and mandatory information 2.1 Data protection The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration. Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected. We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through e-mail communications) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third party access. 2.2 Information about the responsible party (referred to as the „controller“ in the GDPR) The data processing controller on this website is: Christian Schmidt von Wolkahof Beethovenstr. 4 40233 Düsseldorf Deutschland / Germany Phone: 021152850089 E-mail: sensei@kanzeon.de The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.). 2.3 Your Data 2.3.1 Revocation of your consent to the processing of data A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation. 2.3.2 Right to object to the collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR) In the event that data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your personal data based on grounds arising from your unique situation. This also applies to any profiling based on these provisions. To determine the legal basis, on which any processing of data is based, please consult this Data Protection Declaration. If you log an objection, we will no longer process your affected personal data, unless we are in a position to present compelling protection worthy grounds for the processing of your data, that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the purpose of the processing is the claiming, exercising or defence of legal entitlements (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR). If your personal data is being processed in order to engage in direct advertising, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your affected personal data for the purposes of such advertising. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is affiliated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR). 2.3.3 Right to log a complaint with the competent supervisory agency In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal recourses. 2.3.4 Right to data portability You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is technically feasible. 2.3.5 SSL and/or TLS encryption For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from „http://“ to „https://“ and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line. If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties. 2.3.6 Information about, blockage, rectification and eradication of data Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rectified, blocked or eradicated. If you have questions about this subject matter or any other questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time at the address provided in section „Information Required by Law.“ 2.3.7 Right to demand processing restrictions You have the right to demand the imposition of restrictions as far as the processing of your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the address provided in section „Information Required by Law.“ The right to demand restriction of processing applies in the following cases: In the event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this investigation is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data. If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu of demanding the eradication of this data. If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or claim legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of its eradication. If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data. If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the exception of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal entitlements or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for important public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of the EU. 2.4 Rejection of unsolicited e-mails We herewith object to the use of contact information published in conjunction with the mandatory information to be provided in section „Information Required by Law“ to send us promotional and information material that we have not expressly requested. The operators of this website and its pages reserve the express right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of promotional information, for instance via SPAM messages.   3. Recording of data on our website 3.1 Server log files The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The information comprises: The type and version of browser used The used operating system Referrer URL The hostname of the accessing computer The time of the server inquiry The IP address This data is not merged with other data sources. Technically necessary data for the operation of this website is processed by two European service providers working in compliance with data protection law; I have concluded a data processing contract (ADV) with both service providers.1. The website is hosted by the company Raidboxes in Germany. Raidboxes is subject to German data protection laws and complies with European data law.RAIDBOXES Ltd. Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 7 DE – 48153 Münster Phone: +49 (0)251 1498 2000 E-mail: support@raidboxes.de2. The website’s delivery worldwide is provided by the Swiss company proinity GmbH via its „Content Delivery Network“ (CDN) „KeyCDN“. This network is subject to Swiss data protection laws and complies with European data protection law.proinity LLC Ruemikerstrasse 60 CH-8409 Winterthur Switzerland hello@keycdn.com +41 44 585 31 52 This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded. 3.2 Contact form If you submit inquiries to us via our contact form, the information provided in the contact form as well as any contact information provided therein will be stored by us in order to handle your inquiry and in the event that we have further questions. We will not share this information without your consent. Hence, the processing of the data entered into the contact form occurs exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation. The information you have entered into the contact form shall remain with us until you ask us to eradicate the data, revoke your consent to the archiving of data or if the purpose for which the information is being archived no longer exists (e.g. after we have concluded our response to your inquiry). This shall be without prejudice to any mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods.   4. Analysis tools and advertising 4.1 Google Analytics This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider of this service is Google Ireland Limited („Google“), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses so-called cookies. Cookies are text files, which are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of the use of the website by users. The information generated by cookies on your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the United States, where it is stored. The storage of Google Analytics cookies and the utilization of this analysis tool are based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of this website has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns to optimize both, the services offered online and the operator’s advertising activities. 4.1.1 IP anonymization On this website, we have activated the IP anonymization function. As a result, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other states that have ratified the Convention on the European Economic Area prior to its transmission to the United States. The full IP address will be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the United States and abbreviated there only in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google shall use this information to analyse your use of this website to generate reports on website activities and to render other services to the operator of this website that are related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted in conjunction with Google Analytics from your browser shall not be merged with other data in Google’s possession. 4.1.2 Browser plug-in You do have the option to prevent the archiving of cookies by making pertinent changes to the settings of your browser software. However, we have to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to their fullest extent. Moreover, you have the option prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and affiliated with your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 4.1.3 Objection to the recording of data You have the option to prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. This will result in the placement of an opt out cookie, which prevents the recording of your data during future visits to this website: Google Analytics deactivation. Your browser must therefore generally allow the storage of cookies for this purpose. If you delete your cookies regularly, a new click on the link is necessary each time you visit this website. For more information about the handling of user data by Google Analytics, please consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. 4.1.4 Archiving period Data on the user or incident level stored by Google linked to cookies, user IDs or advertising IDs (e.g. DoubleClick cookies, Android advertising ID) will be anonymized or deleted after 14 month. For details please click the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7667196?hl=en   5. Plug-ins and Tools 5.1 OpenStreetMap We are using the mapping service provided by OpenStreetMap (OSM). The provider of this service is the Open-Street-Map Foundation (OSMF), 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom. When you visit any website, into which OpenStreetMap has been embedded, your IP address and other information concerning your behavior patterns on this website will be transferred to the OSMF. Under certain circumstances, OpenStreetMap will save cookies in your browser. Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer and that make it possible to conduct an analysis of your website use. You have the option to prevent the storage of cookies by making pertinent changes to the settings of your browser software. However, we have to point out that doing so may make it impossible for you to use all of the functions of this website to their fullest extent. Furthermore, your location may be recorded if you have permitted this in your device settings, for instance on your cell phone. The provider of this website has no control over this type of data transfer. For details, please consult the Data Privacy Policy of OpenStreetMap under the following link: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy. We use OpenStreetMap with the objective of ensuring the attractive presentation of our online offers and to make it easy for visitors to find the locations we specify on our website. 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Please access the White Plum Asangha website via the link: https://whiteplum.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="4041" img_size="360x536"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Sitemap [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Pages404 ZenHub Genealogy Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi Maezumi Roshi Lineage The White Plum Asangha Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi Catherine Genno Pagès, Roshi Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi > Lineage Anton Tenkei Coppens, Roshi Anton Tenkei Coppens Roshi > Lineage John Shodo Flatt, Sensei Malgosia Jiho Braunek, Roshi Daniel Doen Silberberg, Roshi Daniel Doen Silberberg Roshi > Lineage Nico Sojun Tydeman, Roshi Nico Niko Sojun Tydeman Roshi > Lineage Nancy Genshin Gabrysch, Roshi Diane Musho Hamilton, Roshi Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Roshi Rich Taido Christofferson, Sensei Michel Genko Dubois, Roshi Tamara Myoho Gabrysch, Roshi KC Kyozen Sato, Roshi Maurice Shonen Knegtel, Roshi Judi Kanchi Warren, Sensei Mark Kanchi Esterman, Roshi Mary Ellen Seien Sloan, Sensei Amy Tu Es Cela Hollowell, Roshi Frank De Waele, Roshi Corinne Joie Partagée Frottier, Sensei Michel Plein Ciel Oltheten, Sensei Rein Konpo Kaales, Roshi Joke Heldere Dharmatraan Huiberts, Roshi Meindert Mu Sho van den Heuvel, Roshi Gretha Myoshin Aerts, Roshi Peter Gakudo den Hollander, Sensei Anjo Koren Kasman, Sensei Simon Senko de Boer, Sensei Robert Doin van de Roer, Sensei Helma Jifu Vulink, Sensei Jorge Ryusho Lopez Doriga, Sensei Hans Daishin Fischer, Sensei Ingrid Ranka du Hullu, Sensei Genpo Roshi Lineage Places Glossary Impressum | Site Notice Datenschutz | Privacy Policy Haftungsauschluss | Disclaimer Sitemap Contact Cookie Policy [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501843476575{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_single_image image="1042" img_size="170x270"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Venerable Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, a seminal influence on the growth of Zen Buddhism in the United States, was ordained as a Soto Zen monk at the age of eleven. He received degrees in Oriental Literature and Philosophy from Komazawa University and studied at Sojiji, one of the two main Soto monasteries in Japan. He received Dharma transmission from Hakujun Kuroda Roshi, in 1955. He also received approval as a teacher (Inka ) from both Koryu Osaka Roshi, and Hakuun Yasutani Roshi. In 1956, Maezumi Roshi came to Los Angeles as a priest at Zenshuji Temple, the Soto Headquarters of the United States. He devoted his life to laying a firm foundation for the growth of Zen Buddhism in the West. In1967, he established the Zen Center of Los Angeles. Its honorary founder is Baian Hakujun Daiosho, who headed the Soto Sect Supreme Court and was one of the leading figures of Japanese Soto Zen. Maezumi Roshi established six temples in the United States and Europe that are formally registered with Soto Headquarters in Japan. In addition to ZCLA, these include Zen Mountain Center in California; Zen Community of New York (Tetsugen Glassman, Abbot); Kanzeon Zen Centers of Salt Lake City, Utah and Europe (Genpo Merzel, Abbot); and Zen Mountain Monastery in New York (Daido Loori, Abbot). Affiliated centers also include the Great Mountain Zen Center in Colorado (Shishin Wick, teacher), Zen Community of Oregon (Chozen Bays, teacher); Three Treasures Zen Community in San Diego (Jikyo Miller, teacher); Centro Zen de Mexico, Coyoacan (Tesshin Sanderson, teacher), and Centro Zen de la Cuidad deMexico. In addition, there are over fifty groups in the Americas and Europe that are affiliated with ZCLA. In 1976, Maezumi Roshi established the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values, a non-profit educational organization formed to promote scholarship on Buddhism in its historical, philosophical, and cultural ramifications. The Institute serves the scholarly community by providing a forum in which scholars can gather at conferences and colloquia. The Institute also publishes a book series with the University of Hawaii Press devoted to the translation of East Asian Buddhist classics and presentations of scholarly works from its conferences. Maezumi Roshi also founded the Dharma Institute in Mexico City. Maezumi Roshi founded the White Plum Asanga, named after his father Baian Hakujun Daiosho.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]He transmitted the Dharma to twelve successors: Bernard Tetsugen Glassman (NY), Dennis Genpo Merzel (UT & Europe), Charlotte Joko Beck (CA), Jan Chozen Bays (OR), John Daido Loori (NY), Gerry Shishin Wick (CO), John Tesshin Sanderson (Mexico), Alfred Jitsudo Ancheta (CA), Charles Tenshin Fletcher (CA), Susan Myoyu Andersen (IL), Nicolee Jikyo Miller (CA), and William Nyogen Yeo (CA). These twelve successors have further transmitted the Dharma to a great number of ”second-generation” successors. In America, Maezumi Roshi ordained 68 Zen priests and gave the lay Buddhist precepts to over 500 people. As a major contribution to the transmission of Buddhist teachings to the West, Maezumi Roshi was instrumental in bringing to realization the formation of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association (SZBA) of American Soto Zen teachers. Maezumi Roshi also promoted exchange programs among priests and lay practitioners between the United States and Japan. He had published commentaries on major Buddhist works, and his collected works will be published posthumously. At the age of 64 Maezumi Roshi died suddenly in Tokyo, Japan in the early morning hours of Monday, May 15 (Japanese time), 1995. Maezumi Roshi is survived by his wife Martha Ekyo Maezumi and their three children, Kirsten Mitsuyo, Yuri Jundo and Shira Yoshimi. Intimate funeral services and cremation were held in Tokyo, Japan on May 19 to 20, 1995. The main funeral was held on Sunday, August 27, 1995 in Los Angeles, California.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Sangha" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text]This section is under construction as a work in progress...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d3149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text]This section is under construction as a work in progress...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Locations" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text]This section is under construction as a work in progress...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814962970096611497290386557"][vc_column_text]This section is under construction as a work in progress... and it is supposed to become a collection of websites and links...[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-video-camera" add_icon="true" title="Documentary" tab_id="1556966549172-668484a0-530d"][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/4C3C6jADV0o" title="Maezumi Roshi - Documentary"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="60px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### ZenHub [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1632497919441{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="15px"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="4815" img_size="large" alignment="center" style="vc_box_shadow" onclick="custom_link" css=".vc_custom_1633713087191{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}" link="https://zenhub.org/genealogy/"][vc_column_text]Get to know the Masters of the Past[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="4818" img_size="large" alignment="center" style="vc_box_shadow" onclick="custom_link" css=".vc_custom_1633713098973{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}" link="https://zenhub.org/genpo-roshi-lineage/"][vc_column_text]Meet the People of the Present[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="5250" img_size="large" alignment="center" style="vc_box_shadow" onclick="custom_link" css=".vc_custom_1633713110500{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}" link="https://zenhub.org/places/"][vc_column_text]Locate Teachers and Communities international[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1632497970790{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="30px"][vc_column_text css=""] Welcome to zenhub.org [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="30px"][vc_column_text css=""]Zenhub aims at everybody interested in Zen and its history and tradition and connects you to 2500 years of experience. This website is operated by kanzeon.de and portrays the tradition of Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi and D. Genpo Merzel Roshi. In particular, Zenhub gathers and depicts successors and communities in the Kanzeon. Inc. | Big Mind International Zen Community lineage of D. Genpo Merzel Roshi and invites you to join...[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1632927136204{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Table of Successors [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]The table below - which can be sorted and filtered - gives an overview of the teachers of the Genpo Merzel lineage. This website is a work in progress and will be updated continuously. We make every effort, but cannot guarantee that all information is correct.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=".vc_custom_1650276349843{margin-right: 10px !important;margin-left: 10px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] TeacherTitleGenerationSangha / GroupCountryLocationSuccessor to Dennis Genpo MerzelRoshi0 FounderKanzeon Big Mind Zen USAInternationalTaizan Maezumi Roshi Catherine Genno PagèsRoshi1Dana SanghaFranceParis MontreuilGenpo Merzel Roshi John Shodo FlattSensei1(deceased)EnglandGenpo Merzel Roshi Anton Tenkei CoppensRoshi1Zen River TempleThe NetherlandsUithuizenGenpo Merzel Roshi Malgosia Jiho BraunekRoshi1(deceased - Kanzeon.pl)PolandWarsaw | Bydgoszcz | LublinGenpo Merzel Roshi Daniel Doen SilberbergRoshi1Lost Coin ZenUSASan FranciscoGenpo Merzel Roshi Niko Tenko TydemanRoshi1Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdamGenpo Merzel Roshi Nancy Genshin GabryschRoshi1Kannon-jiEnglandBilsborrowGenpo Merzel Roshi Diane Musho HamiltonRoshi1Two Arrows ZenUSASalt Lake CityGenpo Merzel Roshi Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi1Two Arrows ZenUSASalt Lake CityGenpo Merzel Roshi Rich Taido ChristoffersonSensei1Trikaya Zen CenterUSATacomaGenpo Merzel Roshi Michel Genko DuboisRoshi1Zen - voie du coeurFranceParis MontreuilGenpo Merzel Roshi Tamara Myoho GabryschRoshi1Zen River TempleThe NetherlandsUithuizenGenpo Merzel Roshi Maurice Shonen KnegtelRoshi1Stichting IzenThe NetherlandsAmsterdamGenpo Merzel Roshi KC Kyozen SatoRoshi1Hermitage Without WallsUSASt. GeorgeGenpo Merzel Roshi Judi Kanchi WarrenSensei1(deceased)USALahainaGenpo Merzel Roshi Mark Kanchi EstermanRoshi1Salt Lake Zen GroupUSASalt Lake CityGenpo Merzel Roshi Mary Ellen SeiEn SloanRoshi1USASalt Lake CityGenpo Merzel Roshi Christian Jikishin von WolkahofSensei1Kanzeon Sangha GermanyGermanyDüsseldorfGenpo Merzel Roshi Lynn Shozen HolbrookSensei1USASalt Lake CityGenpo Merzel Roshi Stefan Kenjistu CoppensSensei1Kanzeon Zen CentrumThe NetherlandsBerlicumGenpo Merzel Roshi Krzysztof Furyu LeśniakSensei1PolandLublinGenpo Merzel Roshi Hank Yoshin MalinowskiSensei1The NetherlandsAmsterdamGenpo Merzel Roshi Jacqueline Shosui WellensteinSensei1The NetherlandsVoorburgGenpo Merzel Roshi Alexandra Mushin GerickeSensei1BelgiumGhentGenpo Merzel Roshi Charlotte Jigen JuulSensei1USA | DenmarkGenpo Merzel Roshi Amy Tu Es Cela HollowellRoshi2Wild Flower ZenFranceParisCatherine Genno Pagès Frank De WaeleRoshi2Zen SanghaBelgiumGhentCatherine Genno Pagès Corinne Joie Partagée FrottierSensei2GenjoAnGermanyHamburgCatherine Genno Pagès Michel Plein Ciel OlthetenSensei2Zen Heart SanghaThe NetherlandsThe HagueCatherine Genno Pagès João Cœur Éveillé RodriguesSensei2Dana SanghaFranceParis MontreuilCatherine Genno Pagès Tania TurnerSensei2Wholehearted Zen SanghaEnglandRichmond, SurreyCatherine Genno Pagès Scott WilliamsSensei2Hazy Moon SanghaEnglandEdenthorpe, DoncasterCatherine Genno Pagès Peter Gakudo den HollanderSensei2KeiryujiSpainCamprodonAnton Tenkei Coppens Anja Koren KasmanSensei2(Keiryuji (deceased))SpainCamprodonAnton Tenkei Coppens Simon Senko de BoerSensei2Zen Boat GroningenThe NetherlandsGroningenAnton Tenkei Coppens Robert Doin van de RoerSensei2Zen River TempleThe NetherlandsUithuizenAnton Tenkei Coppens Helma Jifu VulinkSensei2Zen Boat GroningenThe NetherlandsGroningenAnton Tenkei Coppens Jorge Ryusho Lopez DorigaSensei2Zen River GroupsSpain | Peru | ThailandMadrid | Lima | BangkokAnton Tenkei Coppens Hans Daishin FischerSensei2Zen River Groep ZutphenThe NetherlandsZutphenAnton Tenkei Coppens Ingrid Ranka du HulluSensei2Zen River TempleThe NetherlandsUithuizenAnton Tenkei Coppens Gert Zen’etsu KlopmanSensei2Zen River TempleThe NetherlandsUithuizenAnton Tenkei Coppens Rein Konpo KaalesRoshi2USAPocatelloDaniel Doen Silberberg Rebecca Ryuen Long OkuraSensei2Lost Coin ZenUSADaniel Doen Silberberg Volker Joen JungSensei2Lost Coin Zen (Düsseldorf)GermanyDüsseldorfDaniel Doen Silberberg Joke Dajun HuibertsRoshi2ZenPunt Meditatiecentrum HaarlemThe NetherlandsHaarlemNiko Tenko Tydeman Meindert Mu Sho van den HeuvelRoshi2Zen in de Roos and Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Gretha Myoshin Jikai AertsRoshi2Zenrotterdam and Zen in BergenThe NetherlandsRotterdam | BergenNiko Tenko Tydeman Cornelia Gyokoshin WierengaSensei2Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdam | UtrechtNiko Tenko Tydeman Daan Zazen Shin de BruijnSensei2ZenPunt Meditatiecentrum HaarlemThe NetherlandsUtrechtNiko Tenko Tydeman Willem Kando Kaishin ScheepersSensei2Zentrum.nlThe NetherlandsUtrechtNiko Tenko Tydeman Jan Mukan KlungersSensei2Zen in SallandThe NetherlandsSallandNiko Tenko Tydeman Dick Butsugen VerstegenSensei2Zencentrum NijmegenThe NetherlandsNijmegenNiko Tenko Tydeman Lolit Abhaya ten HengelSensei2Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Maria Ryuzen Muki LemaireSensei2The NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Jacky Shobogendo DemmersSensei2ZenPunt Meditatiecentrum HaarlemThe NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Marieke Virya HeijmanSensei2Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Ben Verlichtende Natuur ScheresSensei2Niko Tenko Tydeman Martin Myoki PolSenseiNiko Tenko Tydeman Julia Jinne VeldkampSensei2Zen Centrum AmsterdamThe NetherlandsAmsterdamNiko Tenko Tydeman Rob Daigan Riki EckhartSensei2Niko Tenko Tydeman Ronald Keiyaku UijtdehaageSensei2ZendoenThe NetherlandsGoudaNiko Tenko Tydeman Ben Hui-Chao ClaessensSensei2Enso - Zen CircleThe NetherlandsHofstedeMaurice Shonen Knegtel Joa ScetbonSensei3Wild Flower ZenFranceParisAmy Tu Es Cela Hollowell Hildegard Vajra-Herz LauthSensei3GenjoAn und Psychotherapie-ZenGermanyWiesau/OberpfalzCorinne Joie Partagée Frottier Leo Ahimsa Sumitra HuijgSensei3Zenrotterdam and Ahimsa-ZenThe NetherlandsRotterdamGretha Myoshin Jikai Aerts Marli Jifu Daigen LindeboomSensei3ZenrotterdamThe NetherlandsRotterdamGretha Myoshin Jikai Aerts Edit Table [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Genpo Roshi Lineage Genpo Roshi Lineage ### Ingrid Ranka du Hullu, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501856539337{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Ingrid Ranka du Hullu, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324828548"][vc_single_image image="620" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Ranka began practicing at Zen River in 2006, and has been a resident since 2008. She is the head seamstress of the Atelier sewing room and takes care of the temples’ financial administration. Ranka leads classes at the Zen River boat in Groningen as well as visiting groups in other parts of the Netherlands. (Full bio coming shortly.)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen River" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324828548"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]For the time being Ranka Sensei is at home at Zenriver Temple: [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Please access the Zenriver Temple website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenrivertemple.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4046" img_size="512x1024"][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1530981679793-8f170229-5869"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Hans Daishin Fischer, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855853127{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Hans Daishin Fischer, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324587426"][vc_single_image image="618" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Hans Daishin Fischer was born in Eibergen, The Netherlands. He first received a technical education but then changed studies and became a social worker employed by the local government. Dissatisfied with his life he quit his job and went travelling for one year, visiting Israel, Egypt, India, Nepal and Myanmar. When he returned he took on various jobs eventually working in a mental hospital, organizing educational activities for the patients. In 1989 Daishin started Zen meditation and met Genpo Roshi two years later during a sesshin. Zen practice quickly became his highest priority; he did as much training as possible within his social circumstances, studying also with Genno Pages, Nico Tydeman, and finally with Tenkei. In 1994 he met his second wife with whom he still lives together in Zutphen, a historic town along the river IJssel. In 1999 he received Jukai from Genpo Roshi who gave him the dharma name Daishin. When he, in 2001, heard that Tenkei and Tammy were planning to start a residential practice center in The Netherlands, he immediately joined their team and even helped search for a suitable property. As soon as Zen River opened he asked Tenkei to become his second teacher, which had the full approval of Genpo. Daishin has been instrumental in setting up Zen River, not only because of his social skills but also his technical expertise. The building needed renovation in all departments and he quickly developed himself as the master electrician, replacing all the visible and invisible wires in the building and bringing light everywhere. Since 2007 he lives three days a week at Zen River and attends most sesshins and month-long retreats. In 2007 he also completed a Lay-Ango as Head-trainee and in 2008 received Hoshi. Daishin leads the Zen River group Zutphen and, since dharma transmission, started to conduct workshops in various locations in The Netherlands and Germany.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zutphen Zen River Group" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324587426"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Zutphen Zen River Group, Hans Fischer, Tel.nr.: 0575-546647. Email: fischer.h@tiscali.nl[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1527168340322-e15968ea-b61a"][vc_column_text]https://zenriverzutphen.com/programma/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1502299953226-5ab0eff2-e846"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fas fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1632575414689-a326093e-1d84"][vc_column_text]Please access the Zen Centrum Amsterdam’s website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenriverzutphen.com/   [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Jorge Ryusho Lopez Doriga, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855750307{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Jorge Ryusho Lopez Doriga, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324367965"][vc_single_image image="627" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Ryusho was born in Madrid, and since an early age suffered from ‘cultural claustrophobia’, being raised in a Spain of Franco and pre-post Franco times. So travelling has always been an important part of his life. After studying marketing at the American University in Paris and Georgia State University in Atlanta, he did a master program in Thunderbird in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also met his wife Veronica. He went on to work with Walt Disney Studios and led their European marketing from London, UK, where he did his first sesshin with Genpo Roshi. Later he moved to Chile to work for Sony BMG and, during a sabbatical, moved to Salt Lake City to train at Kanzeon Zen Center. There he met Tenkei; Ryusho actually attended the last of the desert retreats Tenkei and Tammy used to organize, suddenly appearing on Hatch Point in Southern Utah in his tuxedo – straight from the Grammy’s celebrations in L.A. When Tenkei and Tammy established Zen River Temple in The Netherlands in 2001, Ryusho was one of the first ones to join, flying in from wherever his home base happened to be. No wonder Tenkei gave him the name Ryusho, Flying Dragon, during his Jukai in 2003. Meanwhile he set up an enthusiastic Zen River group in Madrid that Tenkei and Tammy visit annually; he did the same in Lima and most recently in Bangkok where he now lives with his wife and two children and works as the CMO of a large beverage company. He completed his Lay Hossenshiki in 2005 and received Hoshi in 2009. Over the last few years Ryusho has often accompanied Tenkei on international Buddhist conferences in China, Thailand and Vietnam, closely following the new and fascinating developments of Asian Buddhism. Because of special karmic circumstances he was invited on a fishing trip with the king of Bhutan and since then has created promising connections with spiritual and political leaders of that country, including the secretary general of monastic affairs and the minister of the Gross National Happiness Commission.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Madrid | Lima | Bangkok" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324367965"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Ryusho Sensei set up an enthusiastic Zen River group in Madrid that Tenkei Roshi and Tammy visit annually; he did the same in Lima and most recently in Bangkok where he now lives with his wife and two children and works as the CMO of a large beverage company.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Locations" tab_id="1502299093455-32e0f32e-29b7"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Helma Jifu Vulink, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855674201{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Helma Jifu Vulink, Sensei | II. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324183415"][vc_single_image image="619" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Helma Jifu Vulink studied literature and theater in Amsterdam, her hometown. She set up her own company and worked for many years as an actress and drama­ teacher, especially focusing on communication training. Meanwhile, she raised a family and is the mother of one adult son and an adopted daughter. Jifu started Zen practice with Tenkei at Zen River in 2003 and moved in as a full­-time resident a few years later. Having received Shukke Tokudo in 2007, she served as Shuso in 2010 and later again in 2013 with Seido Suzuki Roshi in the position of Jokeshi during her Hossenshiki. Jifu’s functions at Zen River are flexible and manyfold. Besides being the yoga teacher during daily excercise classes, she works in maintenance and gardening. Moreover, she is greatly appreciated as the primary stand-in tenzo of Zen River whenever Myoho is not available. She’s our go-to party dish expert, serving up yummy tapas of every kind. Last but not least, Jifu is the indispensable soprano in the recently formed Zen River choir. She received Shiho from Tenkei in January 2014 with Musai from Santa Fe as Kyojushi. Alongside the other four Shiho recipients, she has started giving classes in a houseboat in the nearby university town of Groningen. She participated in Soto Ango training in Toshoji in the Winter of 2014/2015. Since spring 2018 Jifu Sensei is living and teaching at the Zen Boat in Groningen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-ship" add_icon="true" title="Zen Boat" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496324183415"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Since spring 2018 Jifu Sensei is at home at Zen Boat Groningen: From the May 2018 Zen River Update: We are very happy to announce that the transfer of the Zen Boat – the beautiful houseboat in the centre of Groningen that our dear late friend and member Janneke Guermonprez bequeathed to Zen River – has finally received full legal status. It has taken some time because we had to wait for the local government to grant us the required mooring licence. But all the documents have now been completed and signed. This also means that Senseis Senko de Boer and Jifu Vulink, who were already provisionally living on the boat, can now really move over and step up the Zen Boat’s meditation programme. This marks the start of a whole new development for the sangha. Tenkei Roshi will officially inaugurate the Zen Boat at the end of a Weekend Sesshin there, on May 13 at 16:00 h, followed by a festive reception. Zenriver "Zen Boat" Groningen The Zen Boat is one of the outreach activities of Zen River Temple. Simon Senko de Boer, Helma Jifu Vulink, Robert Doin van de Roer, and Ingrid Ranka de Hullu – dharma successors of Tenkei Roshi – provide a daily programme of meditation and study classes that also run through the summer months. A weekend City Sesshin (retreat) is held once a month. Situated on a houseboat, the zendo (meditation room) is within walking distance of Groningen train station. Classes are held in an informal setting, and the program is based on Four Elements of Training: 1) Zazen, a form of sitting meditation that makes it possible to experience our deepest being and to gain clarity about our function in this life. 2) Zen Ritual, active forms of group meditation that help us develop a mutual connection with others. 3) Study, research of Buddhist scriptures throughout the ages that support the practice of Zen. 4) Bodhisattva Activity, training in living a life of wisdom and compassion based on well-tested Buddhist guidelines. For more detailed information on the Four Elements, please click here. The Zen Boat is open to anyone interested in Zen practice. Full instruction is given to all newcomers. Questions related to practice can be asked within the group, or individually by appointment with one of the teachers. Calendar of Events March 2–3 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei April 6–7 City Sesshin, led by Senko Sensei May 11–12 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei June 8–9 City Sesshin, led by Senko Sensei July 6–7 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei Programme Monday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + daisan Tuesday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + daisan Wednesday 7:00-8:00 zazen; 17:00-18:15 series of introductory classes Thursday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + study class Sunday 9:30-10:30 zazen City Sesshins monthly Introduction: Please call or email to make an appointment for a first meeting before the introductory class. Language: Classes are held in English and Dutch. Contributions for membership includes all classes and private interviews upon request. Location: Houseboat ” De Grote Gele Kwik” Winschoterdiep 1027 Groningen 9724 GT Contact: Tel. +31-50-7503343, email: zenboat@zenrivertemple.org Contributions Contributions can be paid by bank transfer (see below) or in cash upon arrival. Zen Boat Groningen Monthly membership €40 Weekly membership €10 Sunday morning free Introductory course (6 classes) €60 City sesshin (with accommodation) €70 City sesshin (without accommodation) €50 City sesshins begin on Saturday 6:30 and end Sunday 17:00    Weekly/monthly membership for the Zen Boat includes all zazen, classes & interviews Payment Information Bank Transfer IBAN: NL33INGB0009233632, Acc. name ‘Zen River’; Reference: ‘Zen Boat’[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Please access the Zenriver Temple website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenrivertemple.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4046" img_size="512x1024"][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1527158562434-d40d57d7-6d55"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='helma-jifu-vulink-sensei' showpastevents='false'][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1527158605075-16ce9562-6134"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Robert Doin van de Roer, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855609036{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Robert Doin van de Roer, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496323748709"][vc_single_image image="642" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Robert Doin van de Roer graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology with degrees in applied physics and software engineering. He also obtained a concert diploma for piano from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, but he worked primarily as a software consultant. Doin met Tenkei during his first sesshin in 2000 and joined the full-time residential training program of Zen River in 2004. He soon became the receptionist of the center, answering telephone calls and emails and taking care of the various office jobs. An avid reader of Buddhist texts, he helped Tenkei format the anthologies of Buddhist literature that now form the core of the Zen River study program. Doin was Shuso during Ango in 2009 and later again in 2012 with Rev. Shohaku Okumura serving as Jokeshi for his Shuso Hossen ceremony. Doin received dharma transmission from Tenkei Roshi in January 2014 with Rev. Isoda Koichi as Kyojushi. Now he is preparing to attend his first three-month Ango in Toshoji, Japan. When a music-loving elderly Zen River member heard him play on the age-old piano that was part of the property inventory, he decided to donate a beautiful new piano of excellent quality! Since then Chopin and Rachmaninov have been part of the temple program.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen River" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361149631629268014963233021691496323748709"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]For the time being Doin Sensei is at home at Zenriver Temple: [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Please access the Zenriver Temple website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenrivertemple.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4046" img_size="512x1024"][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1530981288251-8cc8014b-2b9f"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Simon Senko de Boer, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855272002{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Simon Senko de Boer, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e60514962330386781496297009661149631426836114963162926801496323302169"][vc_column_text] Simon Senko de Boer studied political science at the University of Amsterdam and for some fifteen years was employed by a non-profit organization in The Hague as a manager for community building and environmental awareness. He started Zen practice when he met Tenkei during a workshop in 2000 and, inspired to help build up Zen River, became a resident in 2003. He pretty much immediately found his niche as an enthusiastic gardener and took on the temple grounds as his main field of work-practice. One of his creations is a well-tended garden that provides fresh vegetables for the sangha. Senko received Shukke Tokudo in 2005 and was Shuso in 2008. He was Shuso again in 2012 with Rev. Yasunori Hosokawa as Jokeshi for his Hossenshiki. In 2013 he went to Japan to attend the Toshoji Winter Ango led by Abbot Seido Suzuki Roshi. (Tenkei and Myoho had made a connection with Seido Roshi in Japan and were surprised to find out that he was good friends with Hojo-san and had also known Maezumi Roshi well.) After receiving Shiho in January 2014 with Nico Tydeman as Kyojushi, Senko has lectured at several venues and is now looking for ways to integrate his earlier career into his practice. Among other things he is the main contact person for other Buddhist groups in the area. Since spring 2018 Senko Sensei is living and teaching at the Zen Boat in Groningen.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-ship" add_icon="true" title="Zen Boat" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed14962330386781496297009661149631426836114963162926801496323302169"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Since spring 2018 Senko Sensei is at home at Zen Boat Groningen: From the May 2018 Zen River Update: We are very happy to announce that the transfer of the Zen Boat – the beautiful houseboat in the centre of Groningen that our dear late friend and member Janneke Guermonprez bequeathed to Zen River – has finally received full legal status. It has taken some time because we had to wait for the local government to grant us the required mooring licence. But all the documents have now been completed and signed. This also means that Senseis Senko de Boer and Jifu Vulink, who were already provisionally living on the boat, can now really move over and step up the Zen Boat’s meditation programme. This marks the start of a whole new development for the sangha. Tenkei Roshi will officially inaugurate the Zen Boat at the end of a Weekend Sesshin there, on May 13 at 16:00 h, followed by a festive reception. Zenriver "Zen Boat" Groningen The Zen Boat is one of the outreach activities of Zen River Temple. Simon Senko de Boer, Helma Jifu Vulink, Robert Doin van de Roer, and Ingrid Ranka de Hullu – dharma successors of Tenkei Roshi – provide a daily programme of meditation and study classes that also run through the summer months. A weekend City Sesshin (retreat) is held once a month. Situated on a houseboat, the zendo (meditation room) is within walking distance of Groningen train station. Classes are held in an informal setting, and the program is based on Four Elements of Training: 1) Zazen, a form of sitting meditation that makes it possible to experience our deepest being and to gain clarity about our function in this life. 2) Zen Ritual, active forms of group meditation that help us develop a mutual connection with others. 3) Study, research of Buddhist scriptures throughout the ages that support the practice of Zen. 4) Bodhisattva Activity, training in living a life of wisdom and compassion based on well-tested Buddhist guidelines. For more detailed information on the Four Elements, please click here. The Zen Boat is open to anyone interested in Zen practice. Full instruction is given to all newcomers. Questions related to practice can be asked within the group, or individually by appointment with one of the teachers. Calendar of Events March 2–3 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei April 6–7 City Sesshin, led by Senko Sensei May 11–12 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei June 8–9 City Sesshin, led by Senko Sensei July 6–7 City Sesshin, led by Jifu Sensei Programme Monday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + daisan Tuesday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + daisan Wednesday 7:00-8:00 zazen; 17:00-18:15 series of introductory classes Thursday 7:00-8:00 zazen 19:30-21:00 zazen + study class Sunday 9:30-10:30 zazen City Sesshins monthly, Saturday 6:30 - Sunday 17:00 hrs Introduction: Please call or email to make an appointment for a first meeting before the introductory class. Language: Classes are held in English and Dutch. Contributions for membership includes all classes and private interviews upon request. Location: Houseboat ” De Grote Gele Kwik” Winschoterdiep 1027 Groningen 9724 GT Contact: Tel. +31-50-7503343, email: zenboat@zenrivertemple.org Contributions Contributions can be paid by bank transfer (see below) or in cash upon arrival. Zen Boat Groningen Monthly membership €40 Weekly membership €10 Sunday morning free Introductory course (6 classes) €60 City sesshin (with accommodation) €70 City sesshin (without accommodation) €50 City sesshins begin on Saturday 6:30 and end Sunday 17:00    Weekly/monthly membership for the Zen Boat includes all zazen, classes & interviews Payment Information Bank Transfer IBAN: NL33INGB0009233632, Acc. name ‘Zen River’; Reference: ‘Zen Boat’[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1527159934456-ecd1d290-e2d6"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='simon-senko-de-boer-sensei' showpastevents='false'][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1527159937847-7632f50f-4300"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Anjo Koren Kasman, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855189200{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Anjo Koren Kasman, Sensei (1956-2016) | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed14962330386781496301876334149631780025714963225801431496322957784"][vc_single_image image="608" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Anjo Koren Kasman Sensei (1956 – 2016) studied business economics and worked as an administrative manager in an Academic Hospital in Leiden, the Netherlands. She started Zen practice with Tenkei Roshi in 1999. Koren Sensei has been a resident at Zen River for almost 15 years, where she worked as Zen River’s financial manager. Also for many years she was the head of the sewing room, one of the nerve centers of the temple. She received Tokudo in 2002 and was Shuso during Ango in 2006. She was Shuso again in 2011 with Hojo-san as Jokeshi for her Hossenshiki. She has been leading workshops and classes since 2008. She received Shiho from Tenkei Roshi in December 2013 and completed her formal training in Japan in July 2015. Together with Gakudo Sensei she did Zuise in Eiheiji and Sojiji, the two head temples in Japan, and is fully qualified by the Japanese Soto School. She is together with her husband Gakudo one of the founders of Keiryuji. We will miss her enthusiasm, compassion and positive outlook on life. More from the zenriver website: Anjo Koren Kasman studied business economics and worked as an administrative manager in the Leiden Academic Hospital. She started Zen practice with Tenkei in 1999 and became his Shoken student in 2000. Koren and her husband, Peter Gakudo den Hollander, were the first ones to help Tenkei and Myoho establish Zen River – first in Zoetermeer and Holwierde, and from 2002 until now in its present location in Uithuizen. As a full-time resident, she not only became Zen River’s financial manager but also for many years was the head of the sewing room, one of the nerve centers of the temple. Koren received Tokudo in 2002 and was Shuso during Ango in 2006. She was Shuso again in 2011 with Hojo-san as Jokeshi for her Hossenshiki. She received Shiho from Tenkei in December 2013 with Genno Roshi from Paris as Kyojushi. Immediately after this ceremony, Koren went to Japan to attend an international 3-month Soto Ango in Yokoji, the first temple of Keizan Zenji. Like the other Shiho recipients she gives introductory classes on a houseboat zendo in the nearby university town of Groningen. After her second three-month Ango in Japan, this time in Toshoji, she performed the traditional Zuise ceremonies in Eiheiji and Sojiji, which qualify her as a certified Soto priest. Not long after, she and Gakudo decided to move to the Spanish Pyrenees where Pascal Tetsuko van der Knokke and Emke Gyoen Jutte have a beautiful property and together with them set up a mountain retreat center. Unfortunately, due to a slowly progressing but incurable form of cancer she passed away on August 22, 2016. Her Dharma name Koren means ‘Shining Lotus’ and she manifested that quality beautifully up to the very end.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Keiryuji, Spain | Spanien" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e60514962330386781496301876334149631780025714963225801431496322957784"][vc_single_image image="1978" img_size="407×112"][vc_column_text]Welcome to Keiryuji Keiryuji (or Mountain Stream Temple) is a remote Soto Zen-Buddhist hermitage in the Spanish Pyrenees, near the village of Camprodon. It lies in the middle of a protected nature reserve, at 750 meters altitude. Keiryuji welcomes anyone who wishes to take a break from his or her daily life and dedicate some time to contemplation and reflection. Regardless of spiritual tradition or beliefs, the teacher of Keiryuji will individually guide and support each person throughout their stay. The abbot or teacher is Gakudo den Hollander Sensei, dharma heir of Tenkei Coppens Roshi (Zen River, the Netherlands) and member of the White Plum Lineage, established by the late Maezumi Roshi in the USA. He is also fully certified by the Japanese Soto school.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-173914962330386781496301876334149631780025714963225801431496322957784"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e214962330386781496301876334149631780025714963225801431496322957784"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Keiryuji website via the link in a new browser window: https://www.keiryuji.org/en/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4058" img_size="861x597"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Peter Gakudo den Hollander, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501855017454{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Peter Gakudo den Hollander, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Tenkei Coppens Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_single_image image="640" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Peter Gakudo den Hollander Sensei (1957, Leiderdorp, the Netherlands) has a bachelor’s degree in social studies and worked with young adults from ethnic minorities in The Hague. He started Zen practice with Genpo Roshi in 1997 and in October 2000 started practicing with Tenkei Roshi, who became his root-teacher. Together with his wife Koren Kasman Sensei, they helped their teachers Tenkei Roshi and Myoho Sensei establishing Zen River – first in Zoetermeer and Holwierde, and from 2002 in its present location in Uithuizen. Gakudo Sensei received Tokudo in 2002 and was Shuso in 2005. In order to meet Soto requirements, he was Shuso again in 2010, with Rev. Junyu Kuroda (Hojo-san) as Jokeshi for his Hossenshiki. In 2012 and 2015 he attended an international Soto Ango in Japan, in Shogoji and Toshoji. He received Shiho in December 2013 from his teacher Tenkei Roshi. From 2008 on he has been leading workshops, classes and sesshins at various locations. He did Zuise in Eiheiji and Sojiji in 2015 (July & April) and is now fully qualified by the Soto School in Japan. More from the zenriver website: Peter Gakudo den Hollander has a bachelor’s degree in social studies and worked with young adults from ethnic minorities in The Hague. He started Zen practice with Genpo Roshi in 1997 and did his first sesshin with Tenkei Roshi in 1998. When Tenkei and Myoho Sensei returned to The Netherlands from Japan in the fall of 2000, Gakudo and his wife, Anjo Koren Kasman, became Tenkei’s first Shoken students. In fact, with Roy, a grand, white Pyrenees dog, they all lived together for nine months in Gakudo and Koren’s little house in Zoetermeer and set up a zendo in an old school around the corner. They immediately began searching all over the country for a place to establish Zen River and finally ended up in a beautiful property in Uithuizen. There was much building and maintenance work to do, and Gakudo was the handy-man par excellence right from the start. He received Tokudo in 2002 and was Shuso in 2005. In order to meet Soto requirements, he was Shuso again in 2010. Rev. Junyu Kuroda (Hojo-san) was Jokeshi for this Hossenshiki. In 2012 he attended an international Soto Ango in Shogoji and received Shiho from Tenkei Roshi at Zen River in December 2013. After his second three-month Ango in Japan, this time in Toshoji, he performed the traditional Zuise ceremonies in Eiheiji and Sojiji, which qualify him as a certified Soto priest. Not long after, he and Koren decided to move to the Spanish Pyrenees where Pascal Tetsuko van der Knokke and Emke Gyoen Jutte have a beautiful property and together with them set up a mountain retreat center.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Keiryuji, Spain | Spanien" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_single_image image="1978" img_size="407×112"][vc_column_text]Welcome to Keiryuji Keiryuji (or Mountain Stream Temple) is a remote Soto Zen-Buddhist hermitage in the Spanish Pyrenees, near the village of Camprodon. It lies in the middle of a protected nature reserve, at 750 meters altitude. Keiryuji welcomes anyone who wishes to take a break from his or her daily life and dedicate some time to contemplation and reflection. Regardless of spiritual tradition or beliefs, the teacher of Keiryuji will individually guide and support each person throughout their stay. The abbot or teacher is Gakudo den Hollander Sensei, dharma heir of Tenkei Coppens Roshi (Zen River, the Netherlands) and member of the White Plum Lineage, established by the late Maezumi Roshi in the USA. He is also fully certified by the Japanese Soto school.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="" add_icon="true" title="Programme" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please check in with the Keiryuji's programme > Programme Living a basic lifestyle and being in direct contact with nature in a remote mountain area, naturally the following programme arose. This programme consists of two different but interconnected activities: Personal retreats and Residential training. Personal retreats Because Keiryuji can and will only handle a small number of people, every retreat will become a personal retreat. Not only in how they are composed, but also in the daily contact with the teacher. These retreats are not fixed and they can differ per practitioner. They are composed by teacher and student together, depending on former experience and practice. The final word lies with the teacher. A few examples of a personal retreat: Mountain retreat: the mountains that surround us have a big impact on the retreats. Within the Mountain retreat you follow the daily schedule and you have time to do extra zazen or take (silent) hikes in the mornings and afternoons. This can be in the group or by yourself. As soon as the weather allows it we will practice zazen outside as much as possible. Solo retreat: these retreats are a mix of the solitary retreat and the daily programme. For example starting the day with group meditation and breakfast and ending with a group meditation and dinner. Inbetween there will be a broad variety of possibilities to fill in the personal solo retreat. Solitary retreat: in this retreat it is important to be by yourself as much as possible. This can be realized in various ways, from staying in a little cabin up to a tent. Food will be provided in a discrete way. There will be regular contact with the teacher; how often will be decided in consultation with the teacher. Residential training Residential training can be long-term and short-term. For taking part in the residential training you need to be familiar with Keiryuji. Part of the training is being partly responsible for taking care of the temple and the members who are in retreat. This means that all residents share responsibility for the daily affairs of the temple. For residents, it is mandatory to follow the daily programme and schedule. Daily Schedule 06.30 zazen (meditation) 07.10 kinhin (walking meditation) 07.20 zazen + daisan (private interview with the teacher) 07.50 kinhin 08.00 zazen + daisan 08.30 service (reciting of sutras) 09.15 breakfast 10.00 samu (work) 11.30 coffee & tea break 13.30 lunch + break 15.45 samu / sport / study 17.30 break 18.00 dinner 19.30 zazen 20.00 kinhin 20.10 zazen 20.40 kinhin 20.50 zazen 21.15 the four vows On Monday and Thursday a teisho (dharma talk) will be given. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496322580143"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Keiryuji website via the link in a new browser window: https://www.keiryuji.org/en/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4058" img_size="861x597"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Gretha Myoshin Aerts, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854902931{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Gretha Myoshin Aerts, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Nico Niko Tydeman Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_single_image image="617" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Roshi Gretha Myoshin Aerts is geestelijk leider van Zen Centrum Rotterdam en heeft een zitgroep in Bergen (NH). Zij heeft na haar opleiding aan de Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag, gewerkt als beeldend kunstenaar en als docent aan o.a. de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. In 1985 kwam zij via Niko Sojun Tydeman, Sensei in aanraking met Zen Boeddhisme. Hij is een van haar leraren op het Zen pad geworden. Zij ontving van hem dharmatransmissie , waardoor zij een gekwalificeerd zenleraar (Sensei) is in de lijn van de White Plum Asangha, van wijlen Taizan Meazumi Roshi. Haar andere leraar is Genpo Merzel Roshi. Hij gaf haar de Boeddhistische naam Myoshin, dat onbegrensd hart en geest betekent en werd door hem in 1995 tot zenpriester gewijd. Haar training bestond o.a uit zenmeditatie, koan studie en het door Genpo Roshi ontwikkelde Big Mind proces. Zij woonde en werkte een aantal jaar in het centrum van Genpo Roshi in Salt Lake City, VS. Ze is verder getrained in: ” Mindfulness” de “Meditation Based Stress Reduction” methode van Jon Kabat-Zinn. “Stervensbegeleiding” bij Christine Longakker. “Voice Dialogue voor begeleiders” bij Elly ter Brake. Zij is zeer betrokken bij thema’s als: Boeddhisme en Psychotherapie. Meditatie en Beeldende vormgeving. De laatste jaren is Gretha ook weer actief als Beeldend Kunstenaar. Zie www.gretha-aerts.nl Als vrijwilliger is zij werkzaam geweest in de terminale thuiszorg bij de organisatie Markant, Amsterdam. Source | Quelle: http://www.myoshin-zen.nl/gretha-aerts/[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Sensei Gretha Myoshin Aerts is spiritueel leider van Kanzeon Zen Centrum Rotterdam, opgericht door zenleraar Niko Tydeman Sensei in 1988. Gretha Aerts wil de zenboeddhistische leer doorgeven aan mensen die midden in de maatschappij staan en een spiritueel pad willen gaan. Zij combineert haar zenleraarschap met haar werkzaamheden als beeldend kunstenaar en heeft regelmatig exposities van haar werk. Zij ontving haar zentraining van twee meesters: Genpo Merzel Roshi, die haar de naam Myoshin gaf, en Niko Tydeman Sensei, die haar op 24 februari 2011 dharmatransmissie gaf. Met hen staat zij in de traditie van de White Plum Asangha van Maezumi Roshi, een Japanse zenmeester die het zenboeddhisme in de zestiger jaren van de vorige eeuw naar het Westen bracht. De historische lijn van opeenvolgende zenmeesters (de lineage) vindt zijn oorsprong in Sakyamuni Boeddha. Gretha Aerts begeleidt mensen in de klassieke zentraining, waarvan koanstudie een pijler is. Zij staat een synthese voor van oosterse wijsheid en westerse inzichten. Onderdeel daarvan is de door Genpo Roshi ontwikkelde methode Big Mind/Big Heart, gebaseerd op een combinatie van zen en de westerse voice dialogue. Zij wordt geassisteerd door een aantal mensen, die getraind zijn in deze traditie. Kanzeon Zen Centrum Rotterdam hanteert een ethische richtlijn. Source | Quelle: http://www.zenrotterdam.nl/index.php/leraren/sensei-gretha-myoshin-aerts[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Rotterdam | Bergen" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Zen in Bergen en Rotterdam Bergen: Doorlopende groep. donderdagochtenden 10.00 – 11.45 uur 1 september – 15 december 2016 20 januari t/m 29 juni, niet op 27 april en 25 mei. 275 euro of 6-zittenkaart voor 95 euro Introductieles op aanvraag. kanzeon zen centrum rotterdam www.zenrotterdam.nl wie zijn we? Deze wereld is ongrijpbaar, ondenkbaar en wonderbaarljk. Door wat worden we aangeraakt en wat raken wij aan ? Daito Kokushi, Japan 13e eeuw. Een levende praktijk Kanzeon Zen Centrum Rotterdam staat in de traditie van Maezumi Roshi, een Japanse zenmeester die het zenboeddhisme in de zestiger jaren van de vorige eeuw naar het Westen bracht. Hij is stichter van de White Plum Asanga. Sindsdien is het al door twee generaties zenmeesters tot aan Gretha Myoshin Aerts doorgegeven en opnieuw vormgegeven binnen onze westerse cultuur. Maezumi Roshi's uitspraak "Je leven waarderen" is een leidraad voor de zenbeoefening. Dit realiseren we door op intieme wijze aanwezig te blijven bij wat er in en om ons heen gebeurt. Door het openstellen van onze hart/geest en het (aan)geraakt worden door het bestaan leren we anders te leven met onze onzekerheden en angsten en groeit het vertrouwen. Zen is plaatsnemen op een meditatiekussen, de geest leren kennen en niet langer bevangen raken door gedachten en emoties. Zen is een levenswandel, een manier om het leven te aanschouwen en te handelen vanuit die aanschouwing. Zen is een levenslange oefening in bevrijd leven. Zen biedt een verzameling hulpmiddelen om een bevrijd bestaan te leiden. Het gaat niet om de hulpmiddelen, maar om wat zij beogen: het dagelijks bestaan te leiden met een verlicht gemoed. Verlichting betekent verlicht denken, communiceren en handelen. Dat heeft alles met het dagelijks leven te maken en niets met een heilige werkelijkheid die hier buiten zou staan, want die bestaat bij zen niet. Ons zencentrum staat midden in de wereld. De sangha wordt gevormd door mensen met een maatschappelijk bestaan en de wil om een spiritueel pad te gaan. De zentraining bestaat uit een aantal praktijken die onderling samenhangen. Centraal staat zazen, het zitten in stilte. De zenleraar begeleidt leerlingen in daisan (persoonlijk onderhoud) en geeft les over de dharma (zenboeddhistische leer). Interactie met andere sanghaleden is een wezenlijk onderdeel van de beoefening. 'Alles is erop gericht om je leven te zien als het pad dat je gaat', zegt zenleraar Gretha Myoshin Aerts, 'het samenvallen met je bestaan op elk moment.' Gretha Myoshin Aerts Sensei geeft geen makkelijk toepasbaar levensrecept. Geen spirituele gymnastiek of handige trucs die het leven aangenamer maken en prestaties vergroten. In sommige dingen moeten we wellicht juist minder goed worden om tot inzicht te komen, en niet meer alles weten. Het gaat niet om het beantwoorden van vragen, maar juist om het mysterie van het bestaan. Kanzeon Zen Centrum Rotterdam is een toevluchtsoord midden in de stad, een plek om stil te zijn en stil te worden, een ruimte voor bezinning en meditatie. Iedereen is welkom bij ons. Rotterdam : Doorlopende groepen op maandag 18.00 – 19.45 en 20.00 – 21.45 uur en donderdag 19.45 – 21.30 uur Zaterdagmiddag 13.00 – 17.00 10 december 2016, 18 februari, 18 maart, 15 april, 20 mei en 17 juni 2017 20 euro per middag Big Mind training. Zaterdag 15 april, 20 mei en 17 juni 2017 van 10.30 – 12.30 20 euro per keer Sesshin in Wahlwiller. 25 t/m 29 januari 2017 Zie voor het hele programma in Rotterdam op www.zenrotterdam.nl[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Calendar yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Websites" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321959203"][vc_column_text]zenrotterdam.nlmyoshin-zen.nl Please use this link to open Greatha Myoshin Aerts Sensei's website Kanzeon Zen Centrum Rotterdam in a new browser window: http://www.zenrotterdam.nl                                             Please use this link to open Greatha Myoshin Aerts Sensei's website Myoshin-Zen in a new browser window: http://www.myoshin-zen.nl/                               [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Meindert Mu Sho van den Heuvel, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854841614{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Meindert Mu Sho van den Heuvel, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Nico Niko Tydeman Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_single_image image="633" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] Meindert Mu Sho van den Heuvel Roshi is boeddhistisch geestelijk verzorger in gevangenissen. Hij is afgestudeerd als klinisch psycholoog en Gestalttherapeut en beoefent sinds 1980 zenmeditatie. Hij studeerde bij verschillende leraren, met name bij Genpo Roshi en Niko Roshi. Meindert ontving in 2011 transmissie van Niko Sensei. In gesprek met Meindert Roshi… Wat is Zen? “Sitting long, getting tired, dat is het eerste dat bij me opkomt,” zegt Meindert. “Ik heb veel sesshins gedaan waarbij we lang zaten. Dat klinkt heel kaal maar dat vind ik ook het mooie. Het heeft veel met me gedaan. Tijdens het zitten, gebeurt er een heleboel. Je leert om alles wat je tegenkomt aan te gaan zonder te proberen er onderuit te komen. Dat kan pijnlijk zijn maar is ook heel leerzaam. Uiteindelijk gaat het om je leven, dat is je beoefening. Alles wat je tegenkomt is beoefening. Meestal zit het probleem dat je ervaart niet buiten, er gebeurt daar buiten altijd wel wat. Het probleem zit van binnen, wat gebeurt er met je, hoe ga je met de situatie om, wat is je antwoord? In Zen zijn twee verschillende stromingen. De ene stroming benadert de beoefening vanuit krijgerschap, zitten alsof je haar in brand staat. De andere stroming gaat meer over zaaien en oogsten, de weg zelf is het proces. Dat past bij mij, ik ben meer een boer; die zaait en hij moet dan maar vertrouwen dat het zaad opkomt. Vertrouwen is een belangrijk thema in mijn beoefening.” Wat kan Zen doen? “Een zenmeester zei: als je maar lang genoeg in de mist loopt, word je nat. Ongemerkt. Heel anders dan in een stortbui, maar je wordt wel nat. Zen is vaak in de mist lopen en ongemerkt nat worden. Het doet veel, maar op een subtiele, geleidelijke manier. Mensen komen met heel verschillende motivaties, ze zijn op zoek naar meer rust, meer balans, meer ontspanning. Wat mij betreft is iedere motivatie goed. En als je maar lang en serieus genoeg oefent, dan vind je dat allemaal. Je krijgt het alleen niet op het moment dat jij het wilt en ook niet op de manier zoals jij het wilt. Het blijven cadeautjes en die kunnen er heel anders uitzien dan wat jij verwacht. In die zin moet je blijven loslaten, in die zin is Zen geen methode. Het duurt een heel leven; waarbij je steeds meer opent voor een ruimer perspectief, een groter vertrouwen.” Leraar en leerling “De weg die je gaat is heel persoonlijk, dat geldt ook voor de leraar. Dat kan voor leerlingen die meerdere leraren kennen, behoorlijk verwarrend zijn. De ene leraar zegt dit, de andere dat. Eigenlijk vind ik dat heel boeiend. Het zaagt bij uitstek de poten onder je stoel vandaan. In daisan draagt de leerling het onderwerp aan. Ik luister en ben zo open mogelijk. Mijn dharmalessen gaan over alles dat me inspireert, dat kan een verhaal uit de boeddhistische geschiedenis zijn, een gedicht of een voorval uit mijn eigen leven. Ik vind het belangrijk mensen te inspireren elke dag even te zitten. Dat wens ik iedereen toe, het is een cadeautje dat je jezelf geeft en wat doorwerkt in je dag, in je leven en bij de mensen om je heen.” Source | Quelle: https://zenamsterdam.nl/nl/meindert-seiju-roshi[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen in de Roos" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_text_separator title="Zen in de Roos" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_single_image image="1955" img_size="1199×200"][vc_column_text]Zen in de Roos Als je een fles troebel water lang genoeg laat staan, zakt de troebelheid naar de bodem en wordt het water helder. Als je jezelf op een kussen neerzet en lang genoeg blijft zitten, gebeurt hetzelfde: troebelheid zakt en er komt een bepaalde helderheid en rust, zowel mentaal als fysiek. Het enige wat je daarvoor kunt doen is jezelf met rust laten. Iedere keer als je de fles oppakt om te kijken hoe het ermee staat, rakel je de troebelheid weer op. Zen is een oefening in aandacht en concentratie, een zeer ‘aardse’ en praktische vorm van meditatie die door iedereen beoefend kan worden. Source | Quelle: https://www.zeninderoos.amsterdam/[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_text_separator title="Zen Centrum Amsterdam" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]Zen Centrum Amsterdam Zen Centrum Amsterdam offers a place to meditate each morning, seven days a week, throughout the year, and on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings there is Zen meditation with dharmatalk (teaching) and on Tuesday Buddhist service in Dutch. On these evenings you have the opportunity of a formal, individual interview (daisan) with a Zen teacher (in English, if you like). Schedule The mornings and Friday evenings are free of charge. A small donation is welcome. A subscription for weekly attendance on Monday or Thursday evening is possible. The suggested donation is € 40 per month. Morning sessions are from 8 till 9 am (on sunday from 8.30 am till 9.30 am). Evening sessions from 8 till 10 pm (on Friday till 9.30 pm). Introduction Series of introductory meetings and follow-up meetings Zen meditation start three times a year, on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday evening from 6.00 till 7.30 pm. All meetings are in Dutch. Individual guidance in English is possible when needed. Teachings Niko Sensei is the spiritual leader. Teachings are given by him and by Joke Huiberts and Lolit ten Hengel. International Sangha Zen Centrum Amsterdam is part of the international Kanzeon Sangha, with Zen groups in various European countries and in the United States. Headquarters of the international Kanzeon Sangha is the Kanzeon Zen Center Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Genpo Merzel Roshi is its spiritual leader. In 2004 Niko Tydeman received Shiho (Dharma transmission) from Genpo Roshi. Contact For more information about the Amsterdam Zen centre, please contact the secretary T (06) 29 12 89 89. See Contact for details about the location. For more information about the international Kanzeon Sangha, visit the website Big Mind.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Calendar yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321457833"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Meindert Sensei's website Zen in de Roos in a new browser window: https://www.zeninderoos.amsterdam/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Joke Heldere Dharmatraan Huiberts, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854778572{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Joke Heldere Dharmatraan Huiberts, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Nico Niko Tydeman Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_single_image image="626" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Joke Heldere Dharmatraan Huiberts Roshi studeerde muziek aan het Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam en was 32 jaar docente blokfluit aan de Gemeentelijke Muziekschool Bloemendaal. Ze beoefende Alexander Techniek, kyudo en yoga en volgde een post hbo opleiding tot mindfulness trainer aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Sinds 2007 is zij als leraar tevens verbonden aan Zenpunt Haarlem. Haar zentraining startte in 1990 met en bij haar man Niko Sensei van wie zij in 2011 dharmatransmissie ontving. Wat is zen? Stel deze vraag aan honderd mensen en je krijgt honderd verschillende antwoorden. Een normale avondsessie verloopt altijd in dezelfde vorm : zazen (zitten), kinhin (lopen), daisan (privégesprek) sutrazingen, dharmales, 4 bodhisattvageloften, buigen. Allemaal doen we aan ‘zen’, maar wat er uit voortkomt is persoonlijk en uniek. Wat een schoonheid! Wat kan zen doen? Ik leer van deze beoefening juist om ook eens wat te láten. Om vertrouwen te krijgen in hoe het leven vorm aanneemt, van moment tot moment. Hieruit volgt wat ik vandaag te doen heb. Leraar en leerling? Wij, leraar en leerling, beoefenen de zenpraktijk en leren met en van elkaar. Ik ben heel dankbaar voor de traditie, Voor het onderzoeken van de waarde ervan. Voor het doorgeven van ervaring. Waarom ik naar de zendo ga? Om mijn gelijken te ontmoeten. Voor inspiratie en ondersteuning. Omdat ik het ontroerend intiem vind om samen stil te zijn. En ook om te praten, te luisteren, te lachen of te huilen. Omdat de mensen in de zendo mij een spiegel voorhouden. De moeilijkheden, de verwarring, de humor, het licht. Omdat dit een oefenplaats is voor de wereld. Maar vooral omdat ik er gewoon heel graag kom! Source | Quelle: https://zenamsterdam.nl/nl/joke-dajun-roshi[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zenpunt | Zen Centrum Amsterdam" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_text_separator title="zenpunt" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]       Het met volle aandacht zitten op een kussentje (bankje of stoel), rechtop, lettend op de ademhaling, is de centrale oefening, zazen genaamd. In zenmeditatie schep je voor jezelf rust en ruimte om indrukken en daarmee gepaard gaande emoties te verwerken. Dat maakt het denken rustiger waardoor je je beter kunt richten op wat je doet. En het heeft een positief effect op de kwaliteit van (heel) je leven. Source | Quelle: http://www.zenpunt.nl/index.php [/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title="Zen Centrum Amsterdam" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]Zen Centrum Amsterdam Zen Centrum Amsterdam offers a place to meditate each morning, seven days a week, throughout the year, and on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings there is Zen meditation with dharmatalk (teaching) and on Tuesday Buddhist service in Dutch. On these evenings you have the opportunity of a formal, individual interview (daisan) with a Zen teacher (in English, if you like). Schedule The mornings and Friday evenings are free of charge. A small donation is welcome. A subscription for weekly attendance on Monday or Thursday evening is possible. The suggested donation is € 40 per month. Morning sessions are from 8 till 9 am (on sunday from 8.30 am till 9.30 am). Evening sessions from 8 till 10 pm (on Friday till 9.30 pm). Introduction Series of introductory meetings and follow-up meetings Zen meditation start three times a year, on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday evening from 6.00 till 7.30 pm. All meetings are in Dutch. Individual guidance in English is possible when needed. Teachings Niko Sensei is the spiritual leader. Teachings are given by him and by Joke Huiberts and Lolit ten Hengel. International Sangha Zen Centrum Amsterdam is part of the international Kanzeon Sangha, with Zen groups in various European countries and in the United States. Headquarters of the international Kanzeon Sangha is the Kanzeon Zen Center Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Genpo Merzel Roshi is its spiritual leader. In 2004 Niko Tydeman received Shiho (Dharma transmission) from Genpo Roshi. Contact For more information about the Amsterdam Zen centre, please contact the secretary T (06) 29 12 89 89. See Contact for details about the location. For more information about the international Kanzeon Sangha, visit the website Big Mind.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Calendar yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website zenpunt.nl" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496321072332"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Joke Sensei's website zenpunt.nl in a new browser window: http://www.zenpunt.nl/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Rein Konpo Kaales, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854708934{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Rein Konpo Kaales, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Doen Silberberg Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_single_image image="641" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Rein Konpo Kaales, Roshi, received transmission from Daniel Doen Roshi in the White Plum lineage of the late Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Inka from Genpo Merzel Roshi. You can reach Konpo Sensei at whitecloudsangha@cableone.net Idaho Zen Zen practice at White Cloud Zen Center is a lay-oriented practice dedicated to spreading the dharma in both eastern and western Idaho. It is taught by Rein Konpo Kaales, Zen priest within the White Plum lineage, which embraces both the Rinzai and Soto traditions. This lineage has been passed to Konpo through his teacher, Genpo Merzel Roshi, and through his teacher’s teacher, Maezumi Roshi. Rein Konpo, who is Dutch, became interested in meditation while living in Amsterdam in the mid-60’s, a time when many Tibetan Buddhist teachers were teaching in Europe. He first practiced with Tibetan master Lama Yeshe, who remained his teacher until he passed away in 1981. The following year Konpo met his current teacher, Genpo Roshi. He began monastic study at Kanzeon Zen Center International in Salt Lake City under Genpo Roshi in 1990. In 2002 Konpo left Salt Lake City to start a Zen center in Pocatello, Idaho. His wife, Terry Chowan Kerler, joined him a year later. Because of her job in the high tech industry she now lives in Boise where her own practice includes both Zen meditation and Ashtanga yoga. Together they set up a branch of White Cloud Zen Center in Boise. White Cloud Zen Center now has three locations (Boise, Pocatello and Idaho Falls) and Konpo travels weekly to visit with students in each. Spanning the entire state of Idaho from west to east, Zen practitioners from completely different parts of the state are united as one sangha. Konpo embraces the fact that western Zen has a cultural flavor very distinct from its Japanese counterpart. “Sometimes what we do here in Idaho is called ‘Cowboy Zen.’ Especially when we practice in the wilderness it very much feels that way. In addition, we conduct more traditional ceremonies at our Zen centers in town. We have the best of both worlds in Idaho.” The center organizes outdoor retreats in the White Cloud Mountains (Central Idaho), Scout Mountain (southeastern Idaho) and on the North Menan Butte (eastern Idaho). Meditation outdoors is in the style of the original Buddha where trees, animals, wind, sky and stars are a natural backdrop for cultivating both shikantaza and koan practice. White Cloud also offers retreats in more urban settings such as Lava Hot Springs, Pocatello and Boise. A year-end retreat takes place between Christmas and New Year in Pocatello. Zen weekends are also scheduled throughout the year at all locations. The sangha at White Cloud reflects the demographics of Idaho. Groups tend to be small, thus providing opportunity for frequent and informal interaction with the teacher. In addition, Konpo emphasizes the importance of working with the body and engaging in physical discipline as an adjunct to traditional Zen practice, such as yoga, tai chi and aikido. Konpo expresses deep gratitude to his teacher, Genpo Roshi. Without Genpo Roshi, he affirms, none of the above would have manifested. Source | Quelle: https://www.northwestdharma.org/news/NovDecIssue/idahozen.php [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="White Cloud Zen Center" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_single_image image="1944" img_size="1000x260"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]We are a Zen inspired meditation center. Our resident teachers have rich backgrounds. Konpo Sensei has a background in both Tibetan and Zen traditions. Terry Chowan has a background in Zen and Shambhala traditions. John Seido is a senior Zen student and talented photographer. Those new to mindfulness and meditation practice are encouraged to contact Terry Chowan (Naropa University Certified Mindfulness Instructor) for individual instruction. Fundamental principles on where and how to place the mind and body can go a long way in supporting mindfulness and meditation practices that help cultivate compassion and equanimity. Terry can be reached at whitecloudsangha@cableone.net or at 208-830-1228. The art of giving and receiving is also an important aspect of spiritual practice. We encourage all participants to donate money and time with in mind that donations and service reflect the preciousness and rarity of these teachings and the importance of the dharma community. Suggested donation amounts are posted in the back foyer of the Pocatello Center. Even if you can only afford a few dollars, supporting the Center in this way will enrich your experience here at the Center. Service positions are assigned and occasionally rotated. If you are interested in a service position please contact Chowan or Sensei. Let us know if you would like to be on our email list! Send an email to whitecloudsangha@cableone.net Great Eastern Sun Counseling and Consulting is affiliated with White Cloud Meditation Center and provides mindfulness based counseling services. For more information visit www.greateasternsuncounseling.com. Directions to White Cloud and Parking Information The Pocatello meditation center is located at 524 S. 6th Ave. Entrance is off the back alley. There is a sign on the door indicating “White Cloud.” After entering this door, proceed up three stairs through the glass door. Bicycling or walking to the Center is encouraged. If you must use a car, there are three parking spaces available for use in the back parking lot. Unrestricted parking is also available on Benton Street. Parking on 6th Avenue is restricted. Temporary parking permits are available on loan.dapibus leo.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Calendar yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496320486746"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Rein Konpo Kaales Sensei's White Cloud Zen Center website in a new browser window: http://www.whitecloudzen.org/ [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]If for http vs. https security reasons your browser will not render the website correctly please go to http://www.whitecloudzen.org/ (clicking this link opens the website in a new browser window).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Michel Plein Ciel Oltheten, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854629298{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Michel Plein Ciel Oltheten, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Genno Pagès Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_single_image image="636" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Michel Oltheten (1954) started to practice zen meditation in 1993 in The Hague with Cees van de Bunt. That same year he met Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi and asked to become her student. In 1995 he and his partner Helen Pelder together received lay ordination (Jukai) from Genno Roshi. From 1994 onwards, when Roshi opened the Dana Zen Center in Paris, he began to travel between The Hague where he lived with Helen and their three children, and the Paris Zen Center. The frequency of these stays in Paris increased steadily and he would spend several weeks and later months a year there. In the Netherlands he worked as the CEO of an industrial organisation and later as therapist and counsellor. With Roshi's permission he and Helen started an affiliated zen meditation group in The Hague in 2001. This group gradually developed into the Zen Heart Sangha, with Michel as spiritual leader, and became an independent organisation in 2010. In 2011 Michel stopped working as a therapist and became a full time dharma-teacher-in-training under the tutelage of Genno Roshi. In 2014 he received dharma-transmission (shiho) from Roshi and became a fully authorised teacher in the White Plum lineage (see the page about our lineage). While working as the resident teacher of the Zen Heart Sangha, he continues working as assisting teacher in the Dana Sangha in Paris. He teaches the practice of just wholeheartedly sitting (shikantaza) and the practice of Koan study. "Practice is not about getting rid of passions, desires and fears but about working with them and through them. It's about seeing them clearly, seeing "me" clearly. It is about seeing through the thoughts and feelings, the certainties and ideas about what and who I am, so that the vast background becomes visible, within which the self and all things appear. This is really who I am, and it includes and includes, without knowing. As my fixed perspective is let go of, the utter unfixedness of me and all things becomes visible and the truth emerges. Eventually, meditation is about bringing this truth, this home coming, into our very own personal life, so that it might work in other lives. "I am ME", having been reduced and expanded to "I Am", evolves into "I am You" and "Me and You". Now we can really relate". Michel Plein Ciel Oltheten [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen Heart" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_single_image image="1940" img_size="953×242"][vc_column_text] Zen Heart Sangha The Zen Heart Sangha is a buddhist community of lay zen practitioners founded by zen teacher Michel - Plein Ciel - Oltheten Sensei, dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, of the Dana Sangha Paris. The Zen Heart Sangha is part of the greater White Plum Asangha, founded by Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, the modern day founder of our lineage and one of the important Japanese zen masters that brought zen buddhism from Japan to the West.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='michel-plein-ciel-oltheten-sensei' showpastevents='false'] Weekly schedule The Zen Heart Sangha Nederland has it's practice center in Den Haag (The Hague), the Netherlands. The address in Den Haag is Copernicusstraat 20. The weekly schedule is as follows: MONDAY EVENING FROM 20 TO 22 HRS Three periods of sitting meditation (40, 30 and 30 minutes) and opportunity for daisan (personal interview). TUESDAY MORNING FROM 7.30 TO 8.30 HRS Free-range zen (beginning at 7:30 and leaving when you need to) and opportunity for daisan. TUESDAY EVENING FROM 20 TO 22 HRS Two periods of sitting meditation (40 and 30 minuten) and dharma lesson. WEDNESDAY EVENING FROM 20 TO 22 HRS Three periods (40, 30 and 30 minutes) and opportunity for daisan. THUSRDAY MORNING FROM 7.30 TOT 8.30 HRS Free-range zen (beginning at 7:30 and leaving when you need to) and opportunity for daisan. THURSDAY EVENING FROM  20 TO 22 HRS One period of sitting meditation (40 minutes) and study group. We have just finished studying "A Year to Live" by Stephen Levine. The study group will start a new project titled "Happiness" in August this year that will run for approximately 10 to 12 weeks. FRIDAY MORNING FROM 10 TO 12 HRS Two periods sitting meditation (twice 30 minutes) and dharma lesson or Council Practice. The weekly schedule takes place in the zendo at the Copernicusstraat 20 in Den Haag. If you would like to participate, please give us a phone call in advance. The first time you visit, we meet usually at 19 hrs for a brief introduction. Besides the weekly schedule we orgnanise short and longer meditation retreats (from week-ends to week-long) in Den Haag, in Holten in the east of the Netherlands. Please refer to the Events page. Sesshins and Zazenkai The word “sesshin” can be translated from Japanese in different ways, such as “gathering the mind”, or “raising the mind together”, or even “together one mind”. A sesshin is a period of intense silent zazen practice and we keep speaking to minimum. A sesshin is designed to offer the participants an opportunity to be intensely and directly present in the now. When you sit, just sit. When you walk, just walk. When you eat, just eat. In our usual state of mind we are very often distracted. Mentally we are occupied with other things than what ever the moment presents. A sesshin is an ideal opportunity to deepen our concentration, our openness and our presence. It's also an opportunity to take a step backwards, to disengage from our everyday busy lives and to be collectedly present. We regularly organise weekend sesshins (starting Friday evening at 18 hrs to Sunday afternoon 17 hrs) but also three day, four day and week long sesshins. Every year In the summer we participate in a two week retreat in the French Jura, organised by the Dana Sangha Paris. We also hold a week long Zen Heart Sangha summer retreat in the east off the Netherlands. During sesshin there are periods of sitting meditation (zazen), walking meditation (kinhin), meditative work periods (samu), the opportunity to have private interview (daisan) with Michel Sensei, dharma talks (teisho) and suttra services. Part time participation is almost always possible, but full time participants will have preference when a sesshin is fully booked. For the full program see the Events page. The word Zazenkai means “gathering for meditation”. A zazenkai is a one day retreat that is less intense than a sesshin but has the same intentions and purpose.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496319739059"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Michel Plein Ciel Oltheten Sensei's website Zen Heart Sangha in a new browser window: http://www.zenheart.nl/Eng/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Corinne Joie Partagée Frottier, Sensei [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501854442395{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Corinne Joie Partagée Frottier, Sensei | II. Generation > Successor to Genno Pagès Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_single_image image="611" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text 0=""]Corinne Frottier Sensei wurde 1953 in Brüssel geboren, wuchs in Österreich auf und kam 1975 nach Deutschland. Seit 1983 lebt sie in Hamburg, wo sie 1985 für den Rundfunk als Hörspielautorin und -regisseurin zu arbeiten begann. 1989 begegnete sie ihrer Meisterin Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, von der sie im Juli 2009 die Übertragung (Shiho) erhielt. Sie ist Genno Roshis dritte Dharma-Nachfolgerin. Im Mai 2009 gründete sie mit sieben weiteren Mitgliedern den „Zen-Sangha GenjoAn e.V.“[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="GenjoAn" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_single_image image="1936" img_size="214×221"][vc_column_text 0=""]Im Mai 2009 gründeten acht Mitglieder unserer jungen Sangha den Verein „Zen-Sangha Genjo An e.V.“ Damit wurde eine Grundlage und Unterstützung für die Weitergabe des Dharma durch Corinne Frottier Sensei geschaffen. Seitdem wächst der Verein kontinuierlich. Mitglieder werden Menschen, die sich in unserer Sangha zu Hause fühlen und unter Corinne Senseis Anleitung Zen üben möchten. Der Verein organisiert Sesshins (mehrtätige intensive Meditationsveranstaltungen) in und außerhalb Hamburgs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text] REGELMÄSSIGE TERMINE https://genjoan.net/regelmaessige-termine TERMINKALENDER https://genjoan.net/kalender [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318651900"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the GenjoAn website via the link in a new browser window: https://genjoan.net[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] GenjoAn - website [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-caret-down" add_icon="true" title="more..." tab_id="1502194943006-54195842-1afc"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Adam Tebbe from Sweeping Zen http://sweepingzen.com interviewed Corinne Frottier Sensei on April 3, 2012: SZ: So, my first question is how did you first come to Zen practice and what was going on in your life at the time? CF: I heard about Zen through my father who read a lot about Zen. I think he never practised a minute in his life, he died years ago, but he read an awful amount of Zen books and he was talking about it. Then he was very much also into Japanese arts, specifically painting and pottery. He loved Japanese pottery and he started doing pottery himself. So, through him, I got in contact with Japanese Zen and aesthetics. Then, actually in my 20s, I started with Tai Chi and I did Tai Chi for 10 years. In the meantime, I had moved to Hamburg and one day I saw advertising in a bookshop, that someone was offering Tai Chi courses and introduction into Zen meditation. I thought, this is really an interesting combination and I registered for that course. It was offered by someone you might know the name, Linda Lehrhaupt. You might have heard of her? SZ: Actually, no. CF: No? I thought so because she is American and she received transmission two weeks ago from Al Fusho Rapaport, I think. SZ: Oh, really! Oh, I should know then. CF: Yes. So, at that time she was a student of Genpo Roshi, Dennis Merzel. Okay, there are things going on about him now, but at that time he was still very much into quite orthodox Japanese Zen teaching. So, I got into contact with Zen practice with Linda at that time. At that the end of that course she suggested if people would be interested in more of Zen, they could come with her for a weekend to the Netherlands to a place called the “Tiltenberg”, which does not exist anymore, well, there are no more Zen sesshins there, the place closed down. So, we went there and there I met Genpo Roshi for the first time and the weekend was horrible for me. I really felt Zen was not for me (laughter). I thought this is really not my thing, I was totally scared and, you know, all these people in black. When I was still a school girl, I went to a nuns’ school and I stayed in a nun’s monastery, and it reminded me a lot of that and I thought, “Oh my god, this is the Buddhist version of that horrible place. I am not going to do that again!” SZ: Was that a Catholic nun’s school? CF: It was a Catholic nuns’ school yes. So, when I came home, I thought I won’t do this again. Strangely enough, this is one of the things we cannot explain really, I found myself again on a weekend sesshin which, at that time, was in Germany in a place called Maria Laach. It is also very close to a monastery, and again Genpo Roshi was there. So I went there a second time, and it was still horrible and quite traumatizing. I remember I was sitting in the zendo in tears and I thought, ‘Why am I doing this to myself? This is a horrible practice. We’re not allowed to move and everything hurts and everything is just horrible.’ Finally I told myself ‘Okay, I gave it a second try, and this is definitely it. I am finished’ with this. I started feeling a little relieved, you know, like giving me permission not to be there anymore, and at that moment, someone comes and whispers in my ear ‘Interview with Catherine’, who became later my teacher, Genno Roshi. At that time she didn’t even have transmission, so it was Catherine, interview with her. I thought ‘Why should I go there? I just decided to stop with this practice.’ But then I thought: ‘That will give me an opportunity to leave the zendo.’ So I left the zendo, I went to the room, and had a talk with her. I didn’t realize it at that time, but then and there I met my teacher. Even if hardship didn’t stop immediately after that, she had got me on the hook. So, that is how I stayed with Zen practice and she became my teacher and she is till today. SZ: What were some of the reasons, you mentioned them a bit, but what were some of the reasons that you found it so nightmarish? Was it the physical pain, or was it just having to sit there with yourself? CF: Yes. I think to sit with myself was worse than the physical pain. I mean, the physical pain, okay, that was not nice, but today I would say it was for me definitely a psychological dimension. It was staying with myself. I think many of us in our culture, we are not really used to staying silent with ourselves, because we don’t feel comfortable with ourselves. I think this is a very interesting and very important aspect and I definitely would say that I had no idea at that time how uncomfortable I feel with myself, in a way that I wouldn’t like to be in my presence. Which is an amazing thing to say, because we expect others to like being with us. SZ: Sure. CF: But if we don’t like it ourselves, why should others? SZ: And we supposedly spend our entire lives with ourselves, but not always… CF: (Laughter). I remember also that a friend of mine said one day, it was in a different context, it was not in Zen, but she said to me, “Oh, you know, this is something that is really difficult to be with you, to accept, you know”, and I said, “Well, you are lucky, because you can leave, but I have to stay with it.” SZ: Yes, right. CF: And I think this is a little bit the attitude. SZ: Like being a conjoined twin. CF: Yes. I had a few traumatizing experiences in my childhood and, of course, when you sit still for hours, you cannot, how do you say it in English, you cannot hinder, prohibit, that these things come up. SZ: Nope. CF: And then, of course, in the first moment, you feel totally at the mercy of those feelings and you don`t know how to handle it, it was really meeting myself in a way like I didn’t want to. SZ: Yes, you know, facing some unpleasant things. CF: Yes, facing some very unpleasant things; yes, definitely. SZ: I was just watching a movie that was made recently in Japan on the life of Dogen and, you know, there are some fictionalized aspects to it, but there was a point where Dogen was instructing I think it was a Shogun or something, a local Shogun, and basically the guy was asking him, “I see these demons every night. How do I get rid of them?” And Dogen said so you must befriend your demons, welcome them in. CF: Yes. I mean, this is what we are actually told in Zen practice normally, but sometimes we feel very helpless on how to do that. You know, that makes me think of another story which goes very well with this, which I really like very much. Maybe you know it? It is the story of a Tibetan reincarnation, a Rinpoche, but it is a little American boy. It’s a true story. I don’t know which one it is. He is still alive. In an interview later on when he was recognized as a reincarnation and he was already Rinpoche, a journalist interviewed the mother and said, “Do you remember anything during his childhood that would have startled you and that you thought ‘my boy is a little bit different, there is something special about this boy, or something strange?’” In the first moment she said, “No, no, he was just a normal little boy” and then suddenly she said, “Oh, yes, but I remember one story. He was about 5 years old, in kindergarten, and one day I came to fetch him to bring him home, and I see he is sitting on the floor playing with some car, or another toy, and there is another little boy on a tricycle who keeps constantly bumping into him, and I was seeing this and my son wasn’t reacting at all and I thought, ‘Oh, my god, what kind of son do I have’, I mean is this a little sissy? He’s not defending himself.” SZ: Or fighting back, right. CF: Yes. So she went to him and said, “Look, what are you doing, won’t you say something to that boy, I don’t know, maybe tell him to stop?” And he just looked up at her and he said, “No, no, mommy. You know, he wants to be friends with me, but he doesn’t know yet how to do it”. SZ: Pretty insightful for a 5-year-old. CF: It’s a lovely story. He was 5 years old that boy, and I think this is a little bit how we are told to invite and befriend our demons, but I think very often we don’t know how to do it, and that is the difficult part of it. SZ: Yes. I mean, it’s that whole, you know, your enemy is your greatest friend or ally, in Buddhist teachings at least. CF: In Buddhist teachings, of course, but when you are completely new, when you start – SZ: Sure, sure. CF: You asked me what was the difficult part, I would say that was the difficult part for me, you know, to see all those demons suddenly coming out of the box and thinking, “Oh, my god. How am I going to survive that?” SZ: At what point did you find that changing for you, as it were, or at what point did you find that the practice was actually working in some way for you? Was it just something you kind of recognized after the fact at some point, or was there a moment that you remember? CF: Strangely enough, I would say even though I had those panics and those fears and, you know, this hard time with the emotional part of it all, I would say today looking back that I always had, deep down inside, I had a total trust. Somehow, I don’t think I had a moment where I thought: “Practice is working for me”. I think I never doubted practice, maybe sometimes I doubted if I wanted to go on with it, certainly I had this, but I had never thoughts about the working of practice. SZ: It might be like a gaining kind of idea as well. CF: I just talked to my students a few days ago about the fact that we always want to gain things and that in practice there is nothing to gain. In the beginning of ma practice I didn’t even think about gaining or not gaining anything. Maybe I was too busy with myself to think about it. That was not what was on my mind. I just had started walking on that path and I was doing one step after another, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, more like a little soldier, I think. SZ: And before you know it, you’re kind of somewhere else on the mountain. CF: Yes, it’s more like that. SZ: Well, I mean it sounds so cliché, but I was just talking to a Zen teacher named David Rynick, he is with James Ishmael Ford’s groups, and he was saying, you know, it’s really true, there is no destination at all, because once you get there, you need a new toy or you need to go on to the next thing; so you need to just immerse yourself in whatever it is you’re doing now, you know? CF: Yes. That’s very true. Of course much later I discovered that the gain I was aiming at was to get rid of my misery. SZ: Do you still practice Tai Chi? CF: No. I stopped. I would like to and I even think of maybe starting again because I have reached an age now where it would be good for my health and my body, so I am seriously thinking of starting it again. But I stopped after a while because Zen started needing more and more time and I wanted to invest more and more time in Zen. I couldn’t do both at the same time – I had to make a living, I heard to earn money also. SZ: Sure, yes, that little detail, you know. CF: That little detail, exactly. SZ: It gets in the way of practice. CF: Yes. At least in the way of formal practice, like going to sesshins or being able to spend more time with your teacher. SZ: Describe Catherine Genno Pages for us. Am I saying her name right? CF: You write it Pages, but the pronunciation in French is Pagès. SZ: Okay. So what was, I mean, you don’t have to divulge this, but what was that first encounter all about? And then, what made you decide that you wanted to practice with this person? CF: As I told you, I had been asked to come to interview with her. I came in and I had tears in my eyes and looked miserable. I had been crying in the zendo, so she asked me why I was crying, and it was very nice, because I spoke to her in French immediately. She is French and I am French, and as the sesshin was happening in Germany, she was totally astonished to have a French person suddenly in her interview room so, of course, it was this very human thing of, “Wow! Why do you speak French? Where do you come from?” Then she asked me what was the matter with me and I talked a little bit and we found out she too when she went to school she went to a Catholic nun’s school and so we found common things about our upbringing, but today, I would definitely say that was really only going on on the surface. From the first moment on, and I wasn’t even conscious of it, I met my teacher and it was a heart-to-heart meeting, which I only realized when I came back home. I mean, something happened it’s like falling in love, you cannot explain it. You meet someone, you look into each other’s eyes and something happens and you don’t know really what it is. SZ: Yes. CF: That is how it happened for me. I didn’t understand it immediately. I remember that shortly after that, Genno Roshi would offer a weekend sesshin in Amsterdam, also in a place that doesn’t exist anymore, and I went there and when I came back from that sesshin, I met friends and I started telling them about how the weekend had been, and a friend looked at me and said “Corinne, you are completely in love with that woman!” I looked at her and I said, “What? What are you saying? Are you crazy?!” I really felt embarrassed. But then I went home and I thought, “She’s right”. SZ: Sure and now, you know, this is a related question. It’s a gender-related question. Do you think that you found her more accessible, this is of course in retrospect, due to the fact that you shared the same gender? Was it easier for you to find intimacy that way with another woman? CF: Well, I would say certainly it was because of my biography and how I am. I mean, I have relationships with women. I found it probably more easy to feel intimate with her, but at the same time, after all my practice, I would say today that though it is clear that there are differences between men and women on the relative level at least, I am persuaded that in a certain way the gender of your teacher plays no role. Your teacher will appear to you in the form, in the gender form, that you need. You see? Gender plays no role, but if you need for the meeting a certain gender, that will be the gender. I don’t think that really one could say, “I feel more intimate with a woman or more intimate with a man”. It depends on the person. You know, if you would feel more intimate with a man, your teacher will appear as a man. SZ: Sure. That was a weird question, I know. CF: Not at all. I understand that question, because there is a lot of talking about this, and there is a relative and an absolute side to look at it. For me, the woman was the right form. But maybe if I had been someone else, and by that I absolutely do not mean any sexual orientation, I would have felt more intimate with a man. It’s very individual, I think. SZ: Now, what advice would you give to people who are starting out in a meditation practice? What is one supposed to be doing when they are practicing zazen, for instance? CF: When they are practicing zazen? SZ: Yes. CF: Well, Genno Roshi does not put a lot of emphasis on the posture. I mean, it is clear, we are taught the posture at the beginning because the right posture supports you. But if it starts to be torture, then it is not a support anymore. So, on one hand, there are a few things about the posture I think that are important: your spine should be straight so that breathing can flow freely, but there are many different ways of having the spine straight. You can sit on a chair; you can sit on the floor. It depends also on your physical condition. SZ: Yes. Absolutely. CF: But meditation is not about the posture. I mean, there are people who have deep insights lying around on their couch and eating chips. What about them? They were in no posture at all, or they were in that kind of posture. So I think it is more about finding a situation and also a physical condition in which you have the feeling you can relax. Even if at the beginning you don’t, and definitely at the beginning I didn’t have at all the feeling that I was relaxing. I mean, everything was strange and weird and the posture was painful, so if somebody had told me, you know, you are doing all this to relax inwardly, I would have given it a good laugh. Just recently I said to someone, we should sit like children. A child is not thinking about do I have the right posture, do I breath in the right way, do I have the right thoughts, do I have the right feelings, am I right, am I wrong, you know, nothing. You just sit down, you sit and in a certain way, I have the feeling that an important part of it is to enjoy it also, I mean, to be joyful about it. I have the feeling sometimes Zen is becoming a little bit like something, how do you say it in English, I have to do… SZ: Like a compulsion? CF: Yes, compulsion, but something like if I have a list of things I have to do today, I have to do this and this and this, so each thing is, is there a name for it? SZ: A checkmark? Like a checklist that you have to go through? CF: Yes. Yes, something that I have to do. The word isn’t coming to mind for the moment. But that it is something that I am obliged to do, an obligation. That’s the word. I keep saying to people who want to train with me, you know, no one is forcing you to do Zen. You don’t have to do Zen. You can be very happy in your life without Zen. So, if you do Zen, if you want to follow that path, it is because you want to do it and because there is some part of you that feels well there. If it is only misery, then why do it? You are not going to be a better human being or have a better status in society because you are a Zen student. Of course it can be helpful to have an introduction into posture, but it is much more important how you are spending your time during meditation. What are you doing there? SZ: Sure. CF: Are you just dreaming? Are you preparing your plans for the next day? That’s what the important thing is. SZ: A lot of times, the early instruction will be to follow your breath or count your breaths; there are many different ways of putting it. What is the emphasis there in that? CF: To say follow your breath? SZ: Yes. CF: I really do this only in the beginning and only if I have the feeling someone has an aspiration for that because, for me, but let’s be clear, Adam, I am only telling you my own view, I am always open to hear others, other views. SZ: Sure. CF: Okay. So, my experience and how I see it is that counting the breaths or following the breath is really to help calm down a little bit the mental activity, because we have so many inputs that come the whole day and it is even becoming more and more, information and the internet and surfing around, and zapping on the TV, and wherever you go there is music, and you have your mobile phone, so constantly someone or something is asking for your attention. Your mind never gets a rest. So, when you sit down, I think it is incredibly difficult to just be, to stay, in your own presence. You will not stay with yourself. You will constantly go away from yourself. You will go to this and this and this thought. You don’t stay with you. I think being aware of your breathing is just helping you to stay with yourself because your breathing is always staying with yourself. It’s there where your body is, and so counting your breaths or breathing is helping you to be where your body is, and that is the beginning. SZ: Instead of like a monkey just hopping from vine to vine; you know, monkey mind. CF: Yes, yes, and not being here. That’s the thing. So, it is a tool in the beginning to help you be here, but I don’t let people be too long on it because then there is a tendency to make it the content of meditation and it is not at all. Counting your breath has nothing to do with meditation. It is just helping you to sit down in the beginning and stay calm. That is how I see it. SZ: Sure, because if one maybe goes further into the practice, would you say that concentration sort of opens up towards everything, the environment and everything else? CF: I would say, concentration drops away. There is a point when even concentration is not needed anymore. Vast emptiness manifests beyond concentration. SZ: Could you describe Genno Roshi? You talked about her earlier on, but (if possible!) just describe her as a teacher for you over the years? That would be great. CF: Describe her as how I perceived her as a teacher? SZ: Actually in whatever terms you want to describe her in. CF: Okay. Wow. You are asking me difficult questions! (Laughter). SZ: I know. It’s one of those…. CF: Yes! But it’s okay. I will try to answer that. Well, first of all, of course, I will tell you that she is a wonderful teacher. (Laughter). She is a wonderful teacher for me. What was very important for me in the beginning is that I had the feeling she was an extremely patient teacher with me, which is a funny thing to say because, on a human level, just as an everyday human being, I would say Genno Roshi is an incredibly impatient person. But, as a teacher, from the Dharmic point of view, she is very patient, and she gives an immense lot of space, which, for me, was just what I needed. I guess most of the students she has need that, otherwise they wouldn’t be with her. So, she gives a lot of space and is very patient. The other thing that I really appreciate enormously with her is she has absolute integrity. That is also something. She is a very, very, integer person. Do you say that in English? SZ: Maybe even ethical, or… CF: Yes, but not only ethical. She has a lot of integrity but I don’t mean it only in an ethical way. Just as a whole person, she is very honest and very straightforward. Very honest. I would say even it is an important part of her Dharma. She always says it is all about having faith and being honest, and being honest to oneself. That is really what I have learned, constantly, being honest to oneself. That is very important. She puts a lot of emphasis on that. In the meantime, I am teaching myself and so the more I am in this new phase of my own practice, I appreciate and I learn from and I absorb this thing of being honest to yourself. This is really what practice is about, an important part of it I would say. Something else is that she will not make compromise where she thinks compromise is not the right thing in that moment. I don’t want to say she is someone who never compromises because in an everyday life situations, of course she is capable of compromising, but in the Dharma, she would never compromise even if it becomes very uncomfortable for herself. That is also a crucial teaching for me. SZ: To be uncompromising. CF: To be uncompromising in the Dharma. I must really say in the Dharma, because of course in everyday life she would not be this kind of righteous person who would not compromise, but in the Dharma she follows really her intuition. In German, it is “to be one with the heart”. Okay, in English it sounds a little bit kitschy, but maybe you understand what I mean. SZ: No, it was perfect. Earlier on in the interview, you kept on mentioning a bunch of these places that you had early on gone to that just sort of disappeared, and I was just curious to know, is that kind of common in Europe, or maybe it is just specific to the Netherlands, I don’t know? CF: No, I don’t think it is specific to the Netherlands. I think certain places had to close down for economical reasons, or the group that was taking charge of a certain place dissolves or has no more members. I wouldn’t say it is specific to any geographical part, that it happens more in the Netherlands than somewhere else. SZ: Right. Well, I just didn’t want to broad brush all of Europe, but you know… CF: No, no. I understood. It could have been, but no. I don’t think it is specific to the Netherlands. It’s just some places disappear and some others are created new. Of course, I think we all have to fight with economic problems, which I think is a very important part of Zen practice in the west now. We don’t have the resources that Zen has in Japan. SZ: Yes, that is very true. CF: So, that is an important thing. SZ: Yes, it is pretty much left up to individual organizations (unless they have the backing of a larger one). CF: Yes. We create associations and the members pay and so it’s not like the Catholic church with the Vatican where there is an enormous fortune. We don’t have that in the western Zen community. SZ: You mean you don’t have basements filled with golden statues of the Buddha and endless relics?! CF: Well, Adam, I will tell you. We have, but it is secret. SZ: Aha! I knew it. I will have to nudge you for the location! CF: (Laughter). No, I wish we had. We would be in a different situation. SZ: True. Although, large institutions can become a bit too polished for some people. CF: Yes. It could become then an institution with a lot of power play around it. Money, unfortunately, does that. Absolutely, I agree with you. SZ: Yes. It is always a challenge. CF: There are pros and cons for these things. SZ: Yes. I mean, it makes the everyday running of it easier, much easier. I am sure there are months where you worry about whether the place is going to stay open or not. CF: Yes, absolutely. It’s part of the game. SZ: So what have been some of the challenges? You run a place called Zen Sangha Genjo An, is that right. CF: Genjo An, yes. SZ: So, what have been some of the challenges of actually starting up one’s own group and keeping it going, you know, keeping it open, the doors open? CF: When I started the association in 2009, which was also the year when I received transmission, I was able with the donation of three people, two very good friends of mine and a student, to buy a little flat here in the house where you see me interviewing; it is under the flat where I live. It is small, very small, I mean, the whole flat is 40 square meters, but still we manage very well. We have a kitchen and a little zendo and for the weekly zazen it is perfect. I guess many of us are in that situation in the West, that because you want to finance a practice place, you start a lot of mental activity around how to get money in. I found myself suddenly meeting advertizing professionals, discussing the layout of a website, what it should look like to attract people, designing flyers and posters and so on. And then one day I realized, “Oh my god. It looks like I am starting a business.” It had developed unconsciously, for a while all those steps seemed so natural. I remember one of my students was there and we were starting to install the website and suddenly I told him, “Wait a minute. I am not selling something. I have nothing to sell. I have no product to sell. We should not lose that out of sight.” I often think of Zen masters in former times, you know, they would go and live somewhere on the peak of a mountain or in a cave, I don’t know, and people would find them, yes? Today is another situation. SZ: (Laughter). There was no landlord waiting for them in the mountain cave to get their rent. CF: (Laughter). Absolutely. So, what I think is it should be a little bit of something of both. On the one hand, I do what is necessary and that is enough. There should be also a part of trusting that it is going to go its own course. I mean, people who need to find me will find me. Of course, it is nice to have a certain amount of members so that we can economically afford things, but I try to be very attentive to not suddenly fall into an attitude of running a business. That I would not like personally. Maybe others have different ideas about this, but that is how I feel. SZ: And I totally understand. The internet, it’s like the modern phone book, and if people can’t find you… CF: Absolutely. The internet is very important. We used to have fliers we would distribute in specific places, but when I ask people who are newcomers, how did you find us, 100%, not 99%, 100% will say we found you through the internet. The other thing that I also discovered that in my eyes is very common nowadays, which was also different in former times, is that the way people find you is that they move to a certain neighbourhood, then they go on the internet and they look at what is in my neighbourhood? Where is the next bakery, the next hairdresser and the next Zen group? You know, this is a little bit like that. I mean, it happened to me that people would call me and say, “Oh, I would like to come and do zazen with you” and I said “Yes. You are welcome. We sit on these days and at these times.” Then they will call me half an hour later and say, “Oh, I looked on the map but you are half an hour away from where I live” and I said “Yes…” and the person would say “No, that’s too far for me. That’s too far away.” So, you see, I don’t mean to say by that that everybody has that attitude, but it is not uncommon. You go on the internet and you see what is around the area where I live. SZ: How many groups are we talking about in your area, in Hamburg, or just Germany in general, for Zen? CF: Oh, many. There are many, many Zen groups in Germany, and there are quite a bunch of Zen teachers. In Hamburg, Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany, there are quite a few Zen groups but we don’t have many Zen teachers here. On the other hand, I must say, I am a young teacher, not young in age, but I haven’t been a teacher for very long, so I am not so known here yet. It will need time. I trust that it will develop. SZ: You kind of figure out what you are doing later on. You just kind of do it and then later on you kind of figure out, oh, that’s what I was doing. CF: Yes. Exactly. The Sangha is growing, slowly, slowly, and I am very happy about how things are going. SZ: Very good. I was curious, in your lineage, in the Maezumi lineage there is that Harada-Yasutani component and, I was curious to know if you personally work on koans, as well? CF: Yes, we do. Maezumi Roshi’s lineage belongs to the Soto school, but we do also work with koans. In my training I worked on koans with my teacher. SZ: How would you describe the Maezumi lineage’s approach toward koan practice or introspection? I don’t know if you make a distinction there. CF: Well, this is very difficult to answer, Adam, because first of all, I have no comparison. I don’t know how others, in fact I can say I have no idea how other traditions work on koans. Or maybe I have one example because one of Genno Roshi’s students, a young Dharma brother of mine who is living at the Center right now in Paris with her and with some other students, went to Japan for 2 years and lived there in a Rinzai monastery and then he came back. He told us a little bit of how they worked with koans there and it is completely different than we do. You go in, you present your koan and even the way you present it, it is much more on an energetic level, you know, like shouting or hitting the floor with your hand, you know, very physical things. Then sometimes you would go out and ask yourself, “Did I pass my koan or not?” You didn’t know. Then when you came into Daisan next time you would get the next koan, which meant you had passed the previous one, but you didn’t know why, and you didn’t know why you hadn’t passed it the time before. So, it was a little bit confusing. That is the only comparison I have. I can definitely say that is not the way we do it. SZ: Okay. How do you do it? CF: I can only say how I did it with my teacher, because I think that even within the lineage of Maezumi Roshi there are so many differences… SZ: There really are… CF: It really depends, on the teacher. So, I would say that the specific way of how my teacher works with koans is that in the first part, she says very little. She really lets you, how do you say, gnaw on it, you know, like a dog on a bone. SZ: Chew it over… CF: Chew, that’s right. She lets you chew on it, really, and she would not say a lot. You would go into Daisan and you would present, or you would say something about it, and maybe she would answer, sometimes she would not. So you were really into the process of it physically as well as mentally. Then, when you presented the koan eventually, not immediately, she would say, “Okay. That’s the presentation.” And then she would ask you, “What is the point of the koan?” to check if there was really an insight on the subject. She wanted to make sure that you really saw something and that it was not just a coincidental shot. SZ: And then you’re through, right. CF: Yes, and I must say I appreciate this combination, and maybe it is a little bit the Western style, because I think in Japan and from what I read and heard, it would not be seen in a positive way that you talk about it also. SZ: True. CF: So, I think it’s this combination that works best for us: first, of course, not saying anything and the student really has to go into the process of it. But then when he or she presents it, to check then, not every koan, for some koans it is maybe not necessary, if the point of the koan really has been seen. That is how I learned to work with it. SZ: That was insightful for me, because I am always curious about these different approaches to it all. You are totally right, too, it differs from teacher to teacher, really, but it is still interesting. CF: Yes, I am sure. It is. SZ: Okay. Last two questions. They are both very easy. One is optional; heck, they are all optional (laughter)… CF: (Laughter). I didn’t have the feeling that you forced me to answer any… SZ: Right. No you can’t go. Somebody bolt her to the chair and we’re not leaving until she answers this. I was curious if there are any books that you found helpful to you over the years that you would recommend to people who are interested, related to Zen practice. CF: Well, you know how it is in Zen, when you start Zen. Actually, a friend of mine said “It is very interesting, Zen speaks a lot about how books in fact should be near the toilet” (laughter). SZ: It’s true. CF: You know what I mean, yes? That reading books is of no value at all. But still, as this friend who studied Japanese literature and of course there is Zen literature in it too, he pointed out that Chinese and Japanese Zen literature is amongst the vastest and most varied in the world. So, that is the contradiction which Zen likes very much. It is true that in the beginning I actually don’t recommend to read too much, because really, my experience is that people put so much stuff in their heads and then they lose contact to a simplicity of themselves. You know, many people then have the feeling “I am too calm, I am too ordinary, I am too boring, I am too this and that, and I have to put in some nice beautiful Zen sentences.” So, I think I will tell you nothing very interesting, Adam, because what I recommend is what I think many recommend. I think Suzuki Roshi’s Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind is a wonderful book for beginners. SZ: Yes. CF: The other one that I like very much that I recommend also is Chögyam Trungpa’s Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, which I think is also a basic book to read. SZ: Sure. That book cuts across all kinds of different traditions. CF: Yes. So I would say for a beginner those are the two books that I would recommend. For the rest, I would say don’t read too much. (Laughter). SZ: Especially initially, when you read a lot, you are just filling your head with a lot of ideas and that can get a little bit – not that ideas are not our friends – but it’s sort of like the monkey mind thing. If you overload your brain with all of this information, then like you said you are going to have all of these different ideas about what the practice is and… CF: Yes. Absolutely. I mean, for light reading and because it is amusing also, in Europe, I don’t know if in America he is known at all, there is a very famous writer of, how do you call this in English…I will tell you the author, maybe you know him: Janwillem van de Wetering. SZ: Yes. He wrote a few books on Zen and detective novels. CF: You know his name. Detective novels, that is the word I was looking for, detective novels. He wrote two very beautiful books about his own experience of Zen. So, that might be also nice for a beginner to read because it is amusing and it is not putting too much ideas in your head. SZ: They are really good books. I read A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community and I have Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Earhere, which I want to read. If you are coming to practice like, “Oh I am going to put everybody on a pedestal and my practice is special,” he is going to bring you down quite a few notches pretty quick. Good book. CF: Yes. I enjoyed reading them very much. SZ: My final question is very open-ended. Do you have any, it sounds funny, parting words or final thoughts (laughter). It’s like you are going to die or something. What are your last and final words to our audience? CF: My last final words. To tell you the truth, Adam, my last final words would be “It was really very enjoyable to talk to you.” SZ: Well, thank you. That is mutual. I always like it when people say that! CF: I understand. SZ: There is a joke around that. You might know him, he is in your lineage – Engu Dobbs. He is one of Peter Matthiessen’s students. CF: Yes, yes. SZ: It was just a funny joke. I asked him about his late father, “Were they the most important person to you?” and he said, “Well, right now, Adam, you’re the most important person!” I said, “Oh, really, let’s make some t-shirts about that. We’ll put it up on the site all over the place. I’m going to use it in a promo.” CF: (Laughter). It reminds me that a few years ago, I was in a little group with Genpo Roshi. At that time he was already in his Big Mind business, but still we were a little group and my teacher was there too, it was very nice. We were sitting together and somebody started to speak of death and dying and testaments and so at a certain moment, I looked at him and I said “Well, Genpo Roshi, speaking of testament…” Do you say testament in English, you know, Last Will and Testament? SZ: Yes, pretty much. CF: “What would you leave us behind? What is your last word of Zen? You know the koan, “What is your last word of Zen?” What would you like to leave us as a legacy?” And he looked at me and he said “Well, Corinne, you might be very disappointed, but now I have to go and pee.” And I immediately understood. Sometimes the last word can be very poetic and sometimes….. This interview was transcribed by [Sweeping Zen] volunteer editor, Janet Pal. Thanks Janet! Source | Quelle: http://sweepingzen.com/corinne-frottier-interview/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Frank De Waele, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854381903{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Frank De Waele, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Genno Pagès Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_single_image image="615" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] Na zijn studies aan het Sint-Lucasinstituut in Gent werkte Frank De Waele (geb. 1957) in musea in Venetië, Brussel en Gent en later ook voor de VRT-radio. Voor hij naar Frankrijk vertrok, was hij docent schilderkunst aan de Academie voor Schone Kunsten te Leuven. Aangetrokken door de spiritualiteit van zen begon hij in 1987 met meditatie in de sangha van meester Deshimaru. Hij oefende tevens bij de Nederlandse zenleraar Ton Lathouwers. In 1991 ontmoette Frank de Franse zenlerares Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, de eerste Dharma-opvolgster van de Amerikaanse zenleraar Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi en spirituele leidster van de Dana Sangha. Frank begon bij Genno Roshi te studeren en werd haar leerling. Drie jaar later legde hij de boeddhistische geloften af en verhuisde hij naar haar centrum in de buurt van Parijs. Hij combineerde zijn intensieve lekentraining en meditatiepraktijk met vrijwilligerswerk voor de Peacemaker Community, een interreligieus netwerk voor spiritualiteit en sociale verandering van de Amerikaanse zenleraar Bernie Glassman Roshi. Genno Roshi leidde Frank in de loop van zijn residentiële zentraining op tot meditatie- en koanleraar. In 2002 keerde hij terug naar België waar hij, onder haar supervisie, meehielp aan de uitbouw van Dana Sangha België, waarvan hij de begeleiding opnam. Op 23 juli 2005 ontving Frank van Genno Roshi dharmatransmissie (Jap. shiho), waardoor hij een gekwalificeerd zenleraar (Jap. sensei) werd in de White Plum Sotozenlijn van wijlen Taizan Maezumi Roshi. In 2006 werd Dana Sangha België omgevormd tot een onafhankelijke sangha met een nieuwe naam en logo en een eigen programmatie. In de vernieuwde Zen Sangha neemt Frank De Waele Roshi de spirituele leiding en de priesterlijke functies waar, geeft dharmaonderricht en staat in voor de (individuele) begeleiding van de beoefenaars. Hij is ook actief betrokken bij de interlevensbeschouwelijke dialoog. Frank Roshi is erg betrokken bij de opstart en uitbouw van de Zen Peacemakers Order, die hij als founding teacher in Europa mee hielp oprichten. Tijdens de straatretraite te New York in april 2011 kreeg Frank transmissie (dharma recognition) van Bernie Glassman Roshi en werd daarmee zijn dharmaopvolger in de Zen Peacemakers. Lees hier meer www.zenpeacemakers.nl/frank-de-waele/ Op 30 oktober 2015 ontving Frank De Waele Roshi in Krakau de definitieve erkenning in de dharma (inka) van Genno Roshi en van Bernie Roshi. Frank Roshi tekent en houdt van beeldende kunst, lezen, wandelen en straatretraites. Hij leeft in Gent bij de zendo en werkt voltijds als zenleraar in residence. Hij is gehuwd met Alexandra Mushin Gericke, senior zenstudente van Genpo Roshi. Samen hebben ze twee dochters, Hannia en Sanne. After his studies at the Sint-Lucas Institute in Ghent, Frank De Waele (born 1957) worked in museums in Venice, Brussels and Ghent and later also for the VRT radio. Before leaving for France, he taught painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leuven. Attracted by the spirituality of Zen, he began meditating in 1987 in the sangha of master Deshimaru. He also practised with the Dutch Zen teacher Ton Lathouwers. In 1991 Frank met the French Zen teacher Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi, the first Dharma successor of the American Zen teacher Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi and spiritual leader of the Dana Sangha. Frank started studying with Genno Roshi and became her pupil. Three years later he took Buddhist vows and moved to her center near Paris. He combined his intensive lay training and meditation practice with volunteering for the Peacemaker Community, an interreligious network for spirituality and social change of American Zen teacher Bernie Glassman Roshi. Genno Roshi trained Frank as a meditation and koan teacher in the course of his residential Zen training. In 2002 he returned to Belgium where, under her supervision, he helped to develop Dana Sangha Belgium, the accompaniment of which he recorded. On 23 July 2005 Frank received dharma transmission (Jap. shiho) from Genno Roshi, making him a qualified Zen teacher (Jap. sensei) in the White Plum Sotozen-Lineage of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi. In 2006 Dana Sangha Belgium was transformed into an independent sangha with a new name and logo and its own programming. In the renewed Zen Sangha Frank De Waele Roshi takes over the spiritual guidance and priestly functions, teaches dharma and is responsible for the (individual) guidance of the practitioners. He is also actively involved in the interfaith dialogue. Frank Roshi is very involved in the start-up and development of the Zen Peacemakers Order, which he helped found as a founding teacher in Europe. During the street retreat in New York in April 2011 Frank received transmission (dharma recognition) from Bernie Glassman Roshi and became his dharma successor in the Zen Peacemakers. Read more here www.zenpeacemakers.nl/frank-de-waele/ On 30 October 2015 Frank De Waele Roshi received the final recognition in the dharma (inka) of Genno Roshi and Bernie Roshi in Krakow. Frank Roshi draws and loves visual art, reading, walking and street retreats. He lives in Ghent with the zendo and works full-time as a zen teacher in residence. He is married to Alexandra Mushin Gericke, senior Zen student of Genpo Roshi. Together they have two daughters, Hannia and Sanne. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen Sangha" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_single_image image="1932" img_size="300x200"][vc_column_text] Zen Sangha wil een ondersteunend kader aanbieden voor het onderricht en de beoefening van de zenboeddhistische spiritualiteit. Lees meer Als lekensangha willen wij de wijsheid en de praktijken van zen verwerkelijken en uitdrukken binnen gezin, familie, gemeenschap en doorheen werk, relaties, kunst, dienstbaarheid aan anderen en zorg voor het milieu. Zen Sangha wil tenslotte dit onderricht en deze beoefening bewaren voor en doorgeven aan de komende generaties. Sinds meer dan tien jaar organiseert Zen Sangha haar bekende familieretraites in Cadzand, waar beoefenaars met hun families welkom zijn en waar een aangepast kinderprogramma voorzien is. Wij bieden een uitgebreid programma van zentraining aan met zazen (zenmeditatie), teisho (zenonderricht), zenstudie in persoonlijk contact met de leraar, weekends en langere retraites, enz. Daarnaast organiseren we er geregeld introducties en workshops. Zen Sangha heeft ook een open groep palliatieve zorg. Zen Sangha aims to provide a supportive framework for the teaching and practice of Zen Buddhist spirituality. Read more As layangha we want to realize and express the wisdom and practices of zen within family, family, community and through work, relationships, art, service to others and care for the environment. Finally, Zen Sangha wants to preserve this teaching and practice for and pass it on to future generations. For more than ten years Zen Sangha has been organising its well-known family retreats in Cadzand, where practitioners and their families are welcome and where an adapted children’s program is provided. We offer an extensive program of zazen training with zazen (Zen meditation), teisho (Zen teaching), zazen study in personal contact with the teacher, weekends and longer retreats, etc. In addition, we regularly organize introductions and workshops. Zen Sangha also has an open group palliative care. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Zen Sangha is een gemeenschap van zenbeoefenaars rond zenleraar Frank De Waele Roshi en biedt het onderricht, de beoefening en de overdracht van de zenboeddhistische spiritualiteit aan.  Zen Sangha heeft een zenprogramma in Gent en lokale zengroepen in Antwerpen, Brugge, Brussel, Geraardsbergen, Leuven, Lier, Mol, Kortrijk, Ronse en Bergen-op-Zoom. Kenmerkende meditatieve praktijken in de Zen Sangha zijn gewaarzijnsmeditatie, shikantaza of vormloze meditatie, koanstudie, intensieve retraites en het werken met de leraar.  Zen Sangha is gegroeid uit de Dana Sangha van Catherine Genno Pages Roshi en maakt deel uit van de White Plum Sotozenlijn van wijlen Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Zen Sangha is een trainingscentrum van de Zen Peacemakers Orde en is lid van de Boeddhistische Unie van België en van de Interreligieuze Werkgroep Gent. Zen Sangha is a community of Zen practitioners around Zen teacher Frank De Waele Roshi and offers the teaching, practice and transmission of Zen Buddhist spirituality.  Zen Sangha has a Zen program in Ghent and local sitting groups in Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Geraardsbergen, Leuven, Lier, Mol, Kortrijk, Ronse and Bergen-op-Zoom. Typical meditative practices in the Zen Sangha are meditation, shikantaza or formless meditation, koan study, intensive retreats and working with the teacher.  Zen Sangha originates of the Dana Sangha by Catherine Genno Pages Roshi and is part of the White Plum Sotozen-Lineage of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Zen Sangha is a training center of the Zen Peacemakers Order and is a member of the Buddhist Union of Belgium and of the Interreligious Working Group Gent. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='frank-de-waele-roshi' showpastevents='false'] This month calendar > https://www.zensangha.be/maandkalender/ Aangekondigde activiteiten / Announced activies @ https://www.zensangha.be Shokendag op zondag 31 maart 2019 in Gent Paassesshin van woensdag 17 tot zondag 21 april 2019 in Gent Retraite zen à Jodoigne du lundi 20 au samedi 25 mai 2019 Hemelvaartsesshin van donderdag 30 mei tot zondag 2 juni 2019 Save the date ! Kunstreis naar Parijs van donderdag 20 juni tot zondag 23 juni 2019. International Zen Retreat in Oberdürenbach July 7th – 14th, 2019 Workshop Zen and Beauty in Oberdürenbach July 15th – 20th, 2019 Stille sesshin in Cadzand van 3 tot 10 augustus 2019 Familieweek in Cadzand van 11 tot 15 augustus 2019 Benefiet Zen Sangha op zondag 20 oktober 2019 [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149630187633414963178002571496318201422"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the ZenSangha Belgium website via the link in a new browser window: https://www.zensangha.be/[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Zen Sangha Belgium - website [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Amy Tu Es Cela Hollowell, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854314074{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Amy Tu Es Cela Hollowell, Roshi | II. Generation > Successor to Genno Pagès Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_single_image image="607" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]The Zen teacher and poet Roshi Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her children and making a living as a journalist. From 1995 to 2001, she lived in the nonmonastic Zen community Dana Sangha, which she helped her teacher, Roshi Catherine Genno Pagès, create in Montreuil, a suburb of Paris. In 2004, Amy was recognized by Roshi Genno as her successor, officially receiving « dharma transmission, » and she then founded Wild Flower Zen in Paris. She has long been a staff editor at the International Herald Tribune. Named one of the leading English-language poets in France by The Café Review and Ekleksographia, she is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in numerous publications in Europe and the United States. She is a former student of the writing program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, founded by Chogyam Trungpa in Boulder, Colorado. Married and the mother of two children, she lives in Montreuil.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Wild Flower Zen" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_column_text] Zen meditation is an act of freedom. Whoever and wherever you are, it constitutes a radical plunge into the heart and art of life. Welcome to the Wild Flower Zen Sangha, a borderless community of Zen practitioners. The world is our meditation hall, the earth is the altar. We have no monks, no priests, no robes, no walls. Everyone is invited to join us here and now, in our weekly meditation practices and our workshops and retreats throughout the year. Based in Paris, where it was founded by the Zen teacher Roshi Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell, and with affiliate groups in Portugal, Wild Flower Zen Sangha is rooted in the ancient teachings of the Buddha and is therefore dedicated to actively engaging in the whole of life, flourishing moment to moment, with wisdom and compassion. In the Wild Flower Zen Sangha, that practice is radical : The universe is our zendo, the earth is the altar, all beings are buddhas and hungry ghosts and they all belong to our sangha, the dharma is everywhere we turn, our practice is to include whatever arises wherever we are. Wild Flower Zen Sangha is registered in France as an „association loi 1901”.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-pencil" add_icon="true" title="Zenscribe" tab_id="1502278354401-af909d86-2ef0"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Zenscribe is the Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Please access the zenscribe website via the link in a new browser window: https://wildflowerzen.org/zenscribe/   Wildflower Zenscribe - website [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='amy-tu-es-cela-hollowell-roshi' showpastevents='false']   Two events in november are tentative. Check back about dates: Early November*: Residential meditation retreat @ Coimbra (Portugal) November*:  Heart of Life Retreat @ wherever you are, followed by a Day of Meditation Practice @ Centre Wild Flower (Paris) Info et inscription > info@wildflowerzen.org Upcoming Events > https://wildflowerzen.org/wfz-evenements/ About Retreats > https://wildflowerzen.org/wfz-retraites/ About Retreats... Wild Flower offers one-day, weekend and weeklong retreats, as well as Retreats in the Heart of Life. Retreats are precious opportunities to join with others to deepen our meditation practice in an environment devoted only to that. At retreats, we step away from, or “retreat” from, our usual activities, worries and cares. In life and on retreat, our practice is to sit where we are, with whatever arises. We seek to not be limited by how we want things to be or how we think things should be, and to make do with what we have and appreciate our life just as it is at this very moment. In daily life as in retreat life, no matter where we are and what arises, true freedom lies in improvising in response to and in accord with the circumstances. If we don’t, we do nothing but imprison ourselves with expectations of how we want or think things should be. Wild Flower propose des retraites d’une journée, d’un week-end et d’une semaine, ainsi que des retraites au Cœur de la Vie. Les retraites sont des opportunités précieuses pour se retrouver avec d’autres et approfondir la pratique de la méditation dans un environnement prévu à cet effet. Au cours des retraites, nous nous écartons de nos activités, soucis et préoccupations habituels, nous nous mettons «en retrait». Dans la vie et en retraite, notre pratique consiste à nous asseoir là où nous sommes, avec tout ce qui surgit. Nous cherchons à ne pas être limités par ce que nous voulons que les choses soient ou par ce que nous pensons que les choses devraient être ; nous cherchons à faire avec ce que nous avons à portée de main et à apprécier notre vie comme elle est en cet instant même. Dans la vie quotidienne comme en retraite, où que nous soyons et quel que soit ce qui se produit, la liberté réside dans notre capacité à « improviser » en réponse aux circonstances et en accord avec elles. Si nous ne le faisons pas, nous ne parvenons qu’à nous enfermer dans nos attentes. Weekly Meditation... Weekly Meditation The regular practice of meditation is like the regular practice of any discipline or activity: The more we practice or train, the more skillful we become. To help support a regular meditation practice, Wild Flower offers sessions a number of sessions each week. The group meditates together and Roshi Amy Hollowell is available for individual meetings with participants. A teaching by Amy or a group discussion or question-and-answer period is provided once a week. Location: Wild Flower Center, 2 passage Courtois, 75011 Paris. Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8 pm-10 pm. Tuesday, Thursday: 8.00 am-9.00 am. Introduction to meditation: Wednesday 7 pm – 8:30 Financial contribution: To help support the functioning of the association, we ask non-members to contribute a minimum of 5€ for the evening session and 3€ for the morning session. First session is free.There are monthly or annual membership options, which both offer unlimited access to all weekly meditation sessions and special rates for week-end retreats. Annual: 480 euros; monthly: 40 euros. Please contact us for reduced rates.   MÉDITATION HEBDOMADAIRE La pratique régulière de la méditation est similaire à la pratique régulière de toute discipline ou activité : plus nous pratiquons ou nous nous formons, plus nous devenons habiles. Pour nous aider à avoir une pratique régulière de la méditation, Wild Flower propose toutes les semaines des séances de pratique. Le groupe médite ensemble et Roshi Amy Hollowell est disponible, certaines séances, pour des entretiens individuels avec les participants. Un enseignement est dispensé par Amy, suivi d’une discussion en groupe ou des questions-réponses une fois par semaine. Lieu: Centre Wild Flower, 2 passage Courtois, 75011 Paris. Horaires : Lundi, Mercredi, Vendredi: 20h-22h. Mardi, Jeudi: 8h00-9h00. Initiation à la méditation : Mercredi 19h – 20h30 Participation financière: Pour couvrir les frais de fonctionnement de l’association, une participation de 5€ minimum est demandée aux non-membres de l’association pour les assises du soir et 3€ pour le matin. La première séance est gratuite. Pour une pratique régulière, cotisation annuelle (480 euros ) ou mensuelle (40 euros) qui permet de participer aux séances hebdomadaires. Nous contacter pour les tarifs réduits (demandeurs d’emploi, étudiants…). [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Websites" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814963018763341496317800257"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Wild Flower Zen websites via the links in a new browser window: Wild Flower Zen - France > https://wildflowerzen.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Wildflower Zen - website Wild Flower Zen - Portugal > https://sanghazenpt.org/english/ Wild Flower Zen - Portugal [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Mark Kanchi Esterman, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501854243592{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Mark Kanchi Esterman, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_single_image image="631" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Mark Kanchi Esterman, Roshi, began Zen training under Japanese Rinzai Zen Master Seikan Hasegawa in 1969 and continued training with him in locations on the East coast of the U.S. as well as in Japan until 2002. He was ordained by Rev. Hasegawa in 1997 and served under him as Head Monk of Rock Creek Buddhist Temple 1970-2002, and Vice-Abbott 1999-2002. He began studying with Zen Master Genpo Merzel at Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City in 2003. He received Jukai (Receiving the Precepts) and Shukke Tokudo (Ordination) from Genpo Roshi in 2004, Hoshi (Lineage Holder) in 2010, Shiho (Transmission as a successor and teacher of Zen) October 17, 2014, and Inka (recognition as Zen Master [Roshi]) June 3, 2022. Mark was born and raised in the New York City area. He and his wife Margaret, who is a Rinpoche in a Tibetan Buddhist lineage, have been married since 1977 and have three children and three grandchildren. They are also partners in an independent book publishing company which has published books in a variety of fields including education, music, art, children’s books and gardening as well as Buddhism. He is a graduate of Amherst College and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. He has taught classes on Zen, Big Mind and meditation locally at Kanzeon Zen Center, the University of Utah Lifelong Learning Program and elsewhere. He founded the Salt Lake Zen Group in 2012. He may be contacted at mark@saltlakezengroup.org or phone at 801-532-4833.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Salt Lake Zen Group" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_single_image image="1921" img_size="1000x288"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]The Salt Lake Zen Group welcomes all who wish to explore the path of self-discovery and awakening in a mutually supportive environment.  We offer a regular schedule of meditation and talks, open to the public free of charge (donations gratefully accepted).  Beginners, visitors and experienced practitioners of any religious or non-religious background are invited to participate at all events. The regular weekly schedule includes Sunday morning talks and morning meditation Monday through Thursday. The Group is led by Mark Esterman Roshi, a Dharma successor of Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, who is the founder of Kanzeon International Sangha and the Big Mind process (www.bigmind.org). For more information about our schedule and locations, see the Map and Calendar, or our “Contact Us” page.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to the calendar: https://www.saltlakezengroup.org/schedule[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_wp_text 0=""] [/vc_wp_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814963018763341496317497418"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Mark Kanchi Esterman Roshi's website Salt Lake Zen Group in a new browser window: http://www.saltlakezengroup.org/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Judi Kanchi Warren, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501847628346{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Judi Kanchi Warren, Sensei | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814963018763341496317213279"][vc_single_image image="628" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Judi Kanchi Warren Sensei received Shiho (Dharma Transmission) from Genpo Roshi in 2010 on the island of Maui. She passed away on Maui the same year, 2010.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1530964002678-93b2f7cc-3838"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### KC Kyozen Sato, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501844732198{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="KC Kyozen Sato, Sensei | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814963018763341496316688353"][vc_single_image image="629" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text css=""]KC Kyozen Sato, (Roshi Ma Sato), DPT, MBA is a Zen Buddhist teacher and Dharma Successor in the lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, an ordained full Zen priest, and Doctor of Physical Therapy. She is founder of Muhei-an, No Walls Hermitage based out of St. George Utah. In 1999 she started her spiritual quest looking for a teacher in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. Her search ended in 2001 just a few miles away from her home when she found the Kanzeon Zen Center, Salt Lake City, UT and became a student of Roshi Dennis Genpo Merzel. Genpo Roshi ordained her in 2009. She became a teacher at Kanzeon and was given Denbo, Dharma Succession, by Genpo Roshi in both Maezumi Roshi’s Zen tradition and in the Big Mind Process. Roshi Ma teaches her own version of the Big Mind Process called Morningstar. She received her Masters of Business Administration in Marketing in 1993 and was a member of the Board of Directors of Cirque Corporation for five years, which developed and successfully marketed the first touchpad input device for laptop computers. She has a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and has practiced as a sports medicine orthopedic physical therapist since 1990. Later that same year she founded the Physical Therapy Impact Program in Salt Lake City Utah at the 4th St. Medical Clinic for the Homeless. This program brought together the expertise of volunteer physical therapists with homeless people in a safe and caring environment. The PT Impact Program received national recognition from the American Physical Therapy Association and Sensei Zero was awarded the 4th Street Medical Clinic Volunteer Award. Based largely on her work developing programs for the homeless, in 1995 she was awarded Utah Physical Therapist of the Year. After a decade of participation with residential Zen training centers, Roshi Ma is currently focusing her Zen teaching on individuals in the context of their lives. She offers individual guidance (dokusan) through phone and video contact. She also offers classes and workshops online, including Morningstar and koan practice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fas fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Muhei An" tab_id="1632559203002-67b631be-0547"][vc_column_text css=""]Hermitage Without Walls (Muhei An) Online Temple Muhei-an, No Walls Hermitage, is the online temple and training home for Roshi KC Zero Ma Sato, known to her friends and students as Roshi Ma. During her many years training and teaching, Roshi Ma has seen problems in Zen training when students become too attached and focused on their teacher, the physical beauty of a temple or training space, the idealized notion of enlightenment, and even the rituals of liturgy and Zen practice techniques. Zen is about how we live and conduct our lives. Roshi Ma wants to work with practitioners in the contexts of their lives, addressing as Zen practice the tasks, motivations, emotions and actions that moment by moment make up our daily lives — work, play, relationships, community, responsibilities, ethical and political commitments. Evaluating Zen practice from the perspective of our lives keeps us from blindly assuming that “doing Zen” automatically deepens us in wisdom or compassion. Zen practice should advance human development. Roshi Ma does not separate human development and spiritual development, nor divide secular from sacred. Life itself is the zendo and the universe of enlightenment. Roshi Ma offers personal guidance on Zen practice on video platforms and by phone. She also offers classes, workshops, and supervised individual retreats online.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Maurice Shonen Knegtel, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501847149119{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Maurice Shonen Knegtel, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_single_image image="632" img_size="170x272"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Maurice Knegtel (Rotterdam, 1963) is a teacher (Roshi) and priest in the Soto zen tradition. He received in 2009 Dharma transmission from Zen Master Genpo Roshi in the line of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Maurice studied comparative philosophy and Sanskrit and specializes in Indian Buddhist philosophy. On June, 26th, 2018, Maurice Shonen Knegtel received Inka, "the final seal of approval", from Genpo Merzel Roshi and being a Roshi since then himself. He is the author of three books on integrating spirituality into daily life: Beyond wanting and knowing (1998, reprinted Jewelry Ship 2013), Self-examination (1999) and The freedom to lose (2000). In 2004 he published The Dharma Game, about a game that the Buddha plays with his students to clarify the essences of Buddhism. In 2008 his book Awakened Presence - About the What, How and Where of Zen was published. In March 2012 came Integral Zen - Your daily life is spiritual practice. It is this book that lays the foundation for his spiritual community of Izen, which focuses on meditatively practicing your daily life 'on the spot' and exactly as you lead it. In October 2014 Juwelenschip Uitgeverij published his ultimate book about zen: The last word of Zen. Maurice Knegtel (Rotterdam, 1963) is leraar (Roshi) en priester in de Soto zen traditie. Hij ontving in 2009 Dharma transmissie van zenmeester Genpo Roshi in de lijn van Taizan Maezumi Roshi. Maurice heeft vergelijkende wijsbegeerte en Sanskriet gestudeerd en is gespecialiseerd in de Indiase boeddhistische filosofie. Hij is de auteur van drie boeken over integratie van spiritualiteit in het dagelijkse leven: Voorbij willen en weten (1998, herdruk Juwelenschip 2013), Zelfonderzoek (1999) en De vrijheid om te verliezen (2000). In 2004 verscheen van hem Het Dharma Spel, over een spel dat de Boeddha met zijn leerlingen speelt om de essenties van het boeddhisme inzichtelijk te maken. In 2008 verscheen zijn boek Ontwaakte aanwezigheid – Over het wat, hoe en waartoe van zen. In maart 2012 kwam Integrale Zen – Je dagelijkse leven is spirituele beoefening uit. Het is dit boek dat de grondslag legt voor zijn spirituele gemeenschap Izen, die zich richt op het meditatief beoefenen van je dagelijkse leven ‘on the spot’ en precies zoals je het leidt. In oktober 2014 verscheen bij Juwelenschip Uitgeverij zijn ultieme boek over zen: Het laatste woord van Zen. Sinds 2006 is Maurice ook actief als programmamaker bij de Boeddhistische Omroep Stichting, onder andere op internet als de Cybermonnik. Meer informatie over Maurice Knegtel kunt u vinden op www.juwelenschip.nl. Source | Quelle: https://izen.nl/maurice-knegtel-sensei/[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Biografie Ik ben geboren op 17 mei 1963 te Rotterdam. Twee vragen hebben mijn leven na het overlijden van mijn vader op mijn vijftiende bepaald. De eerste vraag is, als reactie op het zien sterven van mijn vader: hoe verhoud ik me tot (mijn) vergankelijkheid? De tweede vraag is (ook in het licht van de dood): wat is dit leven? Waar gaat het over? Waar ben ik in terecht gekomen? Op mijn 17e maakte ik bij de godsdienstlessen kennis met het boeddhisme. De Boeddha’s probleem met de vergankelijkheid (ziekte, ouderdom en dood) herkende ik als mijn eigen probleem en zijn ontwaken, zo stelde ik me voor, moest hem een inzicht hebben gegeven in de vraag wat dit leven ten diepste is. Vanaf dit moment was mijn belangstelling voor het boeddhisme gewekt en begon ik boekjes te lezen: ‘De tuinen van zen’ van Bert Schierbeek, boeken van D.T. Suzuki, vertalingen van Conze en Ensink van Indiase boeddhistische teksten. Na een blauwe maandag op de Technische Hogeschool te hebben gezeten (metaalkunde: ik wist werkelijk niet wat ik moest gaan doen), en na uitgeloot te zijn voor de kunstacademie (ik schilderde en tekende veel in die dagen), begon ik met mijn studie wiskunde aan de universiteit van Utrecht. Dat hield ik maar een jaar vol en toen ben ik mijn hart gaan volgen: het enige dat me echt interesseerde was de vraag naar mijn leven – waar gaat dit over? Ik begon mijn filosofiestudie in Utrecht, had grote interesse in Socrates (nog steeds een van mijn helden!), het werk van Kant schokte me (hoe kan een boom groeien als ruimte, tijd en causaliteit enkel als kenvormen in ons verstand gegeven zijn en niet in de werkelijkheid???) en Heidegger wierp me op mijn kwestie met mijn vergankelijkheid terug: ons bestaan is ‘Sein-zum-Tode’. Na twee jaar besloot ik mijn passie voor het boeddhisme te gaan volgen, ik ging naar Amsterdam om vergelijkende wijsbegeerte te gaan studeren, en Sanskriet, en studeerde af in de boeddhistische filosofie (de kennisleer van Dignaga en Dharmakirti, de teksten heb ik zelf moeten vertalen, want die waren alleen in het Sanskriet en Russisch voorhanden). In mijn vrije tijd volgde ik colleges van de oude Delfgaauw over evolutiefilosofie: hij heeft me in zijn manier van doen geleerd hoe je filosofie bedrijft. Na mijn studie was ik ontgoocheld. Mijn onrust over de vraag wat dit leven is wat niet minder geworden in al die jaren van studie, integendeel. Ik reisde voor driekwart jaar door India, Nepal, China en Tibet (heb nog enige weken in het Labrangklooster doorgebracht), verslond ondertussen de werken van het Tauisme (Tau Te Tsjing en de Tsjwang Tse, behoren nog steeds tot mijn favoriete lectuur), kwam tot de eigenaardige ontdekking dat ik me in China thuis voelde (meer dan in India of Europa) en besloot bij terugkeer in Nederland in de Kosmos een introductiecursus zenmeditatie bij Nico Tydeman te volgen. Waarom zen? Omdat ik dacht dat zen wel eens de directe weg naar inzicht zou kunnen zijn, ‘buiten alle geschriften om’ (daar had ik er al genoeg van gelezen), ‘direct wijzend op de ware natuur’. De kennismaking met shikan-taza, alleen-maar-zitten, of zelfverzonken aanwezig zijn, was een van de grootste ontdekkingen van mijn leven. Ik dacht: dit is het. De meest intieme en directe manier om mijn leven te onderzoeken. Sindsdien heb ik uitsluitend deze meditatievorm beoefend, al zo’n 20 jaar lang (daarvoor wel yoga en vedanta gedaan). Ondertussen werkte ik in een groep maatschappijkritiek aan de VU en had ik voor zo’n zestien uur in de week mijn studentenbaantje bij Museum het Rembrandthuis omgezet in een vast contract (baliewerk en af en toe suppoosten): deze laatste baan heeft me tot op de dag van vandaag een financiële basis gegeven, zodat ik me in mijn levensonderhoud kon voorzien en toch nog dingen die ik wilde ernaast kon doen (zelfs al verdiende dat misschien niet veel). In 1989 leerde ik mijn leraar Genpo Roshi kennen. Hij was Nico Tydemans leraar en kwam naar de Tiltenberg voor intensieve zentraining (sesshin). Hij was de enige die mijn enorme mentale kracht kon breken; toen ik dat zag, wist ik dat hij mijn leraar was. In 1991 ging ik naar zijn klooster in Bar Harbor, Maine, VS voor een kloostertraining van een half jaar. Daar werd me duidelijk dat mijn zentraining niet in het klooster ligt, maar in de wereld, midden in de maatschappij. Ik werd me ervan bewust dat ik net zo zeer een volgeling ben van Socrates (in de wereld) als van de Boeddha (in het woud). Terug in Amsterdam had ik een derde vraag naast de twee bovengenoemde: hoe ziet een volwaardige zentraining (met eenzelfde intensiteit en inzet als een kloostertraining) in mijn leven in onze samenleving eruit, waarin ik niet in staat ben om hele dagen op een kussen te zitten, mijn werk te doen heb, mijn relaties onderhoud en mijn sociale verplichtingen? Vanaf 1992 begon ik les te geven aan het zen centrum Amsterdam, in eerste instantie waren dat studieklassen Indiaas en Chinees boeddhisme, vertalingen van soetra’s zoals het Hart soetra uit het Sanskriet, studieklassen over oorzakelijkheid (pratiya samutpada: ‘optreden in afhankelijkheid van condities’) als het kernbegrip in het boeddhisme, maar al snel ging ik ook in groepen experimenteren met een zentraining midden in de samenleving. Hoe beoefen je meditatie op je werkplek? Hoe beoefen je meditatie binnen relaties? Uit deze experimenten met mezelf en anderen is de trilogie over zentraining in de wereld bij uitgeverij Servire verschenen: ‘Voorbij willen en weten’ (1998), ‘Zelfonderzoek’(1999) en ‘De vrijheid om te verliezen’ (2000). Ondertussen bestudeerde ik het werk van de moderne mysticus Georges Bataille, die een grote invloed op mijn schrijfwerk, met name het eerste boek heeft gehad, en werk van post-moderne filosofen als Foucault en Derrida. Vanaf halverwege de jaren negentig werkte ik op free-lance basis voor verschillende universiteiten (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen), waar ik met name de vroege geschiedenis van het Boeddhisme in China onderwees (en het ontstaan van het Chinese Ch’an) en volksuniversiteiten (Arnhem, Apeldoorn, Zevenaar) en zengroepen (Rotterdam, Utrecht), waar ik praktijk (zenmeditatie) en studieklassen geef. Ook ben ik begonnen met zentraining op de werkvloer (workshops voor o.a. MedNet en Zin). In Amsterdam bleef ik doorgaan met twee studieklassen per jaar en van 2002 tot 2006 ben ik als leraar verbonden aan dit centrum. De laatste twaalf jaar ben ik de vaste assistent van Genpo Roshi in Nederland. Het ontwikkelen van zijn Big Mind proces heb ik van zeer nabij meegemaakt. Mijn laatste boek ‘Het Dharma Spel’ gaat enerzijds terug op dit Big Mind proces, anderzijds is het de neerslag van bijna twintig jaar onderzoek van de Boeddha’s Dharma. ‘Het Dharma Spel’ geeft mijn verwoording en interpretatie van de meeste essentiële begrippen van de Dharma. Naast dat ik sinds jaren zoek naar een zenbeoefening in onze samenleving, zoek ik ook al jaren naar een Nederlandse uitdrukking van de Oosterse Dharma (dit gaat verder dan vertalen). Het artikel ‘Werk in uitvoering: ontwaakte aanwezigheid’ is de laatste manifestatie van mijn Nederlandse Dharma. Tot slot: boeddhistische teksten die me het meest aan het hart liggen, zijn de onderrichten van Lin Chi (Rinzai) en de ‘filosofische’ teksten van Dogen. Trungpa’s werk vind ik het beste dat vorige eeuw is verschenen, maar ook in westerlingen als Nietzsche, Beckett en Bataille vind ik grote ‘verlichte’ geesten. In september 2004 is ons zoontje Quinten geboren en met hem, ook een moeder en een vader. In december 2008 werd ons tweede zoontje Sybren geboren. In mei 2006 heb ik met gelijkgestemden een organisatie opgericht die zen meditatie en oefeningen met lichaam en beweging intergreert, gericht op beoefening in het dagelijkse leven. Deze organisatie, Izen genaamd, zet voor mij de thematiek van mijn boeken – de integtratie van spirituele praktijk in het dagelijkse leven – om in een georganiseerde beoefening, voorbij de religieuze instituties en formele tradities. Izen zal vanaf september 2006 in Utrecht en Amsterdam starten met cursussen. Zie mijn agenda en de Werken in Uitvoering Izen onder ‘Artikelen’ op deze website. In januari 2009 ontving ik van mijn leraar Genpo Roshi Dharma transmissie of Shiho. Dit maakt mij een gekwalificeerd Sensei of zen leraar in de Soto Zen traditie en een van de dertien opvolgers wereldwijd van Genpo Roshi. Source | Quelle: https://juwelenschip.nl/auteurs/mauriceknegtel/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Izen" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_column_text] Over Izen Voor wie zijn of haar leven wil verdiepen, biedt Izen (Integrale Zen) een volwaardige spirituele praktijk aan, in je dagelijkse bestaan, precies zoals jij dat al leidt. Door middel van zen-meditatie, lichaamswerk, groeps- en individuele begeleiding, ondersteunen we je in jouw persoonlijke onderzoek van en omgang met de grote vragen van je bestaan.  Of zoals de zen-traditie het zegt, ‘De Grote Kwestie van Leven en Dood’. Wat betekent het dit menselijke bestaan te leiden? Wie ben jij? Waar ben je terecht gekomen? Waar kom je vandaan? Waar ga je heen? Wat heb je hier te doen? Dit zijn vraagstukken waarop geen eenduidig antwoord is, maar die uitnodigen tot een eindeloze verdieping en een caleidoscopische verkenning van een grenzeloze variëteit aan perspectieven. Het onderzoek naar en de verdieping van deze ‘Grote Kwestie van Leven en Dood’ vraagt niet om cursussen, workshops of opleidingen, maar om het voor een onbepaalde tijd bestuderen van jouw concrete bestaan, van jezelf, in jouw natuurlijke habitat. Izen wil je daarin graag ondersteunen. Izen staat onder leiding van Maurice Knegtel Sensei, filosoof, auteur en een geautoriseerde Soto zen leraar in de traditie van Maezumi Roshi en Genpo Roshi.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='maurice-shonen-knegtel-roshi' showpastevents='false'] Repeating Events: Zen Cirkel Utrecht biedt een volwaardige zen training in je dagelijkse leven onder leiding van Maurice Knegtel Roshi, schrijver, filosoof, boeddhistisch priester en geautoriseerd zen meester. De avonden bevatten zen meditatie, individuele begeleiding (dokusan) en zen onderricht. Voor iedereen die de brug wil slaan tussen spirituele beoefening en het dagelijkse leven. Data: maandag 11 maart tot en met 20 mei 2019 (negen bijeenkomsten, niet op 22 april en 29 april). Aanvang 19.30 – 21.30 uur. Kosten: €225,-, inclusief koffie en thee. Locatie: Het Graalhuis, Nieuwegracht 51, Utrecht. Voor opgave: klik hier. Zen Circle Utrecht offers a full-fledged zen training in your daily life led by Maurice Knegtel Roshi, writer, philosopher, Buddhist priest and authorized zen master. The evenings include zen meditation, individual guidance (dokusan) and zen teaching. For anyone who wants to bridge the gap between spiritual practice and daily life. Dates: Monday 11 March to 20 May 2019 (nine meetings, not on 22 April and 29 April). Starts at 19.30 – 21.30. Costs: €225,-, including coffee and tea. Location: Het Graalhuis, Nieuwegracht 51, Utrecht. For more information: click here. Zen Cirkel Lelystad Vanaf 8 januari 2019, elke dinsdagavond van 19.30 – 21.00 uur en op woensdagavond eens in de twee weken van 20.30 – 22.00 uur, o.l.v. Eerwaarde Ben Claessens, leerling van Maurice Knegtel Roshi. Informatie en opgave: klik hier Zen Circle Lelystad From 8 January 2019, every Tuesday evening from 19.30 – 21.00 hrs and on Wednesday evening once every two weeks from 20.30 – 22.00 hrs, conducted by Reverend Ben Claessens, student of Maurice Knegtel Roshi. Information and assignment: click here [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_wp_text] [/vc_wp_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Websites" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814963018763341496316867770"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]On this page you find two links to websites regarding Maurice Shonen Knegtel Sensei.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title="Izen" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Maurice Shonen Knegtel Sensei's website izen.nl in a new browser window: http://izen.nl/ [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_text_separator title="Juwelenschip (Publisher's website)" i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" i_color="grey" title_align="separator_align_left" add_icon="true"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Maurice Shonen Knegtel Sensei publisher's website juwelenschip.nl in a new browser window: https://juwelenschip.nl/auteurs/mauriceknegtel/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4060" img_size="971x596"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Tamara Myoho Gabrysch, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501844660307{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Tamara Myoho Gabrysch, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_single_image image="646" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Tamara (Tammy) Myoho Gabrysch was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest of five siblings. She grew up in Lancashire and went on to study Fine Art in Manchester where she received a BA Hons. Degree in 1986. She worked as a freelance artist until she met Genpo Roshi in August 1988 when he came to the Gabrysch’s family home in Northern England to lead a retreat for which her mother Genshin (who would later become Genshin Roshi) had invited him. This sesshin was a turning point for her, and from then on she completely committed herself to studying with Genpo Roshi. She joined him along with other students to attend sesshins in Europe and then on to Bar Harbor, Maine, where Roshi was setting up Kanzeon Zen Center. In November 1988 Myoho received Jukai and in March 1991 she received Shukke Tokudo (ordination). After Genpo Roshi relocated Kanzeon Zen Center to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1993, she began to cook for the residential programme and was the Tenzo (head cook) for many years. Myoho and Tenkei worked together full-time at the Center, and — among other projects — organized outdoor retreats in the mountains around Salt Lake City and the desert of Southern Utah. In 1998 they were married by Genpo Roshi during a mountain retreat, a ceremony that was repeated a half year later on Ameland in the Netherlands to accommodate family members. Earlier that year Myoho had received Hoshi (dharma holder) and Denkai (precept holder for priestly activities) from Genpo Roshi. They left Salt Lake City in 2000 after 12 years of residential training, and went on to live and practice for six month in Japan with Junyu Kuroda Roshi (Hojo-san), the younger brother of Maezumi Roshi. Finally, in 2002, Myoho and Tenkei settled in the Netherlands and — with a dedicated goup of students — established Zen River Temple, a community of residents and members with an ongoing daily programme and monthly sesshins. Tammy serves as Tenzo, webmaster and as PR administrator. After receiving Shiho from Genpo Roshi in Salt Lake City on May 10, 2008, she made a start with formal teaching and in 2013 completed formal training in Japan at Toshoji monastery in Okayama, which gave her further certification within the Soto School as Kyoshi (priest). Myoho is currently working on compiling a book of recipes from the Zen River kitchen and is also a contributing author to The Hidden Lamp, a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day (Compiled and edited by Florence Caplow and Sue Moon; published by Wisdom publications). In 2015 she published a long-awaited collection of recipes under the title Zen River Cookbook, and started a blog on vegetarian cooking on the Zen River website. On June, 26th, 2018, Tammy Myoho Gabrysch received Inka, "the final seal of approval", from Genpo Merzel Roshi and being a Roshi since then herself.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen River" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_column_text] zenriver Zen River is an international Buddhist monastery that offers a year-round training programme under the guidance of abbot Tenkei Coppens Roshi and Myoho Gabrysch Sensei. As dharma heirs to Genpo Merzel Roshi they both are representatives of the White Plum Lineage that was established by the late Maezumi Roshi in the USA. They are also certified by the Japanese Soto School and maintain a close connection with Junyu Kuroda Roshi, brother of Maezumi Roshi and abbot of Kirigayaji in Tokyo. Zen River is officially registered in Japan as a Soto temple (Tokubetsu Jiin) and plays an active role in the development of the European department of the Soto School. Zen River is located in a beautiful property on the outskirts of Uithuizen, a small village on the northern edge of Holland close to the Waddensea. It enjoys the spaciousness and tranquillity of the country-side and yet it is easily accessible by public transportation. The programme is based on four elements of training (zazen, ritual, study and bodhisattva activity) and consists of a daily schedule as well as a calender of retreats and related events. Zen River functions as an ‘open’ monastery. This means that everybody is welcome to participate in all or parts of the programme, while the continuity of training is ensured by a team of full-time resident monastics (presently fifteen). Many members join on a regular basis as to support and deepen their practice at home. Newcomers receive special attention. The overnight accommodation has a capacity of forty two participants in total. All meals on regular training days are vegetarian. English and Dutch are the common languages spoken at Zen River Temple. Classes are held in English.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='tamara-myoho-gabrysch-roshi' showpastevents='false'] Link to calendar of events at zenrivertemple.org >  (opens the link in a new browser window/tab) Link to "Ways to participate" - Program at zenrivertemple.org > (opens the link in a new browser window/tab)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316292680"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Zenriver Temple website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenrivertemple.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4046" img_size="512x1024"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Michel Genko Dubois, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501844600170{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Michel Genko Dubois, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_single_image image="635" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] Born in 1947, Michel Genko Dubois has practiced Zen since 1978. In 2007, he received Shiho (Dharma Transmission) authorization to teach Zen, from Genpo Merzel Roshi and Inka (Final Seal of Approval) from Bernie Tetsugen Glassman Roshi. He has also studied with Maezumi Roshi and Deshimaru Roshi. He has received as well the teachings of several Tibetan lamas, such as Chhoje Tulku Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Anam Thubten Rinpoche. From 1970 to 1974, Michel Dubois travelled across Africa, hitchhiking, teaching English and doing various odd jobs. His first experience with meditation was in the mountains of northern Ethiopia in 1974. The year after, he travelled across Central America and the United States, before finally settling in San Francisco, where he became a taxi driver and began practicing Zen regularly. In 1980, he took part in the « Long Walk for Survival », a spiritual march San Francisco to New York led by traditionalist Native Americans, to pray for peace on Earth and the closing of the uranium mines on Native reserve lands. During the 1980s he co-produced and co-wrote the documentary film, “The Spirit of Crazy Horse”, which tells the story of the Lakota Sioux Indians and their struggle to recover their sacred ancestral land - the Black Hills of South Dakota. Michel Dubois is a member and a teacher of the « Zen Peacemakers », an association founded by Bernie Glassman to unite Zen Buddhist practice, social action, and work for peace. He is also the cofounder of the “L’Un Est L’Autre” (One is the Other) humanitarian organization, which distributes meals to the needy in Paris. He currently teaches Zen at the Dana Zen Center at Montreuil, suburban Paris, and regularly leads retreats in France and Catalonia, Spain. He is also a professional translator. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen Voie du Coeur" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text] ZEN VOIE DU COEUR | ZEN - A WAY OF THE HEART [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image="1898" img_size="389x260"][vc_column_text] We are practitioners of the Way of Awakening in the Soto Zen Buddhist lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi. It is a vocation of attention, gratitude and love, a life of communication and participation with all beings. This vocation is founded on the practice of sitting meditation and the intimate intuition of our unity, diversity and interdependence with all of life. In partnership with other associations, we participate in the building of a society of solidarity, which will allow each and everyone to find their place and make their contribution. This vocation towards socially engaged work is free of any form of proselytism and is part of a tradition of unconditional hospitality towards all excluded or marginalized people. Above all it’s about responding in service and being totally at one with one’s engaged action. [/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]  ZEN – A WAY OF THE HEART supports and practices the Three Principles of Zen Peacemakers: 1. Plunging into the Unknown – giving up fixed ideas about ourselves and the world 2. Bearing witness to the joy and suffering of the world 3. Loving actions towards ourselves and others [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="5px"][vc_column_text] ZEN – A WAY OF THE HEART 1. Is engaged in partnership with the l'Un Est l’Autre (One is the Other) association, which distributes meals to people living in situations of great need. 2. Is engaged in partnership with the Salvation Army,  on the “péniche” boat, Admiral Major Georgette Gogibus, in service of its residents, people  living in situations of great need. We participate in the preparation of festive meals, the screening of films and the organization of talking and listening circles. 3. Is currently contributing to the elaboration of a program of Buddhist political and social action in collaboration with five other Sanghas : Dana, Rimay International,  Shambhala, Terre d’Éveil, – and Un Zen Occidental. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='michel-genko-dubois-roshi' showpastevents='false'][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149629700966114963142683611496316087313"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Zen Voie du Coeur website via the link in a new browser window: https://zen-voieducoeur.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Rich Taido Christofferson, Sensei [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501844528421{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Rich Taido Christofferson, Sensei | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_single_image image="587" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Rich Taido Christofferson Sensei has been doing Zen practice since 1982 when he attended his first Sesshin in New York. He started formal training in 1988 when he received Jukai from Genpo Roshi at the Wasatch Zen Group in Salt Lake City, later to merge with Kanzeon Zen Center. He became a resident practitioner there in 1992, receiving Tokudo (Ordination) in 1994. Taido Sensei was the Godo (in charge of the training hall) from around 2000 till he left in 2009, and during that time he received Transmission from Genpo Roshi in 2007. Since leaving, he continues to train under Tenshin Roshi at Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild California, where he still travels down to attend sesshin under his guidance. Currently Taido Sensei is employed at a company in Seattle as a Systems Administrator and combines the Zen training with his working schedule.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Trikaya Zen Center" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_column_text] In doing Zen Practice we don't simply sit and just do meditation, but live our lives completely, without any mediation between ourselves and those we meet. And in doing this we transform our day to day lives from the boredom of riding the bus, the unending demands of our jobs into a life of practice and peace. Trikaya Zen Center is a new practice center in Tacoma Washington. We are a small group, currently, with a small Zendo, but with all the curriculum available in the larger more established Zen Centers. We practice Soto Zen here in the tradition on Taizan Mazumi Roshi's White Plum lineage, so we offer a range of practices including both Koan Practice, and Shikan Taza (Just Sitting). This center has been created with working people in mind, people who have busy schedules and who, while unable to maintain the full monastic schedule of meditation practice throughout the week, still wish to maintain a healthy practice in their lives. People at any level of practice can find a welcome here, whether you are a beginner learning how to sit comfortably, to a practitioner, with years of practice under their belt, hoping to work on some of the later books in our Koan curriculum. There is something for everybody here. We are open weekends, both Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 AM, as well as Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6:00 PM for meditation practice, as well as private interview with the teacher for koan study. We ask that people wishing to sit Evenings to please come on Saturday first, for a general introduction, and more importantly, being able to find the place is much easier during daylight hours. You're not expected to bring anything, just wear some loose fitting comfortable clothes, and you'll be fine...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_column_text]Please check in with Trikaya Zen Center's Schedule > Weekly Schedule Saturday & Sunday 10:00 AM till 11:50 AM Tuesday 6:00 PM till 7:50 PM Saturday Sittings generally consist of a half hour of sitting followed by a talk, or question and answer. Sunday sittings will focus more on the sitting practice and Daisan (private instruction) with the teacher.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315854934"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open the Trikaya Zen Center's website in a new browser window: https://trikayazencenter.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4057" img_size="898x600"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501844471557{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Michael Mugaku Zimmerman, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_single_image image="634" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] “In Buddhism, there is no hope.” That was my formal introduction to Zen, a remark made by a monk teaching an introductory class at Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City. What a relief! Nothing to do. Just this! Hearing that, I never looked back. I wholeheartedly entered Zen practice. For me, the central attraction and the essential challenge of Zen is the same: To constantly realize that my sense of who and what I am, my expectations of myself and others, my ingrained habits of mind, are all perspectives--all are true, all are partial. The same can be said of other, non-dual perspectives I attain through my practice, perspectives from which the separate “I” is seen as essentially illusory, like a circle drawn on the surface of a swift-flowing stream, a frame for a picture that is never the same from moment to moment, an arbitrary demarcation separating that which is not separate. The practice of Zen is the practice of constantly letting go of each perspective as it arises, remaining fluid in the face of life and death. That fluidity enables us to respond to life from the present moment, not from some notion of who we are or what life should be. This does not mean that our practice leads us to dwell in some vast empty place, apart from the people around us, apart from the ordinariness of everyday life. Rather, we seek to experience life intimately, warmly, without filters, without illusions, with deep joy and amazement at the incomprehensibility of what it is to be human. The fluidity of perspective unlocks profound empathy and resulting compassion for all beings living this same life. We feel a strong resolve to alleviate their suffering, to burst the illusion of separateness and isolation endemic to human experience. We vow to approach every aspect of our daily life with this awareness. In my teaching, I seek to awaken our ever-present awareness of the wondrousness of this moment and to point out how enriched our lives can be by that awareness. Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943. As a teenager, he moved to Arizona where he finished high school and began college. Moving to Utah, he graduated from the University of Utah and then attended its law school. Following graduation, he moved to Washington, D.C., for a judicial clerkship, and then to Los Angeles where he worked for a large law firm until 1976 when he returned to Utah to teach law briefly. He served as part-time special counsel to Utah’s Governor, had a litigation law practice, and served as a Justice and then Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. In 2000 he returned to law practice as a partner in a multistate firm. In 2011 he started Utah's first appellate boutique, the law firm of Zimmerman Booher, and continues in the active practice of law. Mugaku Roshi came to Zen relatively late. He first ventured into meditation in 1993 as a way to find some grounding during his first wife's yearlong struggle with terminal cancer. Shortly thereafter he met Diane Hamilton, now Musho Roshi, then a coworker in the Utah courts. At her suggestion, he attended an introductory class at Kanzeon Zen Center in early 1997. Soon afterward he began to study with Genpo Merzel Roshi. He and Diane were married by Genpo Roshi in 1998, the year he received Jukai. They received Tokudo and became monks together in 2003, were joint Shushos during the Spring Ango in 2005, and received Denkai in early 2006. He received Dharma Transmission in December 2006, seven months after Diane. In 2018 Michael received the final seal of Inka from Sidney Musai Walter Roshi, a successor of Genpo Merzel. Mugaku Roshi is a nationally recognized teacher of meditation and mindfulness for the legal profession. He and Musho Roshi have presented programs for the Utah State Bar and other legal organizations. Together, Diane and Michael have four children and two grandsons. https://www.twoarrowszen.org/teachings/michael-mugaku-zimmerman-roshi/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Two Arrows Zen" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_single_image image="1889" img_size="635x320"][vc_column_text]Two Arrows Zen, founded by Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei, is a center of Zen study and practice with two locations in Utah. One is an urban center located at Artspace in downtown Salt Lake City. The other is a seasonal zendo located in the town of Torrey, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park in the heart of Utah's red rock country.  A new zendo for year-round practice and supporting facilities are now being built in Torrey, with expected completion in early 2016. Musho Sensei and Mugaku Sensei are lineage holders in the Soto Zen tradition of Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Genpo Merzel Roshi. Both Senseis are members of the White Plum Asanga and Soto Zen Buddhist Association. We are also informed by the work of Ken Wilber and Integral theory and practice. Practitioners from all over the world regularly participate in our programs. Two Arrows Zen retreats take place in a traditional Zen sesshin atmosphere, including zazen, dharma talks, and interviews with the teachers. We hold daily meditation practice and monthly Days of Zen. There are virtual on-line elements to the practice including tele-courses, virtual temple days, and on-line koan study. Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei also regularly offers programs and trainings to develop interpersonal and communication skills as a part of spiritual practice and development. The Two Arrows Zen program of study and practice is designed to appeal to a broad audience--to those in the mainstream, including householders who raise children, hold jobs, and seek liberation within that life plan.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="Two Arrows Zen | Torrey" tab_id="1505382420725-93ac95c8-5fc9"][vc_column_text]The second location of Two Arrows Zen is a seasonal zendo located in the town of Torrey, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park in the heart of Utah’s red rock country.  A new zendo for year-round practice and supporting facilities are now being built in Torrey, with expected completion in early 2016.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='michael-mugaku-zimmerman-roshi' showpastevents='false'] ...and you might want to check out: https://www.twoarrowszen.org/calendar/ https://www.twoarrowszen.org/programs-retreats/ Online Events > Salt Lake City - Artspace Zendo daily schedule > Torrey  Boulder Mountain Zendo - daily schedule >[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678149629700966114963142683611496315114495"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei's website "Two Arrows Zen" in a new browser window: http://twoarrowszen.org/ [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Diane Musho Hamilton, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501844413769{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Diane Musho Hamilton, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_single_image image="614" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] “Zen practice is your life.  Some things just have to be lived out.”                                                                                                --Musho Roshi Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi is a mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 35 years. Diane began her studies in 1983 at Naropa University with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Genpo Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003 she received ordination as a Zen monk with her husband Michael Zimmerman, and received dharma transmission from Roshi in 2006. In 2018 Diane received the final seal of Inka from Sidney Musai Walter Roshi, a successor of Genpo Merzel. As the first Director of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution for the Utah Judiciary, Diane established mediation programs throughout the court system and won several prestigious awards for her work in this area. Her accolades include the Utah Judicial Administration Award, The Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award, The Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar for contributions to the area of alternative dispute resolution, and the Brigham Young University Center for Conflict Resolution Peacemaker Award. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed by Genpo Merzel Roshi to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado, since 2004. In 2012 she co-founded Integral Facilitator® offered by Ten Directions, certifying practitioners in a developmental approach to group facilitation. She is the author of Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Shambhala Publications, 2013). Her newest book is The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone (Shambhala Publications, 2017). She is also a contributor to The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Wisdom Publications, 2013) and The Dharma of Dogs: Our Best Friends as Spiritual Teachers (Tami Simon, ed., Sounds True, 2017). https://www.twoarrowszen.org/teachings/diane-musho-hamilton-roshi/ www.dianemushohamilton.com [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Two Arrows Zen" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_single_image image="1889" img_size="635x320"][vc_column_text]Two Arrows Zen, founded by Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei and Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Sensei, is a center of Zen study and practice with two locations in Utah. One is an urban center located at Artspace in downtown Salt Lake City. The other is a seasonal zendo located in the town of Torrey, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park in the heart of Utah's red rock country.  A new zendo for year-round practice and supporting facilities are now being built in Torrey, with expected completion in early 2016. Musho Sensei and Mugaku Sensei are lineage holders in the Soto Zen tradition of Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Genpo Merzel Roshi. Both Senseis are members of the White Plum Asanga and Soto Zen Buddhist Association. We are also informed by the work of Ken Wilber and Integral theory and practice. Practitioners from all over the world regularly participate in our programs. Two Arrows Zen retreats take place in a traditional Zen sesshin atmosphere, including zazen, dharma talks, and interviews with the teachers. We hold daily meditation practice and monthly Days of Zen. There are virtual on-line elements to the practice including tele-courses, virtual temple days, and on-line koan study. Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei also regularly offers programs and trainings to develop interpersonal and communication skills as a part of spiritual practice and development. The Two Arrows Zen program of study and practice is designed to appeal to a broad audience--to those in the mainstream, including householders who raise children, hold jobs, and seek liberation within that life plan.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="Two Arrows Zen | Torrey" tab_id="1505382794807-ccdcd454-6edc"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]The second location of Two Arrows Zen is a seasonal zendo located in the town of Torrey, just outside of Capitol Reef National Park in the heart of Utah’s red rock country.  A new zendo for year-round practice and supporting facilities are now being built in Torrey, with expected completion in early 2016.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text].[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='diane-musho-hamilton-roshi' showpastevents='false'] ...and you might want to check out: https://www.twoarrowszen.org/calendar/ https://www.twoarrowszen.org/programs-retreats/ Online Events > Salt Lake City - Artspace Zendo daily schedule > Torrey  Boulder Mountain Zendo - daily schedule >[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814962970096611496314268361"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei's website "Two Arrows Zen" in a new browser window: http://twoarrowszen.org/ [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Nancy Genshin Gabrysch, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501844360549{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Nancy Genshin Gabrysch, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496314002089"][vc_single_image image="637" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Nancy Genshin Gabrysch was born in Scotland in 1937. She entered fine art studies in 1954 at the Slade School University College in London, followed by a year of post graduate studies. At the London University Institute of Education she studied teaching and then pursued a career as a painter and teacher, whilst raising a family. Genshin became certified in art therapy in 1978 and worked in hospital and private settings. In 1983 while studying Individual Psychotherapy at Liverpool University, she met Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi. She then devoted herself to studying Zen. Genshin later moved to Bar Harbor and then Salt Lake City, where Genpo Roshi was teaching, to continue Zen training which included more than 12 years of residential practice. In January 1998 Genshin received Hoshi. From 1999 – 2004, she led a satellite group of Kanzeon Zen Center in Park City, Utah. Genshin Sensei received Shiho (Dharma-Transmission) from Genpo Roshi in May 2006. She currently lives in England where she has a zendo (Kannon-ji) in Bilsborrow, near Preston, Lancashire.   Source | Quelle: http://sweepingzen.com/nancy-genshin-gabrysch-bio/[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Kannonji" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496314002089"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814962970096611496314002089"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814962970096611496314002089"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Nico Sojun Tydeman, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501844292648{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Nico Niko Sojun Tydeman, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_single_image image="638" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]Nico Niko Sojun Tydeman studied theology in Nijmegen, Holland, and received his first zen education with Karlfried Dürckheim. He followed his Zen training with Baker Roshi in San Fransico and with Thich Nhat Hanh. Since 1983 he has been a student of Genpo Roshi, from whom he received the dharma transmission in 2004. Nico is also a teacher (concentration - meditation) at the Yoga Academy Netherlands (YAN). Nico Sojun Tydeman has given transmission to twelve students, including Meindert van den Heuvel, Joke Huiberts, Cornelia Wierenga, Lolit ten Hengel, and Marieke Heijman. On June, 26th, 2018, Nico Sojun Tydeman received Inka, "the final seal of approval", from Genpo Merzel Roshi and being a Roshi since then himself; and being called Niko Tenko Roshi now. On January, 8th, 2019 Niko Tenko Roshi transferred the spiritual leadership of Zen Centrum Amsterdam to Joke Heldere Dharma Traan Huiberts, Lolit Abhaya ten Hengel, Marieke Virya Heijman and Julia Jinne Veldkamp. An English and a German translation on Niko Tenko Tydeman Roshi's vita is planned - for the time being, please find a text from the Dutch webpage below:[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Niko Sojun Tydeman studeerde theologie in Nijmegen en kreeg zijn eerste zenonderricht bij Karlfried Dürckheim. Hij volgde zijn zentraining bij Baker Roshi te San Fransico en bij Thich Nhat Hanh. Sinds 1983 is hij leerling van Genpo Roshi, van wie hij in 2004 de dharmatransmissie ontving. Nico is tevens als docent (concentratie – meditatie) verbonden aan de Yoga Academie Nederland (YAN). Niko sensei heeft transmissie gegeven aan twaalf leerlingen, waar onder Meindert van den Heuvel, Joke Huiberts, Cornelia Wierenga, Lolit ten Hengel en Marieke Heijman. In gesprek met Niko Sensei… Wat is zen? “Zen is op de eerste plaats beoefening. En de voornaamste beoefening is Zazen, zitten op het kussen. Zen gaat over iets dat groter is dan ik ben. Lang geleden maakte ik kennis met Zazen, het maakte een diepe indruk op me. Het feit dat je in één houding stil op je kussentje zit, de eenvoud daarvan. Ik weet nog dat ik het voor het eerst thuis op mijn kussen zat en dacht ‘ik hoef niet naar een kerk om contact met het mysterie te hebben.’ Heel bijzonder vond ik dat. In die Zazen houding openbaart zich van alles en alles is welkom. In zen wordt het buitengewone van het spirituele pad gevonden in de alledaagsheid. Je eigen leven is de beoefening. Door dit pad te bewandelen, leer je de bewegingen van de geest kennen.” Wat kan zen doen? “Ik denk dat mensen zoeken naar het antwoord op de vraag ‘wie ben ik?’. Zenbeoefening kan je helpen bij het vinden van antwoorden op dergelijke existentiële vragen. De beoefening kan helpen bij de aanvaarding van wie je bent, wat je bent, wat je leven is, je karakter. Het helpt je leven vanuit de bereidheid samen te vallen met het leven zoals het is. Niet vanuit fatalisme, maar vanuit bereidheid en ontvankelijkheid. Dat geeft een zekere rust. Je ontvankelijkheid om met je leven te werken zoals het is, en niet zoals jij wil dat het is, wordt groter. Maar er is meer. Het leven is een groot mysterie, door de zenbeoefening wordt ook de ontvankelijkheid om dat mysterie te kunnen beleven groter. Er opent zich een poort tussen je kleine ik en datgene dat groter is dan jijzelf.” Leraar en leerling “In zen is de leraar/leerling verhouding een hele bijzondere. Door daisan, de persoonlijke gesprekken, leren we elkaar goed kennen. Ik vind het belangrijk de waarde van Zazen goed over te dragen op mijn leerlingen, te laten zien dat je door deze beoefening de werkzaamheid van de geest kunt ontdekken. Soms is dat moeilijk. Verwachtingen slijten, je gaat iets groters ervaren en de fundamentele onzekerheid van het bestaan. Het is een zeer persoonlijk, subjectief pad, onbekend terrein. Ik wandel met mijn leerlingen mee.” Waarom ik naar de zendo ga Ik heb een voornemen. Een vast besluit vormt een draagvlak voor mijn handelen, gesprekken, gedachten, werk en vrije tijd. Wordt het voor een ogenblik vergeten, dan dient de herinnering zich weer vanzelf aan, soms met schrik, een schok, soms een lieflijk weten. Ik heb mij voorgenomen een geestelijk pad te gaan, de nacht die mijn bestaan omhult steeds dieper te betreden. Mijn leven lang zal het ondenkbare, waartoe het denken mij verleidt, de poort zijn tot de werkelijkheid. Hoe angstig en vermoeiend ook, ik zal mijn voeten zetten op die duistere grond en mij laten zinken in het drijfzand van de aarde, alleen de adem en de dood als metgezel. Niet de zekerheid, noch de rust, maar het vreemde, het onrustbarend andere, de ontworteling zal mijn richtsnoer zijn naar een ver, onkenbaar doel. Mijn dooltocht naar de onbenaderbare verte zal mijn nabijheid zijn met allen die ik tegenkom. “Mysterie”, trefwoord op mijn lippen, sjibboleth voor de mystieke weg, zal mijn wijze van begroeten zijn. Ik heb gezworen alle lijden te verzachten, het kwaad te bannen en de aarde met goedheid te bedekken. En wellicht, op mijn sterfbed zal ik zeggen: er kwam niet veel van terecht. Maar dit voornemen, diep gekoesterd, onvervulbaar verlangen, komt uit de bodemloosheid van mijn onnadenkend hart. Het heeft geen verdere reden of verklaring nodig. Het vraagt uitsluitend om beoefening, momenten, waarop mijn belofte in praktijk wordt omgezet. Daartoe ga ik regelmatig naar de zendo, een lege ruimte met slechts een boeddhabeeld en zwarte meditatiekussens langs de witte muren. Hier kan de wereld ongehinderd binnentreden en zonder vervorming worden beschouwd. Hier heerst de stilte opdat geluid naar waarheid klinken kan. Zazen, gemeenschappelijk beoefend, is verstilde liturgie, zonder woorden, zonder gezang, geen verkondiging, maar een homilie van onbeweeglijk zittende lichamen, onbesproken en onbespreekbaar gedrag, viering van een inspanning, een toegewijd in- en uitademen, leven en dood proevend, het denken onbedacht doordacht. Zazen in de zendo is een eredienst van Boeddha’s. Sprakeloos, doordrongen van geboorte en dood als een ondoordringbaar geheim, spreken zij een lichaamstaal van zacht gestrekte ruggen, vervuld van vreugde en van pijn, voltooid door vergankelijkheid. Zazen, of ik het thuis alleen beoefen of in de zendo, samen met anderen, is een vorm waarin mijn voornemen concreet uitgevoerd wordt, in elk geval zolang als de oefening duurt. Ik beschik daarmee over een praktijk die mijn krachten te boven gaat en zich nimmer laat voegen naar mijn interpretaties. Want zazen is een duistere praktijk. Zijn beoefening bereikt nooit een laatste graad van perfectie, zijn motieven blijven ondoorgrondelijk en zijn invloed laat zich niet meten naar redelijke maatstaven. Oefening in het verspillen van tijd, want de tijd niet langer beoordeeld als nuttige besteding, zonder de beperking van verdienste, zonder uitzicht op verlossing. De tijd van zazen is de tijd van puur spel, vreugdevol spel, ongeremde en ongecensureerde expressie van een neergezeten, spelend lichaam dat de bitterzoete mengeling van pijn en genot kent, vrije tijd van een zittende Boeddha, homo ludens bij uitstek, met die geheimzinnige glimlach van herkenning om de mond. En de dood zal mijn laatste zazenbeoefening zijn. Op 8 januari 2019 droeg Niko Tenko Roshi de geestelijke leiding van Zen Centrum Amsterdam over aan Joke Heldere Dharma Traan Huiberts, Lolit Abhaya ten Hengel, Marieke Virya Heijman en Julia Jinne Veldkamp.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text] Publicaties Transmissie en transcendentie. Bespiegelingen over inwijding, leraar en leerling. Asoka 2013. De gouden karper is uit het net. Verzamelde essays. Asoka, 2012. Geen meester geen leerling. Gesprekken over het hart van meditatie, Maarten Houtman en Nico Tydeman. Asoka 2010. Zazen nu. Het dagelijks leven in een Japans zenklooster, foto’s en dagboek Madelon Hooykaas, essay Nico Tydeman, teksten Dogen Zenji. Ankh-Hermes b.v. 2010. Koan. Contemplatie op woorden en gebaren. Asoka, 2005. Dansen in het duister. Een proeve van spiritualiteit. Asoka, 1999. Een commentaar op de plaatjes van de os. Karnak, 1991. Vormen van oneindige leegte. Karnak, 1990. Zitten, de praktijk van Zen. Karnak, 1980.   Nico Sojun Tydeman Sensei lecture [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen Centrum Amsterdam" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_single_image image="1881" img_size="620x310"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text] Zen Centrum Amsterdam Zen Centrum Amsterdam offers a place to meditate each morning, seven days a week, throughout the year, and on Monday, Thursday and Friday evenings. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings there is Zen meditation with dharmatalk (teaching) and on Tuesday Buddhist service in Dutch. On these evenings you have the opportunity of a formal, individual interview (daisan) with a Zen teacher (in English, if you like). Schedule The mornings and Friday evenings are free of charge. A small donation is welcome. A subscription for weekly attendance on Monday or Thursday evening is possible. The suggested donation is € 50 per month. Morning sessions are from 8 till 9 am (on sunday from 8.30 am till 9.30 am). Evening sessions from 8 till 10 pm (on Friday till 9.30 pm). Introduction Series of introductory meetings and follow-up meetings Zen meditation start three times a year, on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday evening from 6.00 till 7.30 pm. All meetings are in Dutch. Individual guidance in English is possible when needed. Teachings Niko Sensei is the spiritual leader. Teachings are given by him and by Joke Huiberts, Lolit ten Hengel en Marieke Heijman. International Sangha Zen Centrum Amsterdam is part of the international Kanzeon Sangha, with Zen groups in various European countries and in the United States. Headquarters of the international Kanzeon Sangha is the Kanzeon Zen Center Utah in Salt Lake City, USA. Genpo Merzel Roshi is its spiritual leader. In 2004 Niko Tydeman received Shiho (Dharma transmission) from Genpo Roshi. Contact For more information about the Amsterdam Zen centre, please contact the secretaryT (06) 29 12 89 89. See Contact for details about the location. For more information about the international Kanzeon Sangha, visit the website Big Mind.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Please find more information on the Zen Centrum Amsterdam's website >[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...the next is yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d3149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='nico-sojun-tydeman-roshi' showpastevents='false'] https://zenamsterdam.nl/meditatie-programma > opens the schedule in a new window/tab...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814962970096611496313591767"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Zen Centrum Amsterdam's website via the link in a new browser window: https://zenamsterdam.nl/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4079" img_size="571x426"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Daniel Doen Silberberg, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501844019424{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Daniel Doen Silberberg, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e605149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_single_image image="612" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text] Daniel Doen Silberberg, Roshi, is a Zen teacher, author and founder of Lost Coin Zen, Inc., an international non- profit Zen training organization based in San Francisco. Roshi received Zen transmission in the White Plum Lineage in 2006 and Inka in 2015, after 35 years of traditional practice with three Zen teachers. Prior to that he spent 15 years studying with Fourth Way teachers and received permission to teach Fourth Way groups. Doen’s teaching is focused on creating a meaningful practice for students who live thoroughly modern lives with families, relationships and careers, but who also have a strong desire to practice The Way. Lost Coin trains students to empower themselves and to embrace their everyday lives as the rich cauldron for spiritual practice. The training incorporates traditional essentials of Zen and the Fourth Way practices including zazen, koan study, close work with Roshi, study and exercises, and adapts these forms to our world today. Doen brings to his teaching a warm, genuine style enriched by his own eclectic background. This includes work as a practicing psychologist and award-winning composer. At present he is writing and teaching Lost Coin Zen. [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Lost Coin" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_column_text] About Lost Coin Lost Coin is a modern Zen group established to create excellence in daily life.  Aside from traditional Zen training: including zen meditation, koan study, and personal interview with the teacher, Lost Coin also focuses on psychological applications in daily life.  It includes performance coaching and development of  excellence in entrepreneurial and leadership skills, and excellence in the arts and sciences.  Lost Coin utilizes daily life as the source of  spiritual and developmental practice.  This includes the participants’ jobs, their relationships and their families.  The intention is to assist the practitioner in really living their lives in an integrative way.  Instead of a going to a monastery away from the world to study, Lost Coin practitioners use the world they really live in as the syllabus and the cauldron. Lost Coin is an international organization, rather than a “center”.  Although we have three sites (San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Duesseldorf), and its members get together on a regular basis in Europe or the United States, we remain in contact daily through the use of skype, video, our blog, our group on Second Life. The focus of Lost Coin is on making the practice real and relevant- to increase members’ abilities to perform in the world and to deeply appreciate their lives. About Doen Roshi Daniel Doen Silberberg is a Zen teacher, performance coach, and author based in San Francisco.  He is known for his warm, personal teaching style which emphasizes excellence in contemporary daily life.  He is the founder of Lost Coin Zen, an international organization that trains students to empower themselves, and to embrace modern, everyday life as an opportunity for spiritual practice. Doen received transmission of the Zen lineage and Inka from Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi,  founder of Big Mind and Abbot of Kanzeon International.  Earlier, Roshi had trained under John Daido Loori, Roshi Abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery, and Taizan Maezumi, Roshi, the founder of the White Plum Lineageof Zen. Daniel ‘s first book, Wonderland: The Zen of Alice, was published by Parallax Press in 2009 and picked up by Random House for publication in Germany.  There is also a Korean edition in the works.  A chapter of the book is featured in Shambala Publishing’s 2010 edition of Best Buddhist Writing. Doen brings to his teaching a rich and varied background that reflects his own quest for excellence.  This includes work as a practicing psychologist, award-winning composer, and avid martial artist.  His current interest include chess, technology and stock trading. contact info: contact@lostcoinzen.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e5149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...the next is yet to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d3149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe8149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='daniel-doen-silberberg-roshi' showpastevents='false'][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-1739149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e2149623303867814962970096611496313289156"][vc_column_text]Lost CoinPoison DrumPlease use this link to open the Lost Coin website in a new browser window: http://www.lostcoinzen.com/ Please use this link to open Lost Coins website poisondrum in a new browser Window: http://www.poisondrumlostcoin.org/ [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row] ### Malgosia Jiho Braunek, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501843936584{padding-left: 5px !important;}"][vc_column][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Malgosia Jiho Braunek, Roshi (1947-2014) | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1496312672373-f9119a8f-735a"][vc_single_image image="630" img_size="170x270"][vc_empty_space height="10px"][vc_column_text]More information on Malgosia Jiho Braunek Roshi, to come. For the time being here the German and the English Wikipedia pages about her life:[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title="Remember Malgosia" tab_id="1496312672404-c3e80aaf-aff7"][vc_column_text]Remembering Malgosia Roshi June 29th, 2014 by Genpo Roshi   Malgosia Jiho Braunek Roshi — a brilliant and clear light with an exceptional smile and presence. She was loved by millions who came to know her as a human being, as a film star, and as a true Bodhisattva. We met in 1983 when her husband Andrzej attended the first Kanzeon Polish Sangha Sesshin at the Temple of the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn Sunim. Andrzej and I went for a walk in the small forest near the Zen Center and he said you must meet my incredible wife, Malgosia. We all had dinner that evening, my first introduction to her radiant, contagious laughter. In 1986 while holding group Daisan at the old mill of Joanna Lasota’s with about a dozen Sangha members sitting across from me, I knew that Malgosia would be a great Zen Teacher and Master. Looking into her eyes I saw her future in a flash. During the retreat I gave her my personal purple rakusu given to me by Maezumi Roshi in 1979 when he bestowed the title of Hoshi (Dharma Holder) on me. I told her that she could only tell Andrzej and no one else at that time because I wanted to spare her the possible jealousy from other students. I promised to transmit the robe and bowls to her some day in the distant future. That day came in 2003, more than 17 years later, and then Inka, the Final Seal of Approval as a Zen Master, in 2011 in Ameland, giving her the title of Roshi. Malgosia has looked after the Polish Sangha much like a mother hen looks after her chicks. The love that I have witnessed between her and her wonderful students is so heartwarming and inspiring. Even during the last toughest days she was shining full of love. Her spirit is ever present and I can feel her half way across the globe here in Maui. I have found it difficult to grieve. However, I now realize that maybe she has not gone after all. We who knew her are still being soothed and bathed by her vast and beautiful essence. She will be missed by family, friends, Sangha, as well as most of Poland. I miss her! Love, Genpo Roshi photo by Stephanie Young Merzel Source | Quelle > http://bigmind.org/blog/remembering-malgosia-roshi More links remembering Malgosia Roshi (opening in a new browser window): http://www.kanzeon.pl/index.php/nauczyciele/roshi-malgosia   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyox2fFPO50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOJx7o7-R7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTmShikxkcA[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1496313695399-ade794f4-1a6e"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open the polish Kanzeon Sangha website in a new browser window: http://www.kanzeon.pl/ [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Calendar Kanzeon Poland" tab_id="1505399386313-c5273933-bf2c"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please see the Calendar of Kanzeon Poland here (opens in a new browser tab): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kanzeon.zgloszenia%40gmail.com&ctz=Europe/Warsaw[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### John Shodo Flatt, Sensei [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501843807561{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="John Shodo Flatt, Sensei (†1994) | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed14962330386781496311758653"][vc_single_image image="623" img_size="170x270"][vc_column_text]John Shodo Flatt received Shiho (Dharma Transmission) in 1994 in England. He passed away the same year, 1994, in England. More to come soon...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Anton Tenkei Coppens, Roshi [vc_row 0="" css=".vc_custom_1501843750094{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Anton Tenkei Coppens, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed14962330386781496301876334"][vc_single_image image="588" img_size="170x270"][vc_row_inner gap="30"][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Anton Tenkei Coppens was born in the Netherlands, studied art and art history, and worked for almost fifteen years as a painter and a teacher. He started Zen practice in 1976 in the UK and went to the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1980 where he met Taizan Maezumi Roshi and Genpo Merzel Roshi. He became a close student of Genpo Roshi and followed him touring throughout Europe and the USA. In 1988 he received Tokudo, left the Netherlands and went to Maine, where Genpo Roshi had established his first residential training center. This center was relocated to Salt Lake City in 1993. In 1996 Tenkei received Shiho and for the following four years assisted Genpo Roshi full-time in teaching in Salt Lake City. In the footsteps of Roshi he also went to Europe regularly to conduct retreats and workshops. Inspired by the vast expanse of the USA he led many outdoor retreats in the desert of southern Utah, together with his wife Tamara (Tammy) Myoho Gabrysch. They both lived as resident students with Genpo Roshi for twelve years. Tenkei Roshi and Tammy Sensei left the USA at the turn of the century and went to Japan to live and practice for six months in the temple of Maezumi Roshi’s brother, Junyu Kuroda Roshi (Hojo-san). In Japan Tenkei had the opportunity to officiate ceremonies in the two main temples of the Soto School, that qualify for becoming an abbot of a Zen temple. He and Tammy finally settled in the Netherlands in the fall of 2000 and, together with a fast growing sangha, established Zen River in Uithuizen. In September 2003 Tenkei was installed as abbot during a traditional Shinsan-shiki ceremony, officiated by Hojo-san. In November 2003 he completed a one month Tokubetsu sesshin at Zuioji temple, Niihama, Japan, which gave him further certification within the Soto School. Later he was granted the official status of Kokusai Fukyoshi (certified teacher who spreads the dharma internationally). On January 23, 2006, Tenkei received Inka, the final seal of approval as a Zen master (and the title of Roshi) from Genpo Roshi.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Although mostly at their home base Zen River after years of travelling and living abroad, Tenkei Roshi regularly visits other locations to conduct workshops, including The Hague, Düsseldorf and Madrid. He is the father of one adult daughter, Maartje, who lives in Amsterdam. Tenkei Roshi is co-editor of Beyond Sanity and Madness by Genpo Roshi. He has also edited a series of dharma talks that Maezumi Roshi gave in Europe, published under the title The Echoless Valley and Teaching of the Great Mountain. Over the last few years he has engaged in new and interesting contacts with Buddhist traditions outside of Japan, particularly in China. Among other events, the annual UN Vesak celebrations in Bangkok, that attract thousands of Buddhists from all over the world, have been a great inspiration. As a result of these connections Zen River has been able to welcome many Asian teachers, monks, and lay people.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Zen River" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e60514962330386781496301876334"][vc_column_text] zenriver Zen River is an international Buddhist monastery that offers a year-round training programme under the guidance of abbot Tenkei Coppens Roshi and Myoho Gabrysch Sensei. As dharma heirs to Genpo Merzel Roshi they both are representatives of the White Plum Lineage that was established by the late Maezumi Roshi in the USA. They are also certified by the Japanese Soto School and maintain a close connection with Junyu Kuroda Roshi, brother of Maezumi Roshi and abbot of Kirigayaji in Tokyo. Zen River is officially registered in Japan as a Soto temple (Tokubetsu Jiin) and plays an active role in the development of the European department of the Soto School. Zen River is located in a beautiful property on the outskirts of Uithuizen, a small village on the northern edge of Holland close to the Waddensea. It enjoys the spaciousness and tranquillity of the country-side and yet it is easily accessible by public transportation. The programme is based on four elements of training (zazen, ritual, study and bodhisattva activity) and consists of a daily schedule as well as a calender of retreats and related events. Zen River functions as an ‘open’ monastery. This means that everybody is welcome to participate in all or parts of the programme, while the continuity of training is ensured by a team of full-time resident monastics (presently fifteen). Many members join on a regular basis as to support and deepen their practice at home. Newcomers receive special attention. The overnight accommodation has a capacity of forty two participants in total. All meals on regular training days are vegetarian. English and Dutch are the common languages spoken at Zen River Temple. Classes are held in English.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e514962330386781496301876334"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]...more to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d314962330386781496301876334"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe814962330386781496301876334"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='anton-tenkei-coppens-roshi' showpastevents='false'] Link to calendar of events at zenrivertemple.org >  (opens the link in a new browser window/tab) Link to "Ways to participate" - Program at zenrivertemple.org > (opens the link in a new browser window/tab)[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fas fa-map-marker-alt" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-173914962330386781496301876334"][vc_wp_text 0=""] [/vc_wp_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e214962330386781496301876334"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please access the Zenriver Temple website via the link in a new browser window: https://www.zenrivertemple.org/[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="4046" img_size="512x1024"][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Catherine Genno Pagès, Roshi [vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Catherine Genno Pagès, Roshi | I. Generation"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1527094288568-55b233bc-ce2f"][vc_single_image image="305" img_size="170x270"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi was born near Grenoble, France, and lived for much of her youth in Paris. After studying art history at the Sorbonne, she pursued a career in various Parisian galleries and museums. Beginning in 1978, she began traveling throughout the United States, Mexico, Central America, India and Nepal, where she first encountered the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and began practicing in that tradition. Upon returning to Paris in 1982, she met the American Zen master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, who became her teacher. For the next 10 years, she practiced Zen with him in Europe and America, and after completing her formal koan study, she received Dharma Transmission from him in 1992. On January 16th, 2005, her teacher gave her the final seal of approval (“Inka” in Japanese). She teaches the practice of “just sitting” (Shikantaza) and Koan practice.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi is the first dharma heir of the American Zen master Genpo Merzel Roshi, who is an heir of the late Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. The Dana Zen Center is part of the White Plum Asangha, which was founded by the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi to support and unite all the practice centers and dharma successors in his lineage. Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995) was an early pioneer in the transmission of Japanese Zen Buddhism to the West. He received dharma transmission from Hakujun Kuroda Roshi in 1955. He also received final approval as a teacher (Inka) from both Koryu Osaka Roshi and Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, thus becoming a dharma successor in three lines of Zen. Genno Roshi gave Dharma Transmission to Amy Hollowell in July 2004, to Frank De Waele in July 2005, to Corinne Frottier in July 2009 and to Michel Oltheten in May 2014. She gave Inka to Frank De Waele in October 2015, and to Amy Hollowell in November 2015.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Dana Sangha" tab_id="1527094288585-69185d2f-d2a3"][vc_column_text] Dana Sangha entrance door Dana Zen Center was founded in the Paris suburb of Montreuil in 1994 by Roshi Catherine Genno Pagès, a lineage holder in the Soto school, to offer regular Zen teaching and meditation in a nonresidential, urban setting. Its members form a community of lay practitioners who seek to honor the integrity of the ancient Zen tradition while integrating the practice into daily, modern life. The Dana practice center is a nonresidential house in an urban setting on the eastern edge of Paris. It is easily accessible by the city's public transport system (see Directions). There are daily meditation sessions and a monthly retreat which is either one weekend or one week long. Introduction classes are held for beginners. During summer holidays a retreat is held in the country side. (see Coming events).[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1527094385100-c98ae958-2851"][vc_column_text]More to come...[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-sitemap" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1527094386785-8517a0e6-1720"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1527094391346-8a193d99-c356"][vc_column_text][eo_events event_category='catherine-genno-pages-roshi' showpastevents='false'][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1527094392377-492fc951-b940"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1527094393436-9af23911-9841"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Genno Roshi's Dana Sangha website in a new browser window: http://www.dana-sangha.org/Eng/?Dana-Sangha   [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Genealogy [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Genealogy[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1713000224741{margin-bottom: -10px !important;padding-bottom: -8px !important;}"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1713000242335{padding-top: -8px !important;}"][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row] ### Places Places ### Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi [vc_row css=".vc_custom_1501843542691{padding-left: 20px !important;}"][vc_tta_tour shape="square" color="white" spacing="" active_section="1" pagination_style="outline-round" no_fill_content_area="true" title="Dennis Genpo Merzel, Roshi"][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-circle-o-notch" add_icon="true" title="Vita" tab_id="1495907681916-1f2bd35e-ffed1496233038678"][vc_single_image image="5049" img_size="198x306"][vc_row_inner gap="30"][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen teacher and Priest in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism, Abbot of Kanzeon Inc. since 1988 and creator of the Big Mind Process in 1999. From his initial awakening in 1971 his purpose and his passion have remained the same: to assist others to realize their true nature and to continuously deepen his own practice as well as assisting others in carefully reflecting on this life and clarifying the Way. A champion swimmer and All-American water polo player in his youth, Merzel received a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1968. He left his careers as a school teacher and lifeguard after his awakening and lived alone for a year in a cabin in the mountains near San Luis Obispo. In 1972 he met his Zen Master, Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi Roshi, and subsequently moved to Los Angeles to study closely with him. He lived there for the next twelve years, ordaining as a Zen Buddhist monk in October of 1973. In September 1980, a year after completing koan study, he became Maezumi Roshi’s second Dharma successor. In April of 1981, he completed the Zuisse Ceremony at Eiheiji and Sojiji Temples in Japan, signifying the recognition of the authenticity of his Dharma transmission by the governing body of Soto Zen Buddhism in Japan, becoming the third Zen Priest outside Japan to be offered the title of Dai Osho (Great Priest) in the Soto Zen Tradition. From 1980 until leaving the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1984 he was Director under the guidance of Maezumi Roshi.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Genpo Roshi was the first Soto Zen Teacher to Poland (1983), the Netherlands (1983) and Germany (1983) and the second to bring it to France (1983) and Great Britain (1982). He founded the Kanzeon International Sangha in 1982. In October 1988 he was installed as Abbot of Hosshinji, Temple in Bar Harbor, Maine, the third Westerner to be installed as Abbot in the ceremony of Shinsanshiki in the Western world. In 1991 the Kanzeon Board and Roshi closed the Zen Center in Bar Harbor and moved Kanzeon to Oregon, where he continued to teach with a group of his students. In 1995 he was recognized by the Soto School Headquarters in Japan as a Dendokyoshi, one of the first Senior Western Zen Teachers to be so recognized. He continued to study with Maezumi Roshi until the latter’s death in 1995. He received Inka, final seal of approval as a Zen Master, from Roshi Bernie Glassman in 1996, becoming Glassman’s first Inka successor, the second to receive Inka in the Maezumi Roshi lineage. In the same year, he became the President of the White Plum Asanga, composed of successors of Maezumi Roshi, after Roshi Bernie Glassman stepped down, and served in that position until 2007. In 1993 he moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, and established the Kanzeon Zen Center there as the headquarters of the Kanzeon International Sangha.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-home" add_icon="true" title="Bigmind" tab_id="1495919197232-254c4ac3-e6051496233038678"][vc_single_image image="585" img_size="553x113" onclick="custom_link" img_link_target="_blank" link="http://bigmind.org/"][vc_column_text]In 1999 Genpo Roshi created the Big Mind Process™, also known as Big Mind/Big Heart, which philosopher Ken Wilber has called “arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.” It has broadened and enriched not only the teaching of Zen but spiritual practices in other traditions as well, enabling thousands of people from all walks of life and religious backgrounds to have an awakening with little or no prior consciousness study. It is being used in many fields, including psychotherapy, law, medicine, education, mediation, business, athletics, social work, family therapy, and work with prison inmates, hospital patients and the dying. Roshi continues to train people to bring the Big Mind process and Big Heart Zen out into the world, and remains deeply committed to their ongoing evolution. He also continues to explore new insights and skillful means to transmit the essence of Zen, which is waking up to our essential nature free from all dogma, suddenly and immediately. He sees zazen, koans and Big Mind as three complementary practices for actualizing the Way, along with other traditional forms of Zen Buddhism such as prayer, chanting, and devotional practices, all beautiful expressions of the teachings for waking up and living with profound wisdom and compassion.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="typicons" i_icon_typicons="typcn typcn-infinity" add_icon="true" title="NonZen" tab_id="1497988958284-9ed3fb2f-0fcb"][vc_column_text]GATE GATE PARA GATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA! Gone, gone, gone beyond, utterly gone beyond awakening, YIPPEE!Genpo Roshi The historical Buddha clearly saw that everything changes and that our ignorance, which is a fundamental cause of our dissatisfaction, suffering and unhappiness, arises from our unwillingness to accept the fact that everything including the self is impermanent.  He also foresaw that by about twenty-five hundred years after his passing — the time we are in right now — people would no longer have the capacity to receive his teachings.  Many Buddhists naturally resist accepting this change as well. Facing the contradiction between the inevitability of change and our resistance to it has always been at the heart of Zen practice.  So many of our distinctive stories focus on this same point: freeing ourselves from attachment to form, beliefs, concepts and ideas.  Bodhidharma’s “vast emptiness, no holiness,” that all is empty of substance and transient in nature and nothing is exempt from this truth;  Dogen Zenji’s “dropped off body-mind,” letting go of attachment to body-mind — such teachings aimed at freeing us from the bonds we create for ourselves are the lifeblood of our tradition. more... The tradition of Zen is to go beyond the tradition of Zen.  Nevertheless, we still cling to our notions and ideas of what Zen is, or was, or should be.  I spent years identifying myself with the tradition I inherited from my great master Maezumi Roshi, swallowing the whole fish, and then many more years working on spitting out the bones while retaining the essence in a form that is vital and relevant for our generation and culture.  Recently I have begun to see my practice in a new way, which of course is also subject to change.  I call it NonZen.   Why NonZen?  This ‘non’ is part of the DNA of Zen, as in Joshu’s “Mu” (no, not, non), and Dogen Zenji’s non-thinking, beyond thinking and not-thinking.  It is not meant to be seen in a negative way, but rather as the Apex of a triangle, embracing and at the same time free from two perspectives that seem to our dualistic mind to be irreconcilably opposed: Zen and not-Zen, being Zen through and through and simultaneously completely free of Zen. The unique practice of Zen has always been first to ascend and then to descend the mountain.  However many Zen koans and stories emphasize the first phase — reaching the summit of enlightenment — over the second.  So many of the iconic stories in the Zen tradition are about the challenge and drama of the ascent.  Not many are about the descent.  We know rather little about how it was for our ancestors to descend after reaching the summit. Our training in NonZen is first to completely identify with our life being Zen from morning till night, then to free ourselves from this identification, for if we remain identified with Zen we cannot be truly liberated and happy.  We must return to being ordinary, embrace being both ordinary and extraordinary, and live as Bodhisattvas liberating all sentient beings, while not denying we too are mortal human beings. Being human means not only practicing to forget the self but continuously working with where we are stuck.  I have often said, and my own life as well as others’ demonstrates, that we can spend decades on our cushions and still be sitting on our shit.  Descending the mountain does not mean we automatically transform into integrated free-functioning human beings.  It means embodying not-Zen as well as Zen, being vulnerable and human once again, accepting our powerlessness as well as our power.  It means continuously acknowledging and owning our shadows, fully embracing our humanity.  How else can we embrace the humanity of others? Zen has no fixed creed or authority and is free from dogma.  It is, according to the saying attributed to Bodhidharma, the founder of Chinese Zen, “A special transmission outside the scriptures, not depending on words and letters; directly pointing to the mind.”  And yet it is so easy to fall into dogma.  The true spirit of Zen is lost when we get attached to forms and rituals, or to bricks and mortar.  In NonZen we do not ignore the importance of form, rituals, bricks and mortar; we embrace them but are free from attachment to them. So in NonZen we use such skillful means, upayas, as just sitting, shikantaza, and koans as well as the Big Mind process.  We work on experiencing both the transcendent and the disowned aspects of our self, then go beyond both the dual and the non-dual, embracing both as ever-changing integrating free-functioning human beings.  The dual is our perspective as an ordinary self.  The non-dual is what we refer to as the transcendent or Big Mind, no-self.  The Apex is Big Heart, or the Way of the Bodhisattva which includes and yet transcends these seeming opposites. Knowing that any disowned part of the self will act out in covert, negative and unhealthy ways, our practice is to own, embody and empower each aspect of the self and then to go back and pick up its opposite as well.  Then, embracing both sides of the triangle, we can make the leap to the Apex.  However, I want to emphasize that “to own and embody” does not mean we need to act out these negative extremes.  This is a very costly lesson I had to learn the hard way.  Many aspects of our humanity are difficult to accept within our selves.  We all have very negative, frightening and unhealthy thoughts that if acted on would be dangerous, even violent.  When they are disowned they never have the opportunity to be transformed into positive forces within.  They fester and become frightening because we are afraid they will get the best of us.  Once we are able to investigate them without fear, they can become positive contributors to our health and well-being, empowered  to serve rather than sabotage our success and happiness. The Big Mind process supports our study of the Buddha Way by allowing us to explore any and all aspects of the self, and ultimately to forget or go beyond it.  When we free ourselves from our attachments to these aspects of the self and get some distance from them, we realize that what we call ‘self’ is merely a concept composed of thousands of these aspects, which we sometimes refer to as ‘voices.’  Each voice plays an important role in enabling the self to function in the world, but from this perspective, we see that what we thought was the self is no-self; it is, as the Buddha said, not solid, substantial or permanent and is, therefore, easier to let go of. The moment we cease clinging to anything and are unconditionally open and vulnerable, without boundaries, we forget our self.  Forgetting, or letting go of the self, all phenomena are seen as One Mind.  There is nothing outside this Mind.  When we truly realize this, there is nothing apart from us to be feared or ignored.  There is no division between self and others, inside and outside, no division between oneself and externals.  There is also no one to blame for our life or the circumstances we find ourselves in.  We take full responsibility for action and reaction, for cause and effect.  Neither is there anything to cling or attach to.  All is realized and actualized as ‘me.’ In NonZen when we sit in meditation we are relaxed and natural, not holding tension anywhere in the body.  We sit comfortably upright, not stiff, back relaxed against the back of a chair, feet placed squarely on the floor shoulder-width apart.  Since we are all different and unique some prefer to meditate alone, some with others, some in lotus posture, cross-legged on a cushion, others on a chair.  Of course, sitting on the floor is easier when we are young and flexible and more difficult as we age or if we begin sitting on the floor when we are older.  Some may prefer to not lean back but remain upright with no support.  Any of these preferences can change with time.  Neither one is right or wrong, good or bad.  What’s best is just what works best for us and we enjoy. The key is not judging anything that arises, not thinking anything is particularly good or bad, right or wrong, not judging by any standard.  It is having no preference, not even a preference for no-preference — in other words, non-preference.   We have no preference for awake over asleep, attentive over inattentive, aware over unaware.  We do not even judge our judging.  In other words, we sit in non-judging, doing nothing, just being our breath coming in and going out, not trying to focus or to be concentrated.  When we are sitting comfortably, we begin by counting each complete breath from one to ten, breathing in deeply through the nostrils and out in a very thin stream of air through the mouth, as if we were breathing through a straw.  After ten to even twenty breaths in this manner, we continue inhaling and exhaling quietly and naturally through the nose, allowing the breath to do the breathing without interference. All effort is effortless, we are relaxed and natural.  We don’t make thinking wrong and not-thinking right or better.  When we judge the thinking mind and tell it to shut up it will rebel and come out louder, producing even more thoughts.  It is like a child condemned to be quiet and stuck down in the basement.  It will scream even more.  When we give the thinking mind the space and support to do its thing, it quiets down by itself and remains calm and silent, ready to think when necessary.  The mind is held neither too taut nor too loose.  We do not force it to be concentrated, but just allow it to be quiet and relaxed. Similarly, with seeking, we honor both seeking and not-seeking and come from the place of non-seeking, the Apex beyond seeking and not-seeking.  There is a tendency in all of us to get stuck in identifying with our seeking mind and feeling superior to those who are not yet seeking the Way.  However, we can also become stuck in being identified with the freedom from seeking, in other words as one who has found the answer or Truth.  This can lead to arrogance and a sense of superiority over those still caught up in seeking. Our way is to embrace both seeking and not-seeking, identifying neither as a seeker nor a finder and yet embodying both seeking and being one with the Way.  It is what is referred to in the Buddha Way as neti neti, neither this nor that and yet embodying both this and that.  It is never-ending, beginningless reality, which is eternally present as presence.  It is depicted in NonZen as the triangle of the eternal knot, which represents the endless loop of no-escape from the continuous flickering of light/dark, birth/death, sane/insane, enlightened/deluded, yin/yang, etc. Our practice is to drop all ideas and notions of being enlightened and to simply acknowledge that we are deluded.  We are just simply ourselves, without a trace of being spiritual or enlightened.  This integrating process goes on endlessly as we move forward as free-functioning human beings. The Zen practice we inherited comes from an Eastern male monastic model where men and women, monk and lay were separated.  The training was designed for young men without family, occupation or financial responsibilities, devoted to monastic practice, sitting hours and days in the cross-legged lotus posture.  NonZen is a practice for all: men and women, monk and lay, young and old, professionals and non-professionals.  It embraces rather than excludes.  For us men and women in the modern world, who for the most part do not live in monasteries but in relationships, with jobs and a lay life, even some of us who are priests and monks, it is essential that we embody vulnerability and the relational self.  It is no fun for the people in our lives to try to relate to someone who only embodies Zen and the non-relational. Zen has always recognized that the most difficult and final challenge is our attachment to the Buddha Dharma.  To be truly free and happy we must eventually leave behind the raft of Buddha Dharma which brought us to the ‘other shore.’  Our practice is to totally embody the Buddha Dharma and yet be completely free from it at the same time. For many of us who have been practicing Zen a long time, our identification with being Zen is so strong that the very thought of being not-Zen is unthinkable and brings up a great deal of fear and resistance.  Identification with Zen is very empowering.  However, we can easily become rigidly attached to particular practices or views because that was the way we were taught.  For some of us that includes the sentiment we often heard expressed by our teachers, and I myself repeated many times, ‘Zen is not about being happy!’  NonZen is about cultivating the flexibility and creativity necessary to discover what we have been searching for from the very beginning of our training: truth, freedom, peace and, yes, happiness. NonZen is continuous and endless practice of Zen and beyond.  Coming from the Apex, embodying as many aspects of the self and their opposites as possible, is the Way of freedom and happiness.  GATE GATE PARA GATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA! Gone, gone, gone beyond, utterly gone beyond awakening, YIPPEE![/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-check-square-o" add_icon="true" title="Now" tab_id="1495908124409-4945fe45-a8e51496233038678"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Genpo Roshi continues to explore new insights and skillful means to transmit the essence of Zen, which is waking up to our essential nature free from all dogma, suddenly and immediately. He sees zazen, koans and Big Mind as three complementary practices for actualizing the Way, along with other traditional forms of Zen Buddhism such as prayer, chanting, and devotional practices, all beautiful expressions of the teachings for waking up and living with profound wisdom and compassion. He serves as President of Big Mind Inc. and as Abbot of Kanzeon Inc., now known as the "Big Mind Big Heart Zen Community".[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] What is Big Mind/Big Heart Zen? What Is Big Mind/Big Heart Zen February 5th, 2018 by Genpo Roshi Big Mind/Big Heart Zen is a Western Path, Way and Community which aims to assist its followers in manifesting their fullest potential, realizing and actualizing their inherent wisdom and compassion, and living happy and joyful lives filled with love and compassion, free and at home in their own skin. Coming from the synthesis or apex of our absolute and relative nature, it encompasses the yin and yang or complete circle of our humanity. It enables us to own, embody and be empowered by fully awakening aspects or voices within us, from the purest to the darkest. We see that each voice, or “self,” has the capacity to transform from unawakened to awakened, from disowned to owned, immature to mature, unhealthy to health, and that when a voice is either unawakened or disowned it acts out in covert, unhealthy and even pathological ways. Just as all sentient beings are born with the same wisdom and compassion as the awakened ones, all aspects of “self” have this same capacity when awakened. Big Mind/Big Heart Zen is founded on Zen and rooted in the BuddhaDharma, but is not attached to Asian culture, forms and rituals. It is a Western approach to consciousness that aims to integrate the spiritual awakening of the East and the psychological understanding of the West, the spiritual and the worldly, without ignoring their shadows. It recognizes that the “self,” like all phenomena, is not solid, fixed or permanent but only appears to be so, which is why we call it the apparent rather than the absolute reality, and that what we call the absolute and relative realities are actually one reality seen from two different perspectives, like two sides of a coin. The third perspective is the inseparable unity of the two that is called Sangha, harmony or community. Each of us is already perfect, complete and whole, with nothing lacking, and each of us has the capacity and the responsibility to realize this. Realizing this fact requires absolutely no time, because the realization is outside both time and space. However, living this realization in our everyday life takes time, even decades, not only of waking up but of growing up as well, cultivating our life/practice through discipline, samadhi, and wisdom. The teachings of the Big Mind/Big Heart Zen Community are embodied in three practices that support and complement each other like the three legs of a stool: Zen sitting, koans and Big Mind/Big Heart work on various aspects of our selves. Each elucidates the teaching in a unique way. Shikantaza, or just-sitting-Zen, allows us to simply be, rather than constantly needing to do, to drop our ego’s need to attain or prove we are somebody or something important. Koans are best at helping us express the inexpressible both non-verbally and in words. The Big Mind/Big Heart Process is best at directly pointing to our awakened nature and allowing us to take time to experience perspectives that we usually ignore, repress or just don’t see. It is a skillful means befitting Zen’s distinction as the Sudden School of Buddhism to assist us — if we are willing and open — to have a glimpse of Zen and move through what normally requires years of Zen meditation to realize and actualize. Source | Quelle > [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_type="entypo" i_icon_entypo="entypo-icon entypo-icon-flow-tree" add_icon="true" title="Successors" tab_id="1495908057043-af88dba3-a1d31496233038678"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-calendar" add_icon="true" title="Agenda" tab_id="1495908161189-f30cb18f-1fe81496233038678"][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]For upcoming events please go to the URL below: https://bigmind.org/Events-List[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-map-marker" add_icon="true" title="Location" tab_id="1495908199325-09cd859c-17391496233038678"][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-globe" add_icon="true" title="Website" tab_id="1495908284873-f91735b4-20e21496233038678"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Please use this link to open Genpo Roshi's Big Mind website in a new browser window: http://bigmind.org/   [/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome="fa fa-book" add_icon="true" title="Books" tab_id="1496076880535-6a16c825-ca0a1496233038678"][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_column_text]Genpo Roshi's publications include The Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7 Dharma, and The Path of The Human Being, a novel entitled The Fool Who Thought He Was God, and many DVDs. His book Big Mind/Big Heart: Finding Your Way, has been published in fourteen other languages: Dutch, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Korean and Chinese.  His latest book, Spitting Out the Bones, A Zen Master’s 45 Year Journey, was published in 2016.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="18px"][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi Spitting Out The Bones [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]"You have to swallow the whole fish," Zen Master Taizan Maezumi told his students, "...and then spit out the bones."  First absorb the tradition, endure the hardships of Zen training, then you can spend the rest of your life separating the real treasure from the culture it came in, learning what you can let go of and what is truly yours. Spitting Out the Bones is Genpo Roshi’s story of his uplifting and exhilarating and humbling journey, including the last five years rising from the ashes of his very public fall from grace, and a candid exploration of the challenge of bringing the essence of the great tradition he inherited to life in the West. More > Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi Big Mind - Big - Heart [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text] Big Mind - Big Heart | This book presents a highly original and accessible pathway to self-discovery and personal liberation. Since 1999 the Big Mind process has been experienced by many thousands of people in seminars across America. Author Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel uses this technique to help people access the ever-present Big Mind/Big Heart awareness – the clear, “just being” awareness and the unconditional compassion that we all can experience. More > Amazon > [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi The Fool Who Thought He Was God [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]The Fool Who Thought He Was God | A mysterious package discovered behind a wall in an abandoned building recounts the strange tale of twin brothers reunited after years apart.  A school teacher’s quiet life is suddenly upended when he discovers his brother Sebastian, who thinks he is God, has had himself committed to a mental institution in Bangor Maine, close to where he himself has been living for years.  He records his visits with his long lost twin and the conversations that leave him increasingly baffled, inspired, and finally uncertain about the thin line between sanity and madness. More > Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi The Path Of The Human Being [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]The Path Of The Human Being | Dennis Merzel, one of the most highly regarded American Zen teachers, explains how meditation can gradually lead us to become more and more familiar with our minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life. He explores the practice of meditation in depth, as well as a range of related topics including: connecting meditation practice to everyday life, understanding central Zen concepts, working with a teacher, and practicing meditation in the midst of difficult times.  “Genpo Roshi invites us in a direct, no-nonsense language to transform ourselves and the world around us. He makes the Zen way clear and accessible to anyone who is willing to engage it. A must for every Zen library.” —John Daido Loori Roshi, Abbot of the Zen Mountain Monastery “Genpo Roshi gives those who have never meditated a chance to see their true face and experience the oneness of life.” —Roshi Bernie Glassman, Zen Peacemakers More > Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi Beyond Sanity and Madness [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]Beyond Sanity and Madness | Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan and one of the most brilliant minds Japan has ever produced, was a true giant of Asian thought whose works are of an astounding richness and profundity.  In this book, Genpo Roshi explores the essential features of Dogen’s vision of Zen training and practice as presented in three of his most important works. "Master Dogen reminds us to appreciate these old teachings from the Bodhisattva’s perspectives and to continually refresh our own integrity as embodied in these great vows of benefiting oneself and others.  Genpo Sensei, a follower of Kanzeon, offers his comments for your consideration. It will be most rewarding for him if these comments stimulate your own practice and cause you to confirm your vows.   I offer you my sincere encouragement in the genuine practice of the Buddha Way." — Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi More > Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi Eye Never Sleeps [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text]The Eye Never Sleeps | The radical challenge of Zen Buddhism is to drop all assumptions and prejudices and experience the truth directly. American Zen teacher Dennis Genpo Merzel brings new life to this ancient wisdom through his commentaries on a classic Chinese Zen scripture, "Verses on Faith-Mind," by the Third Patriarch of Zen, Sosan Zenji. The author strikes to the heart of Zen with clarity and force, expressing in modern terms, to an American audience, the essential wisdom and compassion of Sosan Zenji's famous poem. Full of colorful Zen lore and personal anecdotes from Dennis Genpo Merzel's life, these talks impart the Buddha's teaching directly and intimately, illuminating in simple words the timeless questions and problems of day-to-day life. Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/4"][vc_column_text] Bookcover Genpo Roshi 24/7 Dharma [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="3/4"][vc_column_text] “For the beginner, this introduces the fundamental teachings of Buddhism in language direct, clear, unexotic; drawing straight from the well of our recognizable lives, Genpo’s teachings remind with the pure resonance of the meditation bell: ‘Don’t waste time.’” — Jane Hirshfield, author of Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry 24/7 Dharma Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel brings clarity and wisdom to our most fundamental questions — Why do we suffer? How can we free ourselves from fear and sorrow? What does it take to live in harmony with others?  Merzel’s pithy and provocative observations can be read individually for inspiration and guidance, or from beginning to end as a lucid introduction to Buddhist truths.  Supremely accessible, 24/7 Dharma applies the central concepts of Buddhism to our modern-day experience. “In a long tradition of Zen aphorisms and turning phrases, Roshi Genpo Merzel’s brief, laconic Dharma teachings always point to one’s own true nature.” — Roshi Bernie Glassman, Zen Peacemakers More > Amazon >[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_tour][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="50px"][/vc_column][/vc_row]