Join for our monthly online ceremony. After connecting with sangha members, join us in performing the morning service followed by a meditation and a dharma reflection by Ming Po Larry Matthews.

Various types of Qi Gong are offered to improve balance, strengthen the body and improve circulation of qi/chi. Suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners. Jozen Jonathon Fielder will lead this monthly movement practice. Class is open to anyone.

Join us for our weekly sitting group in the UK. Jozen Jonathon Fielder will lead the session with meditation, dharma discussion and question and response.

Join us for our weekly community meditation. We begin each session with a check-in. Ekai Joel Kreisberg will lead us in a guided meditation guided by followed a weekly teaching, discussion and question and response.

In the Buddhist tradition, ringing the bell 108 times rids us of the 108 delusions that we suffer on earth. Through this ritual, we purify ourselves of the past year’s three poisons: greed, anger and delusion.

Join us for our weekly sitting group in the UK. Jozen Jonathon Fielder will lead the session with meditation, dharma discussion and question and response.

Join us for our weekly community meditation. We begin each session with a check-in. Ekai Joel Kreisberg will lead us in a guided meditation guided by followed a weekly teaching, discussion and question and response.

Join for our monthly online ceremony. After connecting with sangha members, join us in performing the morning service followed by a meditation and a dharma talk by Chigan Maik Bain.

Join for our monthly online ceremony. After connecting with sangha members, join us in performing the morning service followed by a meditation and a dharma talk by Ekai Joel Kreisberg Roshi.

Committing to our values as a community strengthens our ability to embody our ideals. Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society is pleased to be offering a quarterly online ceremony where we can connect and commit to the precepts together.

This day-long retreat offers a series of hands-on teachings utilizing the full set of capping phrases for the koans of Jun Po Roshi’s Mondo Facilitation process. This retreat is for beginners as well as practitioners interested in this style of practice, all in the security of a supportive community .

Kogen Keith Martin-Smith will take us through his four steps or practices for awakening. Recognizing several Zen insights is key to this practice and Kogen offers his own wisdom and unique perspective.

Join us for our weekly zazen group in Portugal. Nanda Nina Lynch will lead the meditation session followed by a brief check-in after the sit to help us feel connected.

Join us for our weekly sitting group in the UK. Jozen Jonathon Fielder will lead the session with meditation, dharma discussion and question and response.

Join us for our weekly zazen group in Portugal. Nanda Nina Lynch will lead the meditation session followed by a brief check-in after the sit to help us feel connected.

Join our monthly study group devoted to exploring the embodiment of emotional experience and the potential for insight with emotional koan work. No experience necessary.

Join us for our weekly community meditation We begin each session with a check-in. Emyo Darlene will lead us in a guided meditation guided by followed by discussion and question and response.

The opportunity occurs whenever you find yourself emotionally triggered, this is precisely the moment to remember and choose the wisdom of Zen. - everything is impermanent, everything is dependently arising and the self is expressing a natural wisdom. Remember and choose a compassionate response. Kenshin Cian Whalley takes up this key perspective his is dharma reflection about the illusion of the victim.

Join us for our weekly zazen group in Portugal. Nanda Nina Lynch will lead the meditation session followed by a brief check-in after the sit to help us feel connected.

With a healthy zazen practice, on can have a choice as to whether one reacts with anger or responds to the anger arising with an enlightened view. Shunya Lynn Hyer will offer the dharma reflection this week which will include a discussion with participants.

Zendo Hours is a time for you to bring your questions and concerns to trained clergy. Drop-in and join the conversation.

Daiden Dan Pecaut will frame the challenge of each of these two perspectives - traditional zen and modern psychology - as preparation for how to move into working with both together. Daiden’s dharma reflection will conclude with an interactive discussion.

Emyo Darlene Tataryn will offer a teaching on the dignity and disaster of the ego for this second dharma reflection with Kogen’s When the Buddha Needs Therapy. The teaching will be followed by a discussion.

Led by trained facilitators, the Mondo Koan Intensive takes participants through the entire ten koans of the Ego Deconstruction-Reconstruction process. Participants will practice together in the full group as well as being led in small-group triads in order to better close the gap between facilitator and participant.

Join us for the first session of the Fall Practice Period. Ekai Joel Kreisberg will explore Spirituality and Spiritual Identity, the opening chapter in When the Buddha Needs Therapy.