Traditional Rinzai Zen offers very little meditative instructions focusing on Shikantaza, just sitting, or koans, stories that facilitate exploring awareness beyond dhyana. With the help of pointing out instructions, koans can be a way of developing a more effective and more complete meditative practice.

Join us for the Hollow Bones Evening Service, Zazen, and Council dedicated to our founding teacher and mentor.

Join us for an Evening Service chanting our linneage followed by meditation and a Council dedicated to our founding teacher and mentor.

This half-day retreat offers a series of hands-on teachings utilizing the visualization techniques practiced in Karma Kagyu lineage. As a technique for developing compassion, deity visualizations offer a compelling and accessible technique for opening the the heart to broader energies.

Lama John Makransky has developed a robust training called Sustainable Compassion Practice, which is based in science and Vajrayana teachings. This half-day retreat will introduce the full set of practices in a hands-on setting with ample time devoted to discussion.

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 .

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.

Emotional Koan work is meant for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight an access to wisdom and transformation. Join us for a day of exploration!

Join us for the Hollow Bones Evening Service, Zazen, and Council dedicated to our founding teacher and mentor.

Join us for an Evening Service chanting our linneage followed by meditation and a Council dedicated to our founding teacher and mentor.

Join us for the opening retreat of the Spring Practice Period. We will not only deconstruct habitual responses, we will reconstruct our attitudes in such a way that we are more able to find equanimity informing clear and compassionate responses in the world.

In Mondo Zen Facilitation, a facilitator works with a student to choose an emotionally challenging situation and create an emotional koan. In this course 16 week training, we will identify and work with koans for the entire gamut of emotional expressions the four emotional families - anger, fear, sadness & joy, to explore emotional koan practice.

n 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.

Emotional Koan work is meant for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight an access to wisdom and transformation. Join us for a day of exploration!

Jozen Jonathon Filder will leading this eight week program introducing the Eight Brocades style of Qigong.

Mondo Facilitation is designed to accomplish the first step on the path of awakening through the use of Koans. The Koans ask questions that offer an opportunity to deconstruct your current story, allowing for a new understanding which fosters awakening.

n 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: ignorance, attachment, and aversion.

n 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: ignorance, attachment, and aversion.

A one hour presentation/discussion of Joel Ekai Kreisberg’s recent experience on a street retreat in San Francisco