Cosmopolitan Zen

"And that's my prayer, may I truly be of benefit. May these words be aligned in such a way that I can really transmit."   https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Dharma Reflection of Weekend Sangha Practice - March 22, 2025 Jozen teaches about the Three Refuges, what they mean and invites us to look at where we take refuge. Jozen Jonathon Fielder offers his teachings and his wisdom tireless through several sanghas. Having been ordained as a Hollow Bones Zen priest, he continues to lead a regular practice as part of the Virtual Zendo. As a martial arts teac...

Dharma Reflection of Weekend Sangha Practice - February 22, 2025 Emyo distinguished wishes from intentions and offers a clear discussion as to how clear intentions serve to deepen ones practice and clear the mind off unconscious tendencies.  Our mission is to foster a diverse, inclusive community, dedicated to awakening through Buddhist teachings promoting personal and interpersonal healing with e...

Dharma Reflection of Weekend Sangha Practice - March 8, 2025 Nanda offers wisdom and practice based on Song of Zazen by Hakuin. Engo Michael Jackson opens with Song of Zazen, the traditional change for a dharma talk or teisho.   https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Dharma Reflection of Weekend Sangha Practice - February 8, 2025 Ming Po Larry Matthews reminds us that our zazen practice is always available and that one must commit to daily practice.  Pure Awareness is embodied. Ming Po Larry Matthews is a Associate Clergy member of SBLMS, a Certified Facilitator, an excellent meditation teacher. https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Ekai Joel Kreisberg closes the Fall Practice Period with a discussion of how emotional koans work and Jun Po Roshi's belief that emotional maturity is an essential element in dharma practice.  Ekai developed The Mondo Zen Facilitator Program for Hollow Bones Zen from 2019 - 2022.   https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Cosmopolitan Zen is an inclusive approach to Zen that transcends cultural and institutional boundaries. Its name comes from the etymology of the word cosmopolitan, which means “citizen of the world.” Cosmopolitan Zen offers a dynamic practice not confined to monastic settings or rigid traditions. Instead, it is an adaptable approach capable of flourishing in diverse contemporary contexts.  Find ou...

Fugen Roshi brings us through very practical approaches to Mondo Zen teachings and how to integrate these into our daily practice. Fugen Roshi's Dragon Heart Dharma is an open collaborative of sanghas devoted to the Rinzai dharma teachings of Jun Po Roshi.  https://www.dragonheartdharma.org/ https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

It's the sitting practice that becomes more and more important. The psychedelic experiences become less and less significant because you're already experiencing that expanded consciousness and altered states from the practice itself. https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblms-blog/hoshodonkoehler https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

The Heart of Zen FPP24 - Dharma Talk - October 28. 2024 Emyo Darlene Tataryn offers and in depth look at jealousy and how it provides a challenge for deepening our work as Zen practitioners. She hosts here own sangha One Wisdom Zen in Selkirk, Manitoba. https://www.onewisdom.ca/ https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Daiden Dan Pecaut is a senior student of Jun Po Roshi. His sangha Siouxland Zen in Sioux City, IA is a thriving community of zen practitioners. He has published two books about his Zen experience and continues to teach the dharma to all who come. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Siouxlandzen/ https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Engo Dohi Michael Jackson opens our Fall Practice Period with a discussion of non-duality.  Engo was ordained by Jun Po Roshi and serves as a senior training faculty for programs at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society and Dragon Heart Dharma.  This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk as part of The Heart of Zen - The Fall Practice Period 2024 at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Soci...

Kogen Keith Martin-Smith offers his personal reflections about Jun Po Roshi's Koan Who Are You?  Author of The Heart of Zen.  Kogen share intimately some of his experience with Jun Po Roshi.  This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk as part of The Heart of Zen - The Fall Practice Period 2024 at Shining Bright Lotus Meditation Society. https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

Ekai Joel Kreisberg discusses the next step development of Jun Po Roshi's emotional koans.  Bringing in the wisdom of Karlan McLaren's Language of Emotions, Ekai unpacks the eleventh and twelfth koan of Mondo Zen Facilitation, showing how Jun Po Roshi pointed to this work and how much more is possible as we explore new emotional koans. This podcast was originally offered as a dharma talk at Shinin...

If you look at it historically, it’s not proselytizing. It’s saying the Dharma has to spread. Nature has to move the seeds, either through the wind or through a bird, picking it up and dropping it somewhere else. The Dharma spreads. So part of getting the robe or the rakasu is to say I'm part of the spreading. So I bring it somewhere else. - Nanda Nina Lynch https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblm...

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom and transformation. This is a basic meditation instruction for practice led by Ekai Joel Kreisberg.  This is the second meditation from the Zazen and Emotional Koan retreat recently completed in October...

Emotional Koan work is for those interested in taking their practice off the cushion and into our interpersonal world in which our habitual emotional responses offer us insight and access to wisdom and transformation. This is a basic meditation instruction for practice led by Ekai Joel Kreisberg https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/events/zazenkaiemotionalkoans24 https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/

I found out how magic works, manifestation works and how changing the mind and the field around us works. And then looking back at tantric Buddhist tradition, I recognized that the initiatory practices are the path. If you break down all of the facets of the prostration, it really is a magical practice meant to transform your mind into the mind of a Buddha https://www.shiningbrightlotus.org/sblms-...

Fugen Tom Pitner Roshi is a busy man. After 25 years of service to Jun Po Roshi and Hollow Bones Zen, he is leading a six day retreat in South Dakota as the head of Dragon Heart Dharma . The retreat includes a Jukai Ceremony for five new members as well as ordination of the first three priests for Dragon Heart Dharma. Fugen Roshi wears many hats - a professional coach, a teacher, and a leader in t...

Engo Michael Jackson is one of the few priests ordained by Jun Po Roshi who has experience leading an eight day sesshin in the role of the Tanto - the spiritual leader of the sesshin,. He has mastered all of the retreat roles through his extensive commitment to the Jun Po Roshi’s dharma. He continues to lead through the Virtual Zendo, serve as a primary teacher in the clergy training at Dragon Hea...

Koto Washi is a elder in the Lakota Sioux Tribe living on the Pine RIdge Reservation. He and his wife Becky operate All Nation’s Gathering Center , a non-profit retreat center on their lend in Yellow Bear Canyon, outside of Kyle, SD. Together, they have been hosting our retreats annually since 2022, Koto Washi has taken on several significant roles at SBLMS as a dharma teacher and a member of the...

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