Prairie Mountain Zen Center Dharma Talks

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the Guiding Teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center.  In this talk he discusses various translations of the dedication of merit chant and bodhisattva vows.

Send us Fan Mail Judy Putnam worked for the City of Fort Collins in the Light and Power Department for 23 years in various positions from Meter Calibrator to Special Projects Coordinator. As a young student, she gained a Masters degree in Biology and in retirement became a volunteer Master Naturalist with the City of Fort Collins, CO. She also had a Realtor’s license in the state of Colorado for t...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Connelly is a Soto Zen teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police training and addiction recovery groups. Ben is based at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, travels to teach across the United States, writes for Tricycle magazine, and is author for Wisdom Publications of Inside the Grass Hut...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.

Send us Fan Mail Paula is a long-term student and practitioner of massage, yoga, Ayurvedic medicine, the Diamond Approach and for the last few years, Soto Zen with Prairie Mountain Zen in Longmont, Colorado.  She does contemplative elder care along with wellness coaching and massage.  She loves inquiring into the moment and following the threads of truth that reveal themselves and learning, sharin...

Send us Fan Mail   Rev. Kyosho Valorie Beer is a long-time teacher and leader with the San Francisco Zen Center .  She will speak to us about about using our practice to meet both individual and social suffering. Kyosho Valorie Beer has practiced Zen Buddhism since 1991. She was ordained as a Zen priest in 2005 and received Dharma Transmission in 2013 from her teacher, Edward Brown. She lived at G...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Nomon Tim Burnett is the Guiding Teacher of Red Cedar Zen Community in Bellingham, Washington.  Tim was ordination teacher for our own Chikyo Ewan Magie. Tim has been a student of Zoketsu Norman Fischer since 1987 when he was a resident at San Francisco Zen Center's Green Gulch Farm. After sitting practice periods at Green Gulch and Tassajara Zen Monastery, Tim helped fo...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Dokai Georgesen began his study of Zen Buddhism at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center under the direction of Dainin Katagiri Roshi in 1974. He spent two years on pilgrimage studying Buddhism in India and Japan, and upon his return in 1982 he lived at Hokyoji until his ordination in 1984. In 1989 he received Dharma Transmission from Katagiri Roshi, and since then he has made seve...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the spiritual director of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.