Prairie Mountain Zen Center Dharma Talks

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Fall 2022 class on the Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity (class 5 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail PMZC Guiding Teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk on The Verse of Repentance as part of a series on our morning chants here at Prairie Mountain Zen Center. 

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Fall 2022 class on the Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity (class 4 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail PMZC Guiding Teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin talks about the Robe Chant and Formless Repentance as part of a series of talks exploring our morning chants here at Prairie Mountain Zen Center. 

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Fall 2022 class on the Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity (class 3 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Fall 2022 class on the Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity (class 2 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Fall 2022 class on the Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity (class 1 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie introduces the Fall 2022 class, Practicing Into Spiritual Maturity.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Byakuren Judith Ragir speaks to us about her upcoming book Untangling Karma . Judith studied with Dainin Katagiri Roshi from 1973-1990 at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis. Following his death in 1990, Judith was instrumental in founding the Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul, MN where she was a senior teacher for nine years. She was the Guiding teacher a...

Send us Fan Mail Our guest speaker is Tim Burkett, Senior Teacher at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center. He will talk on Nargarjuna's teachings. Tim began Zen practice in early 1964 with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. He attended the maiden practice period at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in 1967. Tim succeeded Karen Sunna as Guiding Teacher at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 2002, a position he conti...

Send us Fan Mail Sangha member David Pavlacky talks on the green heart of Zen.

Send us Fan Mail PMZC Guiding Teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk entitled, "The Teaching Just for You".

Send us Fan Mail PMZC Guiding Teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin gives a talk about enlightenment .

Send us Fan Mail Gene Heater talks on "the Meaning and Practice of Zen".  Gene began his Zen practice at the Boulder Zen Center in the Rinzai Tradition with Gento Richard Barsky.  In response to the Koan, "How does the Buddha manifest the ringing of the bell and the singing of the bird?" he founded the Bird and Bell Meditation Group at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Cheye...

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, sharing...

Send us Fan Mail Ewan Magie is a longtime meditator and explorer of the mountains and wilderness of the American West. He began formal meditation practice in the 2000s with Seattle Insight Meditation Society and founding teacher Rodney Smith. He moved to Colorado in December 2018 and teaches English at Morgan Community College in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Chikyo Ryunin Ewan Magie was ordained as Soto...

Send us Fan Mail PMZC Guding Teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin continues our study of the 16 Bodhisattva Precepts . 

Send us Fan Mail Guest speaker Rev. Jakudo Peterson speaks on Being Intimate with Life . Rev. Peterson was ordained by Rev. Winecoff on September 18, 2011 and received Dharma transmission from him on April 30, 2016. He currently leads the Albert Lea Meditation Group in Albert Lea, MN.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Shinmon Michael Newton began Zen practice in 1983 as a university student in Japan, with a Rinzai priest at an ancient temple on Mount Tsukuba, later moving to Kyoto and practicing Soto Zen with Shohaku Okumura. Since returning to Vancouver in 1987 he has practiced with Zoketsu Norman Fischer. He received priest ordination from him in in 2003 and dharma transmission in 2011....

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Myoshin Kate McCandless began Zen practice in 1983 as a university student in Japan, with a Rinzai priest at an ancient temple on Mount Tsukuba, later moving to Kyoto and practicing Soto Zen with Shohaku Okumura. Since returning to Vancouver in 1987 she has practiced with Zoketsu Norman Fischer. She received priest ordination from him in in 2003 and dharma transmission in 201...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin, Guiding Teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center, continues his discussion of Dogen's essay titled Flowers in the Sky.

Send us Fan Mail Reverend Jodo Cliff Clusin, PMZC Guiding Teacher, talks about Dogen's essay Flowers in the Sky .​

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 6 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail On first Sunday of each month, the dharma talk and discussion is devoted to study of one of the precepts.  This week  Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie introduced the precept of Not Being Possessive .

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 5 of 6)