Prairie Mountain Zen Center Dharma Talks

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 4 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Sangha member Leslie Irvine talks on the Diamond Sutra. The Diamond Sutra is one of the most important texts of Mahayana Buddhism and the earliest printed book in the world. Its lessons on impermanence and the nature of reality still have transformative power today.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 3 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail With a particular focus on the 3 Jewels and the 6 Paramitas, sangha member Isabelle Andre explores the feedback loop between the way Buddhism can inform a pilgrim's actions and attitudes on the path, and how, in turn, the aspiration to respond skillfully to various encounters may also deepen and intensify one's Buddhist practice.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 2 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin continues our series of talks on exploring the Bodhisattva precepts.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Spring 2022 class on Dogen's Bendowa (class 1 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Sangha member Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie gives an introduction to his six-week class on Dogen Zenji's fascicle Bendowa .  The class will be offered by Zoom on Thursday evenings beginning March 31 and is open to all.  See Spring Class below for details.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. 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 Green Gulch Farm from 2003 to 2012, when she moved to City Center. After serving as the San Francisco Zen Center corporate secretary, she was the City Center Ino (Head of Meditation Hall), and...

Send us Fan Mail Sangha member David Pavlacky explores time from the perspective of Dainin Katagiri’s (2007) book “Each moment is the universe: Zen and the way of being time,” and his (1984) recorded Dharma talk “Time”.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 6 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 5 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie: Winter 2021 Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 4 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Sangha member Rick Daitoku Vosper speaks to us on The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is by Katherine Sobun Thanas. Rick Daitoku Vosper has been practicing Zen since 1995. He took vows with Jodo Cliff Clusin in 2013. Recently retired, he has worked as an advertising copywriter and in the bicycle business, as well as with his one-person marketing service...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 3 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 2 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Guiding teacher Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin speaks to us about sangha.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie's Winter 2021 class on Gratitude, Faith, and Compassion (class 1 of 6)

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Chikyo Ewan Magie introduces his upcoming Thursday night class, which starts January 13.  

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin, Guiding Teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center, reads from this classic collection of Zen stories published in 1955.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin is the guiding teacher at Prairie Mountain Zen Center.  In this talk he discusses a talk by Katagiri Roshi on karma and causation from the book Each Moment is the Universe.

Send us Fan Mail In this talk, sangha member David Coupland will discuss Thich Nhat Hahn's commentary on the Heart Sutra.  David practiced and studied with Zen and Insight Meditation groups in Ann Arbor, MI for over thirty years. He trained as a Dharma teacher with Deep Spring Center,  Ann Arbor, and taught insight meditation to community groups. David worked in software development and marke...

Send us Fan Mail Annabella Pitkin is an Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and Director of Lehigh Asian Studies Program.  Her dharma talk is about Mahayana traditions and practice. Dr. Pitkin's forthcoming book, Beggar Modern: Renunciation and Longing in the Life of a 20th Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint (April 2022), explores the l...

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Jodo Cliff Clusin receives a gift robe sewn by sangha members in appreciation for his many years of service as founder and guiding teacher of Prairie Mountain Zen Center.

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Norm Randolph is a senior teacher at Dharma Field zen center in Minneapolis.  Born in San Francisco in 1943, he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a psychology degree and worked in an Air Force psychiatric clinic. In 1969 he met Dainin Katagiri Roshi in San Francisco, and moved to Minneapolis when Katagiri Roshi went there in 1972. He was ordained in...