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Key Messages

2024 Annual Report
Jifu Devyani Sadh
As I conclude my six-year term on the Board, I reflect with deep gratitude on all we have accomplished together. Thanks to your support, the Zen Studies Society has grown ...
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January 31, 2025
2025 Letter from the Abbot
Chigan Roshi
Another year has ended, and we are happy to present our 2024 Annual Report. The report provides an overview of our activities and accomplishments in 2024. It recounts our aspirations ...
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January 31, 2025
2025 The Birth of Fourteen Bodhisattvas: Walking the Path of Unlimited Humanity
Jishin Liz Kuney Sensei
November 7th, 2024 was a mild late autumn Sunday at the mountain monastery. The annual Harvest Sesshin had just concluded that morning. After many months and often years of preparation, ...
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January 8, 2025
2025 New Year Message from Chigan Roshi
Chigan Roshi
The end of one calendar year and the beginning of another invite us to contemplate and recognize the activity of time. We look at where we are, where we came ...
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January 1, 2025
2024 Entanglement – The Invisible Threads of Sangha
Jifu Devyani Sadh
Reading the year-end messages from our teachers, I found myself reflecting on the concept of entanglement. In quantum physics, "entanglement" refers to a phenomenon where particles become linked and inextricably ...
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December 27, 2024
2024 Year-end Offering from Shinge Roshi
Shinge Roshi
More than 40 of us came together for Rohatsu Sesshin at Dai Bosatsu Zendo from November 30 through the morning of December 8. The sesshin was deep and still. As ...
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December 23, 2024
2024 Year-end Invitation from Hokuto Osho
Hokuto Osho
May you live in interesting times. This curse, supposedly from ancient China, was first pronounced in a speech by a British diplomat in 1936. At that time, the Great Depression ...
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December 11, 2024
2024 Year-end Affirmation from Chigan Roshi
Chigan Roshi
As winter draws closer and we approach the last few weeks of the year, the days get shorter and darkness outlasts the sunlight hours. Along with the natural phenomenon of ...
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November 25, 2024
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Reflections

Poetry – Psithurisms
Shigyo Alexander Marrero
quietly porous this body vast like the wind roars in all leaf colors ...
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December 13, 2024
Article – Liftoff
Hokuto Osho
When I was a kid, it was the beginning of the Space Age. Each rocket launch was televised live on all the TV networks, and the countdown would fill our ...
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November 26, 2024
Poetry – Me
Keigetsu CM Brown
What is this me that walks across the surface of the Earth? ...
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November 13, 2024
Poetry – Revisiting Cold Mountain
Hokuto Osho
entering the storm snow piled on snow: so long a way to cold mountain ...
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November 13, 2024
Article – Just Grab the Dust Rag
Eshin Brenda Shoshana
One afternoon, when I was a sophomore in high school in Brooklyn, as the class was over one day, my history teacher slid over to me. Then he secretly handed ...
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October 9, 2024
Poetry – Autumn Wind
Hokuto Osho
wicked autumn wind suddenly naked, the shy eastern larch shivers ...
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September 11, 2024
Poetry – Firefly
Hokuto Osho
tulips singing praise petals fall to wind and rain only praise remains  ...
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August 14, 2024
Article – A Letter to the New York Zendo Sangha
Giun Stefan Streit Sensei
Many or most of you probably know that my wife and I had a baby daughter on April 21st. Her name is Heidi, and we’ve been relishing the opportunity to ...
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August 8, 2024
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Engaged Buddhism

Engaged at ZSS – Ecoworks Update
Jikyo Bonnie Shoultz Sensei
In November 2024, we shared a vision for an Engaged Buddhism Eco Workshop at DBZ and invited the sangha to join us in bringing it to life ...
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February 5, 2025
Engaged at ZSS – Bridging Gaps
Rev. Mudo Seiho Morris
"Love is an act of will—namely, both an intention and an action." This insight from bell hooks' All About Love invites us to see love as a conscious commitment to ...
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January 1, 2025
Engaged at ZSS – A Crisis of the Bios
Dr. Gabriel Moreno
We do not just have a climate crisis; we have a crisis of the bios—of the living system itself, of all life, not just the climate or the biosphere.  ...
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December 4, 2024
Engaged at ZSS – The Infinite Teacher
Dr. Michael Fayne
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious coworker, every illness, every ...
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November 24, 2024
Engaged at ZSS – Ecoworks
Jikyo Bonnie Shoultz Sensei
Are you concerned about the climate crisis and want to explore ways in which you can address it close to home? Would you enjoy working with other Sangha members on ...
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November 6, 2024
Engaged at ZSS – Endless Knot Revisited
Yuki Eric Michels
I dreamt recently that I was driving somewhere — I don’t know where, but I knew where I was going. I turned into the woods, onto a rocky dirt path, ...
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September 4, 2024
Engaged at ZSS – Echoes of our Ancestors
Kyotai Amanda Hill
Endless is my vow Under the azure Boundless autumn ...
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August 7, 2024
Engaged at ZSS – Self-Care, Up Close, From Afar
Dr. Morgan Perkins
Throughout history, humans have found ways to communicate over distance using constantly evolving technologies. The earliest evidence of a printed book is a copy of the Diamond Sutra from 868 ...
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July 1, 2024
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