June 7 - Aug 2, 2024 (No class on 7/5) Join Ines Sun for an eight-week calligraphy course based on Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. The evening will begin with tea in silence. After tea, each week we will focus on calligraphy characters related to a single chapter of the Tao Te Ching. As we read […]
Thank you for your interest, this event has been postponed. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Please check back in the fall, the calendar will be updated when a new date is available. Gassho
June 7 - Aug 2, 2024 (No class on 7/5) Join Ines Sun for an eight-week calligraphy course based on Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching. The evening will begin with tea in silence. After tea, each week we will focus on calligraphy characters related to a single chapter of the Tao Te Ching. As we read […]
Poisonous Virtues and Virtuous Poisons: Life-Death and Being-Time Sunday September 29 - Sunday December 22, 2024 “There are two tragedies in life,” George Bernard Shaw once said, “One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.” Of course, Shakyamuni Buddha said much the same thing twenty-five centuries earlier, when he […]
Join us on Election Night for an all-night vigil of unstructured zazen and share your metta (loving-kindness) with a troubled world. Zuiza (unstructured zazen) will begin at approximately 9 p.m., following the close of our usual Tuesday evening Tai Chi class. Sit as long as you like. Those who wish to take a break for […]
Move your heart, Illuminate your inner self Noh, the traditional Japanese performance art, evolved into a distinguished stage form during medieval Japan in the 14th and 15th centuries. It crystallized […]
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