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The Joys of Koan Practice: A Soto Zen Teacher’s Panel, Online 4/25
Description
The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.
Saturday, April 25, 4–6 pm PT
There are a handful of Suzuki Roshi lineage holding priests who have also been practicing for some years in traditional Rinzai Zen koan work, as popularized by Hakuin Zenji in the 18th century. Join as we gather for an online roundtable to consider how traditional koan practice is taught and lived today. The conversation will range from forms and curriculum to the benefits and joys of the work.
We’ll also look at:
- Online and in-person settings
- Lay practice and residential/monastic contexts
- Public and private (dokusan/secret) approaches
- Other non-traditional modes of koan study
Fee Information
- Sustaining Level: $56
- Member (Become an SFZC Member): $50
- Sliding Scale 1: $34
- Sliding Scale 2: $14
- Current SFZC residents and qualified SFZC retirees may attend this course for free. To register, please email onlineprograms@sfzc.org at least 72 hours before the program begins.
Or call 415-354-0360.
Kokyo Henkel
Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990, in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan, and Santa Cruz Zen Center. He was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010.
Mushin Antoinette Parekh
Neti Mushin Parekh began her Zen training in Australia in 1995 with Subhana Barzaghi Roshi in the Diamond Sangha lineage. In 2001 she moved to the US and continued her training with Daniel Terragno Roshi and completed the koan training in 2007.
Charlie Korin Pokorny
Charlie Korin Pokorny grew up in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. He was ordained as a priest by Reb Anderson in 1999 and received Dharma transmission in 2018.
Heather Shōren Iarusso
Currently, Heather lives at City Center and is the Branching Streams director, providing guidance and support for SFZC affiliate sanghas. Before being in this role, Heather spent nine years total living at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
Robert Reese
Robert Reese, Gotsuzan Jundo (Steadfast Mountain, Purehearted Way), began formal practice at Monterey Bay Zen Center in 1988 and was lay ordained in 1993. He received priest ordained and Dharma transmission 2010 with Sobun Katherine Thanas, Roshi.