Fireside Chat #4: Yakov Boyko with Ben Connelly. Zen. Meditation. Mindfulness. Life.
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Date: 2017-06-07

Fireside Chat #4: Yakov Boyko with Ben Connelly. Zen. Meditation. Mindfulness. Life.

In this interview recorded on March 3, 2017 at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, Yakov Boyko and Ben Connelly discuss Zen Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, leading a higher quality life and other topics related to improving one's lifestyle and developing an understanding of the world.

 Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, at which Yakov and Ben first met, was formed in 1972 when the founding head teacher, Dainin Katagiri Roshi (1928-1990), was invited to come from California to teach a group of people interested in the dharma. After Katagiri Roshi's death, Shohaku Okumura served as interim head teacher until the installation of Karen Sunna, one of Katagiri Roshi's 12 dharma heirs. Succeeding Karen is Guiding Teacher Tim Burkett, a long-time student of both Katagiri and Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Tim became guiding teacher in 2002.

Ben began Zen practice at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in 2001, was ordained in 2009, and received dharma transmission in 2015. He is currently serving as a member of the Leadership Group and as Program Administrator. He started teaching Introduction to Meditation in 2005, and since then has taught regularly at MZMC and more recently, at Zen centers across the US. He teaches secular mindfulness in a variety of contexts such as police training, addiction recovery groups, and wellness groups. Ben is also a musician by profession: a singer and songwriter, guitar teacher, film composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Please learn more about the wonderful activities of the Zen Meditation Center here: http://mnzencenter.org/ 

In addition to his teaching activities at Minnesota Zen Meditation center, Ben Connelly is also the author of two terrific books about Zen and Buddhism.

"Inside the Grass Hut: Living Shitou's Classic Zen Poem": https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Grass-Hut-Shitous-Classic-ebook/dp/B00JHIDOBS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1496798783&sr=8-3&keywords=ben+connelly

"Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara: A Practitioner's Guide":  https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Vasubandhus-Yogacara-Practitioners-Guide-ebook/dp/B01G2DD4OM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496798783&sr=8-1&keywords=ben+connelly
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