As the class schedule varies, please check with one of the above teachers before attending the first time. For further information, contact the Green Gulch office. This class is part of our ongoing effort to study, discuss, and interpersonally realize each of the 100 cases of the Book of Serenity. This great Sung dynasty compilation of Zen stories is particularly dear to the hearts of Soto Zen practitioners. These stories convey the ancient yet timeless message of Buddha.
Newcomers are welcome to join each series of classes.
This poem, written by 8th century Zen master Sekito Kisen and chanted daily in Soto Zen monasteries, was the subject of a series of twelve talks that Suzuki Roshi gave in the summer of 1970 at Tassajara. This class will study the poem using the wonderful book of Suzuki Roshi's lectures, edited by Sojun Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness. Zen masters and monks have often expressed their teachings through poetry. All rights reserved.