We just completed our 90 day Spring Ango with a Seven-Day Sesshin and a concluding Shuso Hossen ceremony. We were fortunate that Mark Weissburg was able to take some videos of the event with his camera. We have uploaded the video to this post. The video captures most of the ceremony but is cut off [...]
It has been my pleasure and great honor to serve as Shuso (Head Priest) for the three month Ango here at Empty Sound Temple. In our White Plum Lineage tradition, training in this manner is a mandatory step on the path of transmitting the Dharma and completion of priest training.
On Sunday, we will celebrate this [...]
The Zen Community of Chicago will be closed for weekly zazen during it’s seven-day sesshin (retreat) from June 7-14. Our regular (non-ango) schdedule will resume on the week of the 14th, with evening zazen on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 9:00 pm. Our regular Sunday program continues every Sunday from 9 to 11 [...]
Aloha Haumana and Friends,
It was a cool, crisp and sunny morning when Erika came to visit Chicago and the Zen Community of Chicago* (in Oak Park) on May 17th. Fifteen of us were sitting on the hula mound in a circle. I had just begun my dharma talk at our Sunday service and was talking [...]
Crochet Lei-Making with Aunty Nina Shigaki
Hula Community of Chicago: – Halua I Ka Pono
163 N. Humphrey, Oak Park
Saturday, May 30, 2009
3-5 pm
Halau I Ka Pono is happy to have Aunty Nina Shigaki teach crochet lei-making this coming Saturday, May 30, 2009 from 3–5 pm.
The class will be followed by a potluck supper and kanikapila – [...]
Teisho by Roshi Robert Joshin Althouse
“The blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul.”
Leonard Cohen
I suppose we could all agree by now that the housing crisis is not the only bubble that is being burst in our world. As major world views are crumbling all around us how do [...]
Please note that we have recently changed our name from “Zen Community of Oak Park” to “Zen Community of Chicago”.
Teisho by Robert Joshin Althouse Roshi
“When all things exist, there is enlightenment and delusion,
practice, life and death, Buddhas and ordinary people.
When all things are without self,
there is no delusion, no enlightenment, no Buddhas, no ordinary people, no life and death.
Buddhism is beyond being and non-being;
so there are life and death, delusion and enlightenment, [...]
Aloha Haumana and Friends,
Just a gentle reminder that we are having class this coming weekend in NYC at Dance Theatre Workshop, 219 W. 19th St. between 7th and 8th. Here is the schedule:
Saturday, May 9th:
11 am - 2 pm: Hula Auana
2-5 pm: Hula Kahiko
Sunday, May 10th:
12 noon to 3 pm: Beginning Hula Kahiko – all [...]
Aloha Haumana and Friends,
We are halfway through our Ango – intensive practice period. Another six weeks to go! It has been a time of strengthening spirit and character. It has also been a time of putting one foot in front of the other and breathing amidst gusty winds of change. We say in Zen, “Every [...]
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