Tuesday March 17 with Daigaku Rummé

Daigaku Rummé will join our regular Tuesday evening zazen on March 17th in an online broadcast that we will share in person at the Cherry Center. It will also be available via Zoom. He is resident priest and teacher of the Confluence Zen Center STL in Maplewood, MO. Ordained a Soto monk by Sekkei Harada Roshi in 1978, he trained for more than twenty-seven years under Harada Roshi at Hosshinji Monastery in Fukui, Japan. Rummé is the translator of The Essence of Zen and, with Heiko Narrog, of Unfathomable Depths, both by Harada Roshi. He is also co-translator with Keiko Ohmae, of Blueprint of Enlightenment a contemporary commentary of Dogen Zenji’s Gakudo Yojinshu, Guidelines for Studying the Way by Gien Inoue Roshi, the texts for our practice period theme, “Dogen’s Blueprint”.

Daigaku Rummé

Tuesday Evening Zazen

Zazen: 6:30 to 7:05 PM
Kinhin: 7:05 to 7:10 PM
Service: 7:10 to 7:20 PM
Dharma Talk: 7:25

Tuesday April 28 with Ben Connelly

Ben Connelly returns to MBZC to introduce his most recent book, Inside the Flower Garland Sutra: Huayan Buddhism and the Modern World. Ben is a Soto Zen teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police training and addiction recovery groups, and works with multi faith groups focused on social and climate justice. Ben is based at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, travels to teach across the United States, has written for Tricycle and Lion’s Roar magazines, and is author of Inside the Grass Hut, Inside Vasubandhu's Yogacara, Mindfulness and Intimacy, Vasubandhu's "Three Natures", and Inside the Flower Garland Sutra: Huayan Buddhism and the Modern World.

Ben Connelly