Posted on Oct 5, 2020
Shinshu Roberts, Zen teacher and author of Being–Time: A Buddhist Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji, will join us on Tuesday, October 6 to help us unpack Dogen's notion of "dharma position." Please come.
Posted on Sep 11, 2020
By popular demand, we'll be using the next 5 Tuesday evenings (Sept. 15 - Oct. 13) as an opportunity to study Shobogenzo Uji ("Being–Time"), Dogen's treatise on the nature of time and reality itself. The schedule will be slightly modified to give us more time: 20 minutes of zazen, then straight into discussion.
Posted on Sep 1, 2020
Since before coming to Halifax in 2013, it's been my dream to build a temple here, something with walls and a roof and a daily practice. So when I went to Japan a few years ago and visited one of my teachers, Daiken Yoshitani-roshi (abbot of Myōhonji in Isayaha, Nagasaki), I asked him to help with a temple name. After we talked about our community and Nova Scotia for a while, he offered up Sensōji (千湊寺): the sen means a thousand, or infinite; sō means harbour, but it also means "to gather"; and ji is temple. So it's a thousand harbours, an infinite gathering. I've carried this around ever since, wondering if we might one day have that sign on the door.
Posted on Jun 19, 2020
Immeasurable harms have been done by white North Americans to North Americans of colour over the course of our chequered history.