Our Sanbo Zen Tradition combines and transcends both the Soto and Rinzai Zen Traditions, and includes a “Course of Koan Study.” Koan study nurtures you into direct experience and clarifies who you are in your true essence and pure potential. This spiritual practice takes you deeper into freedom and responsibility of the “reality of Now, this present moment.”
This small Koan Study Class meets regularly (nearly every week as scheduled) and includes the following agenda:
5-10 minutes of checking in with one another's meditation practice and life in general;
25 minutes of zazen (silent meditation);
20-45 minutes of dokusan, a private, one-on-one koan study session with Sylvia, the teacher.
This small Koan Study Class is by Invitation only. Invitation is based on your interest in Zen, being a regular, meditator (every day), and the desire to go deeper. Koan Study will help deepen your compassion, wisdom, and aliveness in daily life.