What is Weekly Zen about?
In these lectures we will unfold Three Fundamental Aspects of realizational Zen Practice:
1
Worldviews
One, is to feel into, see through, and open up the ways we view the world. Our worldviews shape our experience in exclusive ways. As practitioners, we want to be able to intentionally and ethically question and choose our views.
2
Craft
Secondly, I want to outline the craft of realizational practice. Practice unfolds in the details of our experience. It depends on what we notice and how. The potentiality of awakening, too, is rooted in and happens through noticing.
3
Stillness
Thirdly, at the center of Zen practice is the discovered stillness of seated meditation (zazen). Stillness will become the inner home for the practitioner, a generative field, and always a new beginning.
How will Weekly Zen work?
Zen is a face-to-face, oral teaching, which is bodily discovered and practiced, and emotionally and ethically realized.
How will this work on ‘ZoomZen’ – no one knows!
The Historical Buddha’s Disciples were called ‘Listeners‘, ‘Hearers‘.
If you want to practice Zen, the Practice, your practice, begins with how you sit and listen, how you are present within the Hearing.
It's better, even required (for real practice), that you don’t do other things during the Weekly Zen Talk!
It’s best if you can discover a bodily presence during the talk, within the 'hearing'.
Basically, Weekly Zen is conceived as a way to spend practice-time together – with each other and with the teachings.
We hope you will enjoy!
Why subscribe?
There are quite a few benefits to subscribing. Here is an overview:
Continuity
That’s the 'name of the game' in Zen. With a subscription, you can stay within the stream of teachings, even if you have to miss an event. You’ll have access to the recordings and can listen at your own pace.
It’s an App!
Enjoy seamless access to your membership area anytime, anywhere with our user-friendly mobile app.
Additional Material
We’ll keep posting texts, poems, and additional videos/audios in the membership area for subscribers. In the membership area, we’ll be working with the didactic concept of the three paths of Stillness, Craft, and Worldviews more specifically.
Develop a Library of Talks
Each week a new talk is added. Pretty soon, you’ll have access to a library of talks by Baker Roshi!
Introductory Modules
For those who are new to Zen Practice or to the Dharma Sangha and to Baker Roshi, we have added introductory material to support you getting started in practice.
Support Us
It’s fun! But actually also quite a bit of work to build and sustain this infrastructure. Your subscription will make it possible for us to continue. Thank you!
Building Community
With your participation, we’ll develop the membership area into an online community around Baker Roshi’s teachings. You’ll be able to connect with other practitioners, ask questions, and sign up for individual meetings. We aren’t quite there yet, but if there is enough interest, we’ll set things up before the end of this year!
Weekly Zen
Enter the World of Zen Buddhism, Develop the Craft of the Practice, Connect with other Practitioners, and meet regularly (digitally) with a teacher.
Each week we will explore a new topic together: A journey from culture & art through the use of language to the heart of Zen Buddhism. We are looking forward to seeing you online!
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