Join Courtney Masterson from Native Lands LLC and her crew in working on our native plant garden. Tools provided. The third of six workdays for the season.

We’ll be talking about Zen Master Dainin Katagiri’s book You Have To Say Something: Manifesting Zen Insight. Zoom only. Use the practice link.

Join Courtney Masterson from Native Lands LLC and her crew it working on our native plant garden. The second of five workdays for the season.

With Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman) and Rebecca Otte JDPSN. The formality of Zen practice can seem strange at first. What is the purpose of all these forms? How do they affect the rest of our lives? In this class we’ll focus on the simplest forms: standing bows, approaching the altar, hitting the moktak, hitting the bell, doing and not just talking about things. Appropriate for people at any level of experience. $20, contact us if you need a fee reduction. Hybrid. If you’re Zooming in and you don’t have a temple or bowl bell, have a metal mixing/salad bowl and a wooden spoon handy. Register here.

Join Courtney Masterson from Native Lands LLC and her crew it working on our native plant garden. The first of five workdays for the season.

We’ll be finishing Grace Schireson’s Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters starting with chapter 8: Nuns and Family Practice. Zoom only. No registration needed. Use the Zoom link on our practice page. Our book club is open to anyne who has read the book being discussed. You don’t have to have participated in earlier book clubs and there’s no commitment to participating in later ones.

With Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman). $60, contact us if you need the fee reduced or waived. If you are sitting in-person, be sure to bring your lunch 🥪. Hybrid. Registration is now closed.

Our retreat are fairly intensive, designed for people with some meditation experience. If you are interested but not sure you are ready for a retreat, contact us and we’ll figure it out.

We’ll answer questions from the first class and focus on the practice forms we use at Kansas Zen Center, including a short meditation period.. Taught by senior dharma teachers from the Kansas Zen Center. At the Kansas Zen Center, 1201 Laura Avenue, Lawrence KS. $10 suggested donation, no registration required. In-person only.

An introduction to Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular, including Zen-style meditation with a short meditation period. Taught by senior dharma teachers from the Kansas Zen Center. At the Lawrence Public Library, room C. No registration required. In-person only.

Join us as we bathe the baby Buddha, celebrate our friends taking precepts, and enjoy a vegetarian potluck. Kid friendly. All are welcome, no pre-registration required. To join the ceremonies on Zoom, use the link on our Practice page.

Note new date! Our Zen book club’s new book is Grace Schireson’s Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens, and Macho Masters. We’ll talk about the first seven chapters. Zoom only. No registration needed. Use the Zoom link on our practice page. Our book club is open to anyone who has read the book being discussed. You don’t have to have participated in earlier book clubs and there’s no commitment to participating in later ones.

Moved to March 28. Check out the details here.

The second in a series of classes on Zen Master Seung Sahn’s book Compass of Zen. With Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman). We will read the following sections: Dependent Origination, The Twelve Links in the Chain of Dependent Origination, The Four Noble Truths, The Eightfold Path, The Three Seals of Existence, Three Kinds of Practice. Yes it seems like a lot, but the chapters are short, and the total is less than 30 pages. Participants will each speak about what struck them and what questions they had, and the class will go on from there. $20, contact us if you need the fee reduced or waived. To encourage candor, this class will not be recorded. Zoom only. Registration is now closed.

We’ll be talking about Karen Armstrong’s book Buddha, from chapter 3 to the end of the book. No need to register. Use the Zoom address we use for regular practice.

Our book club is open to anyone who has read the book being discussed. You don’t have to have participated in earlier book clubs and there’s no commitment to participating in later ones.

Dances of universal peace is a spiritual practice founded by over 50 years ago by the Sufi murshid Samuel Lewis. At this event we will do simple dances to chants and mantras from various Buddhist traditions, accompanied by musicians, followed by tea and refreshments. No registration required.

Join Dennis Duermeier JDPSN in this informal discussion of precepts — their function and meaning. For anyone interested, whether you’ve taken precepts already, are considering taking them, or just curious. Hybrid. No registration needed. If you join on Zoom, use the practice link.

Come to our annual meeting (the meeting that makes us legal). Hybrid. We’ll start after an abbreviated practice at 10, hear reports on the past year, vote on the new board, and those of us attending in person can enjoy the potluck. Everyone is welcome to the meeting, only members can vote. For those attending on Zoom, use the practice link. And everyone coming in person is welcome to the potluck — there’s always lots of food.

Start your new year off right with 500 (actually 540) prostrations for the new year! Just show up, no registration required. Not an event that hybrids well, but if you can’t come in person you can do it wherever you are knowing that all the myriad beings, whether they know it or not, are bowing with you.

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Join us as we celebrate Buddha’s enlightenment (hybrid) followed by a vegetarian potluck (sadly, in-person only). Kid friendly. All are welcome, no pre-registration required. If you are joining on Zoom, use the link on our Practice page.

With Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman). $40, contact us if you need the fee reduced or waived. If you are sitting in-person, be sure to bring your lunch. Registration is now closed. Hybrid.

Our retreat are fairly intensive, designed for people with some meditation experience. If you are interested but not sure you are ready for a retreat, contact us and we’ll figure it out.

The first of a series of classes on Zen Master Seung Sahn’s book Compass of Zen. With Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman). We will read the following sections: Buddhism, The Purposes of Buddhism, The Divisions of Buddhism, The Structure of Buddhism, Insight into Impermanence, Insight into Impurity, Insight into Nonself. Yes it seems like a lot, but the chapters are short, and the total is only about 70 pages. Participants will each speak about what struck them and what questions they had, and the class will go on from there. Registration is now closed.

Note: in this section, Zen Master Seung Sahn uses the word Hinayana to refer to what we now call Theravada (i.e., southeast Asian Buddhism).