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Shodo Harada Roshi

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Vicki Robin

David Smith

Michael Samuels

Frances McDormand

Michael Pollan

Richard Grossman

Caroline Casey

Richard Tarnas

Rachel Lang

Henry David Thoreau

David Steindl-Rast

Michael Lerner

BJ Miller

Norman Fischer

Walt Whitman

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Shodo Harada RoshiZen and the Art of Dying~Co-presented with Commonweal Healing Circles~Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Zen priest Shodo Harada Roshi. This is the Roshi’s third visit to TNS, and the next conversation in our End-of-Life Conversations series.Also, see our new video of a spiritual biography conversation between Michael and the Roshi.Shodo Harada RoshiShodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahoma Monastery on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. He founded Enso House, a hospice affiliated with Tahoma, where his students attend the dying.He is a master of Japanese calligraphy, and has conducted demonstrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His translator and colleague, Priscilla Daichi Storandt, is co-abbot at Tahoma and a senior teacher in her own right. Find out more on his website.Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Shodo Harada Roshi Zen and the Art of Dying ~Co-presented with Commonweal Healing Circles~ Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in conversation with Zen priest Shodo Harada Roshi. This is the Roshi’s third visit to TNS, and the next conversation in our End-of-Life Conversations series. Also, see our new video of a spiritual biography conversation between Michael and the Roshi. Shodo Harada Roshi Shodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahoma Monastery on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. He founded Enso House, a hospice affiliated with Tahoma, where his students attend the dying. He is a master of Japanese calligraphy, and has conducted demonstrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His translator and colleague, Priscilla Daichi Storandt, is co-abbot at Tahoma and a senior teacher in her own right. Find out more on his website. Find out more about The New School at <a href="http://tns.commonweal.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tns.commonweal.org</a>.

2015.09.13:  Shodo Harada Roshi with Michael Lerner - Zen and the Art of Dying

Shodo Harada RoshiThe Calligraphy of Emptiness, The Zen of DyingPart of the End-of-Life Conversations SeriesJoin Michael Lerner in conversation with Roshi about his experiences with death and dying and for an unforgettable demonstration of his calligraphy.Shodo Harada RoshiShodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahoma Monastery on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. He founded Enso House, a hospice affiliated with Tahoma, where his students attend the dying.He is a master of Japanese calligraphy, and has conducted demonstrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His translator and colleague, Priscilla Daichi Storandt, is co-abbot at Tahoma and a senior teacher in her own right. Find out more on his website.Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Shodo Harada Roshi The Calligraphy of Emptiness, The Zen of Dying Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series Join Michael Lerner in conversation with Roshi about his experiences with death and dying and for an unforgettable demonstration of his calligraphy. Shodo Harada Roshi Shodo Harada Roshi is Abbot of Sogen-ji, a 300-year-old Rinzai Zen monastery in Okayama, Japan. He is also Abbot of Tahoma Monastery on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. He founded Enso House, a hospice affiliated with Tahoma, where his students attend the dying. He is a master of Japanese calligraphy, and has conducted demonstrations at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. His translator and colleague, Priscilla Daichi Storandt, is co-abbot at Tahoma and a senior teacher in her own right. Find out more on his website. Find out more about The New School at <a href="http://tns.commonweal.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tns.commonweal.org</a>.

2014.09.15: Shodo Harada Roshi - "The Calligraphy of Emptyness: The Zen of Dying"

Shodo Harada RoshiDharma Talk and MeditationHarada Roshi (Roshi means “teacher”) is heir to the teachings of Rinzai sect Zen Buddhism as passed down in Japan from Hakuin and his successors. Harada Roshi’s teaching includes the traditional Rinzai practices of daily sutra chanting, zazen (seated meditation), sanzen (private interviews with the teacher), susokkan (breathing), koan (‘past cases’) study, samu (work), sesshin (intensive retreats), teisho (lectures by the teacher), and takuhatsu (alms receiving).Join Shodo Harada Roshi for this meditation, dharma talk, and another meditation. The dharma talk is translate from Japanese into English.Shodo Harada RoshiShodo was born in 1940 in Nara, Japan. He began his Zen training in 1962 when he entered Shofuku-ji monastery in Kobe, Japan, where he trained under Yamada Mumon Roshi (1900-1988) for twenty years. He was then given dharma transmission (inka) and was subsequently made abbot of Sogenji monastery in Okayama, Japan, where he has taught since 1982.In September 1989, Harada came to the United States to provide instruction for students and in 1995 founded One Drop Zendo (or, Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery) on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, where the practice mirrors the practices found at Sogen-ji. Nearby the Tahoma One Drop Monastery, Harada has opened a hospice known as Enso House in 2001.Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Shodo Harada Roshi Dharma Talk and Meditation Harada Roshi (Roshi means “teacher”) is heir to the teachings of Rinzai sect Zen Buddhism as passed down in Japan from Hakuin and his successors. Harada Roshi’s teaching includes the traditional Rinzai practices of daily sutra chanting, zazen (seated meditation), sanzen (private interviews with the teacher), susokkan (breathing), koan (‘past cases’) study, samu (work), sesshin (intensive retreats), teisho (lectures by the teacher), and takuhatsu (alms receiving). Join Shodo Harada Roshi for this meditation, dharma talk, and another meditation. The dharma talk is translate from Japanese into English. Shodo Harada Roshi Shodo was born in 1940 in Nara, Japan. He began his Zen training in 1962 when he entered Shofuku-ji monastery in Kobe, Japan, where he trained under Yamada Mumon Roshi (1900-1988) for twenty years. He was then given dharma transmission (inka) and was subsequently made abbot of Sogenji monastery in Okayama, Japan, where he has taught since 1982. In September 1989, Harada came to the United States to provide instruction for students and in 1995 founded One Drop Zendo (or, Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery) on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, where the practice mirrors the practices found at Sogen-ji. Nearby the Tahoma One Drop Monastery, Harada has opened a hospice known as Enso House in 2001. Find out more about The New School at <a href="http://tns.commonweal.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tns.commonweal.org</a>.