Calendar

2024 BZC Calendar of Events

Weekly Schedule

Week of Aug 23rd

  • Way-Seeking Mind Talk: Alex Roehrkasse

    Way-Seeking Mind Talk: Alex Roehrkasse


    Mon, Aug 23, 2021

    There will be a Zoom student talk in the online zendo right after a shorter period of zazen:

    7:30 am: zazen

    8:00 am: way-seeking mind talk

    What is a "way-seeking mind" talk?  See below.

    Way-Seeking Mind at Berkeley Zen Center

    “Way-Seeking Mind” talks by practitioners at Berkeley Zen Center have been a regular event on Monday mornings for more than thirty years. Each of us came to Zen practice as a seeker, with a spirit of inquiry. Each of us arrives at BZC from our own diverse backgrounds—social, familial, educational, religious, and so on. The idea of our way-seeking mind talks is for students to share how it is that they came to practice. Each person tells his or her own story in a unique way that often blends autobiography, spiritual biography, and the practice questions that each of us is engaged with.

    The talks are by invitation, and last about twenty-five minutes, including time for presentation and short question & answer period. For newer students, this is a chance to meet and hear those we are sitting with. Those invited to talk have been sitting steadily at BZC; for them it is an opportunity to tell their story and be seen and heard. One of the teachers or senior students is available for advice in shaping one's talk, should that be useful.

  • Wednesday Night Drop In Sitting and Study

    Wednesday Night Drop In Sitting and Study


    Wed, Aug 25, 2021

  • Lecture: Susan Marvin

    Lecture: Susan Marvin


    Sat, Aug 28, 2021

    Saturday Program Link (ie, Online Zendo)
        • Zendo opens:       8:30 am
        • Zazen:                      8:40 – 9:20
        • Service:                   9:20 – 9:30
        • Kinhin/break       9:30  – 9:40
        • Zazen:                      9:40 – 10:10
        • Lecture:                  10:15 – 11:15

    Meeting ID: 657 798 2914
    Passcode: bzc

  • All Sangha Gathering About Covid Impacts

    All Sangha Gathering About Covid Impacts


    Sun, Aug 29, 2021

    Marie Hopper and Laurie Senauke will be facilitating this meeting, set up to give everyone a chance to share their current experience re Covid - 18 months in, particularly as it relates to BZC and thoughts about criteria for any kind of in-person practice.  We may all have different perspectives, but I suspect we share many common concerns and interests as well.

    We'll meet in the online zendo, link on home page.