Calendar

2024 BZC Calendar of Events

Weekly Schedule

Week of Jan 3rd

  • Zendo Holiday

    Zendo Holiday

    All day
    Mon, Jan 2, 2023

    No talk or service - informal zazen schedule to be determined.

  • Way Seeking Mind Talk: Gensan Kristopher Thompson

    Way Seeking Mind Talk: Gensan Kristopher Thompson


    Fri, Jan 6, 2023

    There will be a student talk in the online zendo after 5 minutes of  zazen:

    5:40 pm: zazen
    5:45 pm: 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.

  • Lecture: Abbot Hozan

    Lecture: Abbot Hozan


    Sat, Jan 7, 2023

    Saturday Morning Schedule:

    • 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
    Sojun Roshi Interment POSTPONED

    Sojun Roshi Interment POSTPONED


    Sat, Jan 7, 2023

    This event postponed until January 21.

    A portion of Sojun’s ashes will be interred beneath his memorial stone in the Memorial Garden on Saturday, January 21, at 11:15 a.m., following Hozan’s talk that morning. This ceremony will include placement of the ashes, chanting, and purifying the space with sangha offerings of fresh water.