Shohaku Okumura on Shobogenzo Kenbutsu ("Seeing Buddha")

== Announcements ==

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Things to know during the event

  • The Zoom room will open each day about 10 minutes prior to the lectures and will close when they conclude
  • If you need help getting into the online segments or have other technical questions related to the event, please email us. If something happens in the middle of an online segment and the connection is lost on our side, wait five minutes or so and then try to sign back into the meeting. If necessary, updates will be posted to this page.
  • Participants will be unable to unmute themselves except during Q&A sessions. If you need to communicate with us, use the chat function or send us an e-mail.
  • There will be nine lectures, as usual, with the last lecture on Wednesday morning. If one of these cannot be held as planned for technical reasons, an additional lecture session will be held on Wednesday afternoon.
  • Okumura Roshi will be taking questions only after the morning lecture each day. If you have a question about the text or about something he's said, please reserve it until that time. After each morning lecture, participants will be invited to use the “raise hand” function within Zoom, which will automatically put you into a first-come, first-served queue. The co-host will unmute participants to ask questions in the order in which they raised their hands.
  • All of Okumura Roshi's lectures are recorded as a matter of course and archived by our Dogen Institute for eventual later release or for transcription into books and other publications. Recordings of the lectures will not be available during the event, but will be available to participants after the close of the genzo-e for a period of one month. This is primarily a matter of limited human resources; the crew that operates the event is very small and largely volunteer. We don't have the personnel to process recordings during the retreat and make them immediately available.  

Extended Zoom information

Sanshin Zen Community is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: September Genzo-e
Time: Sep 10-14, 2022 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Eastern)
       
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​SCHEDULE
Times are Eastern Time in the US.

Opening Evening (September 9th)
No virtual events (in-person orientation at Chapel Hill Zen Center only)

Full Retreat Days (September 10th-13th)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Lecture
10:30-11:00 Question & answer

2:00-4:00 p.m. Lecture

Closing Day (September 14th)
9:00-10:30 a.m. Lecture
10:30-11:00 Question & answer

End of retreat
Listen to the recorded lectures
Recorded lectures will be available for a period of one month following the conclusion of the retreat. Note the the video is unedited, so you may need to track forward a bit to get to the start of the lecture. Click the links below for the particular lecture you would like to watch:

Items to download

Translation of Shobogenzo Kenbutsu
shobogenzoe_kenbutsu_okumura_translation.pdf
File Size: 705 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
Chant sheet
genzo-e_chants_2021.pdf
File Size: 39 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Want to continue working with texts like Bussho?

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Our Dogen Institute is always interested in talking with those who'd like to volunteer as listeners, transcribers, editors, traffic managers, designers or other roles involved in turning Okumura Roshi's teachings into publications in a variety of forms.

Volunteers report finding their work extremely rewarding, providing an opportunity for give-back, and for study.  There are many exciting and varied projects underway in which you can participate from anywhere in the world. 

The Dogen Institute provides educational opportunities for all who are interested in the study of Dōgen Zenji and his teachings.  Its primary mission is to make available  Okumura Roshi’s life work on Dōgen.  His translations, commentaries, and lectures are offered through books, audio, video, and web based materials. 

A word about financial support

In response to the exceptional experience they enjoy while studying and practicing with Okumura Roshi, participants frequently feel moved to offer gifts of financial support to him, to Sanshin and to the Dogen Institute.  All such donations are greatly appreciated, especially as we recover from the pandemic shutdown when so much of our programming was cancelled.  Without the usual physical dana jars in which funds can be placed, we've enabled giving in different ways.

Gifts to Okumura Roshi:
Go here to contribute to the Abbot Retirement Plan Fund or to make a direct donation online to Okumura Roshi.  You may also send a check to Shohaku Okumura at 1726 S. Olive St., Bloomington, IN  47401.  Please do not make contributions to Sanshin and ask that they be redirected or passed through to Okumura Roshi.  Under the board's financial policies, it can't be done and your gift will remain with Sanshin.  You must give to Okumura Roshi directly, and these gifts are not tax deductible. 

Gifts to the Dogen Institute:  Please go here to make your contribution.

Gifts to Sanshin:  Please visit our giving page and choose the amount and method that works best for you.

Thank you for your generous support, and for your practice!
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