Hank Lazer: Poetry and Zen

Dharma Talk by Hank Lazer, a poet.

This Sunday, Hank Lazer, a longtime Zen practitioner and poet, will give a cloud dharma talk. Hank is a well-known poet.

He has been a Zen practitioner for approximately 20 years, principally with instruction from his long-time friend Norman Fischer. Lazer has taken part in sesshins at the Upaya Zen Center, Mar de Jade (in Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico – where he went through the jukai ceremony), and the Rohatsu Sesshin this past December at the Houston Zen Center. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where for the past four years he has convened a weekly meditation for the Quiet Tide Sangha. In his retirement, he teaches a seminar Zen Buddhism & Radical Approaches to the Arts at the University of Alabama where he was an administrator and professor for nearly 40 years. He has published thirty-one books of poetry, including the recently released Slowly Becoming Awake (N32) (2019, Dos Madres Press) and Poems That Look Just Like Poems (2019, PURH – one volume in English, one in French). In 2015, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize, the Harper Lee Award, for lifetime achievement in literature.

Jisan Tova Green: For What Connects Us

Come meet Jisan Tova Green this Sunday. Tova is a Zen Priest from San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC) and has been in residence at SFZC for over twenty years. She received Dharma Transmission from Eijun Linda Cutts. She is currently the Liaison for the Branching Streams Zen Centers and sitting groups -- over 70 in the U.S. and nine in other countries.Tova co-founded the SFZC Queer Dharma Group in 2009 and the group Unpacking Whiteness – Reflection and Action in 2017. Tova has worked as a hospice social worker, plays the cello, and writes poetry.

5-Day Intensive Retreat with Tenshin Reb Anderson: Sunday

Buddha activity is the wondrous process of freeing all beings so that we may live together in peace and harmony.

This retreat will explore this inconceivably wonderful function. Join the retreat to hear the teachings of this distinguished teacher.

Led by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi, Senior Dharma Teacher of San Francisco Zen Center and Founder of Houston Zen Center.