Dharma Talk by Abbot Gaelyn Godwin, Abiding Teacher of HZC.
Anna Mastantuono Gonzalez, Kyoshin, Bridge of Truth : Entering the Path of Practice : Giving and Receiving
Dharma Talk by Kyoshin Anna Gonzalez, co-leader of Entering the Path of Practice. Anna's dharma name is Kyoshin, Bridge of Truth. She is on the Board of Directors of HZC, and is a long-time student of Zen.
Shinji Mary Carol Edwards : This Precious Life and Aging
Dharma talk by Assistant Teacher of HZC Shinji Mary Carol Edwards. Mary Carol is a landscape designer, wetlands restoration expert, and owner/founder of Green Star Wetland Plant Farm.
Nessho Cathy Crouch : No Self
Dharma Talk by lay-entrusted Dharma Teacher Cathy Crouch.
Zengetsu Vicki Glenn : Compassion for Self and Other
Dharma talk by Zengetsu Vicki Glenn, Soto Zen Priest, and co-Tanto / Head of Practice of HZC.
Seirin Tim Schorre : The Teachings of Morning Service
Dharma Talk by Rev. Seirin Tim Schorre. Tim is a Zen Priest, an architect, an assistant teacher at Houston Zen Center, and co-leads HZC’s prison outreach program.
Abbot Gaelyn Godwin : Transformation and Precepts
Dharma Talk by Abbot Gaelyn Godwin, Abiding Teacher of HZC
Rev. Gyōzan Royce Johnson : Sangha and Relationship
Dharma talk by Rev. Gyōzan Royce Johnson, assistant priest of Houston Zen Center.
Rev. Gyōzan wrote a chapter in this new book
Rev. Zenki Dillo : Bodyfulness and the Practice of Compassion
Dharma Talk by Zen Priest Zenki Dillo.
Zenki Dillo Roshi is the Resident Teacher at Boulder Zen Center. He began his Zen practice in 1996 at the San Francisco Zen Center. For 20 years, he practiced monastically at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center. In 2013, he received dharma transmission from Zentatsu Baker Roshi.
Since then he has been Boulder Zen Center’s Guiding Teacher. In 2020, he moved to Boulder full-time, where he now lives with his wife, the light artist Sophia Dixon Dillo.
Zenki Roshi teaches Zen as a craft based on his understanding of Buddhism as a “transformative phenomenology”—an embodied investigation of human experience with the intention of realizing liberation from suffering, wisdom, and compassion.
He will discuss new book The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind (Shambala, May 2022).
Zenki Dillo, Roshi
Sanran Maite Leal : The Green Dharma
Dharma talk by Sanran Maite Leal. Maite is a senior member of HZC. She is an art protector and restorer at MFAH. Her Dharma Names means Orchid of the Mountains.
