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Steve Hagen at Deep Peace Wellness Studio - 08/07/2010 - Delete - Edit
Head teacher at Dharma Field Zen Center in Minneapolis, Steve Hagen will be in Duluth to provide a public talk on Zen and Zen practice at 7:00PM on August 7th at the Deep Peace Wellness Studio.

Steve has been a student of Buddhist thought and practice since 1967. In 1975 he became a student of Dainin Katagiri Roshi in Minneapolis and was ordained in 1979. He has studied with teachers in the U.S., Asia, and Europe, and in 1989 received transmission (endorsement to teach) from Katagiri Roshi.

Steve Hagen is the author of the following books: Meditation Now or Never (HarperOne, 2007), Buddhism Is Not What You Think (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003), Buddhism Plain and Simple (Tuttle, 1997), How the World Can Be the Way It Is (Quest Books, 1995).

He has edited: You Have to Say Something, a collection of Dharma talks by Dainin Katagiri (Shambhala, 1998)

This talk is free and open to the public. Donations are gratefully accepted.

"Breakthrough Zen" with Dosho Port - 08/16/2010 - Delete - Edit

Directly realize this one great life.

Come and find out how with Dosho Port, direct successor of Katagiri Roshi.

Author of Keep Me in Your Heart Awhile: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri

Now authorized to guide students in the Harada-Yasutani koan system’s breakthrough process.

Monday, Aug 16, 7-8:30pm
Heartwood Mindfulness Practice Center
3706 East 34th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406

By donation. No registration necessary. Beginners and experienced students are welcome.

For more information, see wildfoxzen@blogspot.com or email wildfoxzen@gmail.com

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo at The Center for Non-Violence - 08/27/2010 - Delete - Edit
This seminar will present meditation instructions according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The topics presented in this course instill the meditator with a sense of enthusiasm for spiritual practice and insight into the nature of existence. Individual course topics include:

1. The preciousness of the human life
2. Subtle and obvious impermanence
3. Karmic causality and interdependence
4. Suffering and its causes
5. The cessation of suffering and the path of liberation.

Khenpo Sherab Sangpo was trained by some of the greatest meditation masters of Tibet, Khenpo Pedma Tsewang, said of him, “Not only has he thoroughly studied and contemplated all these teachings on Buddhist sutra and tantra, he has brought this process to fruition.”

This event will take place August 27th - 29th
Friday: 7-9pm,
Saturday and Sunday: 9am-12pm & 2-5pm

The location will be the Center for Non-Violence (Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs entrance), 3rd floor, 202 E. Superior Street, Duluth

Suggested Donation:
$80 for weekend,
$20 for Friday night’s talk

No one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information please call Rick at 218-384-9779 or go to www.bodhicittasangha.org