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DEEPENING PRACTICE SERIES   

Robin Caton will conduct a series of four classes on Deepening Practice. These will be held on the Mondays of September 9, October 14, November 11, and December 9 in the Multipurpose Room No. 3 at Gateway. These classes will begin at 12:30 p.m. Enrollment for the series will be limited to 15. BSG members will have priority to sign up for the series.

– Zen Mind – Beginners Mind (part two)

Monday, November 18, 2024, 2 p.m. in the Club Room at Creekside

Our BSG will hold the second in a series of roundtable discussions.The afternoon will start with a short practice followed by a video of a Dharma talk.Each table will then discuss what was viewed. After that the small groups will come together to share the thoughts and questions generated by their discussions. In the year 2020, the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the book Zen Mind,Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Lion’s Roar Publishers brought together a group of Soto Zen teachers and recorded each reflecting on the book and on Suzuki Roshi. The presenter in this second video is Ryushin Paul Haller who is a teacher and former abbot at the San Francisco City Center.