Please join us for a six-week class on The Śūrańgama (Shurangama) Sutra as we explore the five skandhas - form, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness - and how they are all transitory and void of a separate, independent self. We will practice meditative understanding of the wondrous suchness of reality through the "matrix of the Thus Come One", the Buddha body contained in all things. This classic sutra allows us to explore our delusive thinking and helps us let go of our habitual patterns that we often mistake as solid and unchanging.
Schedule: Monday evenings, 6:30pm - 8:00pm from April 22nd to May 27th.
Location: Online in our Zoom Zendo.
Texts for this class are:
1) The Śūrańgama Sutra, With Excerpts from the Commentary by the Venerable Master Hsūan Hua
2) That is Not Your Mind by Robert Rosenbaum (highly recommended)
Teachers:
Our Tanto (Practice Leader), Kanho Chris Burkhart, is an ordained priest and was shuso, head student, in 2014 and completed her priest's training with Dharma Transmission in April 2019.
IkuShun Desiree Webster has been a practitioner for many years and prior to her practice in the Soto Zen tradition practiced in the Plum Village tradition. She was shuso for the 2023 winter practice period, and led the sangha on a journey through The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings, bringing with her the flavor of Thich Nhat Hanh’s understanding. Her formal teacher is Ryushin Andrea Thach from the Berkeley Zen Center.
Red Cedar Zen Community is a 501(c) non-profit organization.
