We are a sangha of lay and ordained practitioners in Bozeman, Montana and part of Bozeman Dharma Center. We practice in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
Welcome to the Bozeman Zen Group
We are a sangha of lay and ordained practitioners in Bozeman, Montana and part of Bozeman Dharma Center. We practice in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.
Practice with us, in-person and virtually:
Sunday Morning Program on Zoom
Silent meditation plus a book study, from 8:00-9:15 AM online. We are currently reading Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogacara: A Practitioner’s Guide by Ben Connelly. You do not need to have the book to participate. Join us any Sunday.
Sunday Evening Program, in-person
5:00-6:30 PM at the Bozeman Dharma Center. Program consists of Zazen, Service, Tea and a Dharma Talk or dialogue. Usually the first Sunday of the month is traditional practice – with two periods of zazen, kinhin and an extended service (chanting and bowing).
Our Inmost Request – Consciousness and Ethics in Buddhist Practice with Karen DeCotis
Friday March 6, 7-8:30 PM
Saturday March 7, 9AM – 4:30PM
Suzuki Roshi encourages us to be fully who we are, not to try to figure out who we are or have an idea of how to be.
What is an authentic life? How does Mind help or hinder our authentic self? What does this mean for our approach to how to be in the world?
To be fully who we are, we look to realize our inmost nature, our inmost request of ourselves. As we identify this, we must find how to maintain this, to have a continuous practice and have this deep request inform our effort in all of our arenas of practice – meditation, relationships, parenting, activism, art, service.
This weekend we will explore the quest of our inmost aspiration and how it relates to being upright in a wonderful and troubled world. It will include meditation, instruction, Dharma talks, writing and reflection and group conversation.
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
-Eihei Dōgen
