Seminars on Teachings of Bodhidharma.
July 16th, 2024
Tuesday 7 pm - 8:30 pm
We will be gathering for a series of seminars in person & online. Sensei Shinzan will facilate them for this year 2024-2025.
We will be study and discussing Teachings of Bodhidharma, A fifth-century Indian monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the Tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two houndred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhist and Students of Kung fu claim him as their spiritual father.
While there view Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life.
A special transmission outside the scriptures,
Not founded upon words and letters.
By pointing directly to [one's] mind,It lets one see into [one's own true] nature and [thus] attain Buddhahood.
Book: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma by Red Pine
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