Bodhi Manda Zen Center

It is truly extraordinary that beginning April 1st our teacher Kyozan Joshu Roshi will be walking his 104th year on the earth. Joshu Roshi, his health permitting, has accepted an invitation and will be here to share with us his teaching of Tatagatha Zen.

Bodhi Manda Zen Center 2010 Spring Kessei April 27th – May 30th, 2010
Kessei Begins	April 27th
Ha Shin Kyu Ji	May 1st
Dai Sesshin	May 2nd - 8th
Hanamatsuri (Buddha’s Birthday and Joshu Roshi 103rd Celebration)	May 9th
General Sesshin	May 12th – 16th and May 18th – 21st
Ha Shin Kyu Ji	May 22nd
Dai Sesshin	May 23rd – 29th
Kessei Ends	May 30th

Kessei is a designated monastic training period, specially devoted to maturing our innate wisdom. Traditionally, Kessei is based on daily practice of chanting, zazen, samu, and sanzen (private interviews with the Roshi). Intensive week long retreats called Dai-sesshin are scheduled regularly within Kessei. These are valuable opportunities to test the depth and clarity of our practice. In between Dai-sesshin, daily sanzen provides ongoing contact with the Roshi as we work through our difficulties in ordinary, everyday practice.

Kessei is best experienced in totality with the movement between daily sanzen and Dai-sesshin for a complete practice of surrendering. Though the Kessei training is rigorous, new students are most welcome. Requirements are: 1) completed application form, 2) letter of recommendation, if possible, and 3) participation in a general sesshin before a Dai-Sesshin.

Cost for the 5 week Kessei: $1,300 members, $1,500 non-members. Dai-Sesshin $400 members, $450 non-members. General Sesshin per day $60 members, $85 non-members. Due to limited space, priority will be given to full-time students and practitioners.

For more information please contact Bodhi Manda Zen Center at 575-829-3854 or at office@bmzc.org. We look forward to practicing together with you.

Summer Seminar on Buddhism 2010
June 6-18
Bodhi Manda Zen Center
Jemez Springs, New Mexico

Academic credit in Philosophy and Religious Studies is available through the University of New Mexico. Merging Academics and Practice

Buddhism is a religion of wisdom. It teaches "awakening" to an understanding of the fundamental unfixed nature of the self and the world. Kyozan Joshu Roshi developed the Summer Seminars on Buddhism to provide wider knowledge of Buddhism to the American public.

The seminar provides a unique opportunity to pursue the academic study of Buddhism within a practice environment. Each year the Seminars invite a group of scholars to discuss Buddhism from various perspectives. Lectures by the faculty are balanced by guidance in Buddhist practice by monks and nuns trained under Joshu Roshi.

For the last decade, the Summer Seminars on Buddhism have been held at Bodhi Manda Zen Center. They are jointly sponsored by the University of New Mexico.

For more informatino please visit: www.summerseminar.org