The Village Zendo is a community of people who come together to practice in the Soto Zen tradition. We offer zazen (sitting meditation), one-on-one instruction with a teacher, dharma talks, chanting services, retreats, workshops and study groups.
Co-founded in 1986 by Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara and Sensei Barbara Joshin O’Hara, the Village Zendo is committed to authentically continuing the Zen tradition while keeping it contemporary and relevant to today’s world. We are located in lower Manhattan, offering a place of healing and sanctuary in the midst of one of the world’s busiest and most vital cities.
Our abbot, Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, received dharma transmission in the White Plum lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, which incorporates both the Soto and Rinzai Zen traditions. Our zendo has been given the Japanese name Dotoku-ji (True Expression Temple).
Enkyo Roshi is supported by six dharma successors who form the VZ teaching staff. The zendo is known for its vibrant and diverse community
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Fusho…can you supply a link to some of your filmmaking? Thnx!
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Great stuff - this. Love the pace!
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Excellent episode!
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Rather, in Zen practice, what you are looking for is to realize yourself as a self that does not distinguish between subject and object. You must go from your self which you accept unconditionally right now to the self that is based on the universal root. - Joshu Sasaki Roshi [Zen Notes XX, No. 5]
Beautiful intellectualisation there Chuck. I think I was truly 'actualised' today. I have quote on quote - 'observed'. And I was both actualising and observing. Lol
and me saying this now is trying to 'intellectualise' it, but so are all of the words you just spoke. Much love.
I needed that teaching right now
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Yes… appreciate your life…pure freedom…☺️👍👨🎨🎨💫
108 Bows of Gratitude, Dear Fusho! I bend and touch the Earth upon hearing this dharma! XO
A wonderful talk. Thankyou.
Lovely presence, lovely talk. Thank you🙏
Helpful, mindful, useful zen! thank you👍☺️👨🎨🎨🙏💫🥰poetically profound….
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Thank you for sharing your intimate honesty…👍☺️🎨👨🎨
Thank you for being open and intimate…☺️👍👨🎨🎨☝️🎁🎉
Great Talk! How do you discern between ego's purpose and God's or Higher Self's purpose?
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This is so beautifully wise and beautifully calming.
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Thank you Roshi Pat… very inspiring & helpful☺️☺️👨🎨🎨🙏🥰
Gassho Bows of Gratitude, Roshi! -Lumi
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Thank you… so helpful…☺️👍👨🎨🙏🎨🥰☝️🌅🙏
Profound & Powerful… Thank You…👍☺️👨🎨🎨🙏☝️🥰🌅
Now that's a really interesting take, but also makes a whole lot of sense as happiness is as evanescent as other feelings
Sound is so faint - can it be amplified?
Nice sum of some recent talks…thank you …for me… “Words fail… Silence prevails…” Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio ☺️🎨👨🎨👍🎼🌅🥰
Thank you for sharing your Being & Seeing… It Is So Freeing! ☺️👨🎨🎨🙏🥰 Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio
Thank you for the Moon and the Maple Leaves!🙏☺️👨🎨🎨🥰Kenzen: Satori Sun Art Studio
Thank you for sharing yOUR Wonderful Wisdom! Really OnederFull!☺️👍👨🎨🎨🙏🥰
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For thousands of years human beings have chosen to settle their differences by obliterating one another..And when we are not obliterating each other we spend an enormous amount of time and attention coming up with better ways to obliterate one another the next time..Albert Camus. Thanks for the talk
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Very helpful, thank you!👍👨🎨🎨☺️🙏🍎
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Thank you for sharing your experience of pain. Very helpful to hear your honesty!👨🎨🎨👍☝️🙏
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Trump kept us out of war. Biden has destroyed the US in three years. Woke liberal Americans are destroying our lives.
"The phases of the pain may shift: now a full orange moon rising angry above the horizon then a yellow gibbous moon climbing the sky or now a silver hook hovering. But where is this moon when I turn my back on it? Oh, look how the night world shimmers right before me. Let's explore." --Soten (2023?)
I really enjoyed this, especially as an artist and as a Catholic trying to also practice Zen. Do you have a channel with more content?
Thank you, Fusho! I am currently working through The Hidden Lamp with a group of people and we recently discussed The Goddess and Shariputra. It was great to hear it in this framework and really enjoyable hearing the dharma filtered through popular culture 🙏