San Antonio Zen Center is happy to announce that on December 18th, we will be visited by Kokyo Henkel who will be giving a dharma talk after our regular Saturday program.
Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (most recently as Head of Practice), Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan.
He was ordained as a priest in 1994 by Tenshin Anderson Roshi and received Dharma Transmission from him in 2010. Kokyo is interested in exploring how the original teachings of Buddha-Dharma from ancient India, China, and Japan can still be very much alive and useful in present-day America to bring peace and openness to the minds of this troubled world.
Kokyo has also been practicing with the Tibetan Dzogchen (“Great Completeness”) Teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche since 2003, in California, Colorado, and Kathmandu.
8:15-8:45: First sitting period
8:45-8:55: Kinhin | Rest/break
8:55-9:25: Second sitting period
9:25-9:40: Chanting service
9:40-10:00: Soji
10:05: Dharma Talk with Visiting Teacher Kokyo Henkel
After the dharma talk, in lieu of our regularly scheduled tea and refreshments, we will be treating our guest to lunch at La Fonda, located at 2414 N. Main St., Everyone is invited to join.
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