Dear All,
Boy, I would really like to get LOTS of members of our 'Digital Sangha' to attend this event via ZOOM ... as Shunzan offers a wise caution on using the internet and media in moderation!
Our series continues, welcome to all, even if you have not been joining in our "No Words" Book Club readings! Come anyway!
Shunzan Jill Kaplan, teacher and priest at the Zen Heart Sangha, will be visiting us on Sunday, May 21st at 6:00AM, California Time (set the alarm, West Coast folks!), to offer a Netcast Talk and Chat about her essay of wisdom and good approaches to using the Net from a Zen perspective ...
“Deep Connections to the Dharma”
... published in the book we are currently reading, "Zen Teachings in Challenging Times."
More about Shunzan:
Jill Shunzan Kaplan has been practicing Zen since 1993 with Zen Heart Sangha and received Dharma Transmission in the Suzuki Shunryu Lineage from Misha Shungen Merrill in July 2013. She received priest ordination in 2001 and was Shuso (Head Monk) for the Sangha’s first practice period in 2008. She is currently serving as Tanto of the Sangha, helping to lead the evening and Saturday programs, as well as teaching the sewing of Buddha’s robes. Jill has a psychotherapy practice in San Jose, is a teaching member of Sandplay Therapists of America, and has taught Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. She resides in Redwood City with her husband and has two grown sons.
The material world is so enticing and distracting. And the world that technology offers us is altering not just the material world, but also, I fear, our inner world. Our devices and the speed of communication and distraction they create increase the volume on the hindrances the Buddha named. Desire: we want the newest, we want to check our email, we want to play a game, we want something new and shiny and can order it with one click, desires multiply as fast as gigabytes can fly through cyberspace. Ill-will: misunderstandings created through email are notorious and all too frequent, access to the latest horror on the news is ever-present and unending, the divisiveness and polarization of online media often leaves us in a state of anger and despair, social media can be weaponized to cause great harm ...
It can also be viewed "one way" at the time, or later, at the following screen:
Even if you do not have the book, you can read a PDF version here from PAGE 86 (please consider to purchase the book if the remainder looks interesting to you):
Zen Teachings For Challenging Times - First Half (PDF DOWNLOAD LINK)
There will be a Q&A after her talk, at which you can either ask a LIVE question, or email me a question which I will read (email your question to Jundotreeleaf[a]gmail.com)
I would really appreciate a BIG TREELEAF TURNOUT for this event, and I assure you that it will be worth your time to attend.
DONATION:
The event is free, but we ask those who can afford to make a voluntary donation, whatever you might afford and feel's right, to her Sangha which they work hard to maintain, via this link at their web page, which connects to paypal when you click on their donate button:
Thank you.
Shunzan's essay is also part of an AMAZING book which I cannot recommend highly enough to all, a very unique collection of short essays by a group of women Soto Teachers, focused on Zen Wisdom and Compassion applied to real life problems. The book deserves to be better known, and is not to be missed. We are currently reading and reflecting on it in our "No Words" book club (LINK)
Gassho, Jundo
stlah
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