A Guest Teacher who combines the Soto Zen and Theravadan Paths ...
Dear All,
Ayyā Dhammadīpā, who is also Soto Priest Rev. Konin Cardenas, is the author of the wonderful essay we are now visiting in our Treeleaf 'No Words' Book Club, on envy, trust and finding the wholeness in which nothing need be envied or desired. Please have a look: CHAPTER LINK She is coming here Sunday to talk about it, as well as her path through both the Soto Zen and Theravada way. Please try to join us. I would really like to get LOTS of members of our 'Digital Sangha' to attend this event via ZOOM ... And even if you have not been joining in our readings! Come anyway! (And the chapter is available at the above link too.)
More about Ayyā Dhammadīpā:
Dhammadīpā is also known as Rev. Konin Cardenas, and is a dual lineage teacher with a commitment to the bodhisattva vows. She took up the practice of Zen Buddhism in 1987. 20 years later she was ordained into the Soto Zen tradition by Sekkei Harada Roshi, extending her commitment to the bodhisattva vows and the 16 precepts that she received from Rev. Shosan Victoria Austin. In addition, Dhammadīpā is a Theravāda nun. She trained at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery, a women's monastery in Northern California, USA. She has been fully ordained as a bhikkhuni in the Theravāda, upholding the 311 precepts of that vinaya. Her title is Ayyā which means “Venerable.”
Dhammadīpā has also trained at Hosshinji senmon sodo in Japan, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center. She received Dharma Transmission in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage from Rev. Shosan. In addition to her chapter in "Zen Teachings in Challenging Times,” her latest book is titled “Gifts Greater Than the Oceans.” In addition to English, Dhammadīpā teaches in Spanish, an expression of her Latin heritage.
Dhammadīpā is a member of the Board of Directors of Buddhist Global Relief, a non-profit that provides direct food assistance, aid for sustainable agriculture, and support for education, primarily for girls and women. Dhammadīpā is also the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.
Dhammadīpā has also trained at Hosshinji senmon sodo in Japan, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, and San Francisco Zen Center’s City Center. She received Dharma Transmission in the Shunryu Suzuki lineage from Rev. Shosan. In addition to her chapter in "Zen Teachings in Challenging Times,” her latest book is titled “Gifts Greater Than the Oceans.” In addition to English, Dhammadīpā teaches in Spanish, an expression of her Latin heritage.
Dhammadīpā is a member of the Board of Directors of Buddhist Global Relief, a non-profit that provides direct food assistance, aid for sustainable agriculture, and support for education, primarily for girls and women. Dhammadīpā is also the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association.
Zen is not an explanation, but a demonstration. Zen shows us a path of direct encountering that which is - in our mind or in our mouth, such as hot or cold water. It exhorts us to find the Dharma right where we are, in this very life. Zen demonstrates that our world, full of judgements and envy, cannot be made right by fighting or stealing, but by engaging with that which is already complete and harmonious. Thus, practice is a path of discovery, because taking what someone else has doesn't take the place of knowing your original face.
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 186 (please consider to purchase the book if the remainder looks interesting to you):
Zen Teachings For Challenging Times - Second 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, the Dassanāya Buddhist Community, which they work hard to maintain, via this link at their web page (please indicate if you can that Treeleaf sent ya, and it is for this event
):
Thank you.
Ayyā Dhammadīpā's essay is 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
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