Darlene Cohen's personal website for more dharma talks,
private pain consultation, details about her other sitting groups,
and her event schedule.
San Francisco Zen Center's webpage with information about talks at City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Mountain Center. You can also sign up for SanghaE, an online newsletter for which Darlene writes an advice column called "Dear Abhidharma."
A small and intimate sitting group in Occidental, CA, which meets Tuesday evenings at 6:45PM at the home of Ken and Elizabeth Sawyer.
Deborah Karish's Healdsburg website listing various yoga and movement classes, as well as the time and location of Tony Patchell and Darlene Cohen's Tuesday eve sitting group there and yoga/Zen workshops.
Sacramento's Zen sitting group which meets on Monday eves and features a monthly talk by Reverend Myo Lahey of the Hartford Street Zen Center, as well as other visiting teachers.
A large Vipassana center in Redwood City, led by Gil Fronsdal, a Zen priest and Vipassana teacher. Their website features audio dharma talks by Tony, Darlene and other speakers.
A large meditation center in Marin County, CA, featuring talks, classes and workshops by some of the country's most well-known teachers, like Jack Kornfield and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Darlene speaks there a couple times a year.
www.cuke.com
"David Chadwick's archival site on the life & world of Shunryo Suzuki
Roshi
& those who knew him. It is a delightful potpourri, a labor of love that
includes American Zen history, current events, updates on old zennies, &
recent information about the activities of small local zendos & Buddhist
groups. Check it out!"
"Our good friends Grace and Peter Schireson offer weekly sittings, introductory classes, and intensive multi-day retreats to the public in the North Fork area (the foothills of the Sierras), as well as 2 other Zen Buddhist practice groups in the Central Valley of California: Modesto Valley Heartland Zen Group in Modesto, and Fresno River Zen Group in Fresno. Grace is a dharma-transmitted teacher in the lineage of Suzuki-roshi.
Lew Richmond, whose teacher was Suzuki-roshi, leads this sister sangha to us, based in Mill Valley, California. It takes its name from Vimalakirti, the householder whose wisdom was said to surpass that of all the Buddha's other great disciples. Great emphasis on using all aspects of householder life--the workplace, the intimacy of committed relationship, the challenge of raising children – as instances of the Great Koan of human existence.
Interviews with many Buddhist teachers, Darlene Cohen among them.
Training seminary for Zen priests and other Buddhist Sangha leaders who wish to be Buddhist pioneers—carrying Zen and Buddhism outward into smaller communities. Based in California, it is a three year program that grants a Certificate in Zen Studies, with the possibility of a Masters of Divinity Degree with further work within a degree granting institution. The program emphasizes developing leadership and communication skills for guiding a sangha of laypeople. Teachers are: Grace Schireson, Lew Richmond, Steve Stuckey, Darlene Cohen.
Led by our friend Michael New hall, Jikoji is a Soto Zen temple and retreat center located approximately one hour south of San Francisco, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. They offer workshops and sesshins, and provide facilities for individual and group retreats.
The Berkeley Zen Center is a place where people practice zazen together daily, with the support of the Zen Center community, under the guidance of abbot Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi and Alan Senake, his dharma heir. Berkeley ZC has been a vital and stable practice center for decades, one of the original places founded by Suzuki-roshi himself. They offer a full scope of practice activities from daily sitting to longer retreats, classes and private interviews with teachers.
Lead by old friends Jane Shuman and Patty Pecoraro with whom I have practiced for many years, their small home temple is a thriving Soto Zen Buddhist community in the tradition of the San Francisco Zen Center lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. They serve the Westchester, NY, and Fairfield, CT, area as a non-residential community dedicated to the study and practice of Zen Buddhism for lay practitioners. they offer seated meditation, walking meditation, chanting service, talks on Buddhist teachings, classes, work practice, group discussion, and retreats, with a particular emphasis on the development of sangha and spiritual friendship.
Led by Susan Jion Postal, a longtime zen practitioner and now a full dharma heir in the Suzuki-roshi lineage, this charming temple is located in downtown New Rochelle. Right in the midst of the busyness of multi-cultural urban life, they have carved out an oasis of simplicity within which deep silence and stillness can be experienced. They are a non-residential lay practice center, though monastic forms and customs do, however, help shape the “container” of their sitting practice. They also offer long sittings and classes.
Everyday Zen Foundation’s stated mission is to share the Zen attitude, spirit, and practice with the world. It is dedicated to listening to the world, to changing it and being changed by it. This is the website to read and/or listen to a seemingly infinite numbers of accessible, inspiring and in depth dharma talks by Zoketsu Norman Fischer on a wide variety of topics.
This is a neighborhood zendo in Northridge, California. Led by 2 dear friends who were students of Suzuki-roshi when Tony and I came to San Francisco Zen Center in 1970. They now lead this home temple, offering zazen, discussion, and daily practice with Jane and Peter Schneider, experienced teachers in the Shunryu Suzuki-roshi lineage of Soto Zen Buddhism. Plus Jane paints and can help those ready to take the precepts to sew their lineage garments.