Please join us for Spring Sesshin at the Zen Center of Syracuse. Led by Shinge Roshi, the sesshin will be offered both in person and online.
Registration for Spring Sesshin is closed for both in-person and online. Please plan to join us at Summer Sesshin, July 27-30, and Fall Sesshin, October 19-22, 2023.
Please join us for Winter Sesshin at the Zen Center of Syracuse. The deep snow and crisp air of January offer a precious opportunity for intensive practice. Led by Shinge Roshi, the sesshin will be offered both in person and online.
Spring is a time of joyous renewal at Hoen-ji — the grass growing greener with each sitting, the birds returning and starting their families, the trees budding and leafing out right before our eyes. Each one of us, going deeper and deeper into our zazen, feels the rejuvenation and transformation that occur. Indeed, inside equals outside.
Led by Shinge Roshi, this sesshin will be offered both in-person and online, and will include zazen, morning service, teisho and dokusan.
Online Participation, suggested contribution: $100-$150. Read more »
This first weekend sesshin of 2021 honors the life and legacy of Dr. King.
Led by Shinge Roshi, Chikan Roshi, and Hokuto Sensei, this Zoom sesshin will include zazen, morning service, teisho, a Dharma talk, dokusan, and Dharma interviews.
Off-line time will be built into the schedule for meals, work practice at your homes, and kinhin.
While we encourage full-time participation, you may join us for as much as you can. The sliding scale fee is $75 to $150. Read more »
If you pre-pay for all 4 sesshins in 2015, you'll receive one sesshin for free! Follow the instructions at the registration link for Winter Sesshin to receive this special discount. This special rate is only available until January 7th.
Shinge Roshi leads us in this special weekend sesshin commemorating the founding of our temple 55 years ago.
New York Zendo Shoboji is one of the first Rinzai Zen practice centers to be established in the United States and continues to offer authentic Rinzai Zen training amid the bustle of daily life in Manhattan.
The sesshin will include zazen, chanting, teisho and dokusan. Formal meals using jihatsu (nested bowls) will be served. This sesshin will also be offered online. Read more »
Let us gather on Dai Bosatsu Mountain and sit with all our might to requite the beneficence of the great founding teachers whose endless vow brought Dai Bosatsu Zendo into being.
Generations of Zen students from all over the world have practiced at Dai Bosatsu Zendo during the past five decades.
Led by Shinge Roshi and Chigan Roshi, this sesshin commemorates the 47th anniversary of the formal opening of Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji on July 4, 1976, the bicentennial of the United States. Read more »
Join us in person and online for this five-day sesshin at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, honoring Nyogen Senzaki, the great early pioneer of Zen in America whose teachings and poems continue to inspire us decades after his passing.
A student of Soen Shaku Roshi, Senzaki worked tirelessly to share the Dharma even while interned at Heart Mountain during World War II. His deep spiritual friendship with Soen Nakagawa Roshi was an underlying cause for the founding of Dai Bosatsu Zendo. Read more »
