These Teachings and the craft of this practice, which we have inherited through Zentatsu Myoyu, Richard Baker Roshi, is the greatest treasure I know. It has the power to turn suffering into compassion, self-centeredness into shared aliveness, and longings into realizations.
- Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi
Panel
"Honoring Baker Roshi's Life"
In honor of Zentatsu Baker Roshi's life's work: A life full of dedication and inspiration - in this panel, students and long-time companions share their personal and touching thoughts and memories of the life's work of an extraordinary Zen teacher.
With Ryuten Paul Rosenblum Roshi, David Chadwick, Michael Murphy, Jerry Brown, Shosan Gerald Weischede Roshi, Yoseki David Beck Roshi, Furyu Nancy Schroeder, Genzan Brian DeCamp, Dorothea Stauch, Clara Schüler
It was a really great party! We were very touched to sit in the Zendo with so many people from our lineage - with Hoitsu and his son, with Roshi and Nicole, with the teachers from the San Francisco Zen Center and the whole Sangha - we found it touching every morning. Thank you for this wonderful organization and good rest after the big effort!
- Best wishes, Julia und Bernhard
I would like to thank you all once again. Last weekend, the «Mountain Sitting Ceremony», was a unique and very moving experience for me. I am still completely fulfilled and it is still «glowing», and I'm sure it will stay that way for a while. You all made these special days possible for me and I don't have the right words to honor and thank you for the immeasurable work you have done. So just thank you, thank you! I wish you continued strength, joy and dedication for your everyday lives. With a deep bow and in Gassho!
- Yours Kosei Susanne
Panel
"The Next Generation"
The Future of Buddhism in the West
In this panel discussion before the Ascending Ceremony, questions, challenges, and inspirations for the next generations of Zen Buddhism in the West were discussed and illuminated.
- With Valerian Hauffe, Sarabinh Levy-Brightman, Tensan David Zimmerman, Shungo Suzuki Sensei Translation: David Ruben Sowa
Lecture
Dharma Talk by Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi
In his Dharma talk, Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi, the son of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, repeatedly spoke of one word: silence. It is the silence that Shunryu Suzuki Roshi brought from Japan to the USA, and Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi sensitizes us to it and invites us to engage with it in his Dharma talk. The lecture was given in Japanese and translated into English in real-time.
With Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi
Translation: David Ruben Sowa, Shungo Suzuki Sensei
I hope you were able to recover well after these great, but certainly also extremely exhausting days. It was a great event. It was fantastic and so perfectly organized with a wonderful mixture of lightness and seriousness, solemnity and relaxedness. Very s pecial indeed.
- Ursula Richard
Lineage
a short film by Michaela Schultz
and Christopher Leeson
‘Lineage’ loosely means a shared view. More specifically, it means descent from a common ancestor. And in the context of traditional Zen practice, ‘lineage’ means a realizational tradition, developed by and evolved within a lineage of Dharma Ancestors. It’s not in books. It’s an acknowledgement to be part of a lineage, which traditionally would be practiced within shared monastic and temple life.
- Zentatsu Baker Roshi
Zen..
.. is a life practice, a nourishing, beneficial art of living. It is a generationally-spanning practice, a teaching-line transmission that goes far beyond the possibilities of any single individual. It is the practice of great togetherness and for-each-otherness – in the past, present, and future.
- Zentatsu Baker Roshi
