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SUMMARY:30 Days of Zen: How to Fall in Love with Dogen (Online Course)
DESCRIPTION:30 Days of Zen:\nHow to Fall in Love with Dogen\n\nDaily Emails\, Meditations & Cohort Forum: July 2 – August 1\nLive Workshops: Saturdays\, July 4\, 18\, 25\, and August 1\, 12:00 – 1:15pm MT / 2:00 – 3:15pm ET \nRegister Here \n\nThe hugely influential Zen master and poet-philosopher Eihei Dogen speaks to the grossest and subtlest movements of our zazen\, our lives\, and our whole humanity—and there’s a language to learn in order to appreciate this fully. Both your thought and your whole being will be more fluent in this language by the end of this course. \nBy looking closely at a few of Dogen’s favorite themes and images; by lighting a path through these themes to show how naturally one leads into the next; and\, most importantly\, by doing practice experiments to taste these themes and images throughout our body\, breath and relationships\, we’ll come away equipped to read Dogen not only with understanding\, but with beauty\, delight\, relief\, liberation\, and a sense of new possibilities for practice. We’ll be equipped to feel how accurately his poetry sings of our humble zazen.  \nWe’ll come away with a solid\, interconnected understanding of Dogen’s ideas\, vividly grounded in embodied experiences as well as new roots and leaves to nourish our daily practice.\n\nAlong the way we’ll get a sense too of the roots and branches of Dogen’s lineage: his sources like Hongzhi and Hua-Yen and Nagarjuna and his kinship with broader Zen and Buddhist teachings before and after his time. We may also touch lightly on compares and contrasts with luminaries from other traditions: the likes of Ramana\, St Francis\, St Teresa\, Lal Ded\, Moses de Leon\, Ibn Arabi\, Meister Eckhart\, Karl Marx\, Mikhail Bakunin\, Emily Dickinson\, William Blake\, and Syl Ko and Aph Ko.\n\nWe’ll enjoy the guidance of four great Dogen-loving teachers in our four workshops with four distinctive styles: Valerie Forstman Roshi\, Nancy Mujo Baker Roshi\, and two more TBA – stay tuned! \nAs with all 30-day courses\, you’ll enjoy four live workshops\, 30 daily teaching/practice/reflection emails\, an online forum whose communal riches are never short of astounding\, and the invitation to sit together during Mountain Cloud’s daily zazen. \nFor anyone who took part in the first “30 Days of Dogen\,” expect a tighter weave of ideas and practices in the daily curriculum emails\, accompanied by many fertile questions for communal sharing and inquiry. \n\nRegistration:\nCourse Fee: $99\nRegister Here \nMembers receive 50% off this course. See registration page for details. \n\n\nThe 30 day course was outstanding in every regard…little did I know the peace\, calm\, wisdom\nand overcoming past traumas that could happen in just one month.\n— 2023 Course Participant \n\n\nCourse Components\n\nDaily Emails\nEach day\, you’ll receive an email with: \n\nA brief text from Dogen or someone Dogen-related\nA message or practice invitation from one of our teachers/guides\, helping us bring the teaching to life in our imaginations\, breath\, body\, perceptions\, self-expression and relationships\nA reflection prompt\, inviting you to share in the optional online community forum\n\nThe daily emails are designed to be digestible and catalytic fodder for your daily practice\, on and off the cushion. \nLive Workshops\nDuring the four live workshops\, you’ll be able to engage directly with one of our Zen teachers as well as the course cohort\, to explore your burning questions and insights and get live support. In the final workshop\, we’ll read Dogen together to bring it all home. \nOnline Forum\nSo much magic happens in the optional daily community forum. We reflect and digest our practice and the teachings with our 30-day peers. Past participants have been impressed not only by how much they learn from others\, but also what wisdom flows from their own being – primed by this rich and open sharing. \nOnline Sitting\nAnd finally\, our center provides opportunities to sit\, daily\, online with the cohort and our broader sangha. You have the option to engage in your daily practice independently or join a larger group for online sessions via Zoom (or in-person if you’re local!). See here for our daily sitting schedule.  \nThe sangha aspect of the daily journal–reading others’ shared posts\, identifying and learning from those shared posts\, responding to others’ posts and getting feedback on my own posts–made me feel part of an open-hearted\, like-minded community\, which felt wonderful.\n— 30-Day Course Participant  \nRegister Here \nAbout Scholarships:\nScholarships are covered with the help of generous donations from fellow sangha members\, with the intention to make these precious experiences available to those otherwise excluded\, as a step towards inclusivity and wide welcome in this shared practice. We have intentionally removed barriers to applying for the scholarship in trust and compassion for each one’s discernment. If you are able\, please consider making a donation or registering at the Benefactor rate to help support our scholarship offerings. \n∞ \nTeachers\n \nValerie Forstman is an Associate Zen Master of the Sanbo Zen lineage and our Guiding Teacher here at Mountain Cloud. Her first teacher\, with whom she continues to work\, was Ruben Habito Roshi. Since 2003\, she has also trained under the guidance of Yamada Ryoun Roshi\, current abbot of Sanbo Zen. \nValerie came to Mountain Cloud with a shared vision of the core of the Zen path\, a way of coming home to who we truly are. In keeping with the Sanbo Zen tradition\, this path or ‘way’ may include koan training\, “just sitting” practice\, or simple breath awareness practice\, all of which funnel into what it means to undergo the immense change of heart implied by the term “awakening.” What a joy and what a rich process it can be\, not just to taste this\, but to embody it and live it out in lives of compassionate service. \nA first-career classical musician\, Valerie holds degrees from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Stony Brook University in NY. She has taught and performed in the U.S.\, Canada\, and around Europe. After discovering Zen\, Valerie went on to earn a Masters of Theological Studies and Ph.D. from Brite Divinity School. \nAs Guiding Teacher\, Valerie is responsible for the quality and integrity of Zen offerings at Mountain Cloud. She offers dokusan to over 50 students a week and runs our sesshin and zazenkai. Alongside her guiding work at Mountain Cloud\, Valerie leads sesshin (intensive Zen retreats) annually at two Zen centers in Germany. \n  \n \nNancy Mujo Baker Roshi is is a distinguished Zen teacher and writer\, renowned as the founding teacher of the No Traces Sangha within the lineage of Maezumi Roshi’s White Plum Sangha. A Dharma successor to Bernie Glassman\, she is among the first fully empowered lay Soto Zen teachers. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College\, where she taught for more than forty years\, and the author of Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts. She lives in New York City. \n \nWill W. Adams’ contemplative training includes four decades of practice with esteemed teachers\, both Buddhist and Christian. His primary mentors are Bruce Harris Roshi\, Ruben Habito Roshi\, David Loy Roshi\, and the great animate Earth. Will serves as Assistant Zen Teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage. He works as an Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh\, PA. Over the years Will has served as a psychotherapist\, ecopsychologist\, and meditation teacher. He is the author of an ecopsychology/ecospirituality book\, A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature-Psyche-Spirit. He has nearly completed a new book entitled Trauma\, Love\, and Meditation: Contemplative Dimensions of Healing. Will’s life is blessed with a wonderful wife\, two marvelous children\, two sweet dogs\, and a home in the woods. \n  \n∞ \nRegistration Fee: $99\nRegister Here \nRegistration is open throughout the course\, and upon signing up\, you will receive a digital copy of the previously sent daily emails\, along with recordings of all live events. \nIf you have any questions about the program\, feel free to contact Kieran.
URL:https://www.mountaincloud.org/event/30-days-of-zen-july-2026/
CATEGORIES:30 Days of Zen,Community Events,Sanbo Zen,Special Events
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