Thursday Evening Guest Speaker: David Loy

David Loy will be at Mountain Cloud on Thursday March 28 and lead our Thursday Evening Event and give the Dharma Talk. Please join us for this hybrid event. David will be speaking from our zendo. No registration or cost required for attending on-site at MCZC. Just show up, arrive five to ten minutes early. We welcome members to suggest topics for his talk here!
Schedule
5:30pm – Sitting Meditation and kinhin
6pm – Dharma talk, Q&A
7pm– Turtles, Ecodharma group
Zoom Link: sit.mountaincloud.org
Passcode: mountain22
After the Teisho, David will join the Mountain Cloud Eco Dharma Group, the Turtles for further discussion from 7-8pm. David is an expert and leader in Eco Dharma and one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center in Colorado.
David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism.
He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been translated into many languages. His articles appear regularly in the pages of major journals such as Tikkun and Buddhist magazines including Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, and Buddhadharma, as well as in a variety of scholarly journals. Many of his writings, as well as audio and video talks and interviews, are available on the web. He is on the advisory boards of Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project, Zen Peacemakers, and the Ernest Becker Foundation.
David lectures nationally and internationally on various topics, focusing primarily on the encounter between Buddhism and modernity: what each can learn from the other. He is especially concerned about social and ecological issues. A popular recent lecture is “Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-crisis”, which argues that there is an important parallel between what Buddhism says about our personal predicament and our collective predicament today in relation to the rest of the biosphere. You can hear David’s podcast interview with Wisdom Publications here. Presently he is offering talks and workshops on Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis”, his latest book published in 2019. He also leads meditation retreats.
David Loy is one of the founding members of the new Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center, near Boulder, Colorado. Please visit the website at rockymountainecodharmaretreat.org for more information. An article about the Ecodharma Center recently appeared in the local newspaper, the Daily Camera, which you can read here.
David is married to Linda Goodhew, a professor of English literature and language (and co-author of The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons). They have a son, Mark Loy Goodhew.
- Date
- March 28, 2024
- Time
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5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
- Event Categories
- Community Events, Sanbo Zen, Special Events