The Zen Matriarchs Book by Francois Dosan Loiseau is now available to buy! Zen Matriarchs by François Dosan Loiseau Translated by Jade Reidy Published by IZAUK publications This book was first published in French in 2016 and has now been translated into English. Zen has its roots in the awakening of the Buddha and finds […]
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Beginning on Tuesday 5th September, Maddie E Shin Parisio will lead weekly zazen sessions on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday evenings at the Norwich dojo, located at the Complementary Health Care Clinic, at 34 Exchange Street, Norwich NR2 1AX Prior to that, Maddie is offering informal introductory sessions on: 7.00 – 8.30 pm Wednesday 30th […]
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Moon Body A collection of 46 poems from Master Dogen’s Eiheikoroku, with commentaries by Zen Master Philippe Rei Ryu Coupey. During the first lock-down of 2020, my Zen master Philippe Rei Ryu Coupey asked me to translate his book ‘Mon Corps de Lune’ from the French. It was a privilege to be confronted with this […]
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During the COVID-19 epidemic closures, several IZAUK Dojos and Groups continue to offer online zazen & ceremony schedules between six and a dozen times a week. All of them welcome interested practitioners. In addition, from time to time events are relayed from AZI European Zen Centres to which IZAUK is affiliated HOW TO JOIN IN […]
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Rohatsu – Celebrating the Buddha’s Enlightenment at Hokkai Dojo 2018 Noah Rei Mon Uhrig Tradition has it that Siddhartha Gautama, abandoning years of extreme ascetic practice, resolved to sit under a bodhi tree and mediate until he found the root of all suffering and how to become liberated from it. It is said, that as […]
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Hi Everyone, Once again I’d like to remind you that is certainly NOT too late to attend one of the many wonderful sesshins happening at our Temples in France. We wanted to highlight 3 particular ones this year, because they were three that someone (sometimes many people) from the UK were attending, so you could […]
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On the 15th of January 2017 the Nottingham Zen Group became a reality when we sat zazen together for the first time ever in Arnold, Nottingham. I founded the zen group but I certainly didn’t do it alone. With the encouragement of Mokuho Guy Mercier, the guidance of Mokurei Jan Pearse, the support of the […]
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This year, From 7th – 12th/13th June, at our Head Temple, La Gendronniere in France’s Loire Valley, there will be, for the first time in Europe, an OJUKAI week! A Week of preparing for, and receiving the Buddhist precepts. This is a big event, and there’s lots of preparation to do before – Can you […]
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From IZAUK 2016 The IZAUK Committee invites and recommends you to join us at the UK spring sesshin at Crosby near Liverpool on 28 May to 3 June led by Mokuho Guy Mercier. This is the longest of our annual sesshins and brings the sangha together in practice for 6 nights. It is also the time and place in the UK […]
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After many years in the Gardens Studio (formerly Bodhi Garden Dharma centre), and as a response to the sale of the old Gardens studio, the Brighton Zen Group is happy to announce that as of Wednesday 10th April, 2013, we are moving to our new space, the IO Studio. The IO Studio is just a […]
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