EVENTS & NEWS
News from Shunkoin & thoughts from Rev.
Takafumi
Kawakami
Schedule for December, 2024 and January, 2025
November 17, 2024
Satisfy your intellectual thirst here and solve the issues about modern well-being and meditation (& mindfulness) interventions! NOTE: If you are U.S. residents, please check the following. So, you will be able to register for these experiences through Peatix. Starting July 26, 2024,
Overnight Retreat Schedule for October, and November 2024
August 13, 2024
"Explore the Various Notions of "Self" Needed to Live in an Uncertain and Volatile World" Shunkoin Temple offers one-day Zen temple retreat programs in English. Today, most of us live with the notion of an individual "self." However, this notion is actually quite new in human history. As we ha
Schedule for November and December 2024
August 10, 2024
NOTE: If you are U.S. residents, please check the following. So, you will be able to register for these experiences through Peatix. Starting July 26, 2024, if you set your country of residence to the United States in your account settings, you will see the US-specific Peatix page. Users
Schedule for August 2024
July 10, 2024
NOTE: If you are U.S. residents, please check the following. So, you will be able to register for these experiences through Peatix. Starting July 26, 2024, if you set your country of residence to the United States in your account settings, you will see the US-specific Peatix page. Users
Schedule for June and July, 2024
June 3, 2024
Kissako Zen and Tea Experience June 4th: https://kissako-en-june4th2024.peatix.com/ June 5th: https://kissako-en-june5th2024.peatix.com/ June 7th: https://kissako-en-june7th2024.peatix.com/ June 10th: https://kissako-en-june10th2024.peatix.com/ June 11th: https://kissako-en-june11t
The Weekend of Oct. 16th/17th: Happiness
October 6, 2021
Next Theme: Happiness Online Zen Meditation and Philosophy Session in English Thank you so much for joining the session last weekend. We discussed "akirameru=as is" with the participants. Akirameru is commonly translated as giving up or quitting. Gensho Setsumon R
Sept. 11th/12th Responsibility and Free Will: Online Zen Meditation and Philosophy Session in English
September 10, 2021
The Topic for this Weekend: Responsibility and Free Will Thank you so much for joining the session last week. With the participants, we discussed about "Now". What is "now"? There are different concepts of "now" in different culture. Also, can we actually capture the moment c
Online Zen Meditation Session in English: Topic for This Weekend “Now” Sept. 4th/5th
August 31, 2021
Topic of this Weekend: Now Thank you so much for joining our session last weekend. The theme was "Let's talk about Zen as a whole again". We've been discussing about various topics, like Buddhist notions of liberty, freedom, well-being, etc. But like Aristotle said, "the
Aug.28th/29th Online Zen Meditation & Philosophy Session in English
August 23, 2021
Please join our online Zen meditation and philosophy session in English with Rev. Takafumi Zenryu Kawakami (75 min.) https://zenaug2829.peatix.com/ Small group and more direct conversations with participants. Our topic is different each time. It depends on the current situations and participan
Ask a Zen Priest (July31st/Aug. 1st): Online Zen Meditation and Philosophy Session in English
July 26, 2021
Thank you so much for joining the online session last weekend. One of the participants suggested to have a discussion on "obstacles and resilience". So, we talked about them. What are obstacles and resilience we've been hearing since VUCA became a popular term people use in the various resilie