On Thursday, September 5th, and Friday, September 6th, Rev. Kōkyō Henkel will give two Dharma Talks on Suzuki Roshi's Teachings of Big Mind and Buddha Nature. Both talks will be offered online and on site. These talks will be offered in conjunction with the Ascending the Mountain Ceremony taking place in Germany, during which Zentatsu Baker Roshi will officially hand over the spiritual leadership of the Dharma Sangha to his successor Tatsudo Nicole Baden Roshi.
Much of this historic Ceremonial Weekend will be streamed. There will be a concurrent sangha event here at CMZC to allow Sangha Members here to honor the moment, and to join the event from afar as much as possible. Kokyo's talks will be part of the event here.
There is one registration for both, or either of the talks. Both will occur at 7:30 pm Mountain Daylight Time.
Kōkyō has been practicing Zen Buddhism since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and No Abode Hermitage - all in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryū Suzuki Rōshi - and a year at Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan (with Harada Tangen Roshi). After living in these monastic communities for almost two decades, Kōkyō was then teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center from 2010-2020, and since then has been studying and practicing with no fixed abode along with his wife, Rev. Shōhō Kuebast. Kōkyō was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. receiving the Dharma name Kōkyō Yakai (Luminous Owl, Midnight Liberation 光梟夜解). He received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Rōshi in 2010, becoming a 92nd generation lineage-holder authorized to guide others on the path.
