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Welcome to
CHOSEI ZEN

Chosei Zen is a Rinzai Zen community, training in Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Europe, and online. We offer daily Zen practice, intensive training, as well as leadership training through the Institute for Zen Leadership. All are welcome.

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Zen is healing duality: Mind-body, self-other, life-death.

Our tools are our breath, our posture, our senses.

The results are the flesh and bones of compassion, available under all conditions.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Virtual Tea Gathering
Aug 9
Virtual Tea Gathering

In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.

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Fresh Talk: Zen in the Bones
Aug 9
Fresh Talk: Zen in the Bones

In this Fresh Talk, Gordon Hakuun Greene Roshi will share what he's learned about shugyo through years of disciplined training and we can practice shugyo in older or differently abled bodies.

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Introduction to Zen Training
Aug 23
Introduction to Zen Training

Introduction to Zen Training is a three hour in-person session designed to introduce new students to the fundamentals of Zen training through the breath, body, and sensation of gravity.

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Aloha and Zen, Talk by Norma Wong Roshi
Aug 28
Aloha and Zen, Talk by Norma Wong Roshi

Daikozen-ji welcomes Norma Ryuko Kawelokū Wong Roshi, a visiting Zen teacher from Hawaiʻi, for an evening exploring the connection between Aloha and Zen. All are welcome.

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Intro to Zazen (Online)
Sep 6
Intro to Zazen (Online)

Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.

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Virtual Tea Gathering
Sep 13
Virtual Tea Gathering

In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.

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Fall Keishin
Sep 17
Fall Keishin

This is a 4-day online intensive training format we call keishin (繋心 pronounced “kay-shin”) or “to connect the mind.”

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Fall Sesshin (UK)
Oct 1
Fall Sesshin (UK)

We are holding an intensive 4-day training called sesshin in the UK. We welcome beginners and long-term students to join.

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Intro to Zazen (Online)
Oct 4
Intro to Zazen (Online)

Are you new (or returning) to meditation and want to learn the fundamentals? This “crash course” will introduce you to our form of Rinzai Zen seated meditation and hara breathing.

Read more →
Virtual Tea Gathering
Oct 11
Virtual Tea Gathering

In a physical dojo, we gather in the kitchen after training for tea and conversation. We're bringing this tradition to our online community to strengthen our practice and strengthen one another in this time.

Read more →