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Dear Dharma Friends, Recently I had the opportunity to go on retreat for a couple of nights alone in a little cabin tucked away on a hillside at Hidden Villa, an environmental education center and farm in Los Altos. I arrived in the early evening, when the sun was setting and the air was starting to feel chill. After deciphering the directions and making my way with my suitcase and bags of food across the dry creek, and up a steep small path that led up a hill through a patch of oak trees, I came in sight of a small one-room cabin of weathered wood, the trim painted in a surprising light green-blue. People called this place Josephine’s Retreat... (more) Read the rest of the Teacher's Greeting by Sessei Meg Levie |
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 (l) Sessei Meg Levie, teacher at Bolinas; Kiku Christina Lehnherr, teacher at San Rafael; Shinko Rick Slone, teacher at California Street in San Francisco; and Luminous Owl Henkel, past teacher at Bolinas. |
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In January, 2007 Mountain Source Sangha's Founding Dharma Teacher, Taigen Dan Leighton, relocated to Chicago to lead the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. Mountain Source Sangha now has three teachers and priests, Christina Lehnherr in San Rafael, Rick Slone at California Street in San Francisco, and Meg Levie in Bolinas.
We are a community of people practicing in the world, while communing with the deep spirit of zazen (sitting meditation) in the Soto Zen Buddhist teaching tradition. We wish to make accessible this meditation practice, and invite everyone to join with us. The Dharma informing our buddha work is that of Dogen Zenji, Suzuki Roshi, and the long tradition of buddha ancestors and bodhisattvas, including those both celebrated and unknown. In this new millennium we live in a world where the darkness of greed, hatred, and confusion is widely evident around us, and can seem overwhelming in its power. And yet right amid the corruption and cruelty of our particular time and place there is a wonderful opportunity for us to make a difference to the world by sharing the radiance of good will, uprightness, clarity, and kindness. Finding our own inner joy and integrity in Dharma practice, we accept our interconnectedness with all beings, and the actuality of clear, responsive presence. Thus we can express our sense of wonder and fresh possibility with the world around us. This website offers a variety of ongoing Dharma articles and teachings, as well as information about occasions for joining with us in practice and teaching events. We look forward to offering the teachings and our practice opportunities more widely through this website.
KIKU
CHRISTINA LEHNHERR, a former physical therapist and psychologist from
Switzerland, began her Zen practice there in 1976, moved to San Francisco
Zen Center in 1988 and was ordained as a priest in 1993. In 2005 she received
Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Reb Anderson. During the years at Zen
Center she also became a sewing teacher for Buddha's robes. She is now
living in Mill Valley where she continues to practice and teach the Dharma.
San Rafael Schedule and Information
Teaching Schedule
SHINKO
RICK SLONE has been in residence at Zen Center since 1993. He was
ordained as a priest in Suzuki Roshi's lineage by then Abbot of Zen Center
Zoketsu Norman Fischer in 1997, and was Shuso (head monk) at Tassajara
Zen Mountain center in 2001. In addition to his Zen training, he
has been an intern with the Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra, a lay
Franciscan community that serves the homeless and disadvantaged in Salinas,
California. He continues to believe that interfaith dialogue and
relationship is important for religious organizations for them to be vital
agents of peace and reconciliation in our difficult times. Rick
now works in the guest program at Green Gulch Farm, where he lives with
his wife Iva and 7-year-old son Jacob.
California Street Schedule and Information
California
Street study of Shunryu Suzuki's Blue Cliff Lectures
Dharma
Talk: audio recording
SESSEI
MEG LEVIE has lived and practiced at the San Francisco Zen Center since
1994 and received ordination as a Zen priest in 2003 from Tenshin Reb
Anderson. She recently served as shuso, or “head monk” at
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, where she lives with her family. A graduate
of Stanford University, she also holds a master’s degree in English
literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently she enjoys
offering the insights of practice to the wider world through professional
coaching and teaching mindfulness in business environments. The Dharma
name given to her by her teacher is Myoju Sessei—Bright Pearl, Embracing
Life.
Bolinas Schedule and Information
Teaching Schedule
Dharma
Talk: audio recording
We invite all
of you to come and help in the continuity and new unfolding of Mountain
Source Sangha.
To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion.
That myriad beings come forth and experience themselves is enlightenment.
Those who are greatly enlightened about delusion are buddhas. Those greatly
deluded about enlightenment are deluded beings. -Dogen Zenji
Site updated on Jan 7, 2010