Putting the Mind at Rest - Zen Talk by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede is visiting Auckland to share in the Auckland Zen Centre’s 20th Anniversary celebrations in late June 2024. Ahead of the Anniversary celebrations Roshi Kjolhede is offering a Zen public talk: ‘Putting the Mind at Rest’.

All are welcome to come to the talk, no booking is required.

Room 8, Onehunga Community House, 6pm Wednesday 19 June.

Entry by donation/koha.


About the Auckland Zen Centre

It has been twenty years since the Auckland Zen Centre first opened its doors. The Centre was established by two students of Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede, Roshi Amala Wrightson, a Zen teacher and priest of the Three Jewels Order, and her husband Richard von Sturmer, a lay member of the Order. Amala-roshi and Richard are both Auckland-born, but undertook more than ten years' of Zen training under Roshi Kjolhede at the Rochester Zen Center in upstate New York. Amala-roshi was given formal permission to teach by Roshi Kjolhede in 2004, and in the same year she and Richard co-founded Auckland Zen Centre. She was sanctioned as a full Dharma heir in 2012. Richard will be given formal permission to teach by Roshi Kjolhede during the 20th Anniversary celebrations.

www.aucklandzen.org.nz

About Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede

Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede is Spiritual Director Emeritus of the Rochester Zen Center. He was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 1976 and spent several years traveling extensively with the founder of the Centre, Roshi Philip Kapleau, and working closely with him on three of his books. After twelve years of koan training under Roshi Kapleau, and pilgrimage through Japan, China, India, Tibet, and Taiwan, he was installed by Roshi Kapleau as his Dharma Successor and later Abbot of the Center. In his more than 35 years of teaching, Roshi Kjolhede has sanctioned seven of his students as Zen teachers; they now lead Zen centres in the United States, Mexico, Scandinavia, Germany, and New Zealand.

www.rzc.org/about/who-we-are/roshi-bodhin-kjolhede

For examples of public talks and interviews by Roshi Kjolhede visit

- Meditation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life, a talk at TEDxFlourCity in 2014  www.youtube.com/watch?v=upNONoxskiw

- The Zen of Now an interview on Radio New Zealand in 2012  www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2511836/the-zen-of-now