Saturday Community (Dharma Talk by Rev. Shinryu Okuma) - ON SITE (in Zendo)

Talk will be given by Rev. Shinryu Okuma, a Soto Zen Buddhism Baikaryu Official Instructor from Sapporo, Japan, following 10:30 am zazen. Please join us for a Dharma talk and Goeika lecture and enjoy his gentle yet precise appproach to chanting and ringing--conveying a profound "Dharma Joy" and creating a meaningful experience for all. Goeika is a wonderful way to practice Soto Zen Buddhism.

Rev. Shinryu Okuma is a Zen Buddhist priest and renowned singer and teacher in the Soto school’s hymn chanting lineage, the Baikaryu. He trained at the head temple Eiheiji in Fukui prefecture, Japan. After finishing his formal training, he devoted himself to the study of singing Baikaryu hymns. Currently, he is the head priest of the temple Tendoji in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. He has taught Baikaryu hymn chanting at many Zen temples in Japan as well as abroad, including workshops in Zenshuji, Los Angeles and Stanford University in February as well as Sokoji in San Francisco.