“Who do you recognize as part of your community?”

 

In this talk from earlier in the year, Chodo Sensei introduces the Three Jewels – Buddha, Dharma, Sangha – and focuses his attention on the last; the Sanskrit word for community. Chodo invites his listeners to walk with him: past his doorman, through his neighborhood, into a coffee shop, down 23rd Street, and into the New York Zen Center. “Who do you recognize as part of your community?” is a question following us where ever we go. Too often, Chodo reminds us, we speak of ‘my’ sangha, ‘my’ Buddhist community. Can we create more room – within ourselves, within every community – for others? 

 

 

ZENTALK NOTES

Chodo Robert Campbell Sensei is a co-founder of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and is part of the core faculty for the Buddhist Track in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling at Zen Center’s education partner, New York Theological Seminary.

 

 

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Heart Sutra by Kanho Yakushiji –  Buddhist priest and musician of the Rinzai sect and Imaji temple in Imabari, Japan. In 2003, he formed “KISSAQUO”, a songwriting duo based in Kyoto.

 

 

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