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Welcome to the Mountain Source Sangha Web Site
Dharma Talk: audio recording of Shinko Rick Slone
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.
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(l) Kiku Christina Lehnherr, teacher at San Rafael; Taigen Dan Leighton, Founding Dharma Teacher; Shinko Rick Slone, teacher at California Street in San Francisco; and Luminous Owl Henkel, teacher at Bolinas. |
Up until January, 2007 Mountain Source Sangha has been guided by Taigen Dan Leighton, Founding Dharma Teacher. He has now relocated to Chicago to lead the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate. Mountain Source Sangha is happy to announce our three new teachers and priests, Christina Lehnherr in San Rafael, Rick Slone at California Street in San Francisco, and Luminous Owl in Bolinas.
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.
2008 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 study of Shunryu Suzuki's Blue Cliff Lectures
LUMINOUS OWL HENKEL began practicing zen at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in 1990. He has been living at these two zen temples since that time, apart from one year at Bukkokuji Zen Monastery in Japan, a few years at No Abode Hermitage in Mill Valley, and various travels to practice in monasteries in India, China, and Thailand. He was ordained as a priest, receiving the Dharma name Luminous Owl, from Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in 1994. He currently resides at Green Gulch Farm where he works on the maintenance crew.
Bolinas Thursday evening class on Verses on the Trusting Mind, by the Third Chinese Ancestor Sengcan
We are grateful to have these three new priests leading us. 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 March 11, 2008