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Tuesday evening study group

Our Tuesday Evening Study Group will meet on Zoom for the foreseeable future. We meet weekly from 6:30-7:30.

All are welcome!

The Zoom link goes out with event reminders sent to everyone on our email list. If you'd like to receive this information, or want to be added to our email list, please email either [email protected] or [email protected].)

We're currently working with Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans, the new book by Open Source founding teacher Joan Sutherland Roshi. The book was published by Shambala in June and is available for order here. (You can also order the book in paperback or in a Kindle edition from Amazon.)


Previous Tuesday evening study texts and activities:
  • Torei Zenji, "Bodhisattva's Vow"
  • Hakuin Ekaku, "Praise Song for Meditation"
  • "poems and practice": Whitman's  "Song of Myself"
  • study of David Hinton's book China Root
  • "koans / poems," a series where we paired a koan with a poem and talked about their resonances
  • study of Joan Sutherland's Vimalakirti and the Awakened Heart
  • study of Shitou Xiqian's "Taking Part in the Gathering" (also known by its Japanese title of "Sandokai" by Sekito)
  • study of the Heart Sutra
  • Precepts study (in preparation for our refuge ceremony in March 2018)
  • study of The Gateless Gate koan collection
  • beginning meditation group

Questions? you can email [email protected] or [email protected].

Upcoming meetings:

  • Upcoming sessions: January 20, 27
For those in Arizona: since everyone else is back on Standard Time: our Tuesday Evening Study Group shifts the time when we meet: we now meet 6:30-7:30 Arizona/Mountain time.
For those outside Arizona, there is no time change: 5:30-6:30 Pacific, 6:30-7:30 Mountain, 7:30-8:30 Central; 8:30-9:30 Eastern.
photo by Lynda Zwinger
this page last modified
January 18,2026
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