Zen Dojo

Zen Dojo Amsterdam is named Gyo Kai, which means Ocean of Practice. The dojo is part of the international Kosen Sangha. These are dojos (places where you practice zen), which are led by the French Zen master Kosen Thibaut. Master Kosen himself was a disciple of Master Deshimaru, who brought Zen from Japan to Europe in 1967. Zen-Shin Martial Arts Association. 176 Soho Hill; Birmingham; West Midlands; B19 1AL; 4; myMA Website. ZEN DOJO, Cascavel, PR. 18 likes 1 talking about this. ZEN DOJO yoga Jiu-Jitsu Defesa pessoal Arte marcial & autoconhecimento. Do Tatame ao Zafu!

We train rigorously using the traditional forms of Rinzai Zen, martial arts and fine arts.

The Zen Dojo is a place for deep spiritual training (shugyo in Japanese) for anyone who has a sincere desire to realize their True Self. Prior experience with meditation, martial arts, or fine arts is not necessary to begin training.

Our tools are our breath, our posture, our senses.

Zen is not an idea or belief. It is the moment by moment experience of the quality of your breathing, the penetrating effect of gravity on your muscles and bones, and the ways in which your senses create the world around you.

The results are the flesh and bones of compassion, available under all conditions.

The test of our Zen training is not on the meditation cushion but under the extremes that life can bring to any of us. For us, compassion means to take away fear in those around us – any time and any place.

Chosei Zen (formerly Chozen-ji Betsuin/International Zen Dojo of Wisconsin) was founded in 1982 by Kenneth Setsuzan Kushner Roshi as a branch temple of Chozen-ji. Kushner Roshi is Head Master of the Chozen-ji School of Kyudo and abbot of Daikozen-ji, the Zen temple and dojo in Madison, WI.

In 2006, a rural Zen training center was established in Spring Green, WI by Gordon Hakuun Greene Roshi. While supervising the building of the Spring Green Dojo, Greene Roshi recognized how readily the hard work reinforced the breath and posture necessary for useful meditation, leading to a teaching emphasis on the manual labor of Zen meditation.

Both Kushner Roshi and Greene Roshi trained at Daihonzan Chozen-ji, a Rinzai Zen temple located deep in Honolulu’s Kalihi Valley, and received inka shomei from Tenshin Tanouye Rotaishi.

CHOZEN-JI HISTORY

Daihonzan Chozen-ji was established in 1972 by Omori Sogen Rotaishi, a direct Dharma successor of the Tenryu-ji lineage of Rinzai Zen. He was also a successor of Yamaoka Tesshu’s Taishi School of Calligraphy and of the Jikishinkage School of fencing. In 1979, Omori Rotaishi established Daihonzan Chozen-ji as the main temple and headquarters of a new line of Zen with his Dharma successor, Tanouye Tenshin Rotaishi, as the abbot. Tanouye Rotaishi was a martial artist of extraordinary abilities; he held certificates of mastery in seven martial arts. Given this background, he revolutionized Zen training with his principle of “Ki-ai First!”– to cultivate and live into one’s essential spiritual energy as the primary focus. Tanouye Rotaishi taught that this spirit is cultivated physically through one’s own breath and center, and he developed an accessible method for this practice that emphasized the interruption of habits and attachments.

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