Visiting Teacher Rev. Kokyo Henkel will offer two dharma talks per day during the Genzo-e sesshin.  These talks will be open to the public (in person and on zoom), even if you are not sitting retreat.  

10:15am & 3:30pm 

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday January 15th – 18th

Please consider making an offering of dana to our teachers for their teaching

Rev. Kōkyō Henkel has been practicing Zen Buddhism since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and No Abode Hermitage – all in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryū Suzuki Rōshi – and a year at Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan (with Tangen Harada Rōshi). After living in these monastic communities for almost two decades, Kōkyō was then teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center from 2010-2020, and now resides at Bright Window Hermitage, a retreat place in the Santa Lucia Mountains of California, along with his wife Rev. Shōhō Kuebast.