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Zazen with Guest Teacher Rebecca Li
November 1 @ 8:00 am - 10:00 am
We’re delighted to welcome Rebecca Li, friend and fellow Buddhist teacher in the Chan tradition, to give a talk with Q&A on Sunday morning Nov 1. All are welcome!
We will have two 25-minute rounds of zazen (with dokusan), followed by a Dharma talk by guest teacher Rebecca Li. This is an in-person event that will also be streamed on Zoom
Rebecca Li, Ph.D., is a Dharma and meditation teacher of Chan Buddhism in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen. She is the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma
Community, a Chan Buddhist practice and study community of practitioners committed to cultivating wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings. She has over two decades of Dharma and meditation teaching experience and has been invited to lead retreats or teach at Buddhist centers in North America, Europe, and Asia. She leads several residential retreats at Dharma Drum Retreat Center in upstate New York each year and has published multiple articles as well as the book many of us know: Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method (Shambhala 2023). Rebecca is also a sociology professor and lives with her husband in New Jersey. (Also see www.rebeccali.org)