Where in the world is Eido Roshi?

Eido Roshi and students, January 2012

UPDATE as of January 2012: Eido Shimano Roshi is the founding Abbott of the Zen Studies Society who is retired and is not obligated to teach under the Zen Studies Society rules or sponsorship. However, he is still free to teach and lecture as he pleases anywhere else. Thank you to all those who helped.

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CURRENT | FUTURE EVENTS

Please see below for letters from Eido Roshi


[To Be confirmed] Friday July 5, 2013 | Zazenkai at At Kips Bay
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SEPTEMBER 2013 - Venerable Eido Shimano Roshi will lead Sesshin in Zurich, Switzerland
Sept 8-14, 2013
Five day sesshin. Jukai opportunity. For more information, please contact Zensho or Joyo.

Sesshin will start on the evening of September 8 and end on Sept 14. Once a student of Eido Roshi who was following him around like other people followed the Grateful dead band told me that the sleeping accomodations were like a dormitory (or military bunks. i.e. not 2 or 3 to a room but more like 20 to a room), check with Joyo or Zensho. I guess Roshi would wax lyrical about every country but now it is Switzerland's turn. Oh the pleasure of doing sesshin together in Switzerland! Ahhh....

Eido Roshi's Letter to recently departed Venerable Genki Takabayashi, one of the pioneer teachers of Rinzai Zen to America. (dated March 2, 2013) Ven. Genki Takabayashi lived in America for nearly 30 years but only went back to Japan twice.

Sesshin will follow the same format as previous years with the participants staying in the European part of Istanbul and the sesshin taking place in the Asian part of Istanbul. Jukai opportunity. Teisho and Dokusan by Eido Roshi. Vegetarian meals served with optional mediteranean fish. For more information, please contact Zensho or Joyo Catherine Brenner of Zurich, Switzerland

April 14-20 2013 - 2nd Rinzai Zen Sesshin in Turkey, The 2nd East Meets West Sesshin | Led by Eido Roshi. This sesshin followed the model of the previous sesshin last year with the participants staying in the European part of Istanbul and the sesshin taking place in the Asian part of Istanbul. There was Teisho and Dokusan. Last year, there was a Jukai ceremony. Vegetarian meals served with optional mediteranean fish. Roshi has developed a love of Turkish Coffee...Zazen, Teisho on Hakuin Zenji's Zazen Wasan (Song of Zazen), Dokusan... For more information, please contact Zensho or Joyo Catherine Brenner of Zurich, Switzerland

Rohastsu All Day Zazen-Kai with Eido Shimano Roshi. Sunday December 2, 2012, Kips Bay Community Center (East 33rd st and 2nd Av, NY). From 9:30am to 5:30pm Suggested Contribution: $40. details

Ven. Eido Shimano Roshi, Founding Abbot (ret.) of Dai Bosatsu Zendo and Shobo-Ji and Aiho-san attended. Eido Roshi gave a Dharma talk. It was was over our heads in terms of understanding. There were words about living beings offering to hungry ghosts. During the delicious Sarei served by our hosts there was a heated discussion about having intelligence (like Gempo Roshi, from the hara?) and being intellectual. | details

The Zazen-Kai led by former Head Monk Fujin Butsudo Zenji (Ms. Fujin Attale Formhals), and the tea ceremony conducted by Tea Master Ryoun Yasuko Hara with the assistance of the students from Yasuko Chanoyu. An informal tea and cake party after the Zazen-kai to honor Fujin Zenji’s departure for Kessei in Japan. No beginners.

Jan 1, 2013: Eido Roshi spent 7 days fasting, water only. Although he was too weak to do zazen after the first day, he contined 6 more days. He says that is is more effective than 7-day sesshin. Advocates doing it once a year. The 3 evils are salt, water, oil (SOS)

Due to Zen protocol, it's hard to find out how Eido Roshi is really getting on. Does Eido Roshi have any access to the two temples he founded? Can he come and go as he pleases at Shobo-ji and Hounzan Dai Bosatsu Zendo? Is he even welcome? Can Roshi visit at will the grave of his teachers? A piece of Soen Roshi's bone is enshrined at Shobo-ji. Will you be the one to announce that Eido Roshi has unlimited access to the two zendos he founded?

If you had dreamed of a time when Eido Roshi would be semi-retired, loved and pampered by his students, it's up to you to make it happen. It's time to get out your grandmother's secret recipe for lopsided muffins, make clumsy cookies, unskilled sumie ink drawings and other hand made ways to say what's in your heart.

If you can send money, please do it. Please remember Eido Roshi in your will. It must be hard adjusting to post-retirement income. Soen Roshi begged Gempo Roshi to give Teisho after his retirement.

The events above are privately held events, not associated with an organization. Dharma students are encouraged to attend and support Shobo-ji and Hounzan Kongo-ji with their presence and their nen.