The Vital Way: Reality as it is

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.  To study the self is to forget the self.  To forget the self is to be verified by all things.” 

 ~Dogen Zenji

What is Zen? people often ask. As with any powerful question, asking wholeheartedly is a pathway to liberation. 

“Zen” is a word that has been co-opted and integrated into our everyday vocabulary, taking on multiple meanings such as: chill, minimal, elegant and calm. But what is Zen, really?

Zen is both a training and a full inhabitation of our humanity. By directly experiencing the life force and liberation always here now, we naturally respond as unconditioned compassion toward this moment, as it is. 

In this 6 week series, we will explore the Three Treasures, a fundamental way of describing and relating to Reality and a pathway for our practice. We will experience the potency of the Buddha (our awakened nature), Dharma (wisdom teachings) and Sangha (community) as pathways to bring us more alive in each moment.

Join us for meditation, conversation and interpersonal practice with a sweet community of others as we explore the fresh and ancient path of Zen.

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Lisa Genki Gibson Sensei has been practicing with Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi, in the Soto Zen lineage since 2008 and received Dharma Transmission in 2023. As a Zen, teacher and committed student of reality, she is passionate about the potency of Zen practice to deepen our expression of wisdom, compassion, and joy in everyday life. Based in Vancouver, Canada, with her family on the unceded, ancestral lands, and waters of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil- Wauthuth Nations, Lisa works as a coach, facilitator and educator to support the whole hearted, engagement of a more just, caring and sustainable world.