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Kōzan
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Zen Buddhist priest based at Dublin Zen Centre
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words don't describe the honour i had of receiving dharma transmission from my teacher Myozan. Deep bows to my teacher and my sangha for helping me. I just try my best to help maintain a space for people to practice the Zen way. Nothing more, nothing less.
August 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about realization are sentient beings. Further, there are those who continue realizing beyond realization, who are in delusion throughout delusion.' When buddhas are truly buddhas they do not necessarily notice that they are buddhas. However, they are actualized buddhas, who go on actualizing buddhas.
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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some sights and sounds from yesterday's chanting and bake sale for the children of gaza at dublin zen centre. thank to all who came through and supported.
June 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Today from 2pm in Dublin Zen Centre. Chanting and cakes for the children of Gaza. Pop in any time 2pm - 5pm.
June 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Full Moon Ceremony after Zazen tonight at Dublin Zen Centre
June 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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chanting and bakesale for the children of gaza. june 22nd at dublin zen centre. donate: www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/d...
June 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Wonderful day of practice at our May zazenkai, finishing with Jukai for two new Bodhisattvas, Muji and Kanku. Deep bows to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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part of Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi's keynote speech at the UN International Day of Vesak 2025, Held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. May 6th 2025
I want to end by throwing a spotlight on a region of the world that might be called the epicenter of the contest between the forces of moral nihilism and our obligation to protect human dignity. I refer to the Gaza Strip, where, right now, a terrible genocide is underway, a brutal campaign of extermination visible to us in real time on our TVs and computer screens. This is the convergence point where our commitment to human dignity should be engaged in a relentless struggle against the forces of moral nihilism, which wage their campaign of devastation with smooth diplomacy and arsenals stocked with the most lethal weapons. Israel’s response to the horrific Hamas attack of 2023 has broken all ethical boundaries, threatening to shred the global rules-based order rooted in international law and human rights. In just eighteen months, Israel has killed over 60,000 people in Gaza, almost 70 percent of them women and children. Its bombs have reduced homes, hospitals, relief centers, and universities to dust; its forces have executed teachers, doctors, journalists, and relief workers in cold blood. For the past two months, Israel has imposed a complete blockade on Gaza. A complete blockade means, literally: no food, no clean drinking water, no electricity, no medical equipment. Vietnamese of an older generation know what it’s like to face daily bombardments, when you don’t know whether you or your loved ones will be alive tomorrow. The people of Gaza now face a similar ordeal. In Gaza, you might see twenty members of your family wiped out by a single rocket strike. Your children may have lost their arms and legs. You have no access to medical care, and your whole family is being deliberately starved. How can we tolerate this? Please bear in mind that I am not looking at this crisis primarily as a political issue. I am looking at it as an issue of humanitarian ethics. We are facing a campaign of annihilation that has opened the doors to moral chaos and shattered the very idea of human dignity. The genocide in Gaza should burn our conscience and move us to act—to stand in defense of a people whose humanity is being degraded and violently crushed. I know these are strong words, but I speak as a person of Jewish origins, born and raised in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. I’ve noticed that Buddhist leaders speak endlessly of compassion, peace, justice, and human dignity, but when it comes to criticizing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians, they seem to lose their voices. I don’t know whether this is due to fear or indifference, but we need to be courageous. As Buddhist leaders we shouldn’t stand silently on the sidelines. We have to seize the demands of the moment, find our voices, and use them to call for peace and justice. We must insist that Israel ends its violence against the people of Gaza, and we must support the aspiration of the Palestinian people for an autonomous sovereign state of their own, with full representation at the United Nations. We should remember that an attack on the human dignity of one community is an attack on the dignity of all. By standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we demonstrate our compassion, our courage, and our commitment to humanity. Thank you very much for your attention. Let me conclude by wishing everyone a joyful Vesak celebration. May the blessings of the Holy Triple Gem be with you all.
May 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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a reminder of our upcoming day of zen meditation @ dublin zen centre. DM for details
May 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra - (trans. Red Pine)
"Therefore, Mahamati, those who would attain the personal realization of buddha knowledge should abandon all views and projections concerning the sameness or difference or both or neither, or concerning the existence or nonexistence or neither existence nor nonexistence, or concerning the permanence or impermanence of origination, duration, and cessation."
April 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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the next zazenkai at dublin zen centre.
DM me for details/to book a place.
April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Today is Buddha's Birthday. We celebrated Hana Matsuri at the Dublin Zen Centre last night.
April 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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another great day of practice at Dublin Zen Centre with our March Zazenkai. Thank you to everyone who sat with us.
March 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Wonderful evening at the launch of my teacher Myozan’s book “Do Not Try to Become A Buddha”. Lovely introduction by Tommy Tiernan too - a really touching talk on Zen. Can’t wait to read it.
March 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal."

- Gautama Buddha
March 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Our next monthly Zazenkai of 2025 is on March 23rd at Dublin Zen Centre, led by myself. Email or DM me to book or for further details. Looking forward to practicing with you.
A poster for the upcoming Zazenkai in Dublin Zen Centre. It features 3 people practicing zazen. The text reads: ZAZENKAI (day od Meditation in the Sōtō Zen tradition) March 23rd / 10am - 5pm / Dublin Zen Centre/ €30 To book: email kozankokai@gmail.com 11 Anglesea St, Temple Bar, Dublin, D02 NY01 zenbuddhism.ie
March 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Kōdō Sawaki
February 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Another great zazenkai at Dublin Zen Centre, led by Hōdō. Next one, March 23rd.
February 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Zazenkai this Sunday at Dublin Zen Centre
February 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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First zazenkai of the year done at Dublin Zen Centre. Deep bows to Myozan for leading, and everyone for sitting. Next one in February.
the Dublin Zen Centre with the 8 participants of a zazenkai posing for a photo in front of the shrine altar.
January 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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"Giving up practice and abandoning study because of the futility of seeking anything outwardly, sounds as though something is being sought after by the act of giving up. "
January 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Zazenkai at Dublin Zen Centre on January 26th
a flyer advertising the upcoming zazenkai at Dublin Zen Centre 10am to 5pm Bring your own lunch €20 with Rev. Myozan
January 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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– Katagiri Roshi
December 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Zen Buddhism Ireland Rohatsu Retreat 2024 Storm Darragh, power cuts, fallen trees, could not stop us! Amazing experience. Thank you to all you sat with us.
December 9, 2024 at 9:29 AM