Guiding Teacher Zuisei Goddard offers dharma study classes for everyone. Join these live online gatherings to take advantage of the opportunity to study the dharma closely with Zuisei and the sangha. Each class introduces and clarifies traditional Buddhist teachings and how they apply to our lives today. Bring your questions, attention, and your own experience to the sessions as these intimate courses encourage participation.

Register below, or for more about What is Emptiness?: Understanding Shunyata and Its Role in Our Lives click here.

Join us for this live online two-part study of the Lotus Sutra, and enjoy access to recordings of all previous Lotus Sutra classes at OMS. We’ll be engaging chapters 14–28.

Please make sure to have a copy of the Lotus Sutra (translated by Burton Watson) and read the sections before each session. Below are optional texts for the class:

Two Buddhas Seated Side by Side: A Guide to the Lotus Sūtra
The Threefold Lotus Sutra: A Modern Translation for Contemporary Readers

Do The Four Noble Truths seem like just another Buddhist list to memorize? Or are they a meaningful and relevant teaching that we can apply to our lives now?

What are “truths”? How do we learn them? How do familial, cultural, and institutional systems promote, validate, or even teach us to unknowingly collude? Join Ocean Mind Sangha’s three-part series led by Rev. Lien Shutt to learn how her Engaged Four Noble Truths can reflect our multi-dimensional, lived experiences and help us practice amid oppressive structures toward liberation. We’ll do this through reading and practice of selected teachings from Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path.

The series will cover what Rev. Liên frames as the three essential aspects of healing:

These are then applied to the three parts of the book. At each meeting, we’ll engage with various aspects from each of these sections:

Download the class outline (pdf) here. Reading the chapters in each of these sections before each meeting session is recommended. Meditations, mindful reflections, and Q&A sessions will be used throughout the 3-part series to see how Rev. Lien’s reframed expansions from the traditional Buddhist teachings can support an engaged practice, enlivening us with agency.

REV. LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a priest lineage holder in the Shunryu Suzuki tradition. She received her meditation training in the Insight and Soto Zen traditions in the United States, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. They are the guiding teacher of Access to Zen, an inclusive, anti-oppression sangha and nonprofit in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit AccessToZen.org for ways to connect.