Programs & Retreats
january
22jan10:00 am11:30 amLove and Compassion: Working with Disturbing Emotions10:00 am - 11:30 am MT

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with Diane Musho Hamilton and Caty Hartung Fridays, 10:00 - 11:30 am MT, 6:00 - 7:30 pm CET January 22 - March 19, 2021 Via Zoom We live in difficult, transitional times. Our situation is
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with Diane Musho Hamilton and Caty Hartung
Fridays, 10:00 – 11:30 am MT, 6:00 – 7:30 pm CET
January 22 – March 19, 2021
Via Zoom
We live in difficult, transitional times. Our situation is often unpredictable, and so are our emotional states. It is helpful at this time to deepen our meditation practice, and learn techniques to stabilize our emotional states.
Love and Compassion: Working with Disturbing Emotions is the second online course in the Love and Compassion series, led by Diane Musho Hamilton and Caty Hartung. The course will engage Zen Buddhist and Tibetan teachings and practices for working with one’s emotions, as well as opening one’s heart. They will use contemporary insights such as understanding how our brain and nervous system works, as well as traditional methods like the use of breath to support an aware state of mind.
This is program of study for 9 weeks (January 22nd -19th of March), examining the truth of impermanence, creating proper conditions for meditation and learning how to open up to the constant change we are facing. We will look into the nature of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and anger, and learn how to work with them. We will enlarge our capacity for kindness, using Buddhist practices of sitting meditation like shine (calming the mind), tonglen (giving and receiving), and Loving-Eyes (mantra meditation) and experience the mind itself (Big Mind). Finally, we will explore the hidden emotions and work with shadow practice.
If now is the time for you to go deeper in a culture of like-minded practitioners who wish to understand the challenges that we are all facing, please join us.
This online course will be easeful and accessible. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to benefit from this course.
MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 35 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition.
Diane began her studies at Naropa University in 1983 with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Genpo Dennis Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk and received dharma transmission in 2006. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed by Genpo Roshi to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004.
She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills.
Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her newest book, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart is co-authored with Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Kimberly Myosai Loh (Shambhala, July 2020).
CATY HARTUNG is an Integral Buddhist coach drawing from a unique 35-year background in Buddhism and her rich life experience as a cosmopolitan. Born in Germany, she began her university studies of French, pedagogy, and physical education in 1984, at the same time when her curiosity grew for Buddhist meditation.
In 1991, Caty’s Buddhist teacher, Lama Ole Nydahl, asked her to help him, while traveling together around the world. She soon took a leading role in developing his international network, known as Diamond Way Buddhism. In the 25 years of their intense cooperation, the organization grew to over six hundred meditation centers.
She has trained as an Integral Facilitator with Diane Musho Hamilton and is also certified as an Integral Coach by Integral Coaching Canada.
Today, Caty accompanies leaders in their conscious change process and human development and helps organizations to grow and implement their vision. She continues her meditation practice under the guidance of the 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje.
Time
(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am MT
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
29jan4:30 pm6:00 pmCompassionate Conversations Study and Practice Online Course4:30 pm - 6:00 pm MDT

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Compassionate Conversations: 10-Week Online Study and Practice Course with Diane Musho Hamilton and Kimberly Loh USA/CAN Fridays, Jan 29-Apr 2, 2021, 3:30 - 5:00pm PST | 6:30
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Compassionate Conversations: 10-Week Online Study and Practice Course
with Diane Musho Hamilton and Kimberly Loh
USA/CAN
Fridays, Jan 29-Apr 2, 2021,
3:30 – 5:00pm PST | 6:30 – 8:00pm EST
ASIA-PACIFIC
Saturdays, Jan 30-Apr 3, 2021,
7:30 – 9:00 am HKT/SGT/CST | 10:30am – 12:00 pm AEDT
Via Zoom
The Compassionate Conversations Study and Practice Course is for those who are passionate about improving the quality of their conversations.
These times call for excellent communication skills, whether we are talking lightly about the topics we agree about, or intensely about those we don’t. Every conversation has the potential to transform our understanding and deepen our relationships.
Up-level your capacity to converse more effectively with colleagues, friends, family, and groups about topics that matter.
This course will cover essential skills including:
- Deep listening
- Powerful self-expression
- Reframing
- Perspective seeking
- Transmuting emotions
And crucial topics including:
- Ethnocentrism
- Unity through diversity
- Navigating strong emotions
- Power dynamics & privilege
- Forgiveness and atonement
This is not a course in social justice advocacy class. It is a course for those interested in discovering a new way of being and relating in service of evolving our relationships and culture. The Compassionate Conversations Study and Practice Course is highly experiential, engaging participants in open dialogue and practices. These practices are designed to foster self-expression, deep listening, emotional authenticity, and to address our particularly defensive patterns, unconscious biases, and power dynamics. Most importantly, this training will awaken the qualities of self-confidence, wisdom and compassion for ourselves and others.
You will deepen your capacity through engaging new frameworks and skills, including how to use the body and breath to calm your nervous system, learning to stay present and engaged. You will explore the capacity of conflict skills to create more freedom and ease in your relationships.
Time
(Friday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm MDT
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
february
13feb7:45 am2:00 pmDay of Zen Online7:45 am - 2:00 pm

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February 13, 2021 7:45 am - 2:00 pm Via Zoom While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform. For beginners,
Event Details
February 13, 2021
7:45 am – 2:00 pm
Via Zoom
While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform.
For beginners, a Day of Zen Online with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman is an opportunity to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere for practice at home. For people familiar with sitting meditation (zazen), a Day of Zen will provide a space for deepening that practice. Meditation practice sitting in a chair is entirely acceptable. You will receive posture and breath instruction — the essence of Zen practice. Participants will:
- Engage in sitting and walking meditation.
- Listen to a Dharma talk and receive meditation instruction.
- Have the opportunity for an individual interview with the teacher (dokusan).
- Share lunch and sangha time online.
$25 TAZ BC Level Members
$40 TAZ Members (other membership levels)
$50 Non-members
$20 Reduced Rate option for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
SCHEDULE
7:45 Orientation
8:00 Sitting
8:35 10 min Walking Meditation
8:45 Sitting
9:20 10 min Walking Meditation
9:30 Sitting
10:00 15 min break
10:15 Dharma Talk
11:15 Sitting
11:50 10 min Walking Meditation
12:00 Sitting
12:35 10 min Walking Meditation
12:45 Sitting
1:15 Lunch
2:00 Close
Time
(Saturday) 7:45 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
21feb9:00 am10:30 amConversaciones Compasivas Curso Online Hispanoamerica9:00 am - 10:30 am MDT

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Conversaciones Compasivas: Curso Online de 10 Semanas con Diane Musho Hamilton y Gabriel Wilson Domingos, Feb 21 - Abr 25, 2021 8 - 9:30am PST |
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Conversaciones Compasivas: Curso Online de 10 Semanas
con Diane Musho Hamilton y Gabriel Wilson
Domingos, Feb 21 – Abr 25, 2021
8 – 9:30am PST | 11am – 12:30pm EST | 5 – 6:30 pm CET
El curso Teoría y Práctica de las Conversaciones Compasivas es para aquellos que están apasionados por mejorar la calidad de sus conversaciones. En estos tiempos requerimos de excelentes habilidades de comunicación, ya sea que estemos hablando a la ligera sobre los temas en los que estamos de acuerdo, o discutiendo intensamente sobre aquellos en los que no lo estamos.
Cada conversación tiene el potencial de transformar nuestra comprensión y profundizar nuestras relaciones.
Este curso en línea está enfocado en elevar tu capacidad de conversar más efectivamente con colegas, amigos, familia y grupos sobre temas que importan.
Este curso cubrirá:
- Escucha Profunda
- Auto-expresion poderosa
- Reformulacion
- Busqueda de Perspectivas
- Transmutacion de las emociones.
Temas cruciales, incluyendo:
- Etnocentrismo
- La unidad a traves de la diversidad
- Como navegar emociones fuertes
- Dinamicas de poder y privilegio
- El perdon y la reconciliacion
Este no es un curso de abogacía por la justicia social, es un curso para aquellos interesados en descubrir una nueva forma de ser y relacionarse al servicio de la evolución de nuestras relaciones y cultura. El Curso de Teoría y Práctica de Conversaciones Compasivas es altamente experiencial, involucrando a los participantes en diálogos abiertos y ejercicios prácticos. Estos ejercicios están diseñados para fomentar la autoexpresión, la escucha profunda, la autenticidad emocional, y para abordar particularmente nuestros patrones defensivos, nuestros sesgos inconscientes y nuestras dinámicas de poder. Lo más importante es que este entrenamiento despertará cualidades como la autoconfianza, la sabiduría y la compasión por nosotros mismos y los demás.
Incrementaremos tu capacidad mediante nuevos enfoques y habilidades, como por ejemplo cómo usar el cuerpo y la respiración para calmar tu sistema nervioso, y así aprender a permanecer presente e involucrado. También explorarás cómo las habilidades de manejo de conflictos te permiten crear más libertad y fluidez en tus relaciones. A continuación se presentan los principales temas que exploraremos y practicaremos.
Time
(Sunday) 9:00 am - 10:30 am MDT
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
march
13mar7:45 am2:00 pmDay of Zen Online7:45 am - 2:00 pm

Event Details
March 13, 2021 7:45 am - 2:00 pm Via Zoom While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform. For beginners,
Event Details
March 13, 2021
7:45 am – 2:00 pm
Via Zoom
While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform.
For beginners, a Day of Zen Online with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman is an opportunity to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere for practice at home. For people familiar with sitting meditation (zazen), a Day of Zen will provide a space for deepening that practice. Meditation practice sitting in a chair is entirely acceptable. You will receive posture and breath instruction — the essence of Zen practice. Participants will:
- Engage in sitting and walking meditation.
- Listen to a Dharma talk and receive meditation instruction.
- Have the opportunity for an individual interview with the teacher (dokusan).
- Share lunch and sangha time online.
$25 TAZ BC Level Members
$40 TAZ Members (other membership levels)
$50 Non-members
$20 Reduced Rate option for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
SCHEDULE
7:45 Orientation
8:00 Sitting
8:35 10 min Walking Meditation
8:45 Sitting
9:20 10 min Walking Meditation
9:30 Sitting
10:00 15 min break
10:15 Dharma Talk
11:15 Sitting
11:50 10 min Walking Meditation
12:00 Sitting
12:35 10 min Walking Meditation
12:45 Sitting
1:15 Lunch
2:00 Close
Time
(Saturday) 7:45 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
april

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Virtual Temple - Spring Sesshin 2021 with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi April 12 - 17, 2021 Via the Zoom Conference Platform Join Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi for a six-day online meditation retreat. SCHEDULE Monday - Friday,
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Virtual Temple – Spring Sesshin 2021
with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi
April 12 – 17, 2021
Via the Zoom Conference Platform
Join Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi for a six-day online meditation retreat.
SCHEDULE
Monday – Friday, April 12 – 16
7:00 – 9:00 am MDT: Zazen (Orientation on Monday morning at 7:00am)
11:00 am – 1:00 pm MDT: Zazen & Dharma Talk
3:00 – 5:00 pm MDT: Embodiment and Zazen
6:30 – 8:00 pm MDT: Zazen
Saturday, April 17
7:00 – 9:00 am MDT: Zazen
11:00 am – 1:00 pm MDT: Zazen & Dharma Talk
3:00 – 5:00 pm MDT: Zazen and Close
Participants are asked to commit to the following ground rules:
- You may set your own zazen schedule, but you must commit to at least one full sitting session each day on Zoom.
- When you have set your schedule, we will ask you to showing up on the Zoom platform each day according to the schedule you have planned in advance. We will provide a method for you to submit your schedule in advance so that we know who to expect in the Virtual Zendo.
- Sitting sessions consist of two or three 30-35 minute periods. As in the physical Zendo, you may enter a sit at the beginning of a session, or during a break between periods.
- All participants must register for the program.
Your enrollment fee is a vital contribution to TAZ, now as always.
The contribution to participate in the Virtual Spring Sesshin is $395 USD per person. As usual, you will be given the opportunity to donate to the scholarship fund to support our young practitioners and the diversity of our community.
$395 USD Individual Registration (Mon-Sat)
$295 USD Individual Registration (Wed-Sat)
Time
12 (Monday) 7:00 am - 17 (Saturday) 5:00 pm MDT
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
Event Details
Virtual Spring Sesshin with Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi April 18-24, 2021 via Zoom Contact us for more information.
Event Details
Virtual Spring Sesshin with Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi
April 18-24, 2021
via Zoom
Contact us for more information.
Time
18 (Sunday) 12:00 pm - 24 (Saturday) 12:00 pm
Location
Zoom Conference Platform
may
08may7:45 am2:00 pmDay of Zen Online7:45 am - 2:00 pm

Event Details
May 8, 2021 7:45 am - 2:00 pm Via Zoom While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform. For beginners,
Event Details
May 8, 2021
7:45 am – 2:00 pm
Via Zoom
While restrictions on gatherings are in place, Day of Zen half-day programs will be offered online, via the Zoom conference platform.
For beginners, a Day of Zen Online with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman is an opportunity to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere for practice at home. For people familiar with sitting meditation (zazen), a Day of Zen will provide a space for deepening that practice. Meditation practice sitting in a chair is entirely acceptable. You will receive posture and breath instruction — the essence of Zen practice. Participants will:
- Engage in sitting and walking meditation.
- Listen to a Dharma talk and receive meditation instruction.
- Have the opportunity for an individual interview with the teacher (dokusan).
- Share lunch and sangha time online.
$25 TAZ BC Level Members
$40 TAZ Members (other membership levels)
$50 Non-members
$20 Reduced Rate option for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
SCHEDULE
7:45 Orientation
8:00 Sitting
8:35 10 min Walking Meditation
8:45 Sitting
9:20 10 min Walking Meditation
9:30 Sitting
10:00 15 min break
10:15 Dharma Talk
11:15 Sitting
11:50 10 min Walking Meditation
12:00 Sitting
12:35 10 min Walking Meditation
12:45 Sitting
1:15 Lunch
2:00 Close
Time
(Saturday) 7:45 am - 2:00 pm
Location
Zoom Conference Platform