Wild Country Zen
Dharma Talks and Guided Meditations by Taizan Gendo and friends
Just Listen: Audio Recorded on SoundCloud
In addition to this WildCountryZen.com website, we have a SoundCloud site dedicated to the audio recordings of our Dharma talks, guided meditations, and discussions, increasing access to practicing with us even if you can't make it when "live," prefer to listen while driving, or want to just listen...
Just Watch: Zoom and YouTube Recordings
In addition to WildCountryZen.com and SoundCloud websites, we have some recorded YouTube videos (below) and Zoom recordings from our Autumn 2020 Practice Period called "The Lens of Shunyata." Check them out...
A Poem by Geraldine Gilbert
Impermanence -- Our True Story
When my friend Rick Gilbert went back to spend the last days with his dying mother, Geraldine Gilbert, he found this poem she had written. "Because of this poem, I held my moms hand as often as I could in her last days..."
About Wild Country Zen
Meaning of the name "Wild Country Zen"
How did the name "Wild Country Zen" come about? I think of "Wild" as the true, boundless, wordless state of nature; "Country" is meant to signify an open, healing spaciousness, a joyful "allowing" of our true buddha-nature to emerge; "Zen" of course is my Buddhist lineage. I am a guiding teacher of meditation and dharma with the A-Town Sangha in Aromas, California, and sangha member of the Jikoji Zen Meditation Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I hope you enjoy the name "Wild Country Zen" as much as I do--it always makes me smile! Let's see how it manifests going forward. Come walk this path with us and see... -- Taizan Gendo
Taizan Gendo (Mark Adams)
My own path in Zen began in earnest in 1989 with the winter residential practice (Ango) period at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center and my first teacher, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, who set me on a 30 year path. In 2009, I received the Jukai precepts and lay ordination, and was given the name "Taizan Gendo" (meaning "peaceful mountain, subtle way") from Eiko Carolyn Atkinson, a dharma heir of Kobun Chino Otagowa Roshi. In 2018 I was ordained a Zen priest in Kobun's Phoenix Cloud lineage by Jikoji Zen Meditation Center's guiding teacher, Shoho Michael Newhall. I have come to love this practice. I hope to be a skillful vehicle in sharing it with all sentient beings...
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In-person MEDITATION MEETINGS CANCELLED (for time being)
Someday...can't wait to meet again in person...