As part of its Pacific Zen Luminaries series of online events, the Pacific Zen Institute will host a live-streamed conversation with psychoanalyst and founding teacher of the Ordinary Mind Zendo Barry Magid on 19 October on the theme “Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans.”
The Luminaries series invites prominent and learned Buddhist figures to engage in dialogue and discussion as a means to bring together fresh and creative ideas to inquiring communities in an uncertain world.
“Jon Joseph Roshi of San Mateo Zen and a senior teacher at the Pacific Zen Institute created the Zen Luminaries series to support the hardworking innovators and shining voices of modern Zen: scholars, writers, poets, translators, activists, artists, teachers, and more,” said the Pacific Zen Institute.
Barry Magid is a prominent American psychiatrist and lay Zen Buddhist teacher. Magid well known for his work integrating Western psychology with Eastern spiritual practices.
Magid began Zen training in the 1970s under Eido Tai Shimano, Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, and later Charlotte Joko Beck. He founded the Ordinary Mind Zendo in New York City in 1996, and received Dharma transmission from Beck in 1998.
As a psychiatrist, Magid developed a clinical approach that integrates Heinz Kohut’s Self Psychology and Relational psychoanalysis.
His writings include Ordinary Mind (2002), Ending the Pursuit of Happiness (2008), and Nothing Is Hidden (2013).
“Nothing is Hidden: The Psychology of Zen Koans” will be live-streamed at the following times:
Auckland: 2pm, Tuesday, 20 October
Canberra: 12pm, Tuesday, 20 October
Seoul, Tokyo: 10am, Tuesday, 20 October
Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei: 9am, Tuesday, 20 October
Bangkok, Jakarta: 8am, Tuesday, 20 October
New Delhi: 6:30am, Tuesday, 20 October
Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm: 3am, Tuesday, 20 October
London: 2am, Tuesday, 20 October
Montreal, New York: 9pm, Monday, 19 October
Los Angeles, Vancouver: 6pm, Monday, 19 October
Click here for full details and to register
The event is offered by voluntary donation. Proceeds go directly to the guest speaker.
Based in Santa Rosa, California, the Pacific Zen Institute is a community in the Rinzai tradition of Zen Buddhism. The center’s stated mission is to create a culture of transformation through meditation, koans, conversation, and the arts.
The Pacific Zen Luminaries Series was begun in 2021. Previous guests have included Roshi Joan Halifax, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Red Pine, also known as Bill Porter.
[Meditation] is a practice—something you do over and over again, as in “I’m practicing the guitar,” or “I’m practicing my video game.” If you practice meditation in this regular way, Buddhism has a mysterious and unpredictable healing power.
By mysterious, I mean that while the effect of meditation is more or less as advertised, you are on a journey that does not reveal all its features at once, and even the destination is uncertain. — John Tarrant, director of the Pacific Zen Institute
See more
Pacific Zen Institute
PZI Events Calendar (Pacific Zen Institute)
Pacific Zen Luminaries Archive: Index of Interviews (Pacific Zen Institute)
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