9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)

Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM

Dharma Talk: “Zazen is Zazen”

Speaker: Daigaku Rummé

Daigaku Rummé was born in Mason City, Iowa in 1950. He was ordained a Soto monk by Sekkei Harada Roshi in 1978. For more than twenty-seven years, he practiced under Harada Roshi at Hosshinji Monastery in Fukui, Japan. In March 2003, he moved to San Francisco to work on the staff of the Soto Zen Buddhism International Center. While in San Franciso, he lived at the San Francisco Zen Center.

In April 2010, Rummé went to Los Angeles where he worked as the Director of the Soto Zen Buddhism North America Office and as the Head Priest of Zenshuji Soto Mission. 

Retiring from his position in Los Angeles in April 2015, he relocated to St. Louis, MO where he is now the Resident Priest and Teacher at Confluence Zen Center STL. He is married to Kathleen Myoshin Rummé.

He is the translator of The Essence of Zen and, with Heiko Narrog, Unfathomable Depths, both by Harada Roshi, both published by Wisdom Publications. He is also the translator, with Keiko Ohmae, of A Blueprint of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Commentary on Dogen Zenji’s “Gakudo Yojinshu” – “Guidelines for Studying the Way” by Gien Inoue Roshi, published by Temple Ground Press, and Volume I of The Formless Record of Transmission of Illumination: A Contemporary Commentary on Keizan Zenji’s “Denkoroku” also by Gien Inoue Roshi.