Darmaræða með José Kōkai, laugardaginn 28. feb.

​Næstkomandi laugardag 28. febrúar 2026 mun José Kōkai flytja darmaræðu að Kletthálsi 1. Fyrirlesturinn er öllum opinn og hefst stundvíslega kl. 9:15. Kokai hefur ævilanga reynslu í Zen, Vajrayana og Pure Land og er vígður prestur í Shin-hefðinni. Hann kennir hugleiðslu og darmað af djúpri þekkingu og við erum heppin að fá hann í heimsókn og hlökkum til að hlýða á hann næsta laugardag.

Rev. José M. “Kōkai” Tirado, is a Shin Buddhist priest who has extensively practiced and studied in three main Buddhist traditions (Zen, Vajrayana, and Pure Land) since the mid-1970s. He has an MA in Engaged Buddhism, an MA in psychology, later doing doctoral work in the same (focusing on the psychophysiology of meditation). He is a psychological counselor and former hospital Chaplain and Chaplain Supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education, concentrating on work with cancer patients and the terminally ill. He has been teaching meditation since 1997 and is currently teaching in the School of Education´s Department of International Studies. José has also been teaching Buddhist meditation for around 10 years at the University in the Hugleiðsluhópur Háskólans group, meeting weekly and he hosts Facebook group of the same name. He speaks regularly of the benefits of meditation practice not only for concentration and calm but for its originally intended purpose: to assist people in overcoming their deepest obstacles to living full and complete lives away from the limitations of our habitual patterns and instead, characterized by openness, naturalness, and spontaneity.

Allir eru hjartanlega velkomnir á ræðuna. Athugið að aðgangur er ókeypis. Að venju hefst dagskrá laugardagsins með sitjandi hugleiðslu kl. 08:00.

Í djúpu gassho vonumst við til að sjá ykkur öll.

-Alfred Chozetsu ​