Ango Opening Remarks at Fire Lotus Temple
Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei
Zen Center of New York City, Fire Lotus Temple, Brooklyn, Sunday 08/30/2026
Join Hojin Sensei offering opening remarks to the practitioners at Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn to begin the Fall Ango Practice Period:
Now the hundreds of grasses are actually gathering for the Fall.
Plucked from the entire earth, there would be ten million stalks.
One flower with five petals opens in the sky and the mud.
Without doubt it will naturally bear fruit.
—Dogen’s words opening an Ango practice period.
