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Stillness Within the Pulses of the Pattern

Stillness Within the Pulses of the Pattern

Jody Hojin Kimmel, Sensei

Zen Center of New York City, Brooklyn, Sunday 01/04/2026

In this talk Hojin draws on the teachings of Zen Master Bankei and the importance of allowing the still point to find us. All so very relevant. His teachings point to something very simple and very radical: before thought, before preference, before judgment—seeing happens, hearing happens, smelling, tasting, touching happens. And none of that needs a self to make it happen. How curious!

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