Tricycle’s Meditation Group for Tricycle subscribers provides weekly meditations and small group discussions with leading Buddhist teachers.
This November, Kristin Diggs will offer teachings based on one of the most influential texts in the Zen tradition, the Sandokai (Cantong qi), an 8th century poem written by Sekito Kisen (Shítóu Xīqiān), translated as Harmony of Difference and Equality or Unity of Difference and Sameness.
In the Soto Zen tradition, the “harmony” or “unity” expounded by this poem is understood as an expression of wholeness, indivisibility, and total dynamic inclusion. The Sandokai expresses the truth of the essential inseparability of myriad forms of life, the great earth and cosmos and all living beings, without obscuring or diminishing diversity of appearances, expressions, and experiences, and without glossing over love, violence, joy, devastation, and the suffering of sentient beings.
The “hidden” teachings of the Harmony of Difference and Equality are medicine for the roots of division and irreconcilability in our hearts and minds, teachings that flow from a transformational path of practice, and that are as pertinent today and everywhere as ever before.
Here is the schedule for November:
Monday, November 2, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET
Monday, November 9, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET
Monday, November 16, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET
Monday, November 23, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET
Monday, November 30, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET
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Speakers
Kristin Diggs
Kristin Diggs is a Soto Zen priest who began her Zen practice in 2004 in western MA, while practicing as a certified hatha yoga teacher and, later, studying under a teacher and scholar in the nondual tradition of Advaita Vedanta. Following years of work in the field of international human rights and graduate work in counseling psychology, she began ten years of residential Zen training at San Francisco Center’s (SFZC) three temples – Green Gulch Farm, Tassajara, and City Center – between 2014 and 2025. She was lay ordained, and later ordained as a priest, at Green Dragon Temple, Green Gulch Farm by Tenshin Reb Anderson and Eijun Linda Cutts. In 2022, she began studying with Konjin Gaelyn Godwin. In 2025 she served as Shuso at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center during the 2025 winter ango led by Eijun Cutts. Kristin currently resides in Northern CA and teaches at the Valley Streams Zen Sangha, SFZC, online, and at other centers by invitation.
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Dates:
Mon, Nov 2, 11 a.m. ET
Mon, Nov 9, 11 a.m. ET
Mon, Nov 16, 11 a.m. ET
Mon, Nov 23, 11 a.m. ET
Mon, Nov 30, 11 a.m. ET
- Length of Time: 60 mins
- Format: Zoom meeting
- Price: Tricycle Subscribers: Free
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