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  • Sunday Service: 10:00am-12pm
    Early Sunday Sit: 8:30-9:30am
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  • Monday Evening: 7:00-8:45pm
  • Wednesday Evening: 7:00-8:30pm
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On the Compassion of Emptiness – Dr. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth

On the Compassion of Emptiness – Dr. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth

“Oh, Shariputra, Have You Not Heard? On the Compassion of Emptiness.” Dr. Jason Tetsuzen Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University.  He was ordained a priest in the Soto Zen tradition in 2010 in Japan and is the founder and co-director of the Seattle University EcoSangha. His most recent books include Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY 2017), Engaging Dogen’s Zen (Wisdom 2016), and most recently, Nietzsche and Other Buddhas (Indiana 2019).