A Zen Response with Rev. Takafumi Kawakami

About this Conversation

What can we learn and apply from Zen for the lockdown and pandemic that envelopes us? What is good and what is bad about what we are experiencing moment to moment? How can we maintain our calm throughout the home and sense of our place in the world around us? 

For this conversation we talk with fifth generation priest, Rev. Takafumi Kawakami live from his Kyoto temple.

Rev. Takafumi Kawakami

Rev. Takafumi Kawakami is deputy head priest of Shunkoin Temple in Kyoto and teaches Zen meditation classes in English to his 5,000 annual visitors. His travels and talks have brought him to the likes of MIT, Brown University, TEDxKyoto & Ideo. Shunkoin is the first Buddhist temple in Japan that publicly started offering same-sex wedding ceremonies and is located inside the Myoshinji complex established in 1590 housing one of the oldest Christian bells in Japan.

Why you should listen?

The Rev. Takafumi Kawakami travels the world giving talks about the zen & mindfulness, and how these practices can help improve our lives in these modern and hectic times and help us be more creative and satisfied in our work. There probably isn't a time where these ideas are more needed than today and nobody is better placed to share them than Taka.