The Wild Goose Sangha group host weekly sessions of three 25 minute sections of sitting meditaiton (or Zazen), interspersed with five minutes of walking and occasional one-to-one talking sessions.
The sessions were run by Canon Chris Collingwood, an Anglican priest who is also a zen teacher and referred to as the Sensei within the meditation sessions.
According to the Guardian, the sessions have now been cancelled after the Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, the dean of York Minster, is thought to have ended York Minster’s association with the group.
Concerns were also raised three years ago about the compatibility of zen – and its links to Buddhism – and Christianity.
Canon Chris Collingwood’s profile on the zen group’s website says that the priest was first introduced to the practice of Zen by another Anglican priest who was a member of the Oxford Zen Centre.
He received the qualification of a lay Buddhist practitioner of Jukai in October 2015.
In July 2016, he was given the name Ryushin (Dragon Heart) and has written the book ‘Zen Wisdom For Christians’.
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