Retreat night consists of three 25-minute sitting periods with walking meditation in between - a time to sit quietly with no interruptions. With Rohatsu we observe the enlightenment of the historical Buddha.
Susan Moon is a writer, editor, and lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. She has been a Zen student since 1976, practicing in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, Green Gulch Farm, and with Zoketsu Norman Fischer’s Everyday Zen sangha. She received “entrustment” as a lay teacher […]