Half-day Sitting
Please join us for our bi-monthly half-day sitting. At the conclusion of the sitting, we will enjoy a social lunch together, so please bring a bag lunch.
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What We Can Trust: a One-day Zen Sitting
Zazen surfaces our "mind of clover," a pliant mind, a flexibile mind, a mind like clouds and water. This mind that is not "our" mind, but rather one that comes […]
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CLOSED – NO SATURDAY SITTING
Enjoy Labor Day weekend with family and friends.
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One-day Zen Sitting: Fostering the Mirror Awareness
In our Soto Zen-style one-day sittings we engage with alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, and silent bag lunch (please bring your own). If this is your […]
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Half-day Sitting
Our November 4th half-day sitting will be followed by a modified Oryoki (3-bowl) lunch at noon. This will help orient us to the meal practice that we will use for […]
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3-day Rohatsu Sesshin
"...when we practice zazen, it is not that big mind is actually controlling small mind, but simply that when small mind becomes calm, big mind starts it true activity." ~Suzuki […]
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Deep Listening as a Spiritual Practice, by Doralee Grindler Katonah
Suzuki Roshi said practice is about "listening to ourselves." This is not always so easy. Being truly understood by another helps us to listen within. In ordinary conversation, it is […]
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One-day Sitting, led by So On Jim Hare
"Outwardly still while inwardly moving, like a tethered colt or a trapped rat, the ancient sages pitied them and bestowed the teachings." - Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi "Traps […]
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Half-day Sitting – “Throughout the body, hands and eyes.”
Sitting zazen is extending an invitation to great compassion. Not doing anything, yet compassion arises spontaneously, "like reaching back for a pillow at night," according to one Zen story. On […]
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Seeing / Drawing Meditation Retreat
In drawing, we have an opportunity to set aside our egos while becoming one with the object. The investigation takes us into the essence of the object, seeing it as it […]