Calendar
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Introduction to Zen meditation and zendo forms.
Forty-minute introduction for newcomers.
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Winter Solstice Celebration
Come share music, poetry, stories and refreshments with the sangha.
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Full Moon Ceremony
The ceremony is an affirmation of the vow to live for the benefit of all beings. In the Zen tradition we associate the full moon with the ideal of awakening.
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Discussion of Incense Offering
All sangha members are encouraged to attend this special meeting to review and perhaps revise our use of incense in the zendo.
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Introduction to Zen meditation
If you are new to Zen practice, we encourage you to attend this 40-minute introduction to Zen meditation which happens on the second Monday each month.
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Dharma Talk by John Briggs (postponed)
We will instead sit two periods of zazen and have a memorial service for two friends of the sangha.
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Practice Circle on Racism and Diversity
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. & Eihei Dogen.
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Half-day Sitting
Zen meditation retreat.
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Dharma Talk by Rev. Myo Lahey
Our guiding teacher from Hartford Street Zendo in San Francisco.
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Dharma Talk by Rev. Meiren Val Szymanski
Rev. Val Szymanski leads the Bamboo in the Wind Zen Center in Sunnyvale. She will introduce working with koans from The Book of Serenity. Rev. Szymanski will also speak and give meditation instruction on Sunday, January 31 at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group. Her topic for that evening will be Mazu's "White and Black", also from […]