Walking Zen Meditation Retreat – May 31st
what might we learn about going through life by attending to a most ordinary action: walking? The old Zen way in China was to practice for a time in one monastery and then walk cross country to another monastery, rounding out one’s understanding with the view from one mountain – then the next mountain. Zen masters and their mountains are indistinguishable. Retreat Information Please join Three Treasures Sangha for a morning of walking and sitting practice enjoying silence and alertness in Magnuson Park, Seattle. Schedule When: Sunday May 31, 9:00am to noon,...
Read MoreOne-Day Zen Retreat (Zazenkai) with Madelon Bolling
Please join us on May 10th for a day of sitting and a dharma talk. Madelon Bolling will talk on Jishou Daojen, a person mentioned in the Three Treasures Sangha sesshin dedication. All that we know of Jishou Daojen is that it was a person who studied with the old monk Yuanwu (1063 – 1135). “When I read the name in our sesshin (retreat) dedication, I didn’t know if it referred to a man, woman, or myth. Had such a person ever existed? Why does this name appear among our other ancestors? More about what I learned from further detective work will be reported on May 10th. ...
Read MoreApril 12th Zen Retreat: Practicing Zen Koans in Relationship
On April 12, 2015, Three Treasures Sangha is hosting a day-long retreat (zazenkai) with Lee Shields. During the retreat, Lee will focus on practicing Zen koans in relationship. In his talk, Lee will show how two koans apply to how we can relate to the everyday here and now. You’ll see how every interaction is a koan story, a chance to recognize that there is no separation of self and other, and a chance to offer a genuine response in our encounters. Schedule 9:00am Opening, Five Remembrances, Zazen 9:35am Zazen: Offering of selected lines of...
Read MoreBranching Moon Sesshin March 28 – April 4 with Jack Duffy Rōshi
Three Treasures Sangha is hosting a sesshin with Jack Duffy Rōshi at Mountain Lamp, a rural practice center near Bellingham, Washington, from March 28 – April 4. A sesshin is a week-long, intensive retreat in the Zen Buddhist tradition. Sesshin means to touch, receive, and convey the mind. During sesshin participants focus on their meditation, listen to talks, meet with the teacher, and perform jobs necessary to sustain the retreat. To touch the mind is to touch that which is not born and does not die; it does not come or go, and is always at rest. It...
Read MoreThe Buddha Project – An Inter-Sangha Event with Anita Feng, May 1 & 2
By Madelon Bolling Zen is not a very popular tradition these days, and many sanghas are dwindling. Local leaders have begun offering inter-sangha events so that we might carry the Dharma forward through supporting one another. Here’s a unique opportunity to learn from a wonderful artist and teacher, Anita Feng, the resident teacher of Blue Heron Zen, a Korean Zen tradition. Her Dharma teaching flowers in encouraging creativity in others, something she has done both here and overseas. If you’ve ever wished to try sculpting and have an affinity for Buddhist images, please accept...
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