Zenkai with Jack Duffy Roshi – February 14-15
Three Treasures Sangha is hosting a two-day retreat with Jack Duffy Roshi at Dharma Gate zendo on February 14-15th. Jack Duffy will give a talk each day and hold dokusan (practice-related interviews). Everyone is welcome even if you haven’t attended a Three Treasures Sangha retreat. Bring your own lunch on Saturday. Breakfast will be served on Sunday. If you’re looking for other opportunities to sit Zen with Three Treasures, check out our Calendar. For more information about this or other retreats, contact...
Read MorePoetry of Ancestors Retreat at Mountain Lamp – May 10 – 30
A three-week Poetry Study Retreat will be held from May 10-30 at Mountain Lamp. The retreat will be led by Jack Duffy and Eileen Kiera, and includes a weekend with Red Pine. For more information download the flyer: ML 3-Week Spring Retreat 2014. To register, visit mountainlamp.org.
Read MoreRain Chain
By Madelon Bolling I don’t know how to write frost melting to drip gold, wink red, clear — pinging the bronze cups chained under eaves, enticing fall of cold-trapped water from air to earth because there never was frost or bronze cups or eaves, let alone air or earth but in these words that freeze us to them until — a bumblebee lands right here on the page, fuzzy amber on black legs, ticking, ticking over these weed-scratches that will yield no pollen and we melt open in the hawk’s call, the horse-snorting rooster-crow singing tablesaw and echoing gunshot several...
Read MoreUndoing the Usual – Zenkai Talk by Madelon Bolling (Feb 9-10, 2014)
How can we extend the experience of sesshin and bring that settled focus into our workaday life? Right after sesshin, things often seem to go smoothly for awhile. For a few days as we recover from exhaustion and notice the strangeness of our surroundings, meal gathas echo quietly in our minds when we look around the lunchroom at work. Dōgen’s words about practice and enlightenment gentle us into the same directness we had as Cook, Chopper, Dishwasher or Bathroom Cleaner during sesshin. That experience enfolds us as we cook, chop, wash dishes and clean bathrooms at home and as we perform...
Read MoreParticipate in Online Discussion on Zen Master Keizan’s Transmitting the Light
You can read Jack’s comments or post a comment at: rocksandstreams.palousezen.org Book currently under discussion: Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan’s Denkoroku with translations by both Francis Cook and Thomas Cleary Schedule of Postings: 10/19: Nagarjuna, 14th Ancestor 10/26: Rahulata, 16th Ancestor 11/2: Gayasata, 18th Ancestor 11/9: Shih-t’ou, 36th Ancestor (Coincidence of Opposites’ Grass-Roof Hermitage) 11/14-17: Retreat at Kairos; Spokane (Please join us) 11/23: T’ung-an Kuan-chih 11/29: L’ang-shan Yuan-kuan 11/29-12/7: Winter Bones Rohatsu...
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