Two-Day Gardening and Facilities Retreat (March 12-13, 2016)
2016 Facilities retreat schedule March 12 & 13, 2016 This schedule applies to both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday is the beginning of Daylight Savings Time so be sure to set your clocks ahead or you will miss sitting on Sunday. Please feel free to attend any portion of this retreat. No need to attend it all. This is a chance for all of us to take care of and improve our meditation ‘home’ in community with others who use it. 8:30 – 9:30 Meditation. 9:30 -10:00 Orientation to jobs and stretching, change clothes. 10:00 – 12:00 Work (Silence)....
read moreTwo-Day Zen Retreat with Jack Duffy (February 13,14 )
On February 13,14 , Three Treasures will host its monthly retreat. The two days include meditation, teisho (talks) and dokusan (interviews) with teacher Jack Duffy Roshi. The schedule is below. SCHEDULE Saturday, February 13th 9:00am — Chanting 9:30am — Zazen (Meditation) 10:10am — Dokusan (Interview with Jack Duffy) 12:00pm — Lunch/Work Period (Informal, bring your own lunch) 1:30pm — Zazen 2:00pm — Teisho (Talk by Jack) 3:00pm — Zazen/Dokusan 4:20pm — Closing Ceremony 4:30pm — End...
read moreDemon of Doubt: Zen Meditation Retreat with Madelon Bolling (July 12)
Please join us on July 12th for a day of Zen meditation and a talk on the demon of doubt and Miao-Dao, one of our Zen women ancestors. Do you ever arrive at a Zen meditation retreat and wonder what in the world you’re doing? Even though you’ve done years and years of retreats — or maybe because you’ve done them — doubt arises. Here’s a chance to consider doubt, to lean in and look it in the face. Miao-Dao was the first Dharma heir of Dahui, a pivotal teacher of the Linji school. Though she did not establish...
read moreOne-Day Zen Retreat (Zazenkai) with Lee Shield on June 14th
Please join us for a day of sitting and a dharma talk from Lee Shields. Lee will talk on Zen attention in relationship. In his last talk–“Zen Koans in Relationship–I emphasized aspects of koans pointing directly to the fact, without concepts like self and other. In this talk he’ll again consider relationship, while this time emphasizing the practice – attention, attention, attention! Schedule 9:00am Opening, Five Remembrances, Zazen 9:35am Zazen 10:30am Dharma talk: Zen Attention in Relationship? 11:30am Zazen...
read moreWalking 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. ...
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...
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,...
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;...
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...
read moreZenkai 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...
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