Zazenkai, June 8: Even Prior to Heaven and Earth

Posted by on May 28, 2014 in Meditation Retreat, Practice Opportunity | Comments Off on Zazenkai, June 8: Even Prior to Heaven and Earth

Please join us on Sunday June 8 at Dharma Gate for a one-day zenkai with Madelon from 9am to 3pm.
There will be an informal lunch, with soup, as well as brad & cheese for sandwiches, provided; please bring other sandwich fixings or other food to share. We will consider hints given in Daio Kokushi’s verse On Zen, settling in to the deep attraction that practice holds even in the presence of the contradictions of daily experience.

The schedule will be as follows:

9:00 Opening, Five Remembrances, Zazen

9:35 Pointers: selected lines of On Zen, Zazen

10:30 Recitation: Daio Kokushi’s On Zen, Dharma talk, Comments and discussion, Kinhin

11:30 Zazen

12:30 Informal lunch (Soup, bread & cheese provided. Please bring sandwich fixings or other food to share.)

1:30 Sutras

2:00 Zazen, Interviews

2:50 Closing, Great Vows

We’re looking forward to sitting with you.