Jul 13-19

Summer, week 4

Join the BoWZ-Westchester Sangha via Zoom every Saturday morning:
9:45a Eastern -- informal conversation
10:00a Eastern -- practice begins

https://zoom.us/j/2898507899
Audio Only: telephone 646-876-9923 & Enter Meeting ID: 289 850 7899

This Week's Reading for Sat Jul 18

• Taizan Maezumi, Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice, "Three 'Pillows' of Zen," p. 13-16
• Reading Schedule HERE.

Questions
How would you explain Maezumi's meaning in each of these:

• "How can we perceive properly? By making ourselves empty; by not being attached to our concepts of the things we perceive."
• "But how can we fully experience this unlimited, boundless life? Simply forget the self. Be this life!"
• "Even though we are the Way, we don't know it."

This Week's Raven Tale

• #131: The Void   ☙   Raven Index.

Home Practice

• Light a candle or stick of incense, or both
• Three bows to Buddha
• Gatha of Atonement (odd-numbered dates) or The Three Refuges (even-numbered dates);
• Dedication (use Sutra Book and audio below)
• Opening Verse (use Sutra Book and audio below)
• Zazen (25 mins)
• Sutra Service Readings (use Sutra Book and audio below)
• Dharma Study (book or podcast, 15-30 mins)
• Closing Verse (use Sutra Book and audio below)

Sutra Book for printing (two-columned pages): CLICK HERE. Sutra Book for reading on your computer screen (one-column pages): CLICK HERE. Page references are to the two-column version.

Opening: Odd-Numbered Dates

• Gatha of Atonement, p. 1
• Dedication 1, p. 1
• The Five Remembrances, p. 4

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.


Opening: Even-Numbered Dates

• The Three Refuges, p. 1
• Dedication 1, p. 1
• The Five Remembrances, p. 4

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.


Zazen

• 25 mins.

Sutra Service

• Sutra for Jul 13-19: Week 4.B. ("Komyozo Zanmai," p. 15; "Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva," p. 15)

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.

Dharma Study

• Book or podcast, 15-30 mins.

Closing Verse for Mon Jun 15 - Sun Jul 12

• The Way of Tenderness, p. 40; The Four Bodhisattva Vows, p. 42.

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.



ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES
Mon-Fri mornings, 7 AM -8 AM -- join Meredith and the Worcester Boundless Way Zen teachers for morning practice.
Or zoom in for evening practice on Sun, Tue, and Thu evenings, 7 PM - 8 PM
Zoom link: CLICK HERE

White Plains Zen Center:
Tue evenings: 7:30 PM
https://zoom.us/j/122286388

Hudson River Zen Center:
http://hudsonriverzencenter.org/

Insight Meditation with Nina Nagy
Mon evenings: 6 PM
https://www.awakeabiding.com/