(Times: US Eastern)
9:45-10:00 -- Informal conversation
10:00 -- Opening Dedication, Readings, Zazen, Kinhin, Zazen
11:00 -- Sutra Service
11:15 -- Dharma Talk and Conversation
12:00 -- Closing Readings
https://zoom.us/j/2898507899
Audio Only: telephone 646-876-9923 & Enter Meeting ID: 289 850 7899
Passcode: 468468
Sat Mar 13: Practice to be led by Meredith Garmon; talk by Meredith & Seth
Zoom with Boundless Way Zen Temple in Worcester, MA at any of these times:
Mon-Fri, 7-8am
Tue, Thu, Sun, 7-8pm
Zoom link: CLICK HERE
For Winter Week 12: Mon Mar 8 - Sun Mar 14
Reading for Sat Mar 13
- The Saturday Talk will address the readings in the week's Sutra Service: Suffusion with Divine Abidings; Secrets on Cultivating the Mind.
Week 12 Raven Tale
Week 12 Sutras
Dedication- For odd-numbered days, begins with Gatha of Atonement (AUDIO)
- For even-numbered days, begins with The Three Refuges (AUDIO)
- World of Dew and Compassion, p. 6
- Suffusion with Divine Abidings, p. 34
- Secrets on Cultivating the Mind, p. 34
- To Change Every Moment, p. 42
- The Four Bodhisattva Vows, p. 42
For Winter Week 13: Mon Mar 15 - Sun Mar 21
Reading for Sat Mar 20
- The Saturday Talk will address the readings in the week's Sutra Service: Heart Sutra, Facing Everything, The Field of Boundless Emptiness, and Guidepost for Silent Illumination.
Week 13 Raven Tale
- "Zazen"
Week 13 Sutras
Dedication- For odd-numbered days, begins with Gatha of Atonement (AUDIO)
- For even-numbered days, begins with The Three Refuges (AUDIO)
- World of Dew and Compassion, p. 6
- Heart Sutra, p. 11
- Facing Everything, p. 36
- The Field of Boundless Emptiness, p. 36
- Guidepost for Silent Illumination, p. 37
- To Change Every Moment, p. 42
- The Four Bodhisattva Vows, p. 42
Sutra Book
For printing (double-columned pages):CLICK HERE. (Page references are to this double-column version.)For reading on your computer screen (single-column pages):CLICK HERE.
Chant Along with these Audio Files: CLICK HERE.
Home Practice
Practicing every day, or nearly every day, is a crucial aspect of the Zen path. Other central aspects include sangha (meeting weekly or so to practice with a group), and sesshin (going on occasional week-end or week-long Zen retreats).Home practice ideally includes Zazen, study of zen text (or listening to a recording or podcast of a dharma talk), and chanting/reciting some of Zen's central texts.
Recommended:
- Sitting supplies: A zabuton (mat) and either a zafu (round cushion, usually of kapok or buckwheat hulls), or a seiza bench (kneeling bench); or a chair that is your meditation chair
- A dedicated space: A corner of a room that is used only for Zen practice, where your sitting supplies and a small altar reside
- An altar: a small table with a Buddha statue and maybe an incense holder, candle, or sacred items.
- Light a candle, stick of incense, or both, on your altar.
- Standing in front of altar, facing it, make three bows (prostrations or standing bows) to Buddha.
- Recite "Gatha of Atonement" (odd-numbered dates) or "The Three Refuges" (even-numbered dates);
- Recite Dedication and Opening Verse (see Sutra Book)
- Zazen (25 mins)
- Recite the Sutra Service Readings for the week (see Sutra Book)
- Dharma Study time: reading a dharma book or listening to a dharma talk recording (15-30 mins). (Check out "A Quarterly Study Plan" on the Reading/Videos page.)
- Recite Closing Verses (see Sutra Book)
Additional Practice Opportunities
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/
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