Sat Dec 18
Join the BoWZ-Westchester Sangha on Saturday mornings:
(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
IN PERSON (only if you are fully vaccinated, please)
Room 43 at
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Ave
White Plains, NY
ON ZOOM
https://zoom.us/j/2898507899
Audio Only: telephone 646-876-9923 & Enter Meeting ID: 289 850 7899
Passcode: 468468
Sat Dec 18: Practice to be led by Meredith Hotetsu Garmon and Seth Zuiho Segall
Zoom with Boundless Way Zen Temple in Worcester, MA at any of these times:
Mon-Fri, 7:00-8:00
Tue, Thu, Sun, 19:00-20:00
Zoom link: CLICK HERE
Autumn Week 13:
Dec 13 - 19
Reading
Barry Magid, Ending the Pursuit of Happiness,"The Meaning of Life," pp. 128-131.
Reading Schedule HERE
Koan
"Bodhisattvas in the Bath" (Blue Cliff Record 78)Sutras
Opening Verse for 10th Fourweek (Mon Nov 29 - Sun Dec 26): "Realizing the Zen Way," p. 5.Sutra Service 13.A.
- Heart Sutra, p. 11.
- The Misunderstanding of Many Lifetimes, p. 35.
- Self and Other the Same, p. 35.
- Guidepost for the Hall of Pure Bliss, p. 36.
To chant along with audio recording, find the recordings HERE.
Winter Week 1:
Dec 20-26
OUR SATURDAY MORNING SIT IS CANCELLED FOR DEC 25.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sutras
Opening Verse for 10th Fourweek (Mon Nov 29 - Sun Dec 26): "Realizing the Zen Way," p. 5.Sutra Service 1
- Precepts, p. 6.
To chant along with audio recording, find the recordings HERE.
Winter Week 2:
Dec 27 - Jan 2
Reading
Barry Magid, Ending the Pursuit of Happiness,"Doing Nothing," pp. 133-136.
Reading Schedule HERE
Koan
"Think Neither Good Nor Evil" (Gateless Gate 23)Sutras
Opening Verse for 11th Fourweek (Mon Dec 27 - Sun Jan 23): "The Fruit of the Bodhisattva Way," p. 6.Sutra Service 2.B.
- Liberation from All Obstructions, p. 8.
- Xinxinming (prose), p. 9.
To chant along with audio recording, find the recordings HERE.
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
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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