Greetings dear friends!
We will be sitting this week on Friday, January 25, at 7:00PM.
Again, to catch up and get back on schedule, we are doubling up on the reading.  For this time, the reading from Phillip Kapleau’s The Three Pillars of Zen this week will be Part One, Section III, Students D and E.  After this, we are […]

Greetings,
We will be sitting this week on Friday, January 18, at 7:00PM.
We are going to try to catch up and get back on schedule, so the reading from Phillip Kapleau’s The Three Pillars of Zen this week will be ALL of Part One, Section III, Student C.
This week’s case is Gatless Gate (Wumen Guan) #17:
“The […]

Hello Sangha,
We will have our weekly Zen practice today, January 11, at 7pm at the Unitarian Universalist church.  Because of the holidays, I am uncertain as to where we are in our reading. Look forward to seeing you soon!
With a gassho and a bow,
Shana
Today’s case is #29 from the Gateless Gate (Wumen Guan):
The wind was […]

Dear Zen Friends:
On Friday Jan 4, we will have a special ceremony to invite the
freshness
of the new year into our lives. After our usual two sits, we will
have
only one chant — the Heart Sutra — then immediately serve the tea.
Tana Silva and a CD from Thich Nhat Hanh will then lead us through an
exercise of […]