Zen is a
spiritual tradition that guides us in uncovering our inherent
wisdom and compassion, rejuvenating and awakening our vital
energies and natural capacities for meeting everyday challenges
with success.
Zen empowers us to discover who we really
are by engaging a simple yet profound practice (meditation)
called - shikantaza - just sitting, Teisho (Dharma lessons),
Dokusan (Private Spiritual Direction), and Samu (Generosity and
Caretaker practice), the Four Principal Components of Zen
Training.
The Way of Zen
helps us discover how to recognize and settle into our place in
the world, and to encounter it through the quality of all
victorious mastery.
The Saturday
Morning Program is designed for persons with very busy
weekday schedules, who wish to establish some kind of spiritual
practice, and develop a sustainable regular meditation practice
and the fundamental skills that support bringing quiet
mind-zen mind into everyday situations and relationships.
This Saturday
morning instruction will familiarize new students with the bare
bones of Zen practice, while providing the more seasoned
student with another opportunity to develop their practice.
After attending
meditation instruction for the first time, you are welcome to
begin sitting in the zendo at the regularly scheduled times.
No registration
for the Saturday Morning Program is required.
The donation is
$10.
1st & 2nd Saturday
of the Month
8:00 AM -
Introduction
(First time guests
are strongly encouraged to attend the 30 minute introductory
teaching. Please plan to arrive on time.)
8:30 AM -
Meditation (Zazen)
Dokusan (Spiritual
Direction reserved for members only)
Tea
Ceremony, Service, Dharma Lecture
12:00 PM - Lunch
*Lunch is optional and usually
follows the completion of Samu. if you
plan to stay for lunch please let us know in advance by calling
609.268.9151. Thank you.
12:30 PM
-
Samu (Caretaker
Practice)
Samu, the
cultivation of work as spiritual practice, is one of the
four principal components of Zen practice along with
zazen, Teisho, and Dokusan. It is essential that we
learn to enter into work as an act of selflessness and
realization. Samu includes the practice of dana (giving
or generosity), mindfulness, and devotion.
*Please plan on
arriving at 7:45 AM. The event will begin on time.
* There will be no
Program on Saturday November 1, 2008 or December 13, 2008.
Donation $10
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