“It is better to travel well than to arrive.“
Winter Saturday Meditation Schedule September – December
Saturday meditation will be from 6:30 – 8:30 am. All are welcome.
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Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level)
Dharma Talk
Join us for a Dharma talk on Monday, September 16th with Sarah Bender, Sensei, during our regular Monday-night meditation.
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Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level)
Work in the Room (WITR)
There will be no WITR this month due to the Autumn Equinox retreat. We’ll resume this in October.
Newcomer Orientation
Monday, September 9th at the Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level). This for anyone who would like a brief orientation to meditation, our tradition, or our Sangha and customs. Following the orientation, you’re invited to join us for meditation at 6:10 pm.
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Time: 5:45 pm
Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level)
Wayfaring Mind Talk
Join us for wayfaring mind talk by J Vitkus on September 30th during our regular Monday meditation.
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Location: Shove Chapel Dharma Hall (main level).
Sutra Study and Discussion
Join us for sutra study and discussion each Monday in September with Sarah Bender, Sensei and Andrew Palmer, Sensei.
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Time: 5:30 – 6 pm
Location: Shove Chapel (downstairs).
Autumn Equinox Retreat
Our Autumn Equinox Refuge Retreat with Sarah Bender begins under the Harvest Moon, and will include a Ceremony of Taking Refuge in the Bodhisattva Way. What a fitting way to enter the season! We will take refuge together in awakening, the way and our companions. With days together in the luxury of silence and deep practice, we create and enact this refuge, sharing the harvest. We will close the retreat on Sunday with a brief ceremony of offering the harvest to all beings, sharing a potluck meal to which all members of the community will be invited.
Part-time participants are welcome, so long as you can come for a block or more of sitting — 5:30-7 a.m., 9 a.m.-noon, 2-5 p.m., 6:30-9 p.m.
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Date: September 19 – 22
Daily Schedule:
- Thursday, 7:00p – 9:00p
- Friday/Saturday, 5:30a – 9p
- Sunday, 5:30a – 3:00p
Location: To be announced.
Cost: Whole retreat, $225; daily rate to be announced.
Registration/Information: Steve Milligan, steve_milligan08@comcast.net.
Registration Form: Please click here.
Precepts Study
Precepts Study continues: The meetings of the group that will be studying and practicing our Bodhisattva Vows together will be September 1, 8, 15. Meetings will be at Creek Bend Zendo, led by Sarah Bender, Sensei and Andrew Palmer, Sensei. If you are interested in this study please know that you are very welcome and encouraged to enter in at this time. Contact Sarah Bender if you have questions.
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Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Creek Bend Zendo, 7528 Jenkin Place
Steering Committee Meeting
The next Steering Committee meeting is September 11th at Linda Hodges’s house.
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Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Looking Ahead…
September: Retreat with Sarah Bender, Sensei, September 19-22
October: Fall All Sangha Meeting, October 20. Two Community Talks, October 23 and November 6th, with Sarah Bender, Sensei, at the Penrose Library Carnegie Room, 6:30p – 8:00p.
December: December Retreat with David Weinstein, Roshi, December 4-8
About Dana
We depend on the generosity of our members to support the work of our sangha. Donations are gratefully received in the Dana bowl in the alcove of the meditation hall in Shove Chapel. Also, everyone is invited to contribute flowers for the altar and cookies for Community Nights.
“Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.“