August 2016

Newcomer Orientation: 2nd Monday of the month, CC Shove Chapel, Dharma Hall upstairs at 5:45 pm to meet anyone who would like some orientation to meditation, to our tradition, or to our sangha and customs.

5:15 Dharma Study and Discussion before Monday’s meditation, with Sarah Bender Sensei: Shove Chapel Downstairs, from the north entrance. Topics are variable. Sometimes we discuss a reading; sometimes we discuss a question or observation someone brings. Come on down and check it out.For the next eight weeks, the 5:15 Dharma discussion will include readings from John Tarrant’s book about koans, “Bring Me the Rhinoceros.”  Group members will be taking turns facilitating discussion.  The book is not hard to find second hand, and you are welcome to join in.

Zen Threads: Zen Threads talks will take a summer vacation.  They’ll start up again in September.  Meanwhile,once our nomadic Dharma hall is packed away on Saturday mornings, some of us often go to Wooglins for breakfast and conversation.
 Dharma Talks:
 August 22 Andrew Palmer, Sensei

Work in the Room: Saturday morning, August 20, 6:30 to 8:30 AM with Andrew Palmer, SenseiIndividual meetings with a teacher, which we call “Work in the room,” are opportunities to sit face to face and take up what is most alive for you.For a Saturday morning conversation, you’ll have up to 20 minutes. You’ll go downstairs and the teacher will be waiting there for a private conversation.

This is a chance to ask questions about your meditation practice, to ask for instruction, to explore an experience you’ve had, to investigate how your practice looks as it gets up off the cushion and travels through your day and night…..to wake up to this very life of your own.

You don’t have to have formed an individual student-teacher commitment to do this. Everyone is welcome.

This said, it is also possible to form an individual student-teacher relationship, and these can be very powerful in nourishing our practice. Ask a teacher if you’d like to know more about this.

To schedule an appointment for August 20, please contact  Andrew Palmer (alpsensei@gmail.com)

You can also make an appointment to meet with
Andrew (alpsensei@gmail.com) or
Sarah (sembender@gmail.com)  at another time.