9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
We will be closed for the Holidays
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
Please join us as we ring in the New Year. Ringing the big bell 108 times until the stroke of Midnight while chanting one stanza per minute from Master Dogen’s “108 Dharma Gates of Illumination”
Burn your memories and wishes for the year in the ritual fire, and party at midnight!
You are invited to join any or all:
07:30-09:00P Sitting Meditation
09:00-09:30P Udon Noodles Supper
10:00-12:00A Sitting Meditation with
“108 Gates” with Big Bell
12:00-01:00A BYO Party (no hard liquor)
Fire Ceremony
The safest way to sit out the old, and ring in the New Year!
No donation required. No donation refused.
INTRODUCTION to SOTO ZEN MEDITATION:
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Orientation and Instructions including 15-20 min meditation (ZAZEN) sessions with 5-min walking (kinhin)
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
Just Sit Saturday is your opportunity to enhance your daily practice and prepare for extended meditation in upcoming retreats offered during the year.
We will focus on just sitting zazen.
MORNING SESSIONS: 9 AM - NOON
(6) SESSIONS- 25 min sitting + 5 min walking
Suggested Program price: $25 or pay what you can afford.
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
INTRODUCTION to SOTO ZEN MEDITATION:
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Orientation and Instructions including 15-20 min meditation (ZAZEN) sessions with 5-min walking (kinhin)
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
INTRODUCTION to SOTO ZEN MEDITATION:
7:30-9:00 pm - Orientation and Instructions including 15-20 min meditation(ZAZEN) sessions with 5-min walking (kinhin)
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
Just Sit Saturday is your opportunity to enhance your daily practice and prepare for extended meditation in upcoming retreats offered during the year.
We will focus on just sitting zazen.
MORNING SESSIONS: 9 AM - NOON
(6) SESSIONS- 25 min sitting + 5 min walking
Suggested Program price: $25 or pay what you can afford.
ROHATSU is the annual celebration of Buddha’s Enlightenment. We emulate his supreme effort by sitting up all night on Saturday — outdoors weather permitting — and facing the East, where he saw the morning star, triggering his awakening. This year’s retreat is condensed into two days over the weekend, with arrival Friday evening (Dec. 13) for out-of-towners. We will begin sitting Saturday morning at 9am, and then we will join the regular program on Sunday AM.
All are invited to attend (at zendo or online) and follow the schedule as you are able. We recommend the overnight Saturday sit for those experienced in meditation. A recitation of selected teachings will be led by Elliston Roshi on Saturday afternoon following Just Sit Saturday that morning. Plan to come for all or any part of the schedule. Please click here to register.
Suggested Program price: $75 per day or pay what you can afford.
More info email taiunmelliston@gmail.com
Zoom Meeting Information
Meeting ID: 859 5621 0311
Passcode: aszc
INTRODUCTION to SOTO ZEN MEDITATION:
7:30-9:00 pm - Orientation and Instructions including 15-20 min meditation(ZAZEN) sessions with 5-min walking (kinhin)
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM
Speaker: Roshi, Senior Teacher, or Guest
INTRODUCTION to SOTO ZEN MEDITATION:
7:30-9:00 pm - Orientation and Instructions including 15-20 min meditation(ZAZEN) sessions with 5-min walking (kinhin)
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM
Dharma Talk: 10:30 AM — Counting Stars
Speaker: Guest Speaker Shana Smith
Shana Smith is an appointed Assistant Teacher with Sanbo Zen International, and the guiding teacher of Florida Sanbo Zen Center in Gainesville, Florida. Her root teacher is Valerie Forstman Roshi of the Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also studies with Henry Shukman Roshi, Ruben Habito Roshi, and Sanbo Zen International Abbott Yamada Ryoun Roshi. Shana is a RYT-500 yoga teacher and has been a yogi since 1992. Her yoga practice led her to a yoga temple in 2002, where she learned meditation and began a daily practice. In 2006, she became curious about deepening her meditation through Zen and joined a local Sanbo Zen sangha; it was a coming home. In 2007, she took refuge in the Sanbo Zen lineage with Valerie Forstman Roshi.
Shana Sensei has a Master's degree in Biological Oceanography, is a multiple award-winning children's musician, and is a published, Florida Book award-winning novelist for her historical fiction novel "Islands of Cedars." Zen consistently informs, sustains, and inspires her life as a parent, writer, yogi, musician, teacher, ecologist, and lifelong student. www.ShanaSmithWriter.com www.ShanaBanana.com Coming soon: www.FloridaSanboZen.com (under construction)
We will be closed for the Thanksgiving Holiday
The first 25 minutes is zazen(meditation) followed by an informal discussion on the book that ends at 9:00 PM. Contact info@aszcinfo@gmail.com for more meeting password.
