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It is possible to sit part of the sesshin, but please come to orientation on Friday night, and commit to sitting for at least two days. The zendo will be open by 4 PM on Friday. In order to help all of us settle into the schedule and our zazen practice, please arrive on time for orientation on Friday night.įollowing orientation, silence will be observed. Sesshin will begin at 7 PM on Friday evening with orientation and job assignments. Our practice is supported by the entire universe and each of us is supporting everyone else. We begin sesshin together, we sit together, walk together, eat together, and work together. Sesshin is an intimate way to practice with ourselves and others.

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How to include more parts of ourselves in our practice. Rohatsu Sesshin Led by Josho Pat Phelan Roshiįriday, December 9 to Wednesday, December 14 If you have agenda items, please contact the Board President, John Paredes at the General Meeting via Zoom Everyone is encouraged to attend, but attendance by Participating Members is especially needed in order to reach a quorum. The nominees for the next Board of Directors will be introduced and the budget for 2023 will be presented. The General Meeting, the annual members' business meeting, will be held Sunday morning, November 6, at 11 AM, by Zoom, following Zoom zazen. In November he will publish his sixth novel, Hank Heals: A Novel of Miracles. He has co-authored two books with Larry Rosenberg of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center - Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation and Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive and is the author of Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence. For more information, or to sign up, please contact David Guy at (919) 641-9277 or do not attend the class without contacting David first.ĭavid Guy has been practicing meditation since 1991, and regularly gives sitting instruction at the Chapel Hill Zen Center. The cost will be $60, payable the first night, and will be contributed to the Zen Center. Classes will begin on October 10 and end on November 14. We will follow the current Zen Center guidelines: students must be vaccinated and boosted, and wear N95 or KN95 masks when inside. The class will meet at the Chapel Hill Zen Center on Monday nights for six weeks, from 7:30 to 9 PM. The content of the class will emerge from students' questions and concerns. But the focus will be on zazen, and the students' actual practice as it unfolds. As the weeks proceed we will study other aspects of Zen practice, including walking meditation, protocol around the zendo, and the service of bowing and chanting. Students will have a chance to ask questions and raise concerns about their practice. Each week we will continue to sit for a period at the beginning of class, gradually increasing the time. We will begin on the first night with meditation instructions and a short period of sitting. It will also introduce them to other aspects of practice at the Chapel Hill Zen Center. This class will introduce beginning students to meditation and give them support as they develop a daily sitting practice.

We hear the instructions in a matter of minutes, but spend a lifetime learning the practice.

Zen Meditation, or zazen, is the simple practice of being present with our experience. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Beginning Zen Practice A Class with David Guy Please see announcement details below for more information.įor information and to register, see details below. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 6 and 6:50 AM. Sunday mornings at 9 and 9:40 AM (beginning Sunday, October 2), on Sign up for email updates via the Chapel Hill Zen Center Email Announcement List.Ĭhapel Hill Zen Center is open for in-person zazen on

Zen time announcements pdf#

Download the September-October 2022 CHZC Newsletter in PDF format.