Join Us Online | Saturday, June 26th | Saturday Community Online

 

Join Us Online | Saturday, June 26th | Saturday Community Online

Saturday, June 26, 1:00–2:30pm   Introduction to Zen 4-Week Course Week 4: SMZC Tour/Visit   Open to those who are fully vaccinated. Please donate to register ($20 suggested) and email your signed covid waiver form (download)and vaccination card (front side only) to office@smzc.org.   Donate to Register

Saturday Community, June 26       10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.   Zazen 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.   Student Talk       Student talk will be given by Annie Seiken (精見) Hammang, a student of Kwong-roshi since 2016. She received Jukai (Clear Seeing) in 2019 and has spent many summers at the mountain since she first started her practice. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she is a PhD candidate in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science program at Arizona State University..   Saturday Zoom Link

Donate to Saturday Community. To sustain SMZC and its program offerings, please donate for the Saturday Community online program ($10 suggested for non-members).

Saturday Meditation Instruction   9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.   Drop in for meditation instruction, designed for those who are new to Zen or needs brushing up.   Photo by Susan Gesshin (月心) Frey SMZC Resident since 2008   Meditation Instruction Link

Saturday Community Dharma Talk replays are available on YouTube. Please subscribe to our channel, add your comment, and share with your family and friends!

Driving by the Zen center years ago, I remember seeing a few of the residents working in the garden near the road. “Those poor people,” I thought, “captured, and forced to work in the fields.” Still, I was curious. I wanted to find out more about this enchanting, mysterious place. Eventually, I found myself tending the garden as well. But when I took a job in San Francisco, it became quite difficult to attend the sittings. My job took me in the opposite direction. When the Center created its online program, I jumped on it. I find that sitting with the online sanga in the mornings opens me to a sense of intimacy with the newness of the coming day. It helps to create for me “a walk that is stable,” as Nyoze put it.

I arrive early at work to join the meditations. And during those times I am able to work from home, I participate more… lighting candles and incense…wearing my robes…. There is a freshness in the silent ease of these mornings as the blue of the moon’s light turns slowly toward the yellow of the sun. I encourage you to join these sittings, morning or evening, to experience the world in a way not usual, drenched with moments of stillness. —Michael Staples, Sonoma, CA

Daily Meditation Schedule   6:30 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.   Morning Zazen 7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.   Evening Zazen   Please enter the virtual zendo a few minutes early to get settled (seated and logged in before the starting bell).   We invite newcomers to join us!   Sit with Us Online

SMZC Sangha Treasure     Thank you, Kashin (花真) Julie Kwong  for volunteering countless hours on the “Beyond A Dream: Father & Son Conversations” film series. As Geidō 芸道 (the way of art), she contributed to the film's aesthetics from preparing for the shoots, promoting the films, and hosting the film premiere events.   Become A SMZC Member

This document  acknowledges Fushin Kashin as the first holder of the Geidō position on Sonoma Mountain. May you further your creativity & investigation by illuminating through ritual, the essence of beauty which appears & is disguised as the objective world. May this spirit do good.   Nine Bows. February 14th, 2014   Jakusho Kwong-roshi

In order to continue to offer these programs and ensure the future of SMZC, we are asking for your support. Your donation is tax deductible. Sonoma Mountain Zen Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Tax ID #23-7304793

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