Mountain Wind: Join Us On Site @ SMZC | Sunday, September 5

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Join Us On Site @ SMZC | Sunday, September 5 | Fall Workfest

Help Realize the Dharma!

Breathe new energy into the center with friends and family of the Sonoma Mountain Sangha. Come and join us in maintaining temple grounds in the spirit of together-action. We'll be cleaning up around the shop. Bring a pair of work gloves if you have one. Light lunch will be provided afterwards.

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September 4 | Saturday Community Student Talk (Online & On Site)

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Zazen | 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Student Talk

Student talk will be given by Tom Jakuryu (寂龍) Huffman, a student of Kwong-roshi since 2008, following 10:30 am zazen. Jakuryu (Silent Dragon) has served as Land Stewards (weed whacking) and in the process has become very attached to this sacred 80 acres of land on Sonoma Mountain. His Midwestern college years were augmented by many hitchhiking excursions some of which took him cross country. He spent four years as a serious student of wolf behavior, closely working and interacting with a pack of captive gray wolves.

This experience was further enhanced by the dynamic presence of the pack's alpha leaders who accepted him and became his teachers. Two years in art school were also spent as an apartment manager for an eclectic group of tenants in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury. His career in the North Bay Area consisted of landscape and land management positions for the State of California, including 25 years managing and restoring tidal salt marshes. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he was an altar boy who knew the Latin responses for the Mass. He was introduced to the Buddha Dharma by an interesting group of Bodhisattvas including H.D. Thoreau, Ram Dass, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts ultimately leading to Shunryu Suzuki-roshi and his American student Jakusho Kwong-roshi. Tom received Jukai from Kwong-roshi in 2014 and remains grateful and honored to be a student of Kwong-roshi who continues to clarify the lifetime practice of dropping off body and mind.

Free pre-registration required to attend Saturday Community starting this Saturday both online and on-site.

On-Site: We are open to the fully-vaccinated public with limited zendo capacity. Sign our covid waiver and pre-register for each Saturday Community you plan to attend.

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

Fall Study Group (Week 1 of 12)

Tuesday, September 7, 7:30-9:00 pm PST

First Talk: Things-As-It-Is (Page 25–36)

An opportunity to explore the fundamental teachings of Buddhism and build a foundation for daily practice through discussions on the book "Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai" by Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. This 12-week course occurs every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:00 pm PST starting September 7.

$12/week. Register to attend week one online or on-site.

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Daily Meditation Schedule

You are welcome to sit one period of zazen as your schedule permits.Participate in the daily schedule as much as you are able. Continuous daily practice helps strengthen your resolve. If attending partially, please leave or enter during kinhin (walking meditation). Download daily sutras to partake in the service.

Practice Online

5:15 a.m. Morning Zazen

5:50 a.m. Kinhin

6:00 a.m. Zazen

6:35 a.m. Sutra Chanting & Service

7:30 p.m. Evening Zazen

8:10 p.m. Kinhin

8:20 p.m. Zazen

8:55 p.m. Recite Bodhisattva Vows

Join SMZC Sangha Today

SMZC is a lay residential training practice center. We rely on membership dues, income from our programs, and contributions to support and maintain the Dharma on this ancient mountain. Please consider joining SMZC Wisteria Sangha. Your generosity makes it possible for us to survive and serve.

Become A SMZC Member

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

6367 Sonoma Mountain Road, Santa Rosa, CA, 95404

(707) 545-8105

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