Jul 12 - 18

Summer, week 4

"The activity of buddha is carried on together with the whole earth and all living beings; if it is not activity that is one with all things, it is not buddha activity." --Dogen
"Acting in accordance with the entire earth and with all beings is zazen practioners' whole life direction" --Kosho Uchiyama

Chants for Wed Jul 12 - Tue Jul 18 (from Boundless Way Zen Sutra Book. See: BoWZ Westchester Chant Schedule)

• Invocation of Kanzeon, p. 8
• Song of Realizing the Dao, p. 23
• The World of Dew, p. 26
• An Unending Truth, p. 27

Next Saturday Zen Service: Jul 15, 10:00 - 11:45am.
Room 24, Community UU
468 Rosedale Ave, White Plains, NY

This week's reading: Kosho Uchiyama, Opening the Hand of Thought, pp. 109-116. (7.1 Zazen as Religion; 7.2 Vow and Repentence)

This week's case: Blue Cliff Record #10, Muzhou's "Empty-Headed Fool." CLICK HERE.