Join the BoWZ-Westchester Sangha via Zoom every Saturday morning:
9:45a Eastern -- informal conversation
10:00a Eastern -- practice begins
https://zoom.us/j/2898507899
Audio Only: telephone 646-876-9923 & Enter Meeting ID: 289 850 7899
This Week's Reading for Sat Jul 18
- Taizan Maezumi, Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice, "Three 'Pillows' of Zen," p. 13-16
- Reading Schedule HERE.
How would you explain Maezumi's meaning in each of these:
- "How can we perceive properly? By making ourselves empty; by not being attached to our concepts of the things we perceive."
- "But how can we fully experience this unlimited, boundless life? Simply forget the self. Be this life!"
- "Even though we are the Way, we don't know it."
- #131: The Void ☙ Raven Index.
- Light a candle or stick of incense, or both
- Three bows to Buddha
- Gatha of Atonement (odd-numbered dates) or The Three Refuges (even-numbered dates);
- Dedication (use Sutra Book and audio below)
- Opening Verse (use Sutra Book and audio below)
- Zazen (25 mins)
- Sutra Service Readings (use Sutra Book and audio below)
- Dharma Study (book or podcast, 15-30 mins)
- Closing Verse (use Sutra Book and audio below)
Opening: Odd-Numbered Dates
- Gatha of Atonement, p. 1
- Dedication 1, p. 1
- The Five Remembrances, p. 4
Opening: Even-Numbered Dates
- The Three Refuges, p. 1
- Dedication 1, p. 1
- The Five Remembrances, p. 4
Zazen
- 25 mins.
- Sutra for Jul 13-19: Week 4.B. ("Komyozo Zanmai," p. 15; "Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva," p. 15)
Dharma Study
- Book or podcast, 15-30 mins.
- The Way of Tenderness, p. 40; The Four Bodhisattva Vows, p. 42.
ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES
Mon-Fri mornings, 7 AM -8 AM -- join Meredith and the Worcester Boundless Way Zen teachers for morning practice.
Or zoom in for evening practice on Sun, Tue, and Thu evenings, 7 PM - 8 PM
Zoom link: CLICK HERE
White Plains Zen Center:
Tue evenings: 7:30 PM
https://zoom.us/j/122286388
Hudson River Zen Center:
http://hudsonriverzencenter.org/
Insight Meditation with Nina Nagy
Mon evenings: 6 PM
https://www.awakeabiding.com/
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