Jul 6-12

Summer, week 3

Seth Segall will lead the gathering on Sat Jul 11.

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 11

• Taizan Maezumi, Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice, "Endowed from the Start," pp. 7-12.
• Reading Schedule HERE.

Questions

• What experiences have you had of the way that your posture affects your zazen? Have you noticed how your body is when your attention wanders?
• "When you breathe in, swallow the whole universe When you breathe out, breathe out the whole universe." What does this mean?
• Mind and body are ungraspable. "Yet there is a way to appreciate the ungraspable. How? By being it?" How do you understand this?

This Week's Raven Tale

• #130: Self and Soul   ☙   Raven Index.

Home Practice

• 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)

Sutra Book for printing (two-columned pages): CLICK HERE. Sutra Book for reading on your computer screen (one-column pages): CLICK HERE. Page references are to the two-column version.

Opening: Odd-Numbered Dates

• Gatha of Atonement, p. 1
• Dedication 1, p. 1
• Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo, p. 4

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.


Opening: Even-Numbered Dates

• The Three Refuges, p. 1
• Dedication 1, p. 1
• Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo, p. 4

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.

Zazen

• 25 mins.

Sutra Service

• Sutra for Jul 6-12: Week 3.B. ("Heart Sutra," p. 11; "Zazen Yojinki," p. 11)

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.

Dharma Study

• Book or podcast, 15-30 mins.

Closing Verse for Mon Jun 15 - Sun Jul 12

• Three Prayers, p. 36; Save All the Beings, p. 38.

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.


NEWS

Thu Jul 9 is the deadline for registering for the "Distant Temple Bell" sesshin -- Fri Jul 10 to Mon Jul 13. Interested in attending (from your home, or wherever you are with your laptop computer) this on-line Boundless Way Zen retreat? See HERE.

Be a part of the Boundless Way discussion on racial justice! See HERE.

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE OPPORTUNITIES
Worcester Zen Temple:
Mon-Fri mornings, 7 AM -8 AM
Sun, Tue, Thu evenings, 7 PM - 8 PM
See https://worcesterzen.org/

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/