Jun 29 - Jul 5

Summer, week 2

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 4

• Taizan Maezumi, Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice, "Appreciate Your Life," pp. 3-7.
• Reading Schedule HERE.

Questions

• What is our life? What is our death?
• What is this treasury of the true dharma eye and subtle mind of nirvana?
• How can we experience the life that we are living now as an infinite, literally limitless life, as the subtle mind of nirvana?
• I am the one who does not see my life as the subtle mind of nirvana. I am the one who is not experiencing life as treasure. What is this I that is blocking this realization?
• "If you live one day with a clear understanding of what life is, the value of that one day is equal to many years of living without awareness." Is this true? How so?
• "When we practice, we do not need to expect anything." What's it like to practice with intention and without expectation?
• This life right now is nirvana. So what is the difference between Shakyamuni Buddha's life and your life?

This Week's Raven Tale

• #129: The Dualistic Idea   ☙   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.

Dedication

• Odd-Numbered Dates: Gatha of Atonement, p. 1. Even-numbered Dates: The Three Refuges, p. 1
• Dedication 1, p. 1

Odd-numbered dates: audio player below or CLICK HERE.
Even-numbered dates: audio player below or CLICK HERE.

Opening Verse for Mon Jun 15 - Sun Jul 12

• Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo, p. 3

Audio player below or CLICK HERE.

Zazen

• 25 mins.

Sutra Service

• Sutra for Jun 29-Jul 5: Week 2.A. ("Sengcan's Heart of True Entrusting," p. 7)

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

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

Interested in attending (from your home, or wherever you are with your laptop computer) the on-line Boundless Way Zen retreat Fri Jul 10 - Mon Jul 13? See HERE.