INFOS PRATIQUES TARIFS of La Gendronnière. BOOKING AZI Member Non-AZI* (In advance, • Single Room. 315. 395. places are limited.) • Double room. 198. 248. • On the Website: • 4-5 person room. 168. 210. www.zen-azi.org • Dormitory. 146. 175. HOW AND WHEN TO GET HERE • Email: Laborde. [email protected] BY TRAIN (superior quality lodging) IMPORTANT (Shuttle to/from La Gendronniere 2km) You will receive an INFORMATION • When you arrive, a shuttle will meet you on 11 Oct at Onzain station AZI Member Non-AZI* email confirmation. • Children are the at 18.31 if you pre-book. • chambre seul 375. 465. responsibility of their parents. • For the return, a shuttle will take you • chambre à 2 pers. 258. 308. • No animals are allowed. Don’t come without to Onzain, around 15.00. booking. • Please inform the office if your arrival (* AZI membership 45¤ ). All prices in Euros. time changes. If you need to cancel, Tariff includes: lodging, meals from Friday evening BRING WITH YOU please tell us in advance. to Sunday lunch and the presentations. For meditation : dark, loose BY CAR Places will be allocated in order of receipt of your fee and comfortable clothing. • Take the autoroute to Blois,then cross and according to what rooms are available. Sheets and pillowcases. the bridge over the Loire towards These can be hired for 15 ¤. Montrichard. At Cande-sur-Beuvron, cross the SYMPOSIUM bridge towards Chaumont. I choose the accommodation (tick the corresponding boxes) After 200 metres, on the bend, Zen Temple of La Gendronnière. go straight on and La Gendronniere is 300 metres further on. Presentation by Pierre Rabhi and Tenshin Reb Anderson Membre AZI Non-AZI 215km from Paris , 15 Km from Blois Round table with European Zen masters • Single Room. 315. ¨ 395. ¨ and 1km from Cande-sur-Beuvron. • Double room. 198. ¨ 248. ¨ • GPS Co-ordinates Lat 47,479392 • 4-5 person room. 168. ¨ 210. ¨ and Long. 1,256427 Zen Temple of La Gendronnière • Dormitory. 146. ¨ 175. ¨ 12/13 OCTOBER 2019

Laborde. Membre AZI Non-AZI • Single Room. 375. ¨ 465. ¨ Zen Temple of La Gendronnière, 41120 Valaire (near Blois) • Double room. 258. ¨ 308. ¨ Tel. +33 (0)2 54 44 04 86 | [email protected]

www.zen-azi.org BULLETIN D’INSCRIPTION BULLETIN Payment by cash, credit card or cheque cleared in France only. Temple zen de La Gendronnière ÉCOLE ZEN SOTO I book the shuttle at 6:31 p.m. at Onzain station on the arrival day ¨ Association Zen Internationale PROGRAMME PIERRE RABHI AND TENSHIN REB ANDERSON FRIDAY 11 OCT Arrivals around 18.00 Dinner 20.30 Countryman, writer and thinker, born in to abandon the belief in indefinite growth Algeria, Pierre Rabhi is one of the pioneers and to realise the vital importance of Zen is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its arrival in Europe. This inherited spiritual of ecological agriculture in France. Since our nourishing earth and begin a new tradition, transmitted from India to China and then to Japan is practised today by a very great SATURDAY 12 OCT 1981, he has taken his knowledge to Africa, ethical way of living, moving towards number of Westerners. 6.30 Wake up. France and Europe, looking to give ‘happy sobriety.’ 7.00 and opening communities back control over their food. Pierre Rabhi appeals to the rising awareness Tenshin Reb Anderson was born in Zen and ethics. Even though zazen, the disappearance before our very in everyday life: the practice of ceremony for the seminar. or sitting meditation, is at the heart eyes of thousands of species of flora objectless meditation, attention of humanity to be its best and stop turning Mississippi in 1943 and grew up in 8.30 Breakfast our planet paradise into a hell of suffering Minnesota. He formed the Zen Centre of practice, Zen Buddhism also and fauna, must cause any human brought to all our actions, even 10.00-12.30 Presentation by and destruction. Before the complete in 1967 and was ordained as a monk in 1970 gives a central place to ethics. being to really examine their the most trivial, a clear awareness of Tenshin Reb Anderson collapse of humanity and the enormous by Suzuki Shunryu Roshi. He received The precepts, or rules for living, conscience and to change their the interdependence of all beings damage inflicted on nature, he invites us transmission in 1983. Subsequently From towards are everywhere in the daily life of behaviour and their vision of and the deep unity of nature. he became Abbot of the three a Buddhist and the source of all his or the world. ecological commitment. training centres of the Zen Centre her actions, whether of body,speech This seminar is the chance to Questions and answers of San Francisco (City Centre, or thought. A Zen saying states The Zen Temple of La encounter a Zen teacher, a specialist 13.00 Lunch Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara that ‘zazen and the precepts are like Gendronniere – as the majority of in Buddhist ethics and a long time Zen Mountain Centre) from 1986 15.00 – 18.00 Presentation by the two wings of a bird.’ zen in Europe – embarked militant in the cause of ecology, to 1995. At present he is a senior Pierre Rabhi These precepts can be condensed upon a system of permaculture some and a person who has experimented Dharma teacher and lives with his into three great principles, which are years ago, putting into place with initiatives that are both An ethical and spiritual family at the Green Dragon Centre approach to ecology. (Green Gulch Farm). disconcertingly simple: ‘Do no harm, an ‘action plan’ that is systematic innovative and pragmatic. During Pierre Rabhi Reb Anderson be kind and always act for the good and global, inspired by natural the last morning, Zen teachers, Questions and answers of others.’ ecology. In this context, a tradition who are Abbots of monasteries, will 20.00 Dinner and an evening Tick the corresponding boxes: like Zen Buddhism, bringing in inform us about their experiences of of relaxation. Zen and the environment. a necessary spiritual dimension, putting in place concrete solutions Ms ¨ Mr ¨ The ecological crisis, climate can contribute to the general rise concerning the management of SUNDAY 13 OCT change, for which it is no longer in awareness and propose concrete places of Zen practice in Europe. Name debateable that man is responsible, answers, that can be utilised 6.30 Wake up 7.00 Zazen ( Zen meditation) First name Buddhist ceremony. Adress 8.30 Breakfast 10.00- 12. 30 Rouind table with four Zen masters, Abbots Zipcode of Zen monasteries in Europe. Town 12.30 Lunch Tel. “Take the vegetable leaf that you turn in your fingers and build a splendid place 14.00 End of the seminar. D’INSCRIPTION BULLETIN where Buddha can reside and make this tiny grain of dust proclaim his Law.” Email Master Dogen, the founder of the Soto Zen school in Japan, Tenzo kyokun (Instructions for the Zen cook.) Monk ¨ Nun ¨ ¨ First stay ¨ à