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Zen Newsletter March & April 2021 Chapel Hill Zen Center News P.O. BOX 16302, CHAPEL HILL, NC 27516 MARCH & APRIL, 2021 Questioning Our Assumptions about the World Half-day Sittings Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses on Mere Cognizance Sunday mornings, March 21, and April 18 A Workshop with Kokyo Henkel There will be Zoom Half-day Sittings from 6:00 A.M. until 12:15 P.M. The schedule will be similar Saturday, March 27, 10:30–3:30 EST to that used for the morning of in-person All-day Although Vasubanhu’s 30 Verses is more well- Sittings. For information and to sign up write known, his 20 Verses offers another interesting [email protected]. angle on Yogacara. In this short workshop, Kokyo will focus on just a few verses and go into them Zoom Zazen in depth. This Zoom event will begin with a period The CHZC is offering zazen via Zoom on Monday of zazen followed by an hour and a half Talk with and Friday afternoons from 1:00–1:40; Monday- Q&A. There will be an hour lunch break, which Friday mornings from 6:00–7:20; and Sunday will end at 1:30, followed by a second session of morning from 9:00-10:20. This can also be found zazen and a Talk with a Q&A. on the Event Calendar section of the CHZC The Workshop is being offered by donation and website at http://chzc.org/events.htm the suggested donation is $20–$50. Donations can be made electronically through MoonClerk at Study Groups https://app.moonclerk.com/pay/4yi5tx1i14xf. We will take a break from the evening Study Please indicate “Workshop Donation.” Groups the first week in March, and resume on To register, please contact [email protected] by March 8, except for the Thursday evening group Wednesday, March 24. After registering, the which will begin on March 18. Zoom link and reading materials will be sent to you. Monday evenings, 5:30 P.M.–6:30 P.M.. We read Kokyo Henkel was ordained as a Zen priest in and discuss Thich Nhat Hanh’s book, Transfor- 1994 at the San Francisco Zen Center by Tenshin mation at the Base which has been reprinted as Reb Anderson Roshi, and received Dharma Trans- Understanding Our Mind. mission from Tenshin Roshi in 2010, becoming Tuesday Evenings, 6:45 P.M.–8 P.M. A Lankavatara a lineage-holder authorized to guide others on Sutra study group, reading two translations by the path. Kokyo was head teacher at the Santa Red Pine and D. T. Suzuki. Please contact Cruz Zen Center from 2010-2017. He has also [email protected] for handouts. been practicing with the Tibetan Dzogchen, the “Great Perfection,” Teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche Thursday Evenings, will resume on March 18, since 2003, in California, Colorado, and 6:45 P.M.–8 P.M. We will begin reading, Mindful of Kathmandu. To learn more about Kokyo’s prac- Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out tice and teaching see his website: https:// by Insight Meditation teacher, Ruth King. If you kokyohenkel.weebly.com/ would like to join this study group, please contact Zenki at [email protected]. Dharma Talks All the Study Groups are open to everyone, and Jakuko Mo Ferrell, Zenki Kathleen Batson and there is no charge. Please log on 5-10 minutes Josho Pat Phelan have YouTube Dharma Talks before the study group begins so we can start on posted on the Talks on Zen Practice page of the time There is one Zoom link to access all the CHZC website: http://chzc.org/talklist.htm Study Groups, which is on the Event Calendar section of the CHZC website. Josho will give a Zoom Dharma Talk on Sunday, March 21, and Zenki will give a Dharma Talk on April 18, at 10:30, following zazen – just stay on the same link. Chapel Hill Zen Center Newsletter — , March & April 2021 http://www.chzc.org PAGE 2 Bodhisattva Ceremony Sherman at [email protected], if you would like more information. Everyone is welcome. The Bodhisattva Ceremony, a renewal of vows and precepts, is a pre-Buddhist ceremony with its Organizing Against Racism roots in ancient India. The Bodhisattva Cer- emony will be held on Sundays, March 28, and The local organization Organizing Against Rac- April 25, after zazen at 10:30 am. ism is holding virtual workshops with REI, Racial Equity Institute, instructors. Over several years, Children’s Program some of us have taken this two-day workshop and have found it very informative and beneficial. The program, like the Zen Center’s other pro- grams, has suspended in-person meetings at the The Chapel Hill Zen Center has a scholarship Zen Center for the time being. But there are fund to help those who would like to take this many ways we can still come together virtually. workshop and other workshops on race who can’t At this time of year, we usually mark the start of afford the full fee. For more information or to the new lunar year, which this year is the year of request a partial scholarship, please contact Ken the ox. The ox is a patient and strong animal, just Wilson at [email protected]. Donations to the sort of qualities we need during a long this fund are also welcome! pandemic. We’d make masks or cut-out stand-up models and booklets, color pictures, and share Sangha Net our conceptions about the ox (and talk about The Sangha Net is a network of volunteers who stereotypes in general). A story that is well can offer short-term assistance to those in the known in many Asian cultures is about a young sangha in need of help due to transitions in one’s oxherd and his (at first) unruly ox. There are life such as illness, disability, or death of a loved many sources for it online, for example, https:/ one. Examples of tasks can include shopping, /tricycle.org/magazine/ten-oxherding-pictures/ arranging for meals, or transportation. During Another wonderful online source for parenting the pandemic, we will assist in ways that can allow ideas and support for parents is Susan Kaiser for mutual safety. Greenland’s blog at susankaisergreenland.com. If you would like to volunteer or if you need She has some great recommendations this month assistance, please contact Kris Garvin at for children’s books, such as When I Breathe [email protected], Senmyo Jeff Sherman at Deeply/Cuando Respiro Profundo, which cel- [email protected], or Carol Klein at ebrates the power of breath to inform, energize, [email protected]. heal, and connect to ourselves and our commu- nities, by Jill Guerra, translated by Morelia Rivas. People of Color Sitting Group The Children’s Program has many books and materials that can be shared—please just ask. The POC Sitting Group is postponed until fur- Also, we are constructing a new mailing list; if ther notice. We were beginning our meetings you’d like to be added to it, please contact me, with zazen, for those new to meditation or [email protected], or leave a message at experienced, from 6 to 6:40 P.M., with an option 919-265-7045. to stay for group discussion and community For more information, contact Conal or John at Living with Impermanence [email protected]. This informal discussion group meets on Zoom about once a month, providing the opportunity to explore conversations on aging, death and dying, as well as impermanence in general. Please contact Carol Klein at [email protected], Kris Garvin at [email protected], or Senmyo Chapel Hill Zen Center Newsletter — , March & April 2021 http://www.chzc.org PAGE 3 A Moment of Eco-Dharma Practice for Life, Charlotte Selver and Charles V.W. Brooks; Shadow Culture: Psychology and The entire world is mind ground; the entire world Spirituality in America, Eugene Taylor; Advice is blossom heart. Because the entire world is for Future Corpses: A Practical Perspective on blossom heart, the entire world is plum blossoms. Death and Dying, Sallie Tisdale; A Flower in the –Dogen, Shobogenzo, Baika (Plum Blossom) Heart, Rev. Mumon Yamada; The Way to Buddha- Around mid-February plum blossoms (ume) are hood: Instructions from a Modern Chinese Mas- flowering in Japan, heralding the opening of the ter, Venerable Yin-Shun. blossom heart of spring. By the end of March, the muted splendor of the ume flower is replaced by Genjokoan Talks – Part 3 the famous sakura, or cherry blossom. This by Sojun Roshi, Mel Weitsman, Reprinted by celebrity flower replaced the ume as the favored permission from the Berkeley ZC Newsletter, symbol of spring during the Heian era 794-1185. January, February, and March, 2006 Which do you like better? Firewood turns into ash and does not turn into https://savvytokyo.com/ume-japans-beautiful- firewood again. But do not suppose that the ash early-spring-blossoms/ is after and the firewood before. We must realize The cherry blossoms, although more popular and thatfirewood is in the state of being firewood and dramatic, have a shorter season. After the sakura has its before and after.. Yet having this before petals have begun to fall to the ground, the CHZC and after, it is independent of them. Ash is in the Eco-Dharma group will meet again after zazen on state of being ash and has its before and after. Sunday, April 11. We plan on discussing our Just as firewood does not become firewood again recent experiences of and in nature, as it relates after it is ash, so afterone’s death, one does not to our practice.
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