Zen Studies October MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 9:30 am Morning 3:30-5 pm Seiza ------------------------ Zazen --------------------------- Zazen Service Meditation 7-9 pm Zazen and -------------------- 6:45-9 pm ----------------------- Tai Chi 7-9 pm Zazen Introduction to Zen 7-9 pm Zazen Meditation and Zazen 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 9:30 am Morning ------------------------ Zazen ------------------------- Zazen Service 7-9 pm Zazen and ------------------- 6:45-9 pm ----------------------- ------------------- Tai Chi 7-9 pm Zazen Introduction to Zen 7-9 pm Zazen 3 pm Breathe. Read. Meditation and Write Zazen -------------------- 2-4:30 pm Lecture in Japanese on Shin Buddhism, and seiza meditation 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 7-9 pm Lecture 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 8 am- 6 pm 3:30-5 pm Seiza on Shin ------------------------ Zazen --------------------- Zazen Bodhidharma All-day Meditation Buddhism, and 7-9 pm Zazen and -------------------- 6:45-9 pm ---------------------- Sit; practice interviews Seiza Meditation Tai Chi 7-9 pm Zazen Introduction to Zen 7-9 pm Zazen 8 am Morning Service Meditation 22 23 24 25 26 27 27 6:15-7:45 pm 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 9:30 am Mandala Day Open AA 11th ------------------------ Zazen --------------------- Zazen morning service Step Meeting 7-9 pm Zazen and -------------------- 6:45-9 pm ---------------------- ------------------- Tai Chi 7-9 pm Zazen Introduction to Zen 7-9 pm Zazen 3-5:30 pm Lecture in Meditation and Japanese on Shin Teisho by Junryu Buddhism, and seiza Roshi meditation 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 6:15-7:45 pm 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 6:45-7:45 am Zazen 6:45-7:45 am 9:30 am Mandala Day Open AA 11th ------------------------ Zazen --------------------- Zazen morning service Step Meeting 7-9 pm Zazen and -------------------- 6:45-9 pm ---------------------- Tai Chi 7-9 pm Zazen Introduction to Zen 7-9 pm Zazen Meditation and Zazen OCTOBER CALENDAR response to a poem, we are in a realm of Introduction to Zen Meditation, every contact the office if you would like to meet unlimited possibilities.” Free-writing (just Thursday, 6:45-9 p.m. Instruction in Zen with him. Zazen instruction begins at 6:45. letting the pen move, non-stop) can be their meditation followed by a period of Zazen begins at 6:45 for those who do not vehicle. No meditation or writing experience is meditation, and tea and discussion. No attend the instruction. needed. We will gather and then meditate, reservation is necessary. read a poem or short piece of prose, free- Rev. Miki Nakura, of Higashi Hongan-ji write from it, share our writings, listen closely, Morning Service, Saturday mornings at 9:30 temple in Kyoto, and the Jodo-Shinshu Shin and respond. Come enjoy this chance to a.m. except October 20 at 8 a.m. Full morning Buddhist New York Sangha, will lead a seiza cultivate stillness and express what arises. service followed by a period of zazen, tea and meditation and give a Dharma talk in Japanese temple cleaning. October 27 Mandala Day on Shin Buddhism on October 13, 2-4 p.m. and Open AA 11th Step Meeting Service. October 27, 3-5 p.m.; lead a seiza meditation Monday, October 22, 29. Doors open at 6:15 and give a talk in English on October 15, 7-9 p.m. for zazen meditation, meeting ends at Bodhidharma All-day sit Saturday, October p.m.; and lead a longer seiza meditation 7:45. 20, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Dharma Teacher Hokuto on October 7 and 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m. Seiza Dan Diffin will lead this all-day sit in honor of meditation is done in a kneeling position or the First Ancestor who brought Zen from India seated on a chair with the body slightly to China, and will offer practice interviews and inclined forward. When some of the first a Dharma talk. Formal lunch will be served. A Westerners, such as Ruth Fuller Sasaki, went suggested donation of $30 for members or to Japan in the twentieth century to seek $40 for others is appreciated. To reserve your instruction in Zen, D. T. Suzuki and other Zen space, please contact the office. teachers sometimes recommended they take up seiza meditation as a complement to Instruction and Teisho by Eran Junryu Vardi zazen. Roshi, Thursday, October 25 At the invitation of Shinge Roshi, Junryu Roshi Breathe.Read.Write. Lisa Freedman will lead offers instruction and teisho once a month at a meditation and poetry workshop on October NYZ. He is the founder of Eiryu-ji Zen Center, 13 at 3 p.m. “Every time we guide our and is a Dharma teacher in the lineage of wandering minds back to the breath, we offer Taizan Maezumi Roshi and a 6th Dan teacher ourselves a fresh start. Every time we [email protected] 212-861-3333 of Aikido, Shidoin. He is available to meet with meditate and then pick up our pens to write in www.zenstudies.org students late Thursday afternoon; please .