Thursday Evening Zazen
Weekly - In-Person - Boundless Heart Sangha
At the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Thursdays 6:00-7:00 PM
Monday Morning
Zazen
Join us for online zazen on Monday mornings.
Special Event
Rohatsu
Let's celebrate Buddha's Enlightenment by practicing together!
Saturday December 5: 7 am - 11:30 am at the UU Fellowship in Winston Salem. A retreat in the Zen Peacemaker tradition hosted by the Boundless Heart Sangha with Jissan Nicolle. The Boundless Heart morning zazenkai is in conjunction with the afternoon online zazen with the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Rohatsu sesshin from 2:30-6:30 pm.
Registration is required. The registration form from Boundless Heart/UU Fellowship is below (click the "sign up" button), and the registration for the Bread Loaf Mountain Zen rohatsu is open and available here. Space is limited Saturday morning at the UU fellowship. A simple breakfast and coffee will be provided after morning zazen.
A suggested Rohatsu practice schedule for the weekend of Dec 5 -6 is to attend our Saturday in-person zazenkai and join BLMZC online that afternoon from 2:30-6:30 pm, followed by Sunday from 6:30 am to 6:30 pm on Sunday (as able). All offerings are free, and dana is graciously accepted for the teachers at Boundless Heart and Bread Loaf Mountain Zen.
Rohatsu Schedule at the UU Fellowship, in person
7:00- 7:40 am zazen, robe chant and the Heart Sutra
Break --simple bagel breakfast and coffee/tea. GF options.
8:30-10:00: zazen, kinhin (walk), zazen
10:30-10:45: break
10:45-11:30: zazen and departure
Lunch and exercise break at home. A simple, plant-based meal is recommended, eg grain, soup/stew, vegetables.
“As Dogen says, zazen is a form of meditation so basic it can't even be called meditation. It is simply the practice of being what we are, of allowing, permitting, opening ourselves to ourselves. In doing that we enter directly into the depth of our living -- a depth that goes beyond our individual life and touches all life." —Kazuaki Tanahashi in Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation.
