🪷 Trusting Your Original Nature 🪷
A Four-Week Zen Practice Intensive
September 27 – October 25
Challenge your Zen with our four-week Practice Intensive. The intensive is designed to deepen your zazen and cultivate connection with community. We will offer a variety of opportunities to engage practice with your Sangha including: extra weekday morning zazen meetings, talks by the community, and Sangha Teas. The Sunday Sangha Teas are for registered Practice Intensive participants only. All other events are open to everyone.
Practice Intensive Offerings
🍵 Sangha Teas: Share in the warmth of community during our Sangha teas on Sunday mornings. Mark your calendars for 9/27 and 10/25. Following regular service, these gatherings promise a blend of serene companionship and sharing. To formally be part of Practice Intensive, we ask that at a minimum you commit to attending one of the two teas.
🧘♀️ Weekday Morning Zazen: Start your day with clarity and peace by joining us for two periods of zazen at beginning at 6 am, or join us by 6:40 am for one period. The daily practice of zazen is the heart of Zen, offering a space to cultivate intimate awareness and grounded presence.
💎 Monday Night Zoom Class with Eden on the Chinese Zen teaching poem “Trust in Mind”: Over the course of four Monday evenings, 7 – 8:15 pm, we will tour Sengcan’s “Trust in Mind” (“Xin Xin Ming”). A landmark text, the poem provokes us to live beyond habits of “for” and “against” and be illuminated by each “things-as-it-is.” Classes begin on September 28. See our Trust in Mind resources page.
🌳 Way-seeking Mind Talks: Members of Richmond Zen who are preparing for the Bodhisattva Initiation Ceremony will offer talks on how they came to practice and what keeps them practicing. Dates TBA.
☸️ Dharma Talks and More: Engage with the teachings and insights of Dharma through talks that encourage understanding and practice. Eden will give two Dharma talks. Dates TBA.
The intensive is a precious chance to extend your practice within a supportive and vibrant community. Whether you are looking to deepen your meditation practice, understand Zen teachings more thoroughly, or simply find a community of inquiry-minded individuals, this intensive is for you.
Registration and Contact:
To register for Practice Intensive, fill out this form. For more information, please contact Eden.
Neotibicen canicularis, “Dog Day” Cicada, newly emerged from its pupal exoskeleton.