Sesshin

oryoki-style meal during sesshinSesshin, literally “touching the heart-mind,” is a retreat period of intensive meditation time to focus wholeheartedly on concentration and awareness. It provides an opportunity to turn our full attention to the activity of the moment – just that count, just that koan, just that meal – nothing else.

The schedule allows time for sitting meditation (zazen), walking meditation (kinhin), chanting, oryoki (a formal, meditative way of eating), and dharma talks by the sesshin leader.

Winter 2012 Sesshin
Friday, Feb. 3, 6:00 pm through Sunday, Feb. 5, 3:00 pm

Jijuyu-ji Zen Sangha of Cleveland, along with Living Lotus Sangha, will be hosting a weekend Sesshin, beginning at 6:00 pm on February 3 at Templed Hills in Belleville, Ohio.

Sensei Dean Wiliams will be our sesshin leader. His dharma talks will be on the topic “Old Mirror.” Please contact us for a copy of the text.

Cost: $102.75, includes two nights lodging and five meals. If interested in attending, or for further information, please contact Dean.Wiliams@jijuyuji.org or 440-537-7104.

 

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“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be actualized by all things."

~ Eihei Dōgen Zenji

Zen Buddha statue


“Zen practice is to get to our True Mind, the mind not accessible to thinking. This mind cannot be consciously known by ordinary efforts. An unusual effort is necessary. This effort is zazen."

~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi