Yogis of Tibet

Amazing footage at 39:40, but watch the whole thing when you can!

Winter's Tang

is nowhere

to be found

on the sweet

honeysuckle breeze

Just yesterday

these leaves

were all tender

and droopy

Now

they hold up the tree

Zazenkai - Weekend Intensive June 5-7

Already, its closing in on retreat time again. Please register with a comment below if you plan to attend.

Some information on the upcoming TZC Community Retreat:

Location:

Regina Center on the campus of the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio at Lourdes College.

A Pdf map is HERE We are in building 17, just behind building 12 on this map. General directions to the Lourdes College campus are HERE.

What to Bring:

Bowl (Cereal bowl size), Napkin, Coffee/Tea Mug, Spoon. Zafu & Zabuton (bring extras if you have them). Toiletries.
No books or reading material.

How to Register:

Send an email to Rinsen@toledozen.org, leave a comment to this post, or call (419) 861-1163.

Schedule:


Friday

05:30-06:00pm Check in
06:00pm Orientation
07:00pm Precautions/Opening Comments
07:30pm Kinhin
07:40pm Zazen
08:10pm Kinhin
08:20pm Zazen/Bodhisattvha Vows/Evening Gatha



Saturday

06:00am Wake up
06:30am Zazen
07:00am Kinhin
07:10am Zazen
07:40am Kinhin
07:50am Zazen/Verse of the Kesa
08:30am Morning Liturgy
08:50am Morning Meal
09:35am Caretaking
10:50am Zazen
11:20am Kinhin
11:30am Zazen
12:00pm Afternoon Liturgy
12:20pm Midday Meal
01:00pm Rest Practice
02:00pm Zazen
02:30pm Kinhin
02:40pm Zazen
03:10pm Kinhin
03:30pm Rinsen's Talk
03:50pm Practice Discussion
04:10pm Extended Outside Kinhin (Weather Permitting)
04:30pm Zazen
05:00 Evening Liturgy
05:20pm Evening Meal
06:00pm Rest Practice
07:00pm Zazen
07:30pm Kinhin
07:40pm Zazen
08:10pm Kinhin
08:20pm Zazen/Bodhisattvha Vows/Evening Gatha
09:00pm Open Zendo
09:30pm Lights Out


Sunday

06:00am Wake Up
06:30am Dawn Zazen
07:00am Kinhin
07:10am Zazen/Verse of the Kesa
07:50am Kinhin
08:00am Open Sozan
08:30am Daikaijo
08:40am Informal Breakfast
09:35am Caretaking
10:00am Morning Service
10:30am Zazen
11:00am Kinhin
11:10am Rinsen's Talk
12:oopm Finish

Please note that a few have asked if they may join in a portion of this schedule, and the answer is that while participation in the whole weekend is preferable, you may join for any part of the retreat, so yes. We just need to know in advance so that arrangements can be made for you. If you would like to do a part of this retreat, leave a comment below, and be sure to include your email address so we can be in touch to confirm the detials.


Cost:

Dana of $155.00 for the weekend covers retreat fees, room and board.

Current Participant List:

Rinsen Weik - All - Practice Leader
Do'on Weik - All - Tenzo
Jun'en - All - Officiant
Erik Knapp - All - Server
Victor Van Deilen - All - Server
Angela Macek - All - Percussion
Phil - All - Jisha
Leigh - All - Ino
Tim - All - Usher
Kathy Sorensen - All - Doan
Chuck Greer - All - Instrumentalist
Rob Bondy - All - Pm Jikido
Sou Fugon - All
Joya - All - Am Jikido

Rock Tea

a poem sent to me by Debbie Goldberg, from "The Writer's Almanac". Enjoy.

Rock Tea
by Gary Gildner
At a hot springs in Sawtooth Mountains 8,000 feet above the level sea,
my two-year-old daughter enters the steamy shallows, and sings
I'm naked! I'm naked! And clings to herselfas if the pink body under her slender arms might slip away.
I do not want her to slip away, not ever,but I know one day she will. I know
one day she will put on her snow bootsand take up the trail in earnest—
and I will call out I am happy for her, very happy, but sad too,
and hope I will see her again.
From the pool's moony wash she brings me her cupped hands. Rock tea, Papa, you like some?
I cup her hands in my own, and drink. It is delicious, I say,
more delicious than air itself, than life, may I have another?
And perhaps you will have one too? Perhaps, thank you,
In this way, gently over rock tea,we celebrate how far we have traveled together.
"Rock Tea" by Gary Gildner, from Cleaning a Rainbow. © BkMk Press, 2007.

An open window

 garlands of incense

 lift a quiet eye

          

on dappled green boughs

sweet whistle of birds

oh heart, tis a sunny day

Living the Bodhisattva Life: Transforming Anger, Awakening Patience.

The Toledo Zen Center presents an afternoon workshop with Rinsen Sunday May 24th from 1:30-4:30pm. This is the second in a series of workshops in which we will work with the seemingly paradoxical way a Boshisattva lives in the world. This event is open to the public, no registration is required. The suggested free will donation is $25.

"With the thorn of anger still lodged in the heart, there can be neither peace, nor joy, nor true action."
- Rinsen

April in Ohio

for us

tender green leaves

the green heart comes

gnats hang around

take a  step

Everything  Touches