Encountering The Ancestors Retreat Sunday July 27th

This Months retreat was scheduled for July 20th, but we need to shift it to the 27th because I will be playing at the Birmingham Jazz Festival on the 20th and didn't notice the conflict until just now, sorry!

As usual, we will practice zazen from 9-noon and hold the afternoon workshop from 1:30 to 4:30pm.

This time around we will focus on Shih-t'ou:

"My teaching which has come down from the ancient buddhas is not dependent on meditation or on diligent application of any kind. When you attain the insight as attained by the Buddha, you realize that Mind is Buddha and Buddha is Mind, that Mind, Buddha, sentient beings, bodhi and klesha are of one and the same substance while they vary in names..."

Shih-t'ou is the author of the Identity of Relative and Absolute that we chant in the zendo, and I look forward to working with these bottomless teachings together.

- Rinsen











Jul 27
Shih-t'ou
(700-790)