November 25, 2022
On Thursday evening, December 7, we’ll hold the annual ceremony that commemorates the Buddha’s Great Enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, complete with sutra reading, chanting, and warm milk-rice in the candle-lit dining room. Sitting begins at 7 pm, and the ceremony will follow at 8:00. You’re invited to join us in the zendo at Arnold…
November 13, 2022
We’ll sit for two rounds followed by a Famine Relief Ceremony. This is a fast day for Zen Center residents, and others are welcome to join in. Monetary offerings collected during the ceremony are donated to Rochester Mutual Aid Network (RMAN). These will be matched by the Center within the limits of the Center’s budget.
November 5, 2022
This event will be held in the Sangha library. Our friendly host will have pizza & chips with salsa. Game starts at 1:00, pre-party starts at 12:15. In case you are not familiar with where the library is located, come to our front door for directions.
October 30, 2022
On November 19, the Center will hold our annual Ceremony of Gratitude. Zazen is at 8:30am followed by the ceremony at 9:30am in the Arnold Park zendo. In many ways, Thanksgiving is the most Buddhist of national holidays – a time when we pause to give and to contemplate all the things we are grateful…
October 15, 2022
Need a boost? Join us for a fun and lively social gathering! Escape from the news-and-doomscrolling cycle and meet Sangha members old and new. This new Sangha Program is hosted by Rachel Clar, a big-hearted extrovert who knows how to laugh. Gather in the Arnold Park dining room at 5 p.m., and be ready for…
October 15, 2022
Thanksgiving & Jukai 2022 Thursday November 17 7:00 p.m. Zazen and Famine Relief Ceremony: A fast day for Zen Center residents, and others are welcome to join in. Monetary offerings collected during the ceremony are donated to RMAN (Rochester Mutual Aid Network). Sunday November 20 8:30 a.m. Zazen at 8:30 followed by Ceremony of Gratitude…
October 10, 2022
Join together with RZC Sangha members from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, October 19, to silently read Uprooting Racism’s Community-Read book, for companionship and “moral support”! The book is Justin Murphy’s Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger: School Segregation in Rochester, New York, available on the table in the Arnold Park third-floor library…
October 10, 2022
Our next Term Intensive (TI) runs October 5 – 26, 2023. The Term Intensive offers us a supportive structure in which to extend our practice efforts for a set period of time. Participants pledge to uphold a schedule of increased sitting and, if they wish, other aspects of discipline that relate directly or indirectly to…
October 5, 2022
On Tuesday, October 10, the zendo and adjoining areas will be set up for the annual ceremony honoring Bodhidharma, the “bearded barbarian” who founded Zen in China. Beginning at 7 p.m., we’ll sit for two short rounds, and the ceremony will follow (no dokusan, private instruction, or group instruction that night). Beginners: Come check out…
September 30, 2022
Announcement: The Center’s Nonviolent Communication Group is currently filled to capacity. We regret that we have temporarily had to close it to new members. We will make an announcement when the group reopens. The Center’s weekly Zoom group is for Members and Friends who wish to learn and practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC). What is NVC?…