June 19, 2020
Chapin Mill Work Retreat 2020 First, the good news: We will be (kind-of) having our annual work retreat at Chapin Mill! Bad news: It will be short, modified, and laced with hygiene safety restrictions. The work retreat will span just two half-days: Friday, June 26, and Saturday, June 27, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm, ending…
May 28, 2020
CoronaCast This Week The latest: CoronaCast from Roshi: May 28. Memorial Service for the 100,000 To mark the terrible milestone of our now having reached 100,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths, this Sunday, May 31, Roshi will read aloud the prayer at the heart of the standard Buddhist memorial service (adapted from the Tibetan Book of the…
May 16, 2020
June “Sesshin” Our maiden virtual sesshin is scheduled for Monday morning, June 8, through Thursday evening, June 11. It will depart from our customary sesshin schedule, starting later each day (6:15 am), running until 9:00 pm, and also with longer break periods to provide time for participants to manage their households – meals, family, pets,…
May 14, 2020
Death in the Sangha We just learned that Joe Metzinger, a Cleveland Sangha member, died of Covid-19 on April 2. Joe attended his first 7-day sesshin last year, and was scheduled to return for this year’s March sesshin that had to be cancelled. Our condolences to our Cleveland Zazen Group and all who knew Joe….
April 30, 2020
This Week’s CoronaCast The latest: CoronaCast from Roshi, April 30. Dokusan From Roshi: “It has been a real pleasure to be able to have tele-dokusan every day, especially with out-of-town members, whom I generally don’t get to see outside sesshin, but also with local members, whom I’ve not been seeing much of, either. Here are…
April 15, 2020
This Week’s CoronaCast “Hot off the press,” here’s the latest: CoronaCast from Roshi: April 15 Zooming Cross-Legged To call the morning sittings we’ve been having via Zoom the greatest discovery since the wheel would be an exaggeration. But it is a terrific new way of keeping the Wheel of the Dharma turning during this period…
April 9, 2020
Online Group Zazen Following the example of other Zen groups, we’ve starting online morning sittings (7 to 8 a.m. EDT) for our Sangha using the Zoom app. (Thanks to the Puget Sound Zen Center and the Louisville Zen Center for their help.) If you’d like to join us, just follow these instructions: You’ll need the…
March 27, 2020
Podcast from Roshi Here’s a short talk from Roshi, delivered from his dining room table. You can use this link . New Zealand COVID-19 A bulletin, today, from Amala-sensei to Roshi: Here [New Zealand] the number of cases is doubling every two days. Thank goodness the government is taking strong measures – we are in…
March 25, 2020
Zen Center COVID-19 Update All is still well with the Zen Center staff at Arnold Park and Chapin Mill, with no signs of illness (or stir-craziness) worth mentioning. At Arnold Park we are down to six residents, now that two joined the crew at Chapin Mill (where they are now eight) last weekend. We are…
March 21, 2020
COVID-19 Report In response to the tighter restrictions announced by New York Governor Cuomo, the Zen Center staff is dividing itself a bit as follows: Of the three residents broadly categorized as “vulnerable,” Scott Jennings, Jack O’Shaughnessy, and Joe Carino, the latter two will relocate for now to Chapin Mill, where they will initially self-isolate….