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New Year’s Eve 2023

If you’d like to start the new year fueled by zazen, come join with others in the Sangha for our annual New Year’s eve celebration. We’ll welcome in 2024 on Sunday evening with sitting and ceremonies, starting at 8:00 p.m. and winding up a little past midnight (with eggnog of course!). The ceremony (and sitting)…

Email: 12-10-2022

Coming-to-the-Path Talk Cancelled – Tomorrow, December 11 Sangha member (and Zen Center board chair) Jonathan Hager, scheduled to give tomorrow’s Coming-to-the-Path talk, is still recovering from COVID. Though he’s recuperating well, he’s still highly positive, so the talk will be rescheduled for next year. Instead, the schedule tomorrow morning will be three 30-minute rounds with…

Email: 12-08-2022

Tonight: Buddha’s Enlightenment Ceremony We’ll have the annual celebration of the Buddha’s Great Enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, complete with sutra reading and chanting, followed by warm milk-rice in the candle-lit dining room. Sitting begins at 7 pm, and the ceremony starts at 8:00. If you can’t make it in-person, you may join via Zoom…

DepreshZen: A Safe Space to Talk About Mental Health 

DepreshZen is an informal, online gathering for Sangha members to explore and discuss mental health. We meet for an hour most Sundays at 3:30 pm Eastern. DepreshZen provides a safe space to talk, educate, and share experiences and perspectives of mental health, including how it can affect Zen practice. Our discussions explore meaning, purpose, and reflection…

Email: 12-02-2022

Teisho and Coming-to-the-Path Talk This Sunday’s teisho (December 4) will be given by Donna-sensei. Next week, Sunday, December 11, Jonathan Hager will give a Coming-to-the-Path Talk. Memorial for Victims of Club Q Shooting in Colorado Springs On Saturday, December 3, at noon, Bachelor Forum, the oldest gay-owned-and-operated club in Rochester, will host a community memorial…

Fall Term Intensive

Our next Term Intensive (TI) runs October 10-24, 2024. 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 their Zen…