Unless otherwise noted, events are held at 4 Montague Road, Leverett, behind the Congregational Church.
FEE-BASED EVENTS
ONE-DAY RETREATS
please register for retreats: dantikapm@gmail.com or 413-588-8053
Saturday, October 26, 9:00-3:00, led by Roshi Eve Marko
At the Dixon House, 4 Montague Road, Leverett
A silent, Bodhidharma-style, wall-gazing retreat. No talks or face-to-face. Coffee, tea and snacks available.
Fee: $25
Saturday, September 28, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, led by Roshi Eve Marko
At the Dixon House, 4 Montague Road, Leverett
Meditation, talks, and private study.
Please bring a sack lunch. Coffee, tea and snacks available.
Fee: $25 member, $35 non-members.
Dana will be asked on behalf of the teacher.
ENLIGHTENMENT RETREAT
December 5-8, 2019
Led by Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
at Windhorse Hill Retreat Center
Deerfield, MA
We will celebrate the Buddha’s enlightenment, marked in the Zen world on December 8, with a retreat beginning on the evening of December 5 at 7 pm and continuing till noon on Sunday, December 8.
The retreat will include talks and face-to-face with Roshi, as well as liturgy.
Talks and face-to-face will focus on entering the portals of awakening that are inherent in all our life situations, including the most challenging ones. Instead of resting in discontent, how do I make the roots of that discontent a refuge for my practice? How do I accept myself and my life as a container for Buddhahood?
The retreat will begin with a simple supper on Thursday, December 5, at 6:00 pm, will include all three meals on Friday-Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. The daily schedule will start at 7 am and continue till 9 pm, except on Sunday when the retreat will end at noon.
Fee: Members: $180; Non-members: $210. Part-time attendance is possible @$60 for members and $70 for non-members. Scholarships are available; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. On-site accommodations are available for an extra fee. Other local accommodations are available for free.
Dana will be requested on behalf of Roshi.
Please register by November 29 by contacting Dantika: dantikapm@gmail.com, or call: 413-588-8053.
LITURGY AND RITUAL OF ZEN PEACEMAKERS
Sunday, October 13, 9:00 -1:00.
Windhorse Hill Retreat Center
595 River Road, Deerfield. MA
Led by Sensei and Zen Priest Sally Sonen Kealy
Learn and practice the liturgy of Zen Peacemakers. Begin an at-home practice of liturgy. Inquire into the elements of daily ritual and the power of prayer. Please bring a Bell if you have one.
This workshop is lead by Sally Sonen Kealy a Zen Teacher and Priest of Zen Peacemakers. She was ordained by her teacher Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman in 1991.
Fee: $20
Please pre-register with Danika: 413-549-9336; or, dantikapm@gmail.com
BEING-TIME, by EIHEI DOGEN
Class led by Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
winter dates to be announced
Uji, or Being-Time, is one of the more enigmatic and penetrating fascicles in Dogen’s Shobogenzo. While the fascicle is ostensibly about time, Dogen actually addresses some of the most basic points of daily and moment-by-moment Zen practice. He illustrates how the minute we begin to investigate time, we are actually entering the dharma gate of actualizing our own Buddha Nature.
We’ll review our usual sense of sequential time vs. simultaneous time, how being-time encompasses practice, enlightenment, and actualization altogether, and the continuous practice of all beings. We will look at “dharma positions” and how the particular intersects with the whole at every moment.
When we penetrate Dogen, we can’t help but be moved by the vast panorama he opens before our eyes and how infinity flows through us at every moment, whether we realize this or not.
Required Text: Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji by Shinshu Roberts
Commitment to the entire course is highly recommended.
Fee for entire course: $90, payable to Roshi (Eve Marko). If you cannot afford this, please speak to her. Absolutely no one will be turned away for lack of funds; generosity is everywhere, permeating the Ten Directions.
Please register with Roshi Eve: eve@zenpeacemakers.com
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FREE EVENTS, NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED (donation appreciated):
BEGINNERS MIND
Saturday, November 23, 8:30 am-10:00 am
Meditation will begin with basic instruction, followed by a reading of Eihei Dogen’s Fukanzazengiand discussion/Q&A of meditation practice and daily life. Led by Roshi Eve.
GATE OF SWEET NECTAR
Green River Zen Center usually chants the Gate of Sweet Nectar, the Zen Peacemakers’ liturgy feeding all the hungry ghosts, each month on Saturdays at 9:30 am following meditation. The Gate will be chanted on September 21, October 19, November 16 and December 21.
COUNCIL PRACTICE
Green River Zen Center does a monthly council practice on the last Tuesday of every month. It will take place this winter on Tuesdays, September 24, October 29, November 26, and December 17. Council is a circle practice of listening and speaking from the heart. Its foundation is consonant with the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers: Not-knowing, bearing witness, and loving action.
RENEWAL OF VOWS CEREMONY
A ceremony renewing our vows to the Precepts will take place on or close to the full moon on Tuesday evenings, September 17 and November 12 at 8:00 pm following meditation. All are invited to participate.
REFLECTION ON PRECEPTS
A Reflection on the Zen Peacemakers Precepts, through a circle discussion of a particular precept, will take place on Saturdays, October 12, at 9:00 am following meditation.
FEE-BASED EVENTS
ONE-DAY RETREATS
please register for retreats: dantikapm@gmail.com or 413-588-8053
Saturday, October 26, 9:00-3:00, led by Roshi Eve Marko
At the Dixon House, 4 Montague Road, Leverett
A silent, Bodhidharma-style, wall-gazing retreat. No talks or face-to-face. Coffee, tea and snacks available.
Fee: $25
Saturday, September 28, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm, led by Roshi Eve Marko
At the Dixon House, 4 Montague Road, Leverett
Meditation, talks, and private study.
Please bring a sack lunch. Coffee, tea and snacks available.
Fee: $25 member, $35 non-members.
Dana will be asked on behalf of the teacher.
ENLIGHTENMENT RETREAT
December 5-8, 2019
Led by Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
at Windhorse Hill Retreat Center
Deerfield, MA
We will celebrate the Buddha’s enlightenment, marked in the Zen world on December 8, with a retreat beginning on the evening of December 5 at 7 pm and continuing till noon on Sunday, December 8.
The retreat will include talks and face-to-face with Roshi, as well as liturgy.
Talks and face-to-face will focus on entering the portals of awakening that are inherent in all our life situations, including the most challenging ones. Instead of resting in discontent, how do I make the roots of that discontent a refuge for my practice? How do I accept myself and my life as a container for Buddhahood?
The retreat will begin with a simple supper on Thursday, December 5, at 6:00 pm, will include all three meals on Friday-Saturday, and breakfast on Sunday. The daily schedule will start at 7 am and continue till 9 pm, except on Sunday when the retreat will end at noon.
Fee: Members: $180; Non-members: $210. Part-time attendance is possible @$60 for members and $70 for non-members. Scholarships are available; no one will be turned away for lack of funds. On-site accommodations are available for an extra fee. Other local accommodations are available for free.
Dana will be requested on behalf of Roshi.
Please register by November 29 by contacting Dantika: dantikapm@gmail.com, or call: 413-588-8053.
LITURGY AND RITUAL OF ZEN PEACEMAKERS
Sunday, October 13, 9:00 -1:00.
Windhorse Hill Retreat Center
595 River Road, Deerfield. MA
Led by Sensei and Zen Priest Sally Sonen Kealy
Learn and practice the liturgy of Zen Peacemakers. Begin an at-home practice of liturgy. Inquire into the elements of daily ritual and the power of prayer. Please bring a Bell if you have one.
This workshop is lead by Sally Sonen Kealy a Zen Teacher and Priest of Zen Peacemakers. She was ordained by her teacher Roshi Bernie Tetsugen Glassman in 1991.
Fee: $20
Please pre-register with Danika: 413-549-9336; or, dantikapm@gmail.com
BEING-TIME, by EIHEI DOGEN
Class led by Roshi Eve Myonen Marko
winter dates to be announced
Uji, or Being-Time, is one of the more enigmatic and penetrating fascicles in Dogen’s Shobogenzo. While the fascicle is ostensibly about time, Dogen actually addresses some of the most basic points of daily and moment-by-moment Zen practice. He illustrates how the minute we begin to investigate time, we are actually entering the dharma gate of actualizing our own Buddha Nature.
We’ll review our usual sense of sequential time vs. simultaneous time, how being-time encompasses practice, enlightenment, and actualization altogether, and the continuous practice of all beings. We will look at “dharma positions” and how the particular intersects with the whole at every moment.
When we penetrate Dogen, we can’t help but be moved by the vast panorama he opens before our eyes and how infinity flows through us at every moment, whether we realize this or not.
Required Text: Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji by Shinshu Roberts
Commitment to the entire course is highly recommended.
Fee for entire course: $90, payable to Roshi (Eve Marko). If you cannot afford this, please speak to her. Absolutely no one will be turned away for lack of funds; generosity is everywhere, permeating the Ten Directions.
Please register with Roshi Eve: eve@zenpeacemakers.com
_________________________________________________________________________
FREE EVENTS, NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED (donation appreciated):
BEGINNERS MIND
Saturday, November 23, 8:30 am-10:00 am
Meditation will begin with basic instruction, followed by a reading of Eihei Dogen’s Fukanzazengiand discussion/Q&A of meditation practice and daily life. Led by Roshi Eve.
GATE OF SWEET NECTAR
Green River Zen Center usually chants the Gate of Sweet Nectar, the Zen Peacemakers’ liturgy feeding all the hungry ghosts, each month on Saturdays at 9:30 am following meditation. The Gate will be chanted on September 21, October 19, November 16 and December 21.
COUNCIL PRACTICE
Green River Zen Center does a monthly council practice on the last Tuesday of every month. It will take place this winter on Tuesdays, September 24, October 29, November 26, and December 17. Council is a circle practice of listening and speaking from the heart. Its foundation is consonant with the Three Tenets of the Zen Peacemakers: Not-knowing, bearing witness, and loving action.
RENEWAL OF VOWS CEREMONY
A ceremony renewing our vows to the Precepts will take place on or close to the full moon on Tuesday evenings, September 17 and November 12 at 8:00 pm following meditation. All are invited to participate.
REFLECTION ON PRECEPTS
A Reflection on the Zen Peacemakers Precepts, through a circle discussion of a particular precept, will take place on Saturdays, October 12, at 9:00 am following meditation.
MEMBERSHIP IN GREEN RIVER ZEN CENTER
Do you consider yourself part of the sangha? If so, please consider becoming a member and making monthly financial commitments to help support basic operations at the Zendo. You can also do service in lieu of some of the membership fee.
As a member, you will receive reductions in retreat prices. Most important, you will be supporting the flowering of the sangha’s practice.
For more information, please see Membership Program, or contact: Dantika Petriana Monize at dantikapm@gmail.com
Do you consider yourself part of the sangha? If so, please consider becoming a member and making monthly financial commitments to help support basic operations at the Zendo. You can also do service in lieu of some of the membership fee.
As a member, you will receive reductions in retreat prices. Most important, you will be supporting the flowering of the sangha’s practice.
For more information, please see Membership Program, or contact: Dantika Petriana Monize at dantikapm@gmail.com