Welcome to  Sanshin Zen Community!
Learn more about us here.

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Coming up

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LAND CARE RETREAT
at Mountains and Waters Zen Community, MN
August 7 - 9

Led by Shodo Spring, with Okumura Roshi

Our spiritual practice here includes listening to the teachings of the forest, meadows, and waters, caring for them as if they were our own parents – as they are – and sitting zazen in the middle of the whole universe.  ​We invite you to join us for a weekend that concentrates this practice into its essential components:

• zazen (sitting meditation)
• walking meditation outdoors, meeting meadows and woods as teachers
• working with the land (or buildings, or food) as meditation and ceremony.

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MAKE YOUR GIFT
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DHARMA SUPPLIES AND CRAFTS

Click the logo, and see also Ichiyo's display of items for sale in our common room.

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FILMS ON LOCATION
Filmmaker Yoko Okumura has produced two short films shot on location at Sanshin.  She talks about SIT here.

SIT - Short Documentary Film from Yoko Okumura on Vimeo.

Strawberries Will Save The World□ - Short Documentary from Yoko Okumura on Vimeo.

THIS WEEK

Monday 15th: regular morning zazen; Practice Committee 7 pm.

​Tuesday 16th: regular morning and evening zazen, Getting Started in Zen Practice at 7:15 pm

Wednesday 17th:  regular morning and evening zazen; dharma study 7 pm.

Thursday 18th: regular morning and evening zazen; book discussion 7 pm.

Friday 19th: regular morning zazen

Saturday 20th: no activities

Sunday 21st: zazen 9:10 am, dharma talk 10 am

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SUNDAY MORNING DHARMA SPEAKERS
Zazen 9:10; dharma talk 10:10​ 
Free and open to the public.

July 21:
Hoko: 108 Gates: Reflection on There Being No Self

July 28:
Okumura Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought

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NEW TO SANSHIN?
Welcome!  
We offer a (free) intro session,
Getting Started
in Zen Practice,
 most Tuesday evenings 
​Click here to learn more.
​Next sessions:
July 16, 2019 7:15 pm
and
July 23, 2019 7:15 pm
and
July 30, 2019 7:15 pm
1726 S Olive St, B-ton
Enter between grey columns,
turn off your phone,
take off your shoes,
come downstairs.
Welcome!

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WHAT'S NEW
ON OUR SITE?

• The Sanshin Network page now includes links to Hoko's disciples in Germany and Austria.
• We've added a page of information on the Land Care Retreat set for August 7 - 9.
• There's a new page describing how to apply for scholarship funding.
• We're taking donations of used dharma books.  Bring yours in today!
• There's a new Newsletter Gallery on our site with back issues from the last two years.​

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SANSHIN T-SHIRT
Features our logo and a design by artist Carol Corey exclusively for Sanshin.  Get yours here.

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Okumura Roshi has participated in a Bloomington-based web project called Interior Mythos Journeys.

Shohaku Okumura – A Good for Nothing Life from Interior Mythos Journeys on Vimeo.

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