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Please join us for any part of our practice, taking your seat 5 to 10 minutes prior to the scheduled starting time. In addition to zazen (sitting meditation) and kinhin (walking meditation), we participate in services (bowing and chanting), soji (temple cleaning), discussion groups, dharma talks and having informal tea together.
First-time visitors are welcome. Please see our New to Sanshin? page for information about resources for getting started in practice. There is no charge for participation in weekly practice events, although donations in support of the teachings and community are gratefully received. Please note that Monday morning zazen is not held if there have been activities on both the previous Saturday and Sunday (retreats, ceremonies, etc,) During sesshins and retreats: We take the day before and the morning after a sesshin or retreat as time off, and no regular activities are held. On the day a sesshin or retreat is to start, there is no morning zazen, but temple cleaning does take place at 9 am. On Sundays during a sesshin or retreat there is no lecture or teatime. Those not participating fully in the sesshin or retreat are still welcome to drop in for zazen on Sundays between 7 and 11 am. Please see the retreat or sesshin schedule for exact activity times. |
Of course, it's good to sit enthusiastically, but your enthusiasm should not be for competition with others. Then shall we honestly follow our desires? Shall we sit only when we want to sit, and avoid sitting when we don't want to? This is also a mistake. It is good to sit with other people because we have scheduled zazen, even if we don't want to sit on that day. This is worthy zazen. Even if we sit unwillingly or we sit to keep others company, zazen is zazen when we actually sit. It is solely dependent upon your attitude toward practice at the moment.
-- Uchiyama Roshi |
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Regular schedule
(All months except February and August) Monday - Friday Mornings 5:10 - 6:00 Zazen 6:00 - 6:10 Kinhin 6:10 - 7:00 Zazen 7:00 - 7:20 Service 7:20 - 7:40 Soji (Temple cleaning) Saturday Day off Sunday 9:10 - 10:00 am Zazen 10:10 - 11:00 am Dharma talk 11:00 am Tea 1:00 - 3:00 pm Work period Tuesday Evening 6:30 - 710 Zazen 7:15 - 8:45 Getting Started in Zen Practice Wednesday Evening 6:30 - 7:00 Zazen 7:00 - 8:30 Dharma study = OR = 6:30 - 6:55 Zazen 6:55 - 7:05 Kinhin 7:05 - 7:30 Zazen Please visit the THIS WEEK section of our homepage to see whether dharma study is happening. Thursday Evening 6:30 - 7:00 Zazen 7:00 - 8:00 Dharma book discussion (at the moment, Living by Vow) 
WORLD PEACE CEREMONY
On the third Sunday of the month, following the dharma talk we chant the Heart Sutra and recall both those who perpetrate suffering in the world and those who provide rescue and refuge from disaster. |
February and August schedule
Monday - Friday Mornings 5:10 - 6:00 Zazen 6:00 - 6:10 Kinhin 6:10 - 7:00 Zazen 7:00 - 7:20 Soji (Temple cleaning) Saturday Day off Sunday February 9:10 - 10:00 am Zazen 10:10 - 11:00 am Dharma talk 11:00 am Tea 1:00 - 3:00 pm Work period August 9:10 - 10:00 am Zazen 10:00 - 10:10 Kinhin 10:10 - 11:00 Zazen Tuesday Evening 7:15 - 8:45 Getting Started in Zen Practice Thursday Evening 6:30 - 7:00 Zazen 7:00 - 8:00 Dharma book discussion (at the moment, Living by Vow) On the IU CampusPractice on the IU campus has moved from Beck Chapel to the new office of the Buddhist Study Association. The office is in the Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) on the 4th floor of the Student Activities Tower in room 476. (Take the elevator across from the Starbucks on the 1st floor of the IMU.) Zazen time remains the same: 5:30 to 6:00 pm every weekday.
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