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11/4/2010

Helping practice

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Wind-in-Grass is now over a year old.  For a year, Wind-in-Grass has opened its doors, rang its bells and provided its sangha a place to meet and practice with the support and encouragement of each other.  I could not be happier with the community that we have created and the group that gathers to practice together each week.  But now Wind-in-Grass needs help.  As we begin our second year, I want to ask anyone who sits with us regularly to volunteer with WiG.  We have increased in size and scope and there are opportunities to deepen your practice through helping Wind-in-Grass.

Wind-in-Grass has a particular way in which it strives to meet the vows were recite each week.  Our sangha is organized around these aims, and I have below listed them and given some examples of things we need done in each area.  Please scan over these and think about what here might appeal to you to do and how you would like to help.  Everyone will be asked to do something, no task will be too small.  No one will be asked to do more than their life, interest or schedule can handle:

I vow to

Wake all beings in the world; [Outreach]

  • Administer and update website/FB/Twitter
  •  Position and plan seminars and other events
  • Help with community night
  • Do other advertisements on line or in areas
  • Welcome new guests/Collect email addresses and maintain email list
Set endless heartache to rest; [Practice]

  • Keep time, ring bells, lead walking meditation, etc
  • Set up/take down meditation hall
  •  Select practice pieces
  • Put together announcements
Walk through every wisdom gate; [Deepening]

    • Identify members ready to take next step, and smooth the way
    • Help members join PZI, begin formal relationship with a teacher, begin koan study, explore sesshin
    • Select koans
    • Bringing our lives into our practice and practice into our lives
Live the great Buddha Way; [Make SF a kinder and more compassionate place]

  • Identify philanthropic projects
  • Organize our participation in the project

Give it a thought.  I think one or more of these will appeal to you and your practice. You can email me directly, or speak up at the next meeting. 

Thank you,

Michael

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Marika
11/4/2010 06:27:41 am

Thank you for reaching out, Michael. I would be more than happy to help by:

1) Helping with community night, esp. going to the store and getting/making food to share.

2) Setting up & taking down the meditation hall. I'm often the first to arrive because I tend to leave home early in case there's traffic, which usually there isn't. I can commit to being there at 6:45 to set up the hall. I wish I could say I'll be there every week... I do try, but sometimes I don't make it. Perhaps two people, myself and someone else, can share this task, that way if one of us isn't there, the other can do it. Maybe next week you can show me how to set up the altar?

xo,
Marika

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    “A Course on Koans” is the delusion-riddled work of Chris Kufu (“Wind in the Void”) Wilson, who began practicing Zen in 1967. He regards Taizan Maezumi, Robert Aitken, and David Weinstein as his root teachers. Each of them pecked at his shell until he “completed” the never-ending koan curriculum of the Harada-Yasutani lineage.

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