We sit every Wednesday, from 7-8:30pm. In addition to seated/walking meditation and tea, you can expect:
1st Wednesday: Senior Dharma student Chris Wilson leads the group in an intimate koan discussion
2nd Wednesday: Visiting Zen speakers present on various topics
3rd Wednesday: Zen Teacher David Weinstein teaches the group, or offers one on one practice discussions.
4th Wednesday: Community night and Zen Game. Bring your curious friends, significant others, children, etc. There will be an in depth beginning instruction, an intentionally unstructured Zen Game to play, tea and food, and after practice, we go to Blooms or Farley's together for a drink of some sort.
5th Wednesday: This does happen occasionally. And when it does, all hell breaks loose. Up is down, black is white, dogs and cats living together. Total chaos. Actually, we play another Zen Game.
1st Wednesday: Senior Dharma student Chris Wilson leads the group in an intimate koan discussion
2nd Wednesday: Visiting Zen speakers present on various topics
3rd Wednesday: Zen Teacher David Weinstein teaches the group, or offers one on one practice discussions.
4th Wednesday: Community night and Zen Game. Bring your curious friends, significant others, children, etc. There will be an in depth beginning instruction, an intentionally unstructured Zen Game to play, tea and food, and after practice, we go to Blooms or Farley's together for a drink of some sort.
5th Wednesday: This does happen occasionally. And when it does, all hell breaks loose. Up is down, black is white, dogs and cats living together. Total chaos. Actually, we play another Zen Game.
2011.11.21-2012.03.01 Online Refuge Cycle
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2011.11.30 Weekly Zen Mediation Practice- Community Night
Seated meditation walking and transformation on tap. Its community night, so beginners are encouraged to make it, bring your friends, spouse, SO, kids, neuroses, whatever tickles you. A more stripped down service, beginner instruction, and an experiment in awakening.
2011.12.07 Weekly practice- Chris Wilson speaking and leading a koan discussion
Seated and walking meditation, tea and liturgy and a koan talk
2011.12.10 Zen Community Practice- Habitat Restoration
Habitat restoration on the hillside at McKinley Square Park. Just cruise down the path that starts at 20th and San Bruno. We'll be there from 10-12. See you there...
2011.12.14 Weekly Zen Meditation Practice- Seated Meditation and an Experiment in Awakening
We sit traditional zazen, in silence, walk and take tea. Afterwords we embark in a novel experiment that investigates one aspect of life and practice.
2011.12.18 Winter Solstice 1-day Retreat with John Tarrant in Oakland
Refreshing the Mind and Cleansing the Heart for the New Year
Jumping off the cliff with open hands
— Wumen Huaikai
When we let drop the veils of our usual preconceptions, we are closer to our lives, sustained without knowing why. When we cannot see how healing or the next step in our lives will appear, and no longer know what we can expect, the step we must take just emerges, out of nothingness, like the grass. What rises to meet our need comes from a domain deeper than the realm of custom, more ancient, beneath our feet and our awareness, thousand armed, beyond our control.
When we truly do nothing, a fertile, widening silence appears. In the midst of action we rely on the stillness that is everywhere present. When we truly do nothing, we allow that falling can be good, that arms might catch us when we do fall, that the world may sustain and surprise us at the same time.
Visible and invisible hands reach out and we find that we have always been supported by much that is unknown and beyond our plans. Just as Alice, in the surprising, uncontrollable moment of dropping down the rabbit hole, found a marmalade jar on a shelf, we meet common things in the field of wonder. The orderly progress of breakfast, lunch, and dinner catches us and there is the beauty of work, tea, jam on toast, the body's cabinet of pains, the quick feet of rain scratching toward us over dry leaves.
The life we yearn for is our own walking through common days; it is the ascent and the fall, the plateaus and recurrences, the moment of awakening and the moment of falling asleep. What we need, and what we love, is here each moment, already within us. It waits for us to recognize its presence. We have only to give ourselves up to it, and our one life, and all life, welcomes us into its arms.
— from The Light Inside the Dark by John Tarrant
This retreat will include meditation, group discussion, tea and scones, and a talk by John Tarrant, Roshi.
DETAILS
Date & Time:
Sunday, December 18th, 12noon - 5:30pm
Location:
a private home in the Montclair area of Oakland, CA
location will be provided upon registration
Cost: $70
includes afternoon tea and scones
Financial Assistance Available - just ask registrar Dan Kaplan.
email seminar@pacificzen.org or call 415.613.4085
See the right sidebar for more information.
Jumping off the cliff with open hands
— Wumen Huaikai
When we let drop the veils of our usual preconceptions, we are closer to our lives, sustained without knowing why. When we cannot see how healing or the next step in our lives will appear, and no longer know what we can expect, the step we must take just emerges, out of nothingness, like the grass. What rises to meet our need comes from a domain deeper than the realm of custom, more ancient, beneath our feet and our awareness, thousand armed, beyond our control.
When we truly do nothing, a fertile, widening silence appears. In the midst of action we rely on the stillness that is everywhere present. When we truly do nothing, we allow that falling can be good, that arms might catch us when we do fall, that the world may sustain and surprise us at the same time.
Visible and invisible hands reach out and we find that we have always been supported by much that is unknown and beyond our plans. Just as Alice, in the surprising, uncontrollable moment of dropping down the rabbit hole, found a marmalade jar on a shelf, we meet common things in the field of wonder. The orderly progress of breakfast, lunch, and dinner catches us and there is the beauty of work, tea, jam on toast, the body's cabinet of pains, the quick feet of rain scratching toward us over dry leaves.
The life we yearn for is our own walking through common days; it is the ascent and the fall, the plateaus and recurrences, the moment of awakening and the moment of falling asleep. What we need, and what we love, is here each moment, already within us. It waits for us to recognize its presence. We have only to give ourselves up to it, and our one life, and all life, welcomes us into its arms.
— from The Light Inside the Dark by John Tarrant
This retreat will include meditation, group discussion, tea and scones, and a talk by John Tarrant, Roshi.
DETAILS
Date & Time:
Sunday, December 18th, 12noon - 5:30pm
Location:
a private home in the Montclair area of Oakland, CA
location will be provided upon registration
Cost: $70
includes afternoon tea and scones
Financial Assistance Available - just ask registrar Dan Kaplan.
email seminar@pacificzen.org or call 415.613.4085
See the right sidebar for more information.
2011.12.21 Weekly Meditation- Teacher David Weinstein offering one on one work with a Zen Master
David Weinstein will offer work in the room STARTING AT 6:30. Come early if you can. There is seated and walking meditation. The interview optional, but highly recommended.
2011.12.28 Weekly Meditation- Community night
A night of traditional sitting, with a focused experiment in reality that allows you to look at one aspect of your life and practice in safe detail.
2012.01.21 Day Long Mediation: Occupy Awakening Koan Brunch with David Weinstein
Saturday, January 21, 12:30 - 6:00pm
Occupy Awakening: Empowering the 99% of our Heart/Minds
How wonderful, how wonderful! Everything is enlightened.
All beings and all things are enlightened just as they are.
— Buddha, attaining realization
Rather than noticing what is in front of us, we often focus more on the elusive things not in our grasp.
What happens when we stop focusing so much on the special parts we think we want, and give the rest of life equal time?
How do we include it all, and what could it mean for our lives?
You are invited to explore the possibilities of empowering the 99% of our heart/minds with David Weinstein, Roshi, at this special koan brunch in San Francisco. This afternoon retreat will include meditation, a talk by David Weinstein, conversation and a meal.
Location:
San Francisco Potrero Hill Zendo/ Wind-in-Grass Sangha
824B Carolina St #6
San Francisco, CA
map & directions
Cost: $65*
includes lunch / brunch
Register Online Please don't use Chrome browser when registering online.
Occupy Awakening: Empowering the 99% of our Heart/Minds
How wonderful, how wonderful! Everything is enlightened.
All beings and all things are enlightened just as they are.
— Buddha, attaining realization
Rather than noticing what is in front of us, we often focus more on the elusive things not in our grasp.
What happens when we stop focusing so much on the special parts we think we want, and give the rest of life equal time?
How do we include it all, and what could it mean for our lives?
You are invited to explore the possibilities of empowering the 99% of our heart/minds with David Weinstein, Roshi, at this special koan brunch in San Francisco. This afternoon retreat will include meditation, a talk by David Weinstein, conversation and a meal.
Location:
San Francisco Potrero Hill Zendo/ Wind-in-Grass Sangha
824B Carolina St #6
San Francisco, CA
map & directions
Cost: $65*
includes lunch / brunch
Register Online Please don't use Chrome browser when registering online.
