Zen practice in the Connecticut River Valley
Happy Fall Equinox, everyone! Please register now via email for our day-long Harvest Zazenkai on Sept 30, with talk by and interview with Ryotan Sensei from the Village Zendo. Sign up for our electronic email list to stay up-to-date on the shared planning and decision process.
Exciting new events at Oxbow Zen coming up this fall! Mark your calendars!
Earlier start to Sunday sit: arrive 7:45 AM, bell for the first sit at 8:00 AM.
Evening sit moves to Wednesday: 6:00-7:30 PM at Magna House. Contact us for location details.
Looking forward to deepening the practice together!
We will come together for a Sangha Meeting on September 3 2017, 10 AM – noon. Please join the conversation on our community email list to share any ideas we would like to explore together. Hope to see you there!
The Village Zendo Shuso Sesshin takes place from Aug 15-22 2017. Once again videos of the Dharma Talks will be publicly available through Facebook at facebook.com/VillageZendo/ Watch them live or watch them later!
Four Oxbow Zen practitioners have just returned from a deep and settled Dai-Sesshin with the Village Zendo at The Grail in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. Can you spot them in the picture?
All the seven Dharma talks were shared as live video through Facebook. Roshi Enkyo urges us in her talk on the “Genjokoan in Troubled Times” to find our own way for acting as a Bodhisattva Citizen (audio). Soshin Osho uses the Koan of “Babyface Pro Wrestling” to encourage us to notice when what we think we know creates separation between us and them (audio), and how much learning and healing is possible when that separation eases.
After thinking of ourselves as “Upstairs Zen” (because of the location where we’ve been meeting) and the “Bring-Your-Own-Cushions” Sangha (to indicate that you’d have to BYOC to the sit), we’re now thinking of ourselves as “Oxbow Zen.”
We welcome you to our new web site at oxbowzen.org and will soon transition our electronic mailing list to the new name!
Our dedication to practicing together remains unchanged 😉
Thank you for a wonderful and deep Zazenkai, March 2016.