For the time being stand on top of the highest peak.
For the time being proceed along the bottom of the deepest ocean.
For the time being three heads and eight arms.
For the time being an eight-or sixteen-foot body.
For the time being a staff or whisk.
For the time being a pillar or lantern.
For the time being the sons of Zhang and Li.
For the time being the earth and sky.
New Year's Eve Sit With Roshi Joan Halifax
at Upaya Zen Center
Join Upaya’s Cloud Zendo for a special New Year’s Eve meditation and talk with Roshi Joan, from 10:00 p.m. to Midnight Mountain Time, when Roshi will speak to this coming year. There will be live streaming on our YouTube channel as well as on zoom.
Winter Practice (online) by
Upaya Zen Center JAN 05, 2021 — JAN 29, 2021
This is an online event and participants are not required to join every session, nevertheless you are encouraged to join as much as you can. This event includes interviews with teachers.
Practice Period (Ango or “peaceful dwelling”) is a traditional intensive training period common to most schools of Buddhism. Ango traces its history to the time of Shakyamuni Buddha and the early sangha. Each year, the community would gather together enabling everyone to deepen their practice and polish their understanding through the indispensable teachings of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
Guided by an extraordinary team of teachers and friends, including Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, Roshi Norman Fischer, Sensei Sokaku Kathie Fischer, Sensei Wendy Johnson, Sensei Irene Kaigetsu Bakker, Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma, Natalie Goldberg, Monshin Nannette Overley, Matthew Kozan Palevsky and Kigaku Noah Rossetter, this unusual, online practice period will take a deep dive into koans from the Mumonkan, The Gateless Gate. It also includes days of intensive sitting meditation, two zazenkais, and concludes with a sesshin.
Click here for more details and to register. This event is donation based.
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Zoom link for Wednesday meditation
The Lincoln Zen Center remains temporarily closed in light of current health concerns surrounding COVID-19.
In the meantime, join us for meditation online on Zoom at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays. Meditation will include one 25-minute sit followed by a five-minute walking meditation. Join us on Wednesdays by clicking the Zoom link.
Meeting ID: 737 6491 6452
Passcode: j36MAJ
Monday Evening Online Meditation
We started offering an additional online meditation every Monday at 6pm in the same format as the Wednesday evening online meditation. The Zoom link will be announced prior to the meditation.
UPDATED CHANTS
As a reminder, please note that meditation at the Zen Center will now involve reciting the Verse Of Atonement before the first seated meditation:
(recited three times, hands in Gassho)
ALL MY ANCIENT TWISTED KARMA
FROM BEGININNGLESS GREED, HATE AND DELUSION
BORN OF BODY, SPEECH, AND MIND,
I NOW FULLY ATONE.
Following seated meditation and before the dharma reading, we will recite the Verse Before The Dharma Talk:
(recited three times, hands in Gassho)
THE DHARMA IS VAST AND SUBTLE
WE NOW HAVE A CHANCE TO HEAR IT,
STUDY IT, AND PRACTICE IT.
WE VOW TO REALIZE ITS TRUE MEANING.
Before closing each meditation session, we recite the Four Bodhisattva Vows:
(recited three times, hands in Gassho)
CREATIONS ARE NUMBERLESS,
I VOW TO FREE THEM.
DELUSIONS ARE INEXHAUSTIBLE,
I VOW TO TRANSFORM THEM.
REALITY IS BOUNDLESS,
I VOW TO PERCEIVE IT.
THE AWAKENED WAY IS UNSURPASSABLE,
I VOW TO EMBODY IT.
The Four Bodhisattva Vows will be followed by the Evening Verse, recited once by the doan:
LET ME RESPECTFULLY REMIND YOU:
LIFE AND DEATH ARE OF SUPREME IMPORTANCE.
TIME PASSES SWIFTLY BY AND OPPORTUNITY IS LOST
LET US AWAKEN, AWAKEN - TAKE HEED
DO NOT SQUANDER YOUR LIFE
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