{"id":204,"date":"2016-03-14T04:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T04:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/?p=204"},"modified":"2019-02-14T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:27:39","slug":"orientation-to-zen-course-saturdays-april-9-16-23-30-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/orientation-to-zen-course-saturdays-april-9-16-23-30-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Orientation to Zen Course &#8211; Saturdays April 9, 16, 23 &#038; 30, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Orientation to Zen Course &#8211; Saturdays April 9, 16, 23 &amp; 30, 2016<\/h2>\n<p>Are you looking for a way to go beyond the simple basics of meditation, or how to take your practice deeper?<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to engage face-to-face with an experienced teacher, and explore how becoming involved with a community that was created to support meditation can inspire and enhance your own practice?<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of a consistent meditation practice are well established &#8211; stress reduction, a less cluttered mind, improved focus and awareness, better immune function, more restful sleep, and insight into the habits that are limiting the realization of your true potential.<\/p>\n<p>This course offers a progressive combination of study and practice, individual and group interaction, and personal guidance that will provide a strong foundation to experience the profound change that Zen meditation practice offers.<\/p>\n<p>The Orientation to Zen Buddhist Practice Course is the primary gateway to <a title=\"Zen Training\" href=\"\/index.php\/zen-training\">Zen Training<\/a> at Zenwest Buddhist Society. The course runs 2 hours on each of four Saturdays.<\/p>\n<h2>Course information and Registration<\/h2>\n<p>You can review the <a href=\"\/index.php\/courses\/110-orientation-to-zen-outline\" target=\"_blank\">Course Outline<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Dates: April 9, 16, 23 &amp; 30, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday mornings 9:30am &#8211; 11:30am<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain the quality of instruction, course enrollment is limited to 12.<\/p>\n<p>Fees for this four-week course: $249 ($199 for Zenwest Associates)<\/p>\n<p>A deposit of $50 is required to ensure a space upon registration. The balance is payable one week before the first day of the course.<\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four weekly group discussion and meditation sessions with Rev. Doshu and\/or Kosen Eshu, Osho<\/li>\n<li>Meditation cushion (zafu)<\/li>\n<li>Peer Support Connection<\/li>\n<li>All online and printable course materials<\/li>\n<li>Zenwest Chant Book<\/li>\n<li>Upon completion of the Orientation, all participants are invited to apply for Membership in Zenwest.<\/li>\n<li>All Members must purchase a black martial arts-style (gi). In Victoria, we recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanshukan.com\/katatrading\/Kata_Trading\/HOME.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kata Trading<\/a> &#8211; 239 Menzies Street, (250) 382-5282<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pay Online via PayPal:<\/h2>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"FSA8RT8HPVTTN\" \/><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><input name=\"on0\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Payment:\" \/>Payment:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><select name=\"os0\"><option value=\"Course deposit\">Course deposit $50.00 CAD<\/option><option value=\"Course balance, non-Associate\">Course balance, non-Associate $199.00 CAD<\/option><option value=\"Course balance, Associate\">Course balance, Associate $149.00 CAD<\/option><option value=\"Full course fee, non-Associate\">Full course fee, non-Associate $249.00 CAD<\/option><option value=\"Full course fee, Associate\">Full course fee, Associate $199.00 CAD<\/option><\/select><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><input name=\"currency_code\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"CAD\" \/> <input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_paynowCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/form>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a way to go beyond the simple basics of meditation, or how to take your practice deeper?<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready to engage face-to-face with an experienced teacher, and explore how becoming involved with a community that was created to support meditation can inspire and enhance your own practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}