{"id":924,"date":"2015-04-01T19:55:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/?p=924"},"modified":"2016-06-13T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:59:21","slug":"zenwest-newsletter-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/zenwest-newsletter-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenwest Newsletter – April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Spring! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Please check out the Zenwest Abbot Update<\/a>, a brief message from Eshu Osho on Youtube. This is the first of what promises to be a monthly offering in which Eshu will talk a bit about what’s going on with Zenwest. Please take seven minutes and have a look and listen.<\/p>\n

April will see a two-day Zen Weekend<\/a> at Kokizanji (Red Flag Mountain Temple) in Sooke. At around 3:38 on the Abbot Update<\/a> Youtube, Eshu describes the idea of this event. \u00a0He says he’s thinking of it as a “Zen camp.” It will be open to everybody, not just members and associates, so you can invite friends and family. This will be\u00a0a fantastic opportunity to transition with the season, and sample what residential Zen training can offer. Check out the details by clicking this<\/a>. (Scroll to the bottom of this newsletter for an agenda of the Zen Weekend.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One-Day Intensive<\/a> on April\u00a019th. The Dharma talk at the one-day intensive will be about koan practice in the Rinzai tradition. There will be some history, but it will focus on the actual practice of koan training, how to approach it, and how koan practice is useful in everyday life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Kokizanji Workday: April 4. 9am-noon
\nOrientation<\/a>: April 11, 18.
\nZenwest AGM: April 15
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\u4f5c\u52d9 Samu<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

Workdays at Kokizanji. Help keep the temple shipshape with the practice of samu<\/em><\/a>. This month there’s just one workday: April 4, 9am-12 noon. Come for all or part of it. Any help is needed and appreciated. Please bring a hat, water bottle, sunscreen, and yard tools like loppers and shovels and other implements of shipshapery. Please let Eshu Osho know if you’re coming so that he can plan accordingly. (eshu@zenwest.ca<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

A message from Eshu Osho<\/span><\/div>\n

Samu offers us the opportunity to come together as a Sangha and literally\u00a0and physically co-create Zenwest.\u00a0The spirit of Samu is a significant aspect of the Zen tradition, even a\u00a0defining trait, so much so that Baizhang Huaihai, Linji (Rinzai)’s Dharma\u00a0grandfather famously exclaimed “A day without work is a day without\u00a0eating!” It has been an aspect which as a community we have not yet\u00a0developed well. Everyone is busy, and all of us work hard in our\u00a0individual lives, so it can be hard to come up with the energy to put into\u00a0work practice. That said, there is a tremendous joy and satisfaction that\u00a0comes from coming together as a community to develop our place of practice.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Tommi H\u014dy\u016b Boulter offers this haiku, with Sparky starring as Squirrel.<\/p>\n

Squirrel sits, twitches
\nBrown tail flicks, paws poised now
\nSquirrel knows nutting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(The editor of this newsletter would like to offer the personal observation that he, too, knows nuttin’.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The Zenwest Fishing Club… really? There is such a thing? The editor of this newsletter does not know. But the estimable Kend\u014d Ralfs offers this submission from the aforementioned Zenwest Fishing Club\u00a0and the 40 lb halibut he caught off Clover Point, bringing to your editor’s mind the following:<\/span><\/div>\n

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That is born will die,
\nWhat has been gathered will be dispersed,
\nWhat has been accumulated will be exhausted,
\nWhat has been built up will collapse,
\nAnd what has been high will be brought low.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

\u2014Sogyal Rinpoche The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Zenwest Spring Retreat Weekend \u201cZen Camp\u201d
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1630 Participants are welcome to arrive
\n1700 Participants who are camping set up\/independent practice 1730 Introductions and orientation
\n1800 Dinner
\n1900 Zendo (2 x 25 minute sits with walking in between)
\n2030 Tea and circle
\n2100 Closing <\/span><\/p>\n

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0530 Wake up (optional for those that wish to do yoga) 0600 Yin Yoga (optional)
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\n0730 Zendo (2 x 25 minute sits with walking in between) 0830 Wash up <\/span><\/p>\n

0840 Breakfast
\nCare-taking (15 minutes) <\/span><\/p>\n

Independent Practice
\n1000 Dharma Class and Discussion*
\n1200 Interview sign up and Independent Practice 1230 Lunch <\/span><\/p>\n

Independent Practice
\n1400 Chanting class and practice
\n1500 Interviews \u2013 independent\/guided hiking**
\n1730 Dinner
\n1830 Zendo (2 x 25 minute sits with walking in between) 1945 Closing tea & campfire (weather permitting) <\/span><\/p>\n

* Dharma class will be an exploration of Buddhist teaching and Zen practice based on the Bhavacakra \u2013 \u201cThe Wheel of Birth and Death\u201d. There will be handouts, an overview, and an opportunity for discussion and questions. <\/span><\/p>\n

** Maps will be made available of nearby hikes, and instruction on our practice of silent group hikes. Depending on who is attending, we may be able to offer hike leaders, otherwise, hikers will be on their own, and expected to be back in time for dinner at 1730.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Copyright \u00a9 2015 Zenwest Buddhist Society, All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Zenwest Newsletter mailing address is:<\/strong>
\nnews@zenwest.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

For other inquiries and Zenwest business:<\/strong>
\noffice@zenwest.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

To see the full schedule in all its glory, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gateless Gate
\nHappy Spring!
\n\u4f5c\u52d9 Samu
\nA message from Eshu Osho
\nHaiku by Tommi H\u014dy\u016b Boulter
\nThe Zenwest Fishing Club
\nZenwest Spring Retreat Weekend \u201cZen Camp\u201d – April 24 & 25
\nBhavacakra \u2013 \u201cThe Wheel of Birth and Death\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","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=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenwest.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}