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WINTER PRACTICE PERIOD - 2023

Winter Practice Period: January 28 - February 25

Join Us ON SITE & ONLINE for Zazen!

Join us for Winter Ango! Download and fill out the Commitment Form below, and send a scanned copy of your intentions to office@smzc.org.

 

Daily six zazen periods are open to the public. Drop-ins are welcome. Come & join us in practice this month. Please help us sustain our programming by donating to the Winter Practice Period.

Meeting ID: 853 1700 6003
Passcode: 492232

Date

Time (PST)

Ango Events

Saturday, January 28

10:30am - 12:00 noon

Friday, February 3

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Saturday, February 4

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Saturday, February 11

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Sunday, February 12 -

Sunday, February 19

7:30 pm -

4:00 pm

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Saturday, February 25

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Winter Ango Shuso (head student)

Mitchell Hoden (法田) Katzel

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Mitchell travelled from the east coast to the west after finishing college to be a student at San Francisco Zen Center in 1977. He was a resident at the city center and later at Green Gulch Farm until 1987. After returning to school to complete graduate studies at UC Berkeley in 1990, he established a career as a fluvial geomorphologist restoring rivers throughout California. Mitchell met Kwong-roshi in 2008 and received jukai a year later. He currently resides with his wife in Sonoma Valley at the foot of Sonoma Mountain.

Tozan Ryokai’s Verse (Translation by Suzuki-roshi)

Do not try to see the objective world.

You which is given as an object to see is quite different from you yourself.

I am going my own way and I meet myself, which includes everything I meet.

I am not something which I can see (as an object).

When you understand self which includes everything, You have your true way.

Winter Ango Theme - No Self

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DOWNLOAD CHANTS

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Morning Service (Tue, Thur & Sat in English)

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Morning Service (Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun in Japanese)

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Evening​ (Mon - Sat)

  • Fukanzazengi (Universal Promotion of the Principles of Zazen)

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Zendo, Roshi

for NEARLY, 50 SEASONS…

            COMING OUT of the ZENDO, 

I SAW THAT the REDWOOD TREES WERE TALL.

               

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TODAY,  GOING OUT of the ZENDO, 

            I KNOW THAT the REDWOOD TREES ARE TALL……..

                                 by Jakusho Kwong-roshi

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