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June
Schedule
Thursday 4th
Zazen (Training in Compassion)
Sunday 7th
Sit on Country
Thursday 11th
Zazen
Sunday 14th
Online dokusan
Council Meeting
Thursday 18th
Zazen
Sunday 21st
Zazenkai with Mari Rhydwen Roshi
Thursday 25th
Zazen
Thursday 30th
Telephone dokusan with Mari Rhydwen Roshi
Dojo Schedule
We sit Thursday evenings at St Paul's Hall 6:30pm - 8:30pm. If you are new please come at 6:00pm for an orientation.
Online Dokusan
Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be offering online dokusan on Sunday, 14th June, 6am-8am. Please click here to register. Registration closes on Thursday 11th June.
Zazen and Training in Compassion
Nicholas Arnold will lead a training in compassion discussion on Thursday, June 4th. It will be based on Slogan 27, Work with your biggest problems first. Click here to read the section.
Sit On Country
Our monthly 'Sit on Country' will be on Sunday, 3rd of May at Kaarta Gar-up (Kings Park) (click here for a map locating where we sit). We will gather at 9.15am for a 9.30am start beneath the Marri trees to the south-west of the war memorial. We will finish by 10.30 am, but feel free to bring along a drink and a snack to enjoy socialising in the shade of the trees afterwards.
Membership and Donations
Support the ZGWA through membership and donation Membership helps towards the support of our practice and the financial viability of ZGWA. If you would like to support ZGWA and become a new member, you can download a membership form by clicking here. Please email the completed form to info@zgwa.org.au. If you would like to support ZGWA by making a donation to The Zen Group of Western Australia, please click here.
Quote of the Month
"Our experience of time is one of trying to live wholly in the present, while being haunted by our past, and anxious about our future. Through all this, we may be experiencing timelessness, but it doesn’t feel like it. Everything has to be done by yesterday, and, because the subdivisions of time seem to increasingly matter, we end up by trying to do more and more in less and less time. We become like the harassed and over worked woman in Robert Frost’s poem “A Servant to Servants,” who resigns herself to the toil: “I sha’n’t catch up in this world, anyway.” Yet, between breaths, lifetimes pass, all of them gathered into this puckering of time we call “now.” Surely we know about this. In love, at the extremities of pain and pleasure, in meditation, and in the samadhi of music our separation vanishes, and with it our sense of fleeting time."
Ross Bolleter Roshi
Online Zazenkai
Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be leading an online Zazenkai on Sunday, 21st June. This is a wonderful opportunity for a gentle and intense day of practice and it can all be done in your home. We start at 8.30am and finish at 4.00pm. Please click here to register. Registration closes on Thursday .
Zazen
Our normal weekly sitting consists of four periods of Zazen finishing with chanting and dedications.
Telephone Dokusan
Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be offering telephone dokusan from 4.00pm-6.00pm on Tuesday, 30th of June. Please click here to register. Registrations close by 5.00pm Sunday, 28th June.
Zen Library Link
One of the benefits of being a paid up ZGWA member is that you get free access to the ZGWA library which has over 600 volumes in its collection. If you would like to access the catalogue you can do so here.
The Zen Group of Western Australia is a lay-Buddhist organisation founded in 1982 and affiliated with the Diamond Sangha. We meet on Thursdays at St Paul's Anglican Church Hall, 162 Hampton Road, Beaconsfield, WA 6162. All are welcome to sit with us.
