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March
Schedule
Thursday 2nd
No Sitting (Hall in use for Easter)
Sunday 5th
Sit on Country
Thursday 9th
Zazen & pack up for Sesshin
Friday 10th – Wed. 15th
Djerin Sesshin
Thursday 16th
Zazen
Sunday 19th
Council Meeting
Thursday 23rd
Zazen
Sunday 26th
Zazenkai with Mari Rhydwen Roshi
Thursday 30th
Zazen & Precepts sharing with
Dr. Britta Biedermann
Due the church's Easter celebrations at St. Paul's,
there will be no ZGWA gathering for Zazen on Thursday, 2nd of April.
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 Zazenkai
Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be leading an online Zazenkai on Sunday, 26th of April. This is an amazingly convenient and powerful way to spend a day of deep practice. Don't miss this gift of the Dharma! Click here to register. Registration closes on Thursday 23rh April.
Zazen and Precepts Sharing
Dr Britta Biedermann will lead a Precepts sharing session on Thursday, 26th of April. The topic of discussion will be the seventh precept of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Paths: 'Right Mindfullness'.
Sit On Country
Our monthly 'Sit on Country' will be on Sunday, 5th of March at Kaarta Gar-up (Kings Park) (click here for a map locating where we sit). We will join together with Michael Wright in zazen and kinhin on Whadjuk Noongar Country. 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.
Djerin Sesshin & Packup
Our wonderful Djerin (Autumn) Sesshin will take place from Friday 10th to Wdenesday 15th of April so packup will take place after we sit two rounds on Thursday the 9th.
Djerin (Autumn) Sesshin in April
Our 5-Day Djerin sesshin is happening from Friday, 10th to Wednesday the 15th of April. Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be our teacher. This is one of the highlights of our Zen calendar so, if you haven't already, please start planning for this wonderful event. Registrations are open and early bird discounts are available, click here to register. If you have any questions contact our sesshin coordinators Nick [ nicholas.arnold@pm.me ] or Andrea [ donohues.andrea@gmail.com ] Nick is acting sesshin co-ordinator from 9th Feb to 17th March while Andrea is away. Outside that time Sesshin please contact Andrea.
Call for Wobbly Pot contributions
Please think about contributing to the Djeran-Makuru-Djilba (Autumn-Winter) 2026 Issue of the magazine of the ZGWA, The Wobbly Pot. The theme is "Cooking Your Life". This theme draws from Dogen’s Tenzo Kyōkun (Instructions to the Tenzo (Cook)) and related commentaries. This issue of Wobbly Pot is an opportunity for further reflection on how we take Zen practice into everyday life? Please send articles, recounts, essays, artwork, photographs or poems to Ingvar Anda (editor) at ingvaranda@hotmail.com by Wednesday 22nd April; sooner much appreciated.
Style guide for contributions: Word documents (no PDFs) in Ariel font size 12 points which is the font and size of this text. Only indent the first paragraph and leave a line space between the following paragraphs. Use italics for long quotations leaving a line space before and after. Include any references in a list at the end of a document rather than including endnotes or footnotes.
Quote of the Month
"Certainly it can bring relief to our hearts to be able to meditate in wild places, but we do not need to be anywhere special, we do not need to be anyone special. We have everything we need. Even if we are confined alone in a cell, nothing is missing. Even in a crowded supermarket aisle, stuck in rush hour traffic, nothing is missing. No need to be somewhere else, not need to be someone else. We have it all. This very place really is the Lotus Land. Just realize. Just know."
Mari Rhydwen Roshi
Zazen
Our normal weekly sitting consists of four periods of Zazen finishing with chanting and dedications.
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.
