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August
Schedule
Sunday 2nd
Sit on Country
Thursday 6yh
Zazen (Training in compassion)
Tuesday 11th
Telephone Dokusan
Thursday 13th
Zazan
Thursday 16th
Online dokusan
Council Meeting
Thursday 20th
Zazen
Sunday 23rd
Zazenkai
Thursday 27th
Zazen and Mark's Sharing on Walking Meditation
Djilba (Spring) Sesshin
The Djilba Sesshin (Zen Retreat) takes place from Sat. 26th Sept. to Sat. 3rd Oct. This is our major Sangha event of communal practice for the year. It is a special time when we come together to "settle the mind, touch the mind, convey the mind". Click here to register and find out further details.
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, 16th August, 6am-8am. Please click here to register. Registration closes on Thursday, 13th August (or earlier if the line fills up).
Zazen and Training in Compassion
Nicholas Arnold will lead a training in compassion discussion on Thursday, August 6th. It will be based on Slogan 29 - Don't Poison Yourself Click here to read the section.
Sit On Country
Our monthly 'Sit on Country' will be on Sunday, 2nd of August 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.
Walk on Country
Come along to a wonderful period of walking meditation along the coastal paths and the coast on Perth's northern beaches. Mark will lead a walking meditation at Whitford Nodes Park on Sunday 19th July, from 8.00am to 9.30am. Click here for a map of our meeting place in the northern carpark. If you are game you can have a swim afterwards.
Online Zazankai
Mari Rhydwen Roshi will be leading an online Zazenkai on Sunday, 23rd August 2026. Please click here to register. Registration closes on Thursday, 21st August.
Excerpts from Glenn Wallis Roshi's Dharma Talk
On Thursday July 16th we had the very special opportunity to hear a Dharma talk from Glenn Wallis Roshi. A recording of the talk is available here on our ZGWA webpage and here on SoundCloud. Here is an excerpt from his talk:
"The older I get, the more precious life and relationships become. I think as Zen practitioners, part of this is the richness that comes forth in opening with intimacy to our everyday things and happenings. Previously to this, the familiar was missable, unstartling, automatically relegated to ‘ordinary’. Ordinary stuff. And of course everything is indeed ordinary, or at least as ordinary as birth, and life, and death."
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, 11th of August. Please click here to register. Registrations close by 5.00pm Sunday, 9th August (or earlier if the line fills up).
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.
Sharing on Walking Meditation
Mark Edwards will share his experience of walking mediation on Thursday 27th August after two rounds of zazen.
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.
