Zazendo

Meet new people, enjoy some hands-on treatment, take your first step to learn a a caring skill at an Open Evening with no commitment, no obligation, no need to book... just turn up, and perhaps find yourself on the way to a new career or a satisfying hobby. Talk to people already on the Shiatsu path and have your questions answered. WELCOME!

Zen: from the Chinese word ch’an, from the Sanskrit dhyan: insightful meditation

Zazen: a seated meditation posture

Zazendo: the Way of Insight Meditation

The purpose of this 2-day Zazendo Retreat at the Rosewell Centre is to help you develop insight to harmonise your daily life, leading to inner peace.

You will learn to create tools for coping with the mechanisms of habit and addiction which can cause unnecessary disharmony.

Beginners are welcome. You need no experience of any kind of meditation. There are no pre-requisities and no preparation is necessary.

Please bring loose comfortable clothing to wear during meditation and a light blanket. You will sleep in your meditation-space and meditate in your sleeping-space.

Sufficient nourishment will be provided to sustain you through the weekend.

The inclusive course fee for the whole weekend is £57 which you may pay on the day or in advance by cheque to the Zen School, 19/21 Phipp Street London EC2A 4NZ or click to register online

ZAZENDO RETREAT PROGRAMME

Saturday

Morning 9-9.30 am Arrive, space allocation, settle in.

10 am Introduction to Mu Shin by Kris Deva North, Master of the Zen School, followed by Seated Meditation Instruction and Practice: Zazen/Seiza.

12 noon Eating Meditation Instruction and Practice.

Afternoon:

Instruction in working with Difficulties, Desires and Aversions.

Zazen Practice.

Instruction and Practice in Walking Meditation: Strolling through Life supremely at Leisure.

Evening:

Question and Answer Meditation: Satsang.

Zazen, Walking Practice.

Instruction in working with the Zen Policeman.

Night: Instruction and Practice in Reclining Meditation.

still

mind yet

still mind thinks

its purpose to think

as heart to beat and lung to breathe

yet heart stops between each beat and

lung between each breath

mind the gap

let thought

still

Sunday

Morning:

Zazen, Walking Practice.

Instruction and Practice in Action Meditation: Living the Moment as intensely as if your hair were on Fire!

Instruction and Practice in Hygiene Meditation.

Fasting Meditation Practice.

Zazen, Walking, Action Practice.

Afternoon:

Working with Compassion and Illusion.

Zazen, Walking, Action Practice.

Satsang.

Closing Instruction: taking the practices into the Mundane Dimension.

5 pm disperse

Mu Shin

Breathing

Sitting

Standing

Difficulties

Desires

Aversions

Patterns

Habits

Addictions

Discomfort

Observing

Walking

Satsang

Eating

Reclining

Sleeping

Action

Hygiene

Fasting

Compassion

Illusion