March 19th, 2022
-Online Only-
Join us online for a day of practice as we celebrate the start of Spring. Pushing on into the Spring Training period after our kickoff with our Winter Retreat we strive to keep up the pressure. We will continue to ramp up our practice as we head into the May Training month. For this day we will follow our spring retreat schedule, which allows for a bit more samu time as the demands of the grounds in the spring are unrelenting. We will continue our examinations of the three essentials of Zen (Chan) Practice: Root of Great Confidence, Fury of Great Determination and Great Apprehension and Uncertainty. We will use Torei Enji’s Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School and the Chan Whip Anthology by Jeffery Broughton as our primary texts.
Essential Information
• Download the full schedule: Daylong Retreat Schedule
• The sutra book we will be using can be downloaded here: Virtual Sutra book
• Read these posts: Guidelines for Virtual Events and Orientation to Virtual Sesshin.
• To receive the links for Virtual Events by email: Tahoma Virtual Events mailing list.
Broadcast Schedule
5am to 7am: Choka; Zazen
10:30am to Noon: Zazen
2pm to 4:00pm: Dharma Talk; Zazen
6:00pm to 8:45pm: Zazen
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Retreat Schedule
Saturday March 19th
| 5:00am | Choka (sutras p.3-14); Sampai; Han |
| 5:40am | Zazen (short period); Kinhin |
| 6:00am | Zazen; Zazen |
| 7:00am | Breakfast; Cleanup; Break |
| 8:15am | Samu [Self-Directed] |
| 10:30am | Zazen; Zazen; Kinhin |
| 11:20am | Zazen; Zazen |
| Noon | Lunch; Cleanup; Break |
| 2:00pm | Dharma Talk; Kinhin |
| 3:00pm | Zazen; Zazen; Kinhin |
| 4:15pm | Physical/Outside practice [self-directed] |
| 5:00pm | Dinner (informal, optional); Cleanup; Break |
| 6:00pm | Uninterrupted Zazen; Han Kinhin; |
| 7:00pm | Zazen; Zazen; Kinhin |
| 8:00pm | Zazen; Zazen |
| 8:45pm | Han; Closing Sutra (p.17); Sampai |
| 9:00pm | Kaichin; Yaza |
Events in Bold will be streamed.
Please email us with any questions: Contact Information
This retreat is offered without charge, however there are costs to us for food, utilities, printing and operations. So please do consider making a donation online or in person with this in mind.