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Saturday, May 3
Our monthly work party will be held this coming weekend, Saturday, May 3, as usual on the first Saturday of the month. Spring has arrived and spring jobs are on our list for the day, mainly weeding, weeding, weeding, tending the vegetable garden, cutting the lawns. If you feel like joining us, you are very welcome indeed, and your kind help will be really appreciated. As usual we will provide a hearty lunch, including whatever fresh greens are available from our vegetable garden for a great salad. Work will start at 8:30 AM and continue until 4:30 PM, with the lunch break at 1:00 PM. Please feel free to join us whenever you like for as long as you have time. |
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Saturday, May 10
A full day of practice will be held on Saturday, May 10, from 9:00 AM until 11:00 PM. Everyone is free to join in and leave between periods throughout the day or to arrive Friday and stay through Sunday morning. Lunch and supper times will be by personal choice, with participants taking breaks as they choose. |
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Saturday, May 17
The next Caregiver Retreat will be held on Saturday, May 17, at Tahoma Zen Monastery.
For the past seven years the Monastery day-long retreats for professional and non-professional caregivers have been held and designed to address the issues of burn-out and renewal. Enso House, an end-of-life-care home on land adjacent to the Monastery, is also integrally involved. Our goal is to reduce isolation and build community among caregivers by offering a day of relaxing, nourishing activities so we may remain fully involved with those for whom we care. The retreats are held on a Saturday from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM.
In an effort to foster a sense of intimacy and trust, our retreats are kept small –-generally 10 – 15 participants. They are co-facilitated by a professional caregiver and a Zen Buddhist monk. We incorporate some Zen practice concepts into these retreats (breathing meditation, silence and mindfulness), but we have specifically designed this day to be accessible and supportive to anyone interested in participating. |
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Friday, May 23 to Sunday, May 25
A Mini-Sesshin will begin at 6:00 PM Friday and run until 7:00 PM Sunday. The schedule is focused on maximizing Zazen and will include formal Zen silent meals. If you are coming for the first time, if you need a refresher on Zendo procedures, or if you want to learn how to use jihatsu (nested bowls), come at 5:00 PM Friday for instruction and orientation. Please join us for all or part of the sesshin.
The mini-sesshin schedule is here |
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Special thanks to our friends at Sandy Bar Nursery for the offer, donation and shipping from California of twelve young fruit trees. They were shared between the Monastery and Enso house. Thank you to Fran Abel, landscape designer, who gave her time to mark the best locations for the trees to be planted and to give advice for their continued care.
Thank you to all who are continually contributing effort, time, resources, care and goodwill to Tahoma Zen Monastery. We are very grateful for your gifts of substance and service.
May we always live in a way that makes us worthy to receive your offerings. |
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You are invited to attend a celebration of the marriage of Teresa Shojun Regan and Corey Ichigen Hess who will be married Mary 24 in Minneapolis, MN. Both of them assisted at Enso House. Potluck supper will be held here on Whidbey Island at 6:00 PM, May 31, at 5310 Maple Glen Rd, Langley, WA. Directions from the ferry: continue N on SR 525. Just past Useless Bay Rd turn R onto Newman Rd. Go one mile; turn R onto Maple Glen Rd. For questions please contact: teresaaregan@yahoo.com . |
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Daily Zazen Schedule
Tuesday through Sunday
5:30 - 7:00 AM
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Tuesdays – Sundays, on the second and fourth weeks of each month,
evening zazen will be from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Zazenkai
Zazenkai is regularly, with some exceptions, held all Sundays of the month, from 8:00 – 9:15 AM. Ideal for
beginners, Zazenkai includes sutra chanting, zazen, walking meditation and a short reading from texts by Shodo Harada Roshi. Afterwards, tea and sweets are served in the dining hall, and there is an opportunity for conversation and discussion.
Please be in the Zendo and on a cushion ten minutes before zazen begins. If you arrive after a period has started, please wait in the entrance area on a cushion until the period ends.
Mini-Sesshin Schedule
Friday
PM
5:00 Orientation and supper
5:50 On cushion
6:00 Zazen
8:40 Sarei (tea and sweets) and sutras
9:00 Kaichin (final sutras in the kitchen), optional Yaza
Saturday
AM
4:30 Wake up bell
4:50 On cushion
5:00 Sutras/Zazen
7:00 Breakfast
7:30 Break
8:00 Samu
9:30 Break
10:00 Zazen
PM
12:00 Lunch
12:40 Break
2:00 Zazen
2:30 Teisho/Zazen
4:15 Break
4:30 Optional Supper
5:50 On cushion
6:00 Long Kinhin
6:30 Zazen
8:40 Sarei/Sutras
9:00 Kaichin, optional Yaza
Sunday
AM
4:30 Wake up bell
4:50 On cushion
5:00 Sutras/Zazen
6:30 Final Sutras
Please be on your cushion ten minutes before zazen begins.
Tahoma Contact Information
For information about visiting, special events, or the
regular sitting schedule at Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery
please contact the Head Monk by phone: 360.331.4142
Head Monk: Ekei Zenji
Monastery email:
tahoma@whidbey.com
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery
6499 Wahl Road, Freeland, WA 98249
360-331-4142 (voice)
360-331-7475 (fax)
Donations and Pledges: One Drop Zendo Association
c/o Ekei Zenji, at the Monastery
Monastery Messages: Carol Soki and Fred Soseki Olson
skylark@whidbey.com
Monastery Messages is sent monthly with news and announcements from Tahoma Monastery.
Seattle Sitting Inquiries:
Brenda Wajun Loew
gentleacupuncture@earthlink.net 206.930.1238
Betty MyoSho Brown
boronart@mindspring.com
Directions
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery is located on south Whidbey Island at 6499 Wahl Road.
A map is available.
From I-5 drive to Mukilteo and take the ferry to Clinton (ferries run every half hour on the half hour). Continue on SR 525 about 8 miles, past Bayview, and turn left (south) onto Useless Bay Road. Useless Bay Road turns west, becoming Millman Road. Continue west, crossing Double Bluff Road onto Lancaster Road. After going about 3 miles from the highway, turn left (south) onto Wahl Road.
Enso House will be on your left about 0.75 mile down the road.
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery entrance is about 0.25 mile farther on the left.
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