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Special Event: Zazenkai (full-day meditation retreat)
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

For details, click here.



Practice Schedule      (To view the schedule in calendar format, click here).

Feel free to join us for as much or as little of the practice schedule as you would like. Please arrive on time for all periods of zazen so that you are settled into your seat before the sitting period begins. Please do not enter or exit the sitting room during a period of zazen.

We welcome newcomers, but we are not set up to accommodate drop-in first time visitors. To schedule your first visit, please call Jeff at 410.419.4659.

Every Thursday evening (exceptions noted below):

7:25 be in your seat
7:30 zazen (sitting meditation)
8:00 kinhin (walking meditation)
8:10 zazen
8:40 tea

No sitting on Jul 22

Monthly Sunday sitting and Dharma Talk (Mar 28, Apr 25, May 23, Jun 27):

 9:55 be in your seat
10:00 zazen
10:25 kinhin
10:35 zazen
11:00 kinhin
11:10 recorded Dharma Talk by Steve Hagen
12:00 tea

For a few words on Steve Hagen's Dharma talks and a link to an excerpt from a talk, click here.



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