Weekend Retreat

Spring Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Larry Fuho Trussell

April 27, 2024
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple
A Zazenkai is a day of Zen practice in the city. Join us for a silent day of meditation (seated and walking), chanting, mindful eating, temple care-taking, and a dharma talk. We close the day with a ceremony to renewing our intention to live an ethical life.

Dissolving the Barriers: a Thousand Year Old Remedy for Modern Suffering

With Lama Lekshe

May 2 - 5, 2024
Great Vow Zen Monastery or Online
Cleverly side-stepping the western tendency to look for ‘cures’ through analysis and problem solving, Tonglen accomplishes healing with a simple, imaginative 5-part contemplative exercise. Through repeated practice, suffering and its causes are gradually diminished, and wisdom and compassion arise in their place. Genuine Tonglen is an advanced practice, but with precise guidance it can be effectively undertaken by a determined beginner, with or without previous meditation experience.

Home Hermitage - A Day Long Retreat Online

With Jogen Salzberg, Sensei

May 5, 2024
Online

We will spend a day meditating in the intimate aloneness that embraces all beings. Doing sustained zazen in our own dwelling place and its wild domesticity invites the desired integration of the everyday and the sacred. […]

Love & Spaciousness: A Loving Kindness Weekend Retreat

With Amy Kisei, Sensei and Myoyu Haley Voekel

May 24 - 26, 2024
Great Vow Zen Monastery

With wonderment on our side, and in relationship with all that is, we recognize the inherent compassion that naturally arises from deep and sustained presence. Held in a container of zen forms and the vibrant dance of a monastery waking up to spring, we will explore the nature of being anything at all! During this silent retreat our day will […]

Summer Solstice Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Ed Gensho Welsh

June 22, 2024
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple
A Zazenkai is a day of Zen practice in the city. Join us for a silent day of meditation (seated and walking), chanting, mindful eating, temple care-taking, and a dharma talk. We close the day with a ceremony to renewing our intention to live an ethical life.

Beginner's Mind Weekend Meditation Retreat

With Kodo Conover and Myoyu Haley Voekel

July 5 - 7, 2024
Great Vow Zen Monastery

The teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism empower us to live our lives wholeheartedly with openness, insight and compassion. During this weekend retreat we follow a silent retreat schedule, which allows us to temporarily put aside outside concerns and go deeply into inner work. The silent retreat schedule includes about seven hours of sitting meditation […]

Summer Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Larry Fuho Trussell

July 27, 2024
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple
A Zazenkai is a day of Zen practice in the city. Join us for a silent day of meditation (seated and walking), chanting, mindful eating, temple care-taking, and a dharma talk. We close the day with a ceremony to renewing our intention to live an ethical life.

Autumn Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Ed Gensho Welsh

October 26, 2024
Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple
A Zazenkai is a day of Zen practice in the city. Join us for a silent day of meditation (seated and walking), chanting, mindful eating, temple care-taking, and a dharma talk. We close the day with a ceremony to renewing our intention to live an ethical life.