Summer Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat

With Kodo Conover and Patrick Bansho Green

July 31, 2021

Date and Time Details: 8:00am - 4pm PDT

Location: Heart Of Wisdom

Address: 6401 Northeast 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, USA

Prices
  • A suggested donation of $35 covers the costs of the event.
Zazen is going right into the Ocean of Awareness, manifesting the body of all Buddhas. The natural luminosity of mind suddenly reveals itself and the original light is everywhere. -Keizan Zenji
This is a day of Zen practice – meditation practice together, seated and active. The temple holds a “Zazenkai” every season. In this retreat you can set aside a day to practice simplicity and silence allowing the mind to settle into presence. The schedule includes meditation (zazen), chanting, caring for the garden and grounds, and talk or dharma discussion. Lunch is provided.
Tentative Schedule:
8:00 Orientation and meditation
10:00 Temple care-taking
11:30 meditation
12:30 lunch
1:30 meditation with dharma talk
3:30 closing ceremony
This event is in-person only.

About the Leaders

Kodo Conover

Nancy Kodo Conover has been practicing Zen since 2000 and received Lay Transmission from Chozen and Hogen Roshi in 2015, ordained as a temple priest in 2021 and received Dharma Transmission and Preceptor authorization in 2023. Kodo retired from a career as a vocational rehabilitation counselor to help establish Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple and […]

Learn more about Kodo Conover

Patrick Bansho Green

Patrick Bansho Green has practiced with the Zen Community of Oregon since 2004 and received Lay Transmission from Chozen Bays and Hogen Bays in 2019, priest ordination in 2021, and completed Preceptor Authorization and Dharma Transmission in 2023. As board president, he led the effort to found Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple, a lay practice […]

Learn more about Patrick Bansho Green

Categories : , ,