One-Day Meditation Retreat with Shodo Spring

  • 13 Jan 2018
  • 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Red Clay Sangha, Chamblee, GA
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"THE MORNING VERSE"
A one-day meditation retreat with Shodo Spring

Saturday January 13, 2018

"Waking up this morning,
I vow with all beings to realize everything
without exception,
embracing the ten directions."


Shodo Spring met Zen with Dainin Katagiri, studied with Tenshin Anderson, and left home under Shohaku Okumura. Her practice has included pilgrimage, environmental activism, ceremony, and especially zazen. She has two daughters and four grandchildren, earns her livelihood as a psychotherapist, and practices farming as spiritual life.

Shodo is the author of Take Up Your Life: Making Spirituality Work in the Real World (Tuttle 1996), "Right Action: The World is My Body" in The Eightfold Path (Temple Ground Press 2016). Shodo is the founder of Mountains and Waters Alliance, humans joining with all beings to protect and restore the earth and all life. This includes zazen, teaching, a permaculture farm, land care, and being open to what arises next.

Practices
We will begin the day with an orientation to sesshin practice. If you are new to meditation practice and find the sitting periods too difficult, you are welcome to quietly take a break. Scheduled breaks are short due to the limited space; if you need extra time please take it when you need it. 

Please maintain silence. 

Please do not wear fragrances. 

Facility
This retreat will be held at our main locaton in Chamblee. more...

We have plenty of floor cushions and chairs. OR, if you prefer your own you may bring a cushion or chair. 

Lunch
Please bring a vegetarian sack lunch or you may eat at a nearby restaurant. 

Cost
There is no charge to attend the retreat. Dana for the teacher is customary.         

Schedule
8:30-9 am Open sitting (arrival at any time)
9 am Orientation
9:20 Sitting Meditation
10:10 Walking Meditation
10:20 Dharma talk
11:10 Walking
11:20 Sitting
12:10 Lunch and break
1:10 Sitting
1:50 Outdoor walking together
2:50 Sitting
3:40 Walking
3:50 Sitting
4:30 Closing circle
5:00 Close of formal retreat

Questions or comments?
Please contact Richard Skoonberg...
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