Orientation & Sunday Zen Practice

Orientation & Sunday Zen Practice

Community meditation practice with an authorized Zen Master. Learn to establish a personal meditation practice.

By Kansas Zen Center

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Sunday, April 21 · 10 - 11:30am CDT

Location

Kansas Zen Center

1201 Laura Avenue Lawrence, KS 66044

About this event

Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. (in person only)

Introduction to our practice forms. For those joining us in person for the first time.

Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (hybrid — in person or over Zoom)

The Four Great Vows (words here), three prostrations, brief and simple chanting for people in distress or who have died, four chants (Homage to the Three Jewels, Heart Sutra in Sino-Korean, English Heart Sutra, Great Dharani), a half hour of sitting, a talk, Q&A with a teacher. In-person, you will be given a chanting book. On Zoom, the chants can be found in our chanting book p. 6 — 13. If you are new to practice and are joining us over Zoom, you might want to join at 10:30 for sitting, the talk, and the Q&A. This is our most popular practice. Note that Sunday practice is suspended during retreats. See https://kansaszencenter.org/practice/ for details.

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For those joining on Zoom, links are here:

Publicly available class readings will be announced in the class description. Other notes will be sent to participants before the class.

Retreat schedules and information will be sent to participants the day before the retreat.

Register for an event here: . If you have any questions, write to us at info (at) kansaszencenter.org. Please register at least two days before a retreat or class. More information about our retreats can be found here:

Retreats vary in price depending on the length of the retreat. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you need retreat fees waived or modified, email us at info (at) kansaszencenter.org before registration. If you cannot sit an entire retreat as scheduled, please email us well in advance to make arrangements. For more information, email us at info (at) kansaszencenter.org.