Welcome to the homepage of AZC's 2020 Rohatsu sesshin - modifed to include offerings by Black Mountain Zen Centre & their founding teacher Ryushin Paul Haller.
2020 Rohatsu Sesshin Information:
- See BMZC Rohatsu Protocols HERE, and Ryushin Haller’s Recommended Reading (NYT article: Your Brain is Not For Thinking) HERE.
- Click on each ZOOM LINK below or on the downloadable pdf to enter the Online Zendo of either [AZC] or [BMZC], depending on the date and time.
- Please note that on Saturday there is the option of either joining AZC (recommended) or BMZC for the morning program (8-12). Ryushin Haller’s last Dharma Talk will be at 1:30 at BMZC, and our Rohatsu Sesshin will end with a return to the AZC Online Zendo for closing words and to bow out together.
- Ryushin Haller’s Dharma Talks will be uploaded below as they come in.
- Please consider making a donation to Black Mountain Zen Centre HERE and/or to Austin Zen Center HERE.
Save the 2020 Rohatsu Sesshin Schedule (with links) onto your computer, or use the below schedule to enter AZC / BMZC online zendos.
***PLEASE NOTE: the password to enter the BZMC online zendo is “zendo“***
2020 Rohatsu Sesshin Schedule
(Click on ZOOM LINK for the specified Date/Time to enter the online zendos of [AZC] -or- [BMZC])
Tuesday – Friday Schedule:
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6:00am – Zazen 6:35 – Kinhin 6:45 – Zazen 7:20 – Service 7:35 – Soji 7:45 – Bow out together |
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8:00 – Zazen 8:30 – Kinhin 8:40 – Zazen 9:10 – Kinhin 9:20 – Guided meditation (Ryushin) 9:50 – End guided meditation 11:00 – Group Practice Discussion |
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(Group PD: 11:30-12:30) |
12:00pm – Zazen 12:30 – Interval 12:35 – Zazen 1:00 – End Zazen/Break |
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1:30 – Dharma Talk (Ryushin Haller) | ||||
2:30 – Lunch/WP/Exercise/Bath | — | — | — | — |
5:30 – Zazen 6:15 – Chant Refuges | ||||
6:45 – Full Moon Ceremony (Wednesday only) |
Saturday Schedule – 2 Options: | |
@ Austin Zen Center 8:00 – Zazen 8:30 – Kinhin 8:40 – Zazen 9:05 – Kinhin (Han begins) 9:20 – Zazen 9:50 – Short Chant 10:00 – Dharma Talk (Mako) 11:15 – Kinhin 11:30 – Zazen 12:00 – Break for Lunch | @ Black Mt. Zen Centre 8:00 – Zazen 8:30 – Kinhin 8:40 – Zazen 9:10 – Kinhin 9:20 – Guided meditation (Ryushin) 9:50 – End guided meditation 11:00 – Group Practice Discussion 12:00 – Break for Lunch |
1:30 – Join BMZC for Ryushin Dharma Talk –> | 1:30 – Dharma Talk (Ryushin Haller) [ZOOM LINK] |
2:30 – Closing Words / End Sesshin Together | 2:30 – End Sesshin |
Ryushin Haller’s Dharma Talks on Equanimity in Change & Uncertainty
(November 29th – December 5th, 2020)
Description and Details: As we bring awareness to the flow of thoughts and feelings that continues throughout the day, we start to see the particulars of our emotional and psychological make-up. That seeing helps us learn how to accept how we’re being and how we’re relating to our life challenges and relationships. Also, seeing and accepting helps us cultivate resilience and equanimity and discover the way forward in our life.
- Sun: PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Mon: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Tue: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Wed: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Thu: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Fri: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
- Sat: AM Guided Meditation; PM Dharma Talk – Video / Audio
Other Resources:
- NYT article: Your Brain is Not For Thinking
- Gift, by Czesław Miłosz
A day so happy.
Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails.
- Everything is Waiting for You, by David Whyte
After Derek Mahon
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the
conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.