This year, Rohatsu will be co-led by Guiding Teacher Rev. Choro and Visiting Teacher Rev. Ryushin.

Once a year we have the opportunity to join together in early December for a week of intensive practice in sesshin.  This retreat, called Rohatsu, reflects and enacts the resolve and trust of Shakyamuni Buddha in his capacity to wake up fully to reality.  This retreat culminates in our celebration of Buddha’s Enlightenment and ends our two months of Ango (practice period), together with the community on the following day.

Our ancestor, Dogen Zenji, said, “To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”  Thus we sit, walk, eat, work and hear the dharma to realize our fundamental nature.  Many Buddhist sanghas are sitting in retreat at the same time.

Join us for all or part of this retreat (two day minimum participation).