Join us for one of our services at the Zendo: 18005 Vashon Highway SW, Vashon, WA 98070, (previously Island Funeral Services.) Feel free to come 10 minutes early for instruction, or just jump right in.
Sunday Service: 10:00am-12pm
Early Sunday Sit: 8:30-9:30am
7:00pm Spring Sesshin – Trust in Mind: Knowing Beyond Talking and Thinking
April 21 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$300 – $500
Registration is now closed for this retreat. If you wish to be put on the waitlist contact registrar@pszc.org.
Buddhism comes to China and over time blends with Taoism to become Chan, what we know as Zen. One of the earliest expressions of this blending comes in the teaching poem, “Trust in Mind,” attributed to the third Chinese Ancestor, Sengcan.
In this poem we are taught, “The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.” What? How can we possibly live in the world and realize these words? That question carries us into a text that is deep and richly nuanced. While encouraging us to set aside our habitual reactivity, “Trust in Mind” reveals a deeper unity with all of life and teaches us to respond to the world without getting ensnared by our personal preferences and opinions.
Please join us in this seven day sesshin at Camp Sealth, Vashon Island.
Dive deep in our seven-day Spring sesshin at beautiful Camp Sealth. This will be a formal residential retreat in the Rinzai tradition: seated and walking meditation, chanting, dharma talks, silent walks through the woods. Our teachers will be our Abbot, Koshin Chris Cain, and Eko Jeff Kelley, an Osho in the Soto tradition, who will offer optional interviews daily.
All meals (vegetarian) and dormitory-style accommodations (heat, electricity, bathrooms with showers) included. If you have questions, or if you have not previously attended a multi-day retreat, please contact the registrar at registrar@pszc.org. From out-of-town? The registrar will find you a place to stay the night before if needed.
The retreat will begin at 7pm on Sunday 21 April and end at 1:00pm Sunday April 28.
REGISTRATION: Both full-time and part-time registration options are available. Part-time registrants will attend either the first half or the 2nd half. The first half is Sunday-Wednesday (April 21, 22, 23, 24). The second half is Thursday-Sunday (April 25, 25, 27, 28). Seating is limited to 24 participants.
Fees:
Full-time: PSZC member $450. Non-member $500
Part-time: PSZC member $300. Non-member $350
SCHEDULE
Sunday 21 April:
5:00pm arrival
6:00 dinner
7:00 zazen (alternating periods of seated meditation for 25 minutes, then walking meditation for 10 minutes)
8:30 tea and chanting, closing
Monday-Saturday:
4:30am wakeup
5:00 tea and chanting, zazen
7:15 breakfast
7:45 break
8:30 zazen
10:15 dharma talk, zazen (optional teacher meetings during zazen)
12:30pm lunch
1:00 samu (work practice)
1:30 break
2:15 zazen, tea, chanting, zazen (long sitting-sit/walk at your discretion)
4:45 qi gong
5:15 dinner
5:45 break
6:30 gyodo, dharma talk, zazen (optional teacher meetings during zazen)
8:30 tea and chanting, closing
Sunday:
4:30am wakeup
5:00 tea and chanting, zazen
7:15 breakfast
7:45 break
8:30 qi gong
9:00 zazen
10:15 dharma talk, zazen (optional teacher meetings during zazen)
11:00-11:15 close-
11:15-1:00. Samu- pack up camp
1:00 Group lunch
Camp Sealth is a conference and retreat center on Puget Sound on SW Vashon Island, owned and operated by Camp Fire. Its lodges and dormitory type lodgings are secluded, in the midst of nearly 400 acres of forest and wetlands, plus a mile of saltwater beach.
