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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
  • Monday – Friday: 6:30-7:30am
  • Monday Evening: 7:00-8:45pm
  • Wednesday Evening: 7:00-8:30pm
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9 – 11AM Intro to Zen

September 10, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Thinking about starting or re-booting a meditation practice? In these informal sessions we’ll talk about: how meditation can help, beginning/refresher Zen meditation basics, or tradition and our Zen Center, and classes and events to come. Bring your questions and a friend!

Part 1: Why Zen?
Introductions. Any questions about Zen?
What we love about Zen and how we got into it
What’s the goal of practice at this Zen Center?

Break: Tea, cookies, chatting

Part 2: Our Zen Center
Meditation instructions: chairs, cushions and benches
Brief explanations of zen ritual: tea, chanting, the role of the jiki and shoji, bowing
A very brief version of a Zen service (15 minutes)-tea, jiki offers incense, one chant, bowing, sitting for 5 minutes, walking meditation.

Discussion and questions

Details

Date:
September 10, 2022
Time:
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Event Category:

Venue

Puget Sound Zen Center
18005 Vashon Hwy SW
Vashon, WA 98070 United States
Website:
www.pszc.org

Organizer

Puget Sound Zen Center
Email:
programs@pszc.org