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Shotai De La Rosa

ONE DAY SITTING SUNDAY MARCH 21, 2010

SAZC is offering a one day sitting with Shotai De La Rosa on Sunday March 21 from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. The sitting will include a dharma talk, lunch and the opportunity for dokusan with Shotai. The cost of this event is $40, with a reduction to $30 for members of SAZ. Please signup at the center or at info@sanantoniozen.org.

Shotai De La Rosa is a Soto Zen priest in the lineage of Uchiyama Roshi who currently leads groups in Bogata and Medellin Colombia.

Next Saturday, February 20th, we will have an abbreviated morning program. We will have 2 periods of zazen at the usual time followed by a short service.
We are hosting a table at the Asian Festival in Hemisfair Park downtown from 10 am to 4 pm. If you have some free time, I’m sure those staffing the table would appreciate a break and a chance to walk around and get something to eat. Come on down!

Greetings Friends!

I would like to invite everyone to participate in our first monthly Morning Retreat. This event will beheld this Saturday morning, January 16th, and subsequently on the third Saturday of each month.

The new “regular” Saturday morning schedule will be in place with a couple of additions. The schedule is designed to give you an opportunity to experiment with squeezing a little bit more intensive meditation practice into your busy life. Please give it a try. You can participate partially, of course. I encourage to try out the whole thing.

We will end around noon with tea in the zendo. This is called cho san in Japanese – Morning Tea. We will be seated in meditation posture but facing the center of the room. Each will be offered a cup, a treat and tea in turn. Then we will say good morning, drink our tea and give voice to any comments, questions or concerns that have come up for us during the course of the morning. After a few minutes we will collect the cups and end the retreat.

Dokusan will be available as time allows.

There will be no charge for this event, but donations are encouraged and gratefully accepted.

Welcome to the
San Antonio Zen Center website!

We are adjusting the Saturday morning program to try to make it more accessible to more people. Let us know what you think!

CHECK THE SCHEDULE PAGE FOR DETAILS

Introduction to Buddhist Scriptures

Beginning next Wednesday evening, January 6th at 6:30 pm SAZC will offer a series of classes introducing and examining basic Buddhist texts. The class is taught by resident priest Zenpo John Grimes. There will be five weekly classes dealing with Pali suttas, Mahayana sutras, Prajna Paramita literature, zen poems and some fascicles of Dogen Zenji. The classes will last about 75 minutes.

The fee for the classes is $10 each for members, $15 each for others or $50/$75 for the series. It is OK to attend less than the whole series. Materials will be provided.

Please check the Events page for upcoming events!

Click on the Sunday Retreats link for information about our new monthly half day retreats.