Zen Alive! Sunday Program

Weekly Sunday Morning Program - 10am to Noon

Join us for our weekly Sunday morning program with meditation, Zen chanting, and a Dharma talk with discussion by Red Cedar Zen and visiting speakers.

Upcoming speakers:

Sunday January 3: Nomon Tim Burnett, Guiding Teacher at Red Cedar Zen Community. Topic: Zen ancestor Keizan and stories of enlightenment.  

Sunday January 10: Shudo Chris Burkhart, Head of Practice at Red Cedar Zen

Sunday January 17: Heigaku Talus Latona, Practice Leader at Red Cedar Zen

Sunday January 24: Kukushin Kate McCandless, Guiding Teacher at Mountain Rain Zen Community.

Sunday January 31: Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Founding Teacher of Red Cedar Zen and the Everyday Zen Foundation. 

The event will be online in our virtual zendo at https://zoom.us/j/5601791305

(email registrar@redcedarzen.org to request the password).

Please join us on Zoom with Zen Teacher Nomon Tim Burnett to explore 

To receive reminders and notices about guest speakers and other Sunday program news please REGISTER for Zen Alive! There is no charge for this event but donations are welcome and if you appreciate Red Cedar Zen we'd be delighted if you became a member. 

ABOUT ZEN ALIVE!

We always ask questions. What is real and what is delusion? Living an examined life can be a pain in the neck. And then, there is the point where Zen practice, life in community, and our everyday lives meet. Life encountered directly! Before we have time to slap the good or bad label on it, we see it all: beautiful sunrises, bad service, political news, global warming, our fast-paced digital life, love, time with friends, sickness and aging and death... all happening at the same time.

The world of dew

is the world of dew.

And yet, and yet—

—Kobayashi Issa (1763 - 1828)

Issa said it so well in this haiku: The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet—

We will explore this intersection of this life, this world on the first Sunday of each month* (exceptions, see below), local and guest Zen Buddhist teachers will explore how the famous Zen texts we chant are meant as tools that support our practice in what some people call “real life.”

There is no unreal life - as long as you live it, it cannot be anything but real for you. And, as we said in the beginning: "Living an examined life in some ways is a pain in the neck." We may think everything should be different from how it is, and at other times we believe everything should stay forever exactly like this! And yet, and yet... it changes. Always.

Please come to help us explore this theme through the practices of zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), Dharma talks, and warm and inclusive conversation over a cup of tea.

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