We offer zazen (meditation) daily – DAILY SCHEDULE
New Reading Group
You are invited to sign up for a new BZC reading group that will start with Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path” by Liên Shutt, a priest linage holder in the Shunryu Suzuki tradition.
We will meet on the third Mondays of the Month, starting on Oct 21, 2024 from 6:45 to 7:45 pm in the BZC Community Room and on Zoom. For more information, please email sonia.tamez@berkeleyzencenter.org.
Aspects of Practice is Happening
Beginning on October 12, Visiting-Teachers-In-Residence Greg Fain and Linda Galijan are leading our fall Aspects of Practice period with the theme “Ordinary Bodhisattvas: The Brahmaviharas in Action.” It’s not too late to attend three more classes (on Thursday evenings) and/or sign up for the one-day sittings on November 9. See the links below for more information. Note that the Sangha Work Day on November 3 is cancelled.
Register for the Thursday evening class (details below):
Please register separately for Aspects itself, the one-day sittings, and the class. There’s no fee for the practice period overall – only for the sittings and the class.
We look forward to practicing with you!
Aspects of Practice Thursday Evening Class
The fall practice period class “Ordinary Bodhisattvas: The Brahmaviharas in Action” will begin on Thursday October 17 and be held for 4 consecutive weeks, from 7:17-8:45p. We will study the Four Heavenly Abodes, or Four Faces of Love – Loving-kindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity. The class will be led by Visiting Teachers Linda Galijan and Greg Fain.
The class will be hybrid. In person instruction will meet in the community room, orif more than 15 people are present in person, in the zendo.
Please register to learn more and to receive updates by clicking this link:
Class fee is $40 for the series (or whatever you can afford).
Upcoming Sittings and Sesshins
Half-day sittings are offered every other month at BZC. There is one more 2024 date left on Nov 24.
The next Women’s Sitting will be Sunday, November 17, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., with tea and cookies following in the courtyard. We are delighted to have Linda Galijan, one of our visiting teachers, as our doshi and speaker. Colleen Busch will be the director.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1uCaB6gM2ZxGSi16CodtZ5XKKenv5_3htv7YdHIb8vxMcqQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1
You will receive an automatic email from Google to confirms that your registration has been received.
The signup deadline is November 13th. Online attendance will be possible if there is sufficient interest.
Please direct any questions to Marie Hopper at