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Week of Dec 28th

  • Way-Seeking Mind Talk: Hozan Alan Senauke

    Way-Seeking Mind Talk: Hozan Alan Senauke


    Mon, Dec 28, 2020

    There will be a Zoom student talk in the online zendo right after a shorter period of zazen:

    7:30 am: zazen

    8:00 am: way-seeking mind talk

    What is a "way-seeking mind" talk? See below.

    Way-Seeking Mind at Berkeley Zen Center

    “Way-Seeking Mind” talks by practitioners at Berkeley Zen Center have been a regular event on Monday mornings for more than thirty years. Each of us came to Zen practice as a seeker, with a spirit of inquiry. Each of us arrives at BZC from our own diverse backgrounds—social, familial, educational, religious, and so on. The idea of our way-seeking mind talks is for students to share how it is that they came to practice. Each person tells his or her own story in a unique way that often blends autobiography, spiritual biography, and the practice questions that each of us is engaged with.

    The talks are by invitation, and last about twenty-five minutes, including time for presentation and short question & answer period. For newer students, this is a chance to meet and hear those we are sitting with. Those invited to talk have been sitting steadily at BZC; for them it is an opportunity to tell their story and be seen and heard. One of the teachers or senior students is available for advice in shaping one's talk, should that be useful.

  • NO PM Zazen

    NO PM Zazen


    Thu, Dec 31, 2020

    No 5:40 zazen today.

    New Year's Eve Sitting

    New Year's Eve Sitting


    Thu, Dec 31, 2020

    As usual Berkeley Zen Center will have a New Year’s Eve sitting on the evening of December 31, but because of the Covid pandemic, it will be online this year. Please join us for all or any part of New Year’s Eve, sitting from 8:00 p.m. to midnight. Join us by going to the BZC website and clicking “Enter the Zendo Now.

    In the course of the evening we will alternate periods of zazen and kinhin, have informal tea together, and ring in the new year with 108 bells. Please join us in bidding farewell to 2020 and welcoming 2021. For more information, contact Carol Paul: caroljpaul@yahoo.com.

  • Interim Break

    Interim Break


    Fri, Jan 1, 2021

    Informal Zazen only at 7:30 am and 5:40 pm - no speakers or services.

    New Year's Day Reading Salon

    New Year's Day Reading Salon


    Fri, Jan 1, 2021

    Dear Friends,

    Nancy Suib, Karen Sundheim, and Susan Marvin invite you to usher in the NEW YEAR with dharma friends and a Zen Reading Salon.

    Bring a couple of favorite poems, a few lines from a favorite book, or lines from a Sutra to read to others in breakout rooms. If you prefer, you can say something about what this time of NEW YEAR means to you -- what you want to let go and what you want to bring forward. Choose anything you’d like to share that expresses Dharma to you. We'll have time for both all-group and small-group breakout time together.

    Karen and Nancy -- Program Hosts
    Susan -- Zoom Tech Host

    NEW YEAR'S DAY -- Friday, January 1, 2021 (2:45--4:00) Please join us at 2:45 for 15 minutes of Zazen.

    Use the BZC online Zazen/Lecture link to enter.

    We hope to see you there!

    Warmly,
    Nancy, Karen, and Susan

  • Interim Break

    Interim Break


    Sat, Jan 2, 2021

    Informal Zazen only at 9:45 am - no speakers or services.