http://floatingzendo.org/blog Floating Zendo is a place for Soto Zen practice in San Jose, CA and other locations Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:50:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Floating Zendo sewing sesshin at Jikoji Zen Center Oct 23 - 27 2011 with Jane Macdonald and Carolyn Dille Sunday 4 PM - Thursday noon Suggested donation is $50/day (which includes lodging, 3 meals a day and dana for our tenzo). Day rate of $60 (includes two meals). We will alternate between zazen and sewing, ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2011/10/17/sewing-sesshin-october-23-27-2011/ The daily schedule for the sesshin August 19-26, 2011, is now available: link (pdf). Everyone is invited to meditate with us. If you will be joining us for a meal, please contact the Shika or, beginning Friday, call Jikoji at 408-741-9562 to let us know so that we can prepare ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2011/08/16/august-2011-sesshin-continued/ We return to Jikoji Zen Center on Skyline Blvd., Los Gatos for our 9th Annual Sesshin. This rural retreat center was established in 1983 by Kobun Chino Otogawa and a group of his students. Our teacher, Angie Boissevain, Zuiko Enji, is one of these founding students. Situated ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2011/06/21/annual-sesshin-august-19-26-2011/ As of June 2010, Floating Zendo in San Jose, CA is studying the Uji ("Time-Being") chapter of Dogen's Shobogenzo. We are using the English translation in Enlightenment Unfolds (ed. Kaz Tanahashi). A popular, similar, but not identical, earlier translation by Kaz is available online. Our teacher's talks on Uji are ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2010/07/01/studying-dogens-uji-time-being/ Starting Tuesday, January 12, we will be studying Hsin-hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-ts'an, Third Patriarch. The book that Angie will use as her reference in the upcoming talks is Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen by Mu Soeng & Jan Chozen Bays. This book includes the ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2009/12/30/hsin-hsin-ming-study-2010/ Beginning in early October 2009, Floating Zendo has begun to study the Heart Sutra. We have studied the Sutra before, and we come back to this essential periodically. "The" Sutra is chanted at each of Floating Zendo's zazen sessions as a core element of the service. The Sutra's emphasis on ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2009/10/07/heart-sutra-study-2009/ [Practice period for 2009 is now over. We leave this posting available for your use, as it refers to useful documents relevant for ongoing practice.] In preparation for Floating Zendo's sesshin in August 2009, we began a practice period in early July, that will end with the start of sesshin. "Ango" ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2009/07/15/practice-period-2009/ As of early June 2009, we are studying the Buddhist Precepts. Angie gives a talk on them each Tuesday evening after zazen, followed by comments and questions/answers with the sangha. Here are the materials. And here are the talks. http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2009/06/16/precepts-study/ Begining July 8, 2008, Floating Zendo in San Jose, CA will study Dogen Zenji's Zuimonki on Tuesday evenings. Zuimonki is a collection of dharma talks to lay and monk practitioners given by Dogen Zenji, recorded by his disciple Ejo. We will use a few translations: Online: from Sotoshu (Soto Zen in Japan, likely ... http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2008/07/02/tues-study-dogens-zuimonki/ Wikipedia now has an entry for our teacher Angie! Take a look... you may learn something that you didn't know about our teacher! (P.S. There is also a permanent link to the Wikipedia entry on the Blog Roll.) http://floatingzendo.org/blog/2008/03/27/angie-on-wikipedia/