SUMMER PRACTICE PERIOD WITH ROSHI JOAN
Posted on May 17th, 2007
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UPAYA ZEN CENTER
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
www.upaya.org
registrar@upaya.org
505 986-8518
SUMMER PRACTICE PERIOD
AUGUST 10-20
Roshi Joan Halifax
Dear Friends,
Each August, one of the most beautiful and lush seasons of Santa Fe, we gather together at Upaya to affirm our practice and our life by stepping inward together for a time of intensive practice and learning, offering our whole lives to the realization of the Way. Please join us for our Summer Practice Period: Ango and the Arts, from August 10-30.
This training period is rich with practice, learning, exploration and experimentation. It is “buddhism out of the box,” a way for us to learn that is both innovative and traditional.
During all of Ango, Roshi Joan will guide us through the various lenses of Buddhist practice, experience, art, engaged Buddhism, and learning. Along the way, we will explore Big Mind with Genpo Roshi, learn traditional Zen craft from Kyojo Bakker, practice traditional and wild calligraphy with Kazuaki Tanahashi, drop into a very concentrated space of intensive practice with Roshi Joan, learn from the natural world and the arts with Natalie Goldberg and Roshi Joan, and be touched by the traditional when many of our community will receive Jukai and formally become Buddhists. We will do daily zazen, sit in council, do yoga, art practice and chi gung, meet Roshi Joan and other teachers in private interviews, and engage in the profound life of the sangha.
You may participate in the whole retreat, by the week, program, or day. Each year, many of our friends gather to offer our whole presence in practice. Please join us for this time of complete practice and learning and a time of closeness with Roshi. To register: registrar@upaya.org or call 505 986-8518.
Two hands together,
Upaya Sangha
•
Aug 10, 2007 — Aug 30, 2007
SUMMER PRACTICE PERIOD: ANGO AND ARTS
Roshi Joan Halifax, Irene Kyojo Bakker, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Natalie Goldberg and Genpo Roshi
The summer practice period is devoted to intensifying and deepening our vows to liberate others and ourselves from suffering, where through meditation practice and intensive teachings we investigate the heart and mind in relation to the natural world. The practice period includes all aspects of Buddhist study and life, as well as indigenous perspectives, interviews with teachers, dharma talks, sesshins and seminars. One may participate for the whole practice period, by the week, program, or day. Appropriate for both seasoned practitioners and beginners.
Tuition: For entire period, $1350 member; $1650 non-member. Per week, $470 member; $550 non-member. Includes lodging. Dana to teacher. Individual programs priced below.
Aug 10, 2007 — Aug 12, 2007
THE ESSENCE OF BIG MIND
Genpo Merzel Roshi
The Big Mind process is a direct exploration of our true nature. Genpo Roshi draws from over thirty years of Zen teaching and Western therapeutic practices to bring forth a radical technique that can unlock the wisdom of Zen with directness and clarity. The Big Mind process gives one a profound perspective on our great potential to be free. Participants learn to sit with non-seeking mind in its vastness, rather than grasping after the truth. Genpo Roshi is Abbot of Kanzeon Zen Center and author of many books on Zen.
Tuition: $220 members; $250 non-members; plus lodging. Dana to teacher.
Aug 13, 2007 — Aug 16, 2007
THE ART OF ZEN TRAINING
Irene Kyojo Bakker
The craft of Zen permeates every aspect of monastery life and can inform and deepen every dimension of our life in the world. In this training retreat, students will learn liturgy, nuances of meditation practice, explore koans, and discover a path of precision and gentleness that liberates the mind and body, as well as open compassion and wisdom. Four hours of meditation a day, samu and seminars. Irene Kyojo Bakker is a Dharma Holder and student of Roshi Genpo. She has taught at Upaya for many years, and carries Roshi Joan’s teachings in Europe on care of the dying.
Tuition: $255 members; $270 non-members. Dana to teacher. Plus lodging.
Aug 17, 2007 — Aug 19, 2007
CLASSIC AND WILD CALLIGRAPHY: SMALL, MEDIUM AND GIANT BRUSHES
Kazuaki Tanahashi
Description: This powerful and wild workshop offers the practice of classical Zen calligraphy working on the most intimate scale to the largest scale with giant brushes. In the tradition of Asian calligraphy, we engage the creative process by reproducing ideograms and paintings from ancient Chinese masterpieces in all sizes. We interpret these works and explore creativity and how it works in our life as a source of insight. For beginners and seasoned artists. Kazuaki Tanahashi is a master calligrapher, Dogen scholar, and social activist.
Tuition: $220 members; $240 non-members; $70 materials; plus lodging. Dana to Sensei.
Aug 19, 2007 — Aug 23, 2007
BODHIDHARMA SESSHIN: THE ART OF DIRECT SEEING
Roshi Joan Halifax
The First Chinese Patriarch said that Zen is seeing your nature, not thinking anything, and everything you do. This is a profoundly quiet, simple and direct sesshin, emphasizing complete openness, strength of posture and presence, and complete surrender. We practice fifty minute periods of zazen throughout the day, walking meditation, work practice, two meals a day, two interviews with Roshi, two dharma talks during the sesshin, and no other formal aspects of Zen practice. The monastery drops into utter stillness as we sit and move invisibly and silently, cultivating our natural nobility of mind and heart in the experience of boundlessness. Roshi Joan Halifax is Abbot and Head Teacher, Upaya Zen Center.
Tuition: $340 members; $365 non-members; plus lodging. Dana to Roshi.
Aug 24, 2007 — Aug 29, 2007
NATURE OF ALL THINGS: FOREST REFUGE RETREAT
Natalie Goldberg and Roshi Joan Halifax
With the fundamental base of sitting and walking meditation, we will settle into the deep mountains to create poems, draw, listen, look and practice letting the earth come home to us. We will be at Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge, practicing with the land, the forests, streams, and mountains. Be prepared to meet the trees with an open heart. Going to the gorgeous Refuge , nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, we do deep hermit and sangha practice, mountain walking, dharma talks in alpine meadows, and zazen. We write, draw, and contemplate. This is the practice of the ancients who revered the great mountains. It is a time of perfect quiet in the remote wilds of New Mexico. Accommodations are camping, bunk house, or hermitage; food is simple or you may fast. Mountains are high, clear and accessible from the Refuge. Utter simplicity of practice. All levels of practitioners, writers, artists, and nature lovers are welcome. Natalie Goldberg is a renowned writer, lover of Zen and the natural world. Roshi Joan Halifax is Head Teacher at Upaya Zen Center.
Tuition: $475 members; $500 non-members.
Aug 29, 2007 — Aug 30, 2007
ANGO COMPLETION: JUKAI, ORDINATIONS
Roshi Joan Halifax, Kyojo Bakker
Description: The last two days of Ango will be teachings on completion, letting go, and marking change through the power of ceremony.
Tuition: included for those to who enroll in the month-long program; otherwise $70 per day.
www.upaya.org registrar@upaya.org 505 986-8518
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
www.upaya.org
registrar@upaya.org
505 986-8518
SUMMER PRACTICE PERIOD
AUGUST 10-20
Roshi Joan Halifax
Dear Friends,
Each August, one of the most beautiful and lush seasons of Santa Fe, we gather together at Upaya to affirm our practice and our life by stepping inward together for a time of intensive practice and learning, offering our whole lives to the realization of the Way. Please join us for our Summer Practice Period: Ango and the Arts, from August 10-30.
This training period is rich with practice, learning, exploration and experimentation. It is “buddhism out of the box,” a way for us to learn that is both innovative and traditional.
During all of Ango, Roshi Joan will guide us through the various lenses of Buddhist practice, experience, art, engaged Buddhism, and learning. Along the way, we will explore Big Mind with Genpo Roshi, learn traditional Zen craft from Kyojo Bakker, practice traditional and wild calligraphy with Kazuaki Tanahashi, drop into a very concentrated space of intensive practice with Roshi Joan, learn from the natural world and the arts with Natalie Goldberg and Roshi Joan, and be touched by the traditional when many of our community will receive Jukai and formally become Buddhists. We will do daily zazen, sit in council, do yoga, art practice and chi gung, meet Roshi Joan and other teachers in private interviews, and engage in the profound life of the sangha.
You may participate in the whole retreat, by the week, program, or day. Each year, many of our friends gather to offer our whole presence in practice. Please join us for this time of complete practice and learning and a time of closeness with Roshi. To register: registrar@upaya.org or call 505 986-8518.
Two hands together,
Upaya Sangha
•
Aug 10, 2007 — Aug 30, 2007
SUMMER PRACTICE PERIOD: ANGO AND ARTS
Roshi Joan Halifax, Irene Kyojo Bakker, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Natalie Goldberg and Genpo Roshi
The summer practice period is devoted to intensifying and deepening our vows to liberate others and ourselves from suffering, where through meditation practice and intensive teachings we investigate the heart and mind in relation to the natural world. The practice period includes all aspects of Buddhist study and life, as well as indigenous perspectives, interviews with teachers, dharma talks, sesshins and seminars. One may participate for the whole practice period, by the week, program, or day. Appropriate for both seasoned practitioners and beginners.
Tuition: For entire period, $1350 member; $1650 non-member. Per week, $470 member; $550 non-member. Includes lodging. Dana to teacher. Individual programs priced below.
Aug 10, 2007 — Aug 12, 2007
THE ESSENCE OF BIG MIND
Genpo Merzel Roshi
The Big Mind process is a direct exploration of our true nature. Genpo Roshi draws from over thirty years of Zen teaching and Western therapeutic practices to bring forth a radical technique that can unlock the wisdom of Zen with directness and clarity. The Big Mind process gives one a profound perspective on our great potential to be free. Participants learn to sit with non-seeking mind in its vastness, rather than grasping after the truth. Genpo Roshi is Abbot of Kanzeon Zen Center and author of many books on Zen.
Tuition: $220 members; $250 non-members; plus lodging. Dana to teacher.
Aug 13, 2007 — Aug 16, 2007
THE ART OF ZEN TRAINING
Irene Kyojo Bakker
The craft of Zen permeates every aspect of monastery life and can inform and deepen every dimension of our life in the world. In this training retreat, students will learn liturgy, nuances of meditation practice, explore koans, and discover a path of precision and gentleness that liberates the mind and body, as well as open compassion and wisdom. Four hours of meditation a day, samu and seminars. Irene Kyojo Bakker is a Dharma Holder and student of Roshi Genpo. She has taught at Upaya for many years, and carries Roshi Joan’s teachings in Europe on care of the dying.
Tuition: $255 members; $270 non-members. Dana to teacher. Plus lodging.
Aug 17, 2007 — Aug 19, 2007
CLASSIC AND WILD CALLIGRAPHY: SMALL, MEDIUM AND GIANT BRUSHES
Kazuaki Tanahashi
Description: This powerful and wild workshop offers the practice of classical Zen calligraphy working on the most intimate scale to the largest scale with giant brushes. In the tradition of Asian calligraphy, we engage the creative process by reproducing ideograms and paintings from ancient Chinese masterpieces in all sizes. We interpret these works and explore creativity and how it works in our life as a source of insight. For beginners and seasoned artists. Kazuaki Tanahashi is a master calligrapher, Dogen scholar, and social activist.
Tuition: $220 members; $240 non-members; $70 materials; plus lodging. Dana to Sensei.
Aug 19, 2007 — Aug 23, 2007
BODHIDHARMA SESSHIN: THE ART OF DIRECT SEEING
Roshi Joan Halifax
The First Chinese Patriarch said that Zen is seeing your nature, not thinking anything, and everything you do. This is a profoundly quiet, simple and direct sesshin, emphasizing complete openness, strength of posture and presence, and complete surrender. We practice fifty minute periods of zazen throughout the day, walking meditation, work practice, two meals a day, two interviews with Roshi, two dharma talks during the sesshin, and no other formal aspects of Zen practice. The monastery drops into utter stillness as we sit and move invisibly and silently, cultivating our natural nobility of mind and heart in the experience of boundlessness. Roshi Joan Halifax is Abbot and Head Teacher, Upaya Zen Center.
Tuition: $340 members; $365 non-members; plus lodging. Dana to Roshi.
Aug 24, 2007 — Aug 29, 2007
NATURE OF ALL THINGS: FOREST REFUGE RETREAT
Natalie Goldberg and Roshi Joan Halifax
With the fundamental base of sitting and walking meditation, we will settle into the deep mountains to create poems, draw, listen, look and practice letting the earth come home to us. We will be at Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge, practicing with the land, the forests, streams, and mountains. Be prepared to meet the trees with an open heart. Going to the gorgeous Refuge , nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, we do deep hermit and sangha practice, mountain walking, dharma talks in alpine meadows, and zazen. We write, draw, and contemplate. This is the practice of the ancients who revered the great mountains. It is a time of perfect quiet in the remote wilds of New Mexico. Accommodations are camping, bunk house, or hermitage; food is simple or you may fast. Mountains are high, clear and accessible from the Refuge. Utter simplicity of practice. All levels of practitioners, writers, artists, and nature lovers are welcome. Natalie Goldberg is a renowned writer, lover of Zen and the natural world. Roshi Joan Halifax is Head Teacher at Upaya Zen Center.
Tuition: $475 members; $500 non-members.
Aug 29, 2007 — Aug 30, 2007
ANGO COMPLETION: JUKAI, ORDINATIONS
Roshi Joan Halifax, Kyojo Bakker
Description: The last two days of Ango will be teachings on completion, letting go, and marking change through the power of ceremony.
Tuition: included for those to who enroll in the month-long program; otherwise $70 per day.
www.upaya.org registrar@upaya.org 505 986-8518
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