05/26/2026
We will be following our usual schedule this week with sittings on Thursday at 7pm and Saturday at 9:30am. For our service on Thursday we will be doing the full moon ceremony and the dharma talk will be looking at the Verse of Repentance which is chapter 2 of Shohaku's "Living By Vow."
Our book discussion group, which has been studying "Being-Time: a Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji" by Shinshu Roberts, would normally meet this evening since this is the last Monday of the month, but due to the holiday we are moving this back a week and will now have our final session before a summer break with this group next Monday, June 1st, from 7:30 - 9:00pm.
Also, we have two major events coming up over the next several months. The first one has a visiting teacher, Shodo Spring, coming here July 10 & 11 to give a public talk on the 10th and to serve as our teacher for an all day zazenkai on the 11th. Her most recent book is "Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings." Sho is a dharma heir of Shohaku Okumura. We expect to open this up for advance registration within the next couple of weeks.
Finally, September 26 & 27 I will be helping to lead a contemplative retreat at the Center of Solitude in Belmont, NY. My first time there was last year, also in the early fall. It's a beautiful retreat facility sitting on a large piece of property in a sparsely populated area. Last year I shared teaching responsibilities with Meido Anderson and I think it's accurate to say the majority of attendees were from her sangha, O-An, in Julian, PA. She is unable to participate this year and I'd like to think that CRZ can offset any decline in attendance by O-An members. Belmont is less than 3.5 hours from Cleveland and it's right around 3 hours from O-An. I will make more information available about this retreat as it becomes available.
Gassho,We will be following our usual schedule this week with sittings on Thursday at 7pm and Saturday at 9:30am. For our service on Thursday we will be doing the full moon ceremony and the dharma talk will be looking at the Verse of Repentance which is chapter 2 of Shohaku's "Living By Vow."
Our book discussion group, which has been studying "Being-Time: a Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji" by Shinshu Roberts, would normally meet this evening since this is the last Monday of the month, but due to the holiday we are moving this back a week and will now have our final session before a summer break with this group next Monday, June 1st, from 7:30 - 9:00pm.
Also, we have two major events coming up over the next several months. The first one has a visiting teacher, Shodo Spring, coming here July 10 & 11 to give a public talk on the 10th and to serve as our teacher for an all day zazenkai on the 11th. Her most recent book is "Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings." Sho is a dharma heir of Shohaku Okumura. We expect to open this up for advance registration within the next couple of weeks.
Finally, September 26 & 27 I will be helping to lead a contemplative retreat at the Center of Solitude in Belmont, NY. My first time there was last year, also in the early fall. It's a beautiful retreat facility sitting on a large piece of property in a sparsely populated area. Last year I shared teaching responsibilities with Meido Anderson and I think it's accurate to say the majority of attendees were from her sangha, O-An, in Julian, PA. She is unable to participate this year and I'd like to think that CRZ can offset any decline in attendance by O-An members. Belmont is less than 3.5 hours from Cleveland and it's right around 3 hours from O-An. I will make more information available about this retreat as it becomes available.
Gassho,
Dean
Dean
