The Delaplane Zen group is a small community of Zen practitioners in Fauquier County in Northern Virginia about 45 miles west of the Washington, DC beltway. In 1992, we began to meet at Emmanuel Episcopal Church near the town of Delaplane, Virginia. Due to Covid restrictions we moved our regular Saturday meetings to a farm near Upperville, Virginia where we sit outside in a covered, open-air pig s
hed. Our intensive retreats (or Seshins) are at the church. The sangha is small (typically five to seven people at a regular Saturday morning meeting) Although the etiquette of meetings is formal in the Zen style, the atmosphere is warm and encouraging. On Saturday mornings the sitting periods are between 30 and 40 minutes long with walking in between. After sitting and final chanting, a sangha member presents a koan from one of the classic Zen collections and we discuss the case together. The group is organized democratically and through consensus. Senior members are Tom Davenport and Bill Kruvant. Tom Davenport (b. 1939) began practicing Zen in 1970 and studied under Robert Aitken, Soen Nakagawa, Eido Shimano, John Daido Loori, and Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. Bill Kruvant (b. 1949) began Zen in 1990 and studied with the late Jitsudo Ancheta Roshi, Musai Walter, and Daishin Brighton of the Maezumi lineage. Weekly Morning Sitting
Saturday mornings 7 am. to 9:30 a.m. Three sittings with kinhin (walking) in between. Koan presentation. The Pig Pen at Blue Ridge Farm. Contact us for directions. Christmas/New Year's Sesshin/Intensive Silent Retreat. Dec 26, 2021 evening to Jan 1, 2022 morning. Emmanuel Episcopal Church Delaplane, Virginia. Part timers are welcome. A donation of $20 per day to Emmanuel Episcopal Church is requested.
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Tom Davenport made a video about a seven day intensive "sesshin" at Bodhi Manda in New Mexico "Bodhidharma's Shoe" streams at http://www.folkstreams.net/film,175.