Delaplane Zen

Delaplane Zen Maintaining the Dharma in the Piedmont since the 1970's. We offer weekly sittings and regular retreats in Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Delaplane, Virginia.

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.

On Saturday August 8 2026 the Pig Shed Zen group (aka Delaplane Zen) will host Mushin Sensei.  David Daigu Mushin Keeber...
07/31/2026

On Saturday August 8 2026 the Pig Shed Zen group (aka Delaplane Zen) will host Mushin Sensei. David Daigu Mushin Keeber Sensei has lived in Sedona, Arizona for forty-nine years. He is the head teacher for a small online sangha, Prajna Zendo, formerly of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He received Dharma Transmission in 2022 from Josh Jifu Dainin White Roshi. His root teacher was David Toji Daishin Brighton Roshi, and he received the precepts from Sydney Musai Walter Roshi, in the White Plum lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He enjoys his life in Sedona hiking with his wife and two pups, woodworking and serving in his community in a number of capacities. He does confess to having too many collections of koans, but finds great pleasure in studying them with his students.

07/14/2026

Let It Go – The

let it go – the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise – let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go – the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers – you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go – the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things – let all go
dear

so comes love

E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

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9668 Maidstone Road
Delaplane, VA
20144

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7am - 9am

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+15404198748

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