On a cool November morning with little snowpellets followed by alternating sun and clouds, practioners gathered on Sunday, November 19th at Shao Shan Temple for a full morning of intensive practice.
The Zazenkai program included opening and closing ceremonies, zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), and dokusan(individual meetings) and a Dharma reading/talk.
The Dharma reading was from Zen Master Hongzhi. An excerpt of which is below.
"Here you can rest and become clean, pure and lucid. Bright and penetrating, you can immediately return, accord and respond to deal with events. Everything is unhindered, clouds gracefully floating up to the peaks, the moonlight glitteringly flowing down mountain streams. The entire place is spiritually transformed, totally unobstructed and clearly manifesting, responsive interaction like box and lid fitting or arrowpoints meeting."
- Zen Master Hogzhi (Cultivating the Empty Field, Taigen Dan Leighton trans.)
