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Hokyoji Zen Practice Community/Eitzen, MN, USA
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The Retreats Desk·August 24
Sometimes a battlefield
The contemplative press is growing less starry-eyed about what happens when you sit down and get quiet — and a few of this week's retreats are built for exactly that.
The contemplative press has taken a more sober tone lately. Tricycle's fall issue carries a review of *Meditation Sickness*, a new sourcebook edited by C. Pierce Salguero that — in Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar's phrasing — takes meditation's dangers as seriously as its benefits. That's a notable sentence to publish as intensive practice keeps going mainstream. Over at Lion's Roar, Melvin McLeod's new book calls insight "the often overlooked second part of mindfulness," and Alisa Dennis writes about how the inner critic forms and, slowly, softens.
August
202601 retreatSeptember
202629 retreatsWednesday – Sunday · 5 days
02–06
Satori and Salutations: Opening to the Heart of Zen and Yoga
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center / Green Dragon Temple/Muir Beach, CA, USA
Friday – Friday · 71 days
Sep 04 – Nov 13
Fall Art Practice Series – Returning to the Elements
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple/Brooklyn, NY, USA
Friday – Sunday
04–06
Introduction to Zen Training Weekend
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Danica Shoan Ankele, Gokan Bonebakker
Zen Mountain Monastery/Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
05
Vast Body, Many Parts: A Somatic Inquiry of Self-Energy
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center / Green Dragon Temple/Muir Beach, CA, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 6 days
08–13
Jizo Sesshin
Great Vow Zen Monastery/Clatskanie, OR, USA
Tuesday – Tuesday · 78 days
Sep 08 – Nov 24
The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts: Emergent Ethics of Radical Relationality
Green Gulch Farm Zen Center / Green Dragon Temple/Muir Beach, CA, USA
Thursday
10
Identity and Emptiness: A TGNC Discussion
with Ella Baker
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple/Brooklyn, NY, USA
Friday – Sunday
11–13
Precepts II – Entering the Way of Compassion: The Practices of a Bodhisattva
with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Danica Shoan Ankele
Zen Mountain Monastery/Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Saturday
12
Equinox Zazenkai: A One Day Meditation Retreat
Great Vow Zen Monastery/Clatskanie, OR, USA
Saturday
12
Just Sit Saturday
Atlanta Soto Zen Center/Atlanta, GA, USA
Sunday – Sunday · 43 days
Sep 13 – Oct 25
B.R. Ambedkar and Navayāna Buddhism: Caste, Liberation, & Engaged Practice
with Santosh Raut
Brooklyn Zen Center/Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sunday
13
Doug Jacobson
with Doug Jacobson
Santa Barbara Zen Center/Santa Barbara, California 93102-1331, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 6 days
15–20
True Refuge Week: Self-Directed Intensive Practice for MRO Students
Zen Mountain Monastery/Mt Tremper, NY, USA
Tuesday – Sunday · 6 days
15–20
MZMC Retreat
Hokyoji Zen Practice Community/Eitzen, MN, USA
Wednesday
16
Beginning Instruction on Wednesday Evenings at Zen Mountain Monastery
Zen Center of New York City/Fire Lotus Temple/Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wednesday – Sunday · 89 days
Sep 16 – Dec 13
Fall Ango: Liberating Response
Brooklyn Zen Center/Brooklyn, NY, USA
Wednesday – Sunday · 5 days
16–20
Fall Roshi Retreat at Watershed
Atlanta Soto Zen Center/Atlanta, GA, USA
Thursday – Sunday · 4 days
17–20
Oceans of Compassion: A Retreat In Service To The Earth
Great Vow Zen Monastery/Clatskanie, OR, USA
Saturday
19
Ancestral Zazenkai
Zen Mountain Monastery/Mt Tremper, NY, USA