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Dai Sesshin / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

July 23, 2010 3:00 pmtoAugust 1, 2010 9:00 am
Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Summer Ango
At The Grail in 
Cornwall-on-Hudson
July 21-August 22 2010

If not now, when? Summer Ango provides the opportunity to get off the fast track, slow down, and breathe. It’s a chance to do an intensive retreat, live in community and study closely with both Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and the Village Zendo teachers all in the green surroundings of the Hudson Valley. The quiet rhythm of Ango brings the meaning of “peaceful dwelling” home. It allows one to experience the joy of relaxing into the Self. If not this summer, when?
Please Note BOTH SESSHINS and WRITING are now FULL. STUDY WEEK and PRECEPTS week have a few spots open.

July 21 – July 23: Setting Up the Grail Community Days (No Fee! Just Sign Up to Come and Help!)

July 23 -August 1: 
Dai Sesshin (silent retreat) $650/$750*

August 3-8: 
Precepts and Jukai Ceremony $500 (precept study only) / $850 (for those taking jukai)

August 10-13: 
Zen Study Week $330/$370

August 13-15:
Writing Retreat $230/$270

August 16-22:
 Shuso Hossen Sesshin (silent retreat) $530/$630

Entire Ango: $1450/$1800
Dana is requested for Teachers.
*member/non-member

Pre-Registration Required.
PDF IconSummer Ango registration form PDF

PDF IconSusho Letter PDF

PDF IconAngo Commitment Form PDF

Transportation/Directions to Grail House

Tenzo kyōkun – Instructions for the Cook (download)

Practice/Study Circle with Sensei Joshin

Jun. 27, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

July 25, 2010
11:15 amto12:30 pm
August 1, 2010
11:15 amto12:30 pm

We’ll work with the following paragraph from Dogen’s text “ Instruction for the Tenzo”:


In performing your duties…. You should maintain joyful mind, kind mind and great mind.

‘Joyful mind’ is the mind that rejoices. …. I hope you will do your work and cook the meal this very day at this very moment with this body, the fruit of myriad births and thousands of lifetimes, thereby creating merit for myriad beings. To penetrate this is joyful mind. ….

‘Kind mind’ is parental mind…. Even poor or suffering people raise their children with deep love…. They do not care whether they themselves are poor or rich; their only concern is that their children will grow up. They pay no attention to whether they themselves are cold or hot, but cover their children to protect them from the cold or shield them from the hot sun. This is extreme kindness…. Therefore, you should look after water and grain with compassionate care, as though tending your own children….

‘Great mind’ is a mind like a great mountain or a great ocean. It does not have any partiality or exclusivity. You should not regard a pound as light or a ton as heavy.

Choose a word or phrase that resonates for you and say how it relates to your practice. We’ll sit in a circle, council format for those who’d like to speak, surrounded by another circle by those who’d rather listen. I’ll begin with a few words about what comes to mind for me. And we’ll take it from there.

Precepts Week / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 3, 2010 3:00 pmtoAugust 7, 2010 9:59 pm
Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Summer Ango
At The Grail in 
Cornwall-on-Hudson
July 21-August 22 2010

If not now, when? Summer Ango provides the opportunity to get off the fast track, slow down, and breathe. It’s a chance to do an intensive retreat, live in community and study closely with both Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and the Village Zendo teachers all in the green surroundings of the Hudson Valley. The quiet rhythm of Ango brings the meaning of “peaceful dwelling” home. It allows one to experience the joy of relaxing into the Self. If not this summer, when?
Please Note BOTH SESSHINS and WRITING are now FULL. STUDY WEEK and PRECEPTS week have a few spots open.

July 21 – July 23: Setting Up the Grail Community Days (No Fee! Just Sign Up to Come and Help!)

July 23 -August 1: 
Dai Sesshin (silent retreat) $650/$750*

August 3-8: 
Precepts and Jukai Ceremony $500 (precept study only) / $850 (for those taking jukai)

August 10-13: 
Zen Study Week $330/$370

August 13-15:
Writing Retreat $230/$270

August 16-22:
 Shuso Hossen Sesshin (silent retreat) $530/$630

Entire Ango: $1450/$1800
Dana is requested for Teachers.
*member/non-member

Pre-Registration Required.
PDF IconSummer Ango registration form PDF

PDF IconSusho Letter PDF

PDF IconAngo Commitment Form PDF

Transportation/Directions to Grail House

Tenzo kyōkun – Instructions for the Cook (download)

Jukai Ceremony / Grail House

Jun. 15, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 8, 2010
9:30 amto2:00 pm

Jukai means ‘to receive the precepts’ and is a rite of passage for lay students who consider Zen practice an integral part of their lives and who wish to live in accord with the Zen precepts handed down over the generations from teacher to student. It is also a major ceremony which brings together the Village Zendo community.

Zendo Closed

May. 25, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

May 27, 2010
May 28, 2010
May 29, 2010
May 30, 2010
May 31, 2010
July 4, 2010
July 5, 2010
August 8, 2010
August 22, 2010toAugust 28, 2010

The Zendo is closed today.

Study Week / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 10, 2010 3:00 pmtoAugust 13, 2010 9:00 am
Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Summer Ango
At The Grail in 
Cornwall-on-Hudson
July 21-August 22 2010

If not now, when? Summer Ango provides the opportunity to get off the fast track, slow down, and breathe. It’s a chance to do an intensive retreat, live in community and study closely with both Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and the Village Zendo teachers all in the green surroundings of the Hudson Valley. The quiet rhythm of Ango brings the meaning of “peaceful dwelling” home. It allows one to experience the joy of relaxing into the Self. If not this summer, when?
Please Note BOTH SESSHINS and WRITING are now FULL. STUDY WEEK and PRECEPTS week have a few spots open.

July 21 – July 23: Setting Up the Grail Community Days (No Fee! Just Sign Up to Come and Help!)

July 23 -August 1: 
Dai Sesshin (silent retreat) $650/$750*

August 3-8: 
Precepts and Jukai Ceremony $500 (precept study only) / $850 (for those taking jukai)

August 10-13: 
Zen Study Week $330/$370

August 13-15:
Writing Retreat $230/$270

August 16-22:
 Shuso Hossen Sesshin (silent retreat) $530/$630

Entire Ango: $1450/$1800
Dana is requested for Teachers.
*member/non-member

Pre-Registration Required.
PDF IconSummer Ango registration form PDF

PDF IconSusho Letter PDF

PDF IconAngo Commitment Form PDF

Transportation/Directions to Grail House

Tenzo kyōkun – Instructions for the Cook (download)

Writing Retreat / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 13, 2010 3:00 pmtoAugust 15, 2010 1:00 pm
Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Summer Ango
At The Grail in 
Cornwall-on-Hudson
July 21-August 22 2010

If not now, when? Summer Ango provides the opportunity to get off the fast track, slow down, and breathe. It’s a chance to do an intensive retreat, live in community and study closely with both Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and the Village Zendo teachers all in the green surroundings of the Hudson Valley. The quiet rhythm of Ango brings the meaning of “peaceful dwelling” home. It allows one to experience the joy of relaxing into the Self. If not this summer, when?
Please Note BOTH SESSHINS and WRITING are now FULL. STUDY WEEK and PRECEPTS week have a few spots open.

July 21 – July 23: Setting Up the Grail Community Days (No Fee! Just Sign Up to Come and Help!)

July 23 -August 1: 
Dai Sesshin (silent retreat) $650/$750*

August 3-8: 
Precepts and Jukai Ceremony $500 (precept study only) / $850 (for those taking jukai)

August 10-13: 
Zen Study Week $330/$370

August 13-15:
Writing Retreat $230/$270

August 16-22:
 Shuso Hossen Sesshin (silent retreat) $530/$630

Entire Ango: $1450/$1800
Dana is requested for Teachers.
*member/non-member

Pre-Registration Required.
PDF IconSummer Ango registration form PDF

PDF IconSusho Letter PDF

PDF IconAngo Commitment Form PDF

Transportation/Directions to Grail House

Tenzo kyōkun – Instructions for the Cook (download)

Shusho Sesshin / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 16, 2010 3:00 pmtoAugust 21, 2010 11:59 pm
Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Doe - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Summer Ango
At The Grail in 
Cornwall-on-Hudson
July 21-August 22 2010

If not now, when? Summer Ango provides the opportunity to get off the fast track, slow down, and breathe. It’s a chance to do an intensive retreat, live in community and study closely with both Roshi Enkyo O’Hara and the Village Zendo teachers all in the green surroundings of the Hudson Valley. The quiet rhythm of Ango brings the meaning of “peaceful dwelling” home. It allows one to experience the joy of relaxing into the Self. If not this summer, when?
Please Note BOTH SESSHINS and WRITING are now FULL. STUDY WEEK and PRECEPTS week have a few spots open.

July 21 – July 23: Setting Up the Grail Community Days (No Fee! Just Sign Up to Come and Help!)

July 23 -August 1: 
Dai Sesshin (silent retreat) $650/$750*

August 3-8: 
Precepts and Jukai Ceremony $500 (precept study only) / $850 (for those taking jukai)

August 10-13: 
Zen Study Week $330/$370

August 13-15:
Writing Retreat $230/$270

August 16-22:
 Shuso Hossen Sesshin (silent retreat) $530/$630

Entire Ango: $1450/$1800
Dana is requested for Teachers.
*member/non-member

Pre-Registration Required.
PDF IconSummer Ango registration form PDF

PDF IconSusho Letter PDF

PDF IconAngo Commitment Form PDF

Transportation/Directions to Grail House

Tenzo kyōkun – Instructions for the Cook (download)

Shuso Hossen Ceremony / Grail House

Jun. 14, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

August 22, 2010
9:15 amto4:00 pm

Shuso Hossen for Jeremy Tokuyu Manasia

Shuso Hossen is a ceremonial rite-of-passage marking a student’s promotion to the rank of Senior. It takes place at the conclusion of the intensive training period of Ango during which the student serves as a model to the sangha or community. The event is both a crucible and an empowerment for the student in that their understanding is tested by the community. As such, it is a participatory and deeply moving experience for all. At shuso hossen, the shuso gives his or her first dharma talk and takes questions from the community in a ceremonial conversation known as dharma dialogue.

Shuso Jeremy Tokuyu Manasia will give his first dharma talk and take questions from the community in a ceremonial conversation known as dharma dialogue.

Ceremony begins at 10:00 am and concludes with celebratory refreshments

Dharma Talk – Roshi

Feb. 9, 2010 - Posted in: Events - Comments Off

February 4, 2010
7:50 pmto8:20 pm
February 21, 2010
11:45 amto12:20 pm
February 25, 2010
7:50 pmto8:20 pm
March 11, 2010
7:50 pmto8:20 pm
May 20, 2010
7:50 pmto8:20 pm
June 3, 2010
7:50 pmto8:20 pm
June 13, 2010
11:45 amto12:30 pm
June 27, 2010
11:45 amto12:30 pm
August 29, 2010
11:45 amto12:30 pm

Roshi Enkyo O’Hara will give a dharma talk.

Enkyo Roshi