Event Type : Salt Lake City

October 7, 2023
Artspace Zendo
Salt Lake City, Utah

The Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman is an opportunity for beginners to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere. For people familiar with sitting meditation (zazen), a Day of Zen will provide a space for deepening that practice. Meditation practice sitting in a chair is entirely acceptable. You will receive posture and breath instruction — the essence of Zen practice.

Participants will

• Engage in sitting and walking meditation.
• Listen to a Dharma talk and receive meditation instruction.
• Have the opportunity for an individual interview with the teacher (dokusan).
• Enjoy a light breakfast and healthy snacks.

$25 TAZ BC Members
$40, other TAZ members
$50 General Admission
$20 Students, <30, & Limited Income
Pre-registration is required. No walk-ins.

ORIENTATION AT 7:15 AM
If this is your first Day of Zen, please arrive by 7:15 am for an orientation session. We’ll review the basic Zendo protocols and sitting instructions from 7:15-7:45 am.

Coffee, tea, and light breakfast items will be available at 7:45. The first sit starts at 8:00 am.

ARTSPACE PARKING
During the Day of Zen program, you may park in visitor spaces (40-59) at the front of the building.  Towing/booting is strictly enforced at all times for all reserved resident parking at Artspace City Center. There is no parking in the back of the building or in the Macaroni Flats lot to the south. Please pay attention to the signs to identify reserved spaces. Check in with a greeter to be sure you park in an available space. There is also on-street parking on side streets.

November 4, 2023
Artspace Zendo
Salt Lake City, Utah

The Day of Zen with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman is an opportunity for beginners to learn about meditation in a supportive atmosphere. For people familiar with sitting meditation (zazen), a Day of Zen will provide a space for deepening that practice. Meditation practice sitting in a chair is entirely acceptable. You will receive posture and breath instruction — the essence of Zen practice.

Participants will

• Engage in sitting and walking meditation.
• Listen to a Dharma talk and receive meditation instruction.
• Have the opportunity for an individual interview with the teacher (dokusan).
• Enjoy a light breakfast and healthy snacks.

$25 TAZ BC Members
$40, other TAZ members
$50 General Admission
$20 Students, <30, & Limited Income
Pre-registration is required. No walk-ins.

ORIENTATION AT 7:15 AM
If this is your first Day of Zen, please arrive by 7:15 am for an orientation session. We’ll review the basic Zendo protocols and sitting instructions from 7:15-7:45 am.

Coffee, tea, and light breakfast items will be available at 7:45. The first sit starts at 8:00 am.

ARTSPACE PARKING
During the Day of Zen program, you may park in visitor spaces (40-59) at the front of the building.  Towing/booting is strictly enforced at all times for all reserved resident parking at Artspace City Center. There is no parking in the back of the building or in the Macaroni Flats lot to the south. Please pay attention to the signs to identify reserved spaces. Check in with a greeter to be sure you park in an available space. There is also on-street parking on side streets.

Winter Sesshin with Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi
December 3-10, 2023
Torrey, Utah

Rohatsu Winter Sesshin is an intensive meditation retreat dedicated to the practice of zazen. This year, the winter sesshin is silent. There will be an orienting dharma talk at the beginning and one for integration at the conclusion of the retreat. Otherwise, the Zendo schedule is entirely silent sitting. 

Practitioners who gather at Two Arrows Zen in Torrey will be joined in a 7-day schedule by online participants from many locations. The experience of a strong schedule for sitting will benefit everyone who wishes to deepen their practice of zazen.

Rohatsu is Japanese for “eighth day of the twelfth month.” The Buddha was enlightened on the eighth of December when he looked up at the morning star, the planet we call Venus. The brightness of this planet was seen by Buddha at the end of a week straight of the deepest Samadhi.

From within this state of mind, the Buddha said: How wondrous, how wondrous! All beings are endowed with this pure nature! What a wondrous, astonishing thing has been realized! All the ten thousand things, all the flowers, all the trees, all the rocks, all things everywhere are shining brilliantly! The Rohatsu Sesshin commemorates that realization.

Participants in Torrey will be observing silence throughout the retreat. Even when not in the meditation hall, participants endeavor to maintain silence at all times — in all forms of practice. Meditative awareness is offered as a gift to support each other in creative, noble, and joyful silence. 

The Winter Sesshin in Torrey will start on Sunday, December 3 at 4 pm and end on Sunday, December 10 at noon. The program will include Zazen, Dokusan for new practitioners, community meetings, samu (work practice), and silent walks in nature.

Everyone coming to Torrey should plan to stay through the close of the retreat at noon on Sunday, December 10. No early departures. The retreat includes all meals, from dinner on 12/3 until breakfast on 12/10.

The cost is $799 for Two Arrows Zen Members and $899 for General Admission.

Please CONTACT US for more information about registration.