An online one day retreat with Flint Sparks, Hosted by Awakening Together. Please see below for further details:
Hi all,
We sent out an email at the beginning of last week to announce an online one-day retreat with Flint Sparks that will be hosted by Awakening Together on September 17. We are finalizing details for that this week, but we realized that the initial email did not go out to the entire previous retreat listserv and wanted to send out a second Save the Date announcement with a bit more information.
What is happening?: ATZC will be holding a one day virtual retreat, which will include movement, Zazen, relational practice, a dharma talk from Flint, and Inquiry. In Zen tradition, this is sometimes referred to as zazenkai (座禅会), literally meaning 'to come together for meditation' and refers to a Zen Buddhist retreat that is usually less intensive and of shorter duration than sesshin" (often one day in length).
Where will we meet?: We will meet in the ATZC Cloud Zendo on Zoom, meeting information will be shared post registration.
Date: September 17, 2022
Schedule: Our tentative schedule for the day will run from 9-5 CST with Flint joining us in the afternoon. Morning practice will be led by members of ATZC.
Focus of the retreat: We are finalizing the title and retreat description, but the focus of the retreat will be the famous Zen poem, the Hsin Hsin Ming.
Cost: We will invite people to offer dana directly to Flint for the retreat. We will provide information on what dana is and how to offer dana directly to Flint with our full retreat invitation this weekend.
Who: All are welcome, we will be sending out the invitation to the distributed Appamada Sanghas and we invite you to share the invitation with your community as well.
Want to Help?: If you are interested in supporting the facilitation of the retreat, please reply to this message to share your interest and we can provide information about those opportunities.
How Do I Register: Please look for a finalized retreat description, schedule, and registration information for the retreat by the end of this weekend, August 21.
Thanks all, we are looking forward to spending time together in practice and engaging with the Dharma.
With kindness,
Awakening Together—A Zen Practice Community based in the Twin Cities MN