The Appamada 2021 Spring International Intensive will take place from Monday, March 1, to Sunday, March 7, 2021.
Participants will meet via Zoom.

Please register for the intensive by clicking or copying and pasting the following link:
https://syverson.wufoo.com/forms/mpnwmke0e7eqke/

Monday through Saturday:

6:30-7:45 Zazen and service led by Appamada Dharma teachers
8:45-9:30 Walking or movement exercise
10:00-11:00 Practice Discussion with Peg to be determined
11:00 Start of central program: dharma talk/small group discussion: Peg and Flint
12:00 Meal practice: a mindful approach to food
1:30 Zazen
2:00-3:15 Dharma activity/small groups/whole group
3:30 End of central program
3:30-4:30 Practice Discussion with Flint

Sunday will be a shorter day with the above morning practice schedule and dharma talk, followed by the Head Student entering ceremony. The Intensive will conclude at about noon on Sunday.

All times are US Central (GMT -6:00)
Time Zone differences:
UK +6 hours
Hawaii -4 hours

The theme for this intensive is Being Time.
"We all live in a rapidly changing world. Our practice reveals impermanence to be time itself, being
itself. But we also begin to see that time and being are not at all as we imagine them to be. To really understand and fully embrace this point is to live in a radically different world—a world of awakening, inclusion, and love. How do we live in that world in the midst of a pandemic, unending social and political tumult, and dire climate challenges? Zen Master Dogen frames the teaching on impermanence explicitly as a teaching about time—and all of Dogen’s profoundly poetic teachings flow from his seminal understanding of time, as expressed in Uji (Being-Time), the famous—and famously difficult—essay in his masterwork, Shobogenzo. In Uji, Dogen teaches that time itself, being itself, is luminous awakening. It is all-inclusive, all-elusive, ultimately healing, and eternal. How do we practice as Buddhas by understanding the relationship between being and time as it is—and as we perceive it to be? If you are interested in a text as a resource we will be using Being-Time by our contemporary dharma sister, Shinshu Roberts." Please register for the intensive by clicking or copying and pasting the following link:
https://syverson.wufoo.com/forms/mpnwmke0e7eqke/