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Virtual Temple – Sit As A Mountain Sesshin
with Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi
September 23 – 26, 2020
Via the Zoom Conference Platform

Deepen your sitting practice, connect with Sangha, and receive instruction from a transmitted Zen Teacher.

During the Covid-19 pandemic we continue to offer a robust online practice for the benefit and safety of all. Join Michael Mugaku Zimmerman Roshi for a four-day online meditation retreat. This sesshin is structured like the Virtual Spring Sesshin, with four sitting periods a day, including a Dharma Talk with Mugaku Roshi and embodiment sessions with Feldenkrais practitioners, Carl and Erin Rabke to support your physical practice.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday – Friday,  September 23 – 25
7:00 – 9:00 am MDT: Zazen (Wednesday first period is Orientation)
11:00 am – 1:00 pm MDT: Zazen & Dharma Talk
3:00 – 5:00 pm MDT: Embodiment and Zazen
6:30 – 8:00 pm MDT: Zazen

Saturday, September 26
7:00 – 9:00 am MDT: Zazen
11:00 am – 1:00 pm MDT: Zazen & Dharma Talk
3:00 – 5:00 pm MDT: Zazen and Close

Participants are asked to commit to the following ground rules:

• You may set your own zazen schedule, but you must commit to at least one full sitting session each day on Zoom, not including the Dharma Talk period.
• When you have set your schedule, we will ask you to show up on the Zoom platform each day according to the schedule you have planned in advance. You can always sit more, but not less. We will provide a method for you to submit your schedule in advance so that we know who to expect in the Virtual Zendo.
• Sitting sessions consist of two or three 30-35 minute periods. As in the physical Zendo, you may enter a sit at the beginning of a session, or during a break between periods.
• All participants must register for the program.

Your enrollment fee is a vital contribution to TAZ, now as always. The contribution to participate in the Virtual Sit As A Mountain Sesshin provides a small stipend for Mugaku Roshi and supports the infrastructure of the retreat. As usual, you will be given the opportunity to donate to the scholarship fund to support our young practitioners and the diversity of our community.

$275 USD Individual Registration

with Diane Musho Hamilton and Caty Hartung
Fridays, 10:00 – 11:15 am MT
September 18 – November 20, 2020
Via Zoom

We live in difficult, transitional times. The most reliable and stabilizing activity we can do is to deepen our meditation practice, opening our hearts to others and to our ever changing lives. 

Compassion and Love in Challenging Times is an online course led by Diane Musho Hamilton and Caty Hartung. The course will engage Zen Buddhist and Tibetan teachings and practices for opening the heart. It will also use contemporary methods such as active listening to support our practice in relationships, at work, and in the world. 

We will study Zen’s activity of bodhisattvas, and the six perfections of Mahayana Buddhism: generosity, morality (meaningful behavior), patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom. We will also look into the four kinds of love: love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. We will engage the practices of sitting meditation, loving-kindness, tonglen (giving and receiving), and Loving-Eyes. 

Each class will include small group breakout sessions, practices, and homework. The live calls will be recorded and distributed weekly to course participants.

Now is the time for you to deepen your practice in a culture of like-minded seekers and practitioners who understand the challenges that we all face at this time. Please join us. 

This 10-week online course will be easeful and accessible. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to benefit yourself and others.

TAZ Member $199
General Admission $249
Reduced rate requests: CONTACT US

DIANE MUSHO HAMILTON is an award-winning professional mediator, author, and teacher of Zen meditation. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 35 years and is a lineage holder in the Soto Zen tradition.

Diane began her studies at Naropa University in 1983 with Choygam Trungpa Rinpoche, and became a Zen student of Genpo Dennis Merzel Roshi in 1997. In 2003, she received ordination as a Zen monk and received dharma transmission in 2006. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed by Genpo Roshi to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. She has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute since 2004.

She is the Executive Director of Two Arrows Zen, a practice in Utah, and offers training programs oriented to personal development and advanced facilitator skills.

Diane is the author of Everything Is Workable and The Zen of You and Me. Her newest book, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart is co-authored with Gabriel Menegale Wilson and Kimberly Myosai Loh (Shambhala, July 2020).

CATY HARTUNG is an Integral Buddhist coach drawing from a unique 35-year background in Buddhism and her rich life experience as a cosmopolitan. Born in Germany, she began her university studies of French, pedagogy, and physical education in 1984, at the same time when her curiosity grew for Buddhist meditation.

In 1991, Caty’s Buddhist teacher, Lama Ole Nydahl, asked her to help him, while traveling together around the world. She soon took a leading role in developing his international network, known as Diamond Way Buddhism. In the 25 years of their intense cooperation, the organization grew to over six hundred meditation centers.

She has trained as an Integral Facilitator with Diane Musho Hamilton and is also certified as an Integral Coach by Integral Coaching Canada.

Today, Caty accompanies leaders in their conscious change process and human development and helps organizations to grow and implement their vision. She continues her meditation practice under the guidance of the 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje.