Local
Events
CBT
and Jijujyu-ji present meditation music on Sat., Oct. 14
At 7:00
p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14, the Cleveland Buddhist Temple
and the Jijuyu-ji Zen Group will present multicultural meditation
music by Mike Hovancsek and Joe Culley. Hovancsek combines
instruments and tunings from many different cultures. Culley
is a percussionist with the jazz group Osmosis who has studied
the Indian tabla for the past even years. The program will
begin with a 15 minute period of meditation. The requested
donation is $10.00.
The
Cleveland
Buddhist Temple is located at 1573 E. 214th St. (corner
of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
For more information, contact Peter
Junger.
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland holds Vipassana retreat Oct. 20-22
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland will hold a three-day Vipassana
silent meditation retreat Oct. 20-22 at the Jesuit Retreat
House in Parma. The retreat will be led by Amy Schmidt and
will consist of alternating periods of sitting and walking
meditation. Schmidt is a resident teacher at the Insight
Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She co-founded Southwest
Sangha, a self-retreat center and Buddhist community in
southern New Mexico. The retreat fee is $180; $50 at the
time of registration, balance due by Sept. 15. Scholarships
are available.
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland meets on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings at 7:00 pm at the First
Unitarian Church of Cleveland, 21600 Shaker Blvd, Shaker
Heights. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month,
IM's Brecksville Sangha meets at the Brecksville
Library at 7:00 pm.
CBT's
Rev. Siebuhr holds memorial service on Sunday, Oct. 22
On Sunday,
October 22 at 10:30 a.m., the Cleveland Buddhist Temple's
supervising minister, Rev. Siebuhr, will lead the monthly
memorial and sangha service for October. CBT's Dharma School
for children will meet at 10:00 a.m.
A regular
feature at CBT: the Zen Shin Sangha, a group founded by
Sensei Ogui, is one of the oldest Zen groups in the region.
It is led by senior students of Rev. Ogui and meets on Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings from 7:00 pm to 9:00 p.m. On Tuesdays,
the group provides training for beginners and practice includes
two 12-minute periods of sitting meditation, walking meditation
and listening to a Dharma talk. The Wednesday sittings are
designed for practitioners who have been introduced to the
basics covered on Tuesdays. The start time and format is
the same, although the periods of sitting and chanting are
longer.
The
Cleveland
Buddhist Temple is located at 1573 E. 214th St. (corner
of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
For more information, contact Peter
Junger.
Maia
Duerr, executive director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship's
national office, visits Cleveland this month
Maia
Duerr, executive director of the national office of the
Buddhist Peace
Fellowship, will visit Cleveland for two days, Oct.
31 and Nov. 1. The evening of Tuesday, Oct. 31, BPF's
Cleveland Chapter will host a potluck dinner at a members'
home, followed by a discussion of the local group's future
plans. Everyone in the Buddhist community is welcome to
attend.
On Wednesday,
Nov. 1, at 7:00 p.m., Duerr will present a free public talk
on "Being Peace in a Time of War" at the Cleveland Buddhist
Temple. People of all faiths are cordially invited to participate.
A free will donation will be collected to help defray Duerr's
travel expenses. The Cleveland
Buddhist Temple is located at 1573 E. 214th St. (corner
of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
For more information, contact Lynne
Brakeman.
First
Unitarian holds interfaith cultural diversity workshop on
Nov. 4
The
Racial Harmony Group of the First
Unitarian Church of Cleveland presents a free Cultural
Diversity Workshop: Blending the Sounds of Spirituality.
The workshop will focus on music of Sikhism, Unitarian Universalism,
Islam and Yoruba. There will be activities for children
aged 5-12 and childcare for children under 5. The workshop
is free and includes a free continental breakfast and lunch,
but advanced registration required by Oct. 27. The workshop
celebrates the memory of Jeanette Avery. The First Unitarian
Church of Cleveland is located at 21600 Shaker Blvd. in
Shaker Heights. For more information and a registration
form, e-mail William
Avery or call 216/561-3548.
Cleveland
Shambhala holds Ikebana workshop Sun., Nov. 12
The
Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group will host Mrs. Shoko
Morten, for an Ikebana workshop on Sunday, Nov. 12 from
2:00 to 4:30 p.m. Morten is a practitioner of the Sogetsu
School and a member of Ikebana International's Cleveland
Chapter. The workshop fee is $45 which includes floral material.
Students should bring their own tools, in particular a "kenzan"
or pin holder. Senior and student discounts are available.
The class is limited to nine students. CSMG meets at the
Tyler Building, 3615 Superior Ave. near downtown Cleveland
(Directions).
For more information or to register, contact Karen
Jewell-Kettat, 440/376-9579; or Ann
Driscoll, 216/221-2632.
CloudWater
Zendo schedules December Buddha's Enlightenment Retreat
December
7-10 are the dates for Cloudwater Zendo's annual Buddha's
Enlightenment Retreat. It will be held at the Sunset Shores
retreat house in Vermilion. Members of the Nien-Fo Ch'an
Order and lay students will participate in periods of sitting
walking and chanting meditation, personal interviews and
Dharma discourses by Abbott Ven. Shih Ying-Fa.
The
cost is $100 for the entire three and a half day retreat;,
$80 for participants who join on Friday evening. Registration
and a nonrefundable $50 deposit are due by December 5. CloudWater
Zendo is located at 14436 Puritas Ave. on Cleveland's
West Side. Call 216/889-1393 or e-mail yingfa@cloudwater.org
for more information.
Local
News
Buddhist
precepts study group continues in Lakewood
One
Saturday a month from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Lynne Brakeman
will host a study group on the Buddhist precepts This year
we are reading from Being
Upright: Zen Meditation and the Buddhist Precepts by
Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. The next study dates are October
14 and November 11. The class will usually be on the second
Saturday of each month. E-mail lbrakeman@cox.net
for details and directions.
Northeast
Ohio Soto Zen Group moves to West Shore Unitarian
In October,
the NEO
Soto Zen Group changed the day, time and location of
its regular zazen sittings. The group now meets every other
Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. in Classroom 11 at the West
Shore Unitarian Universalist Church on Hilliard Blvd.
in Rocky River. Directions and the dates for sittings through
the end of the year are available on the group's Web site.
The group is an affiliate of the San
Francisco Zen Center and practices under the guidance
of Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi. Everyone is welcome.
Since
zazen begins promptly at 7:00 pm, visitors who are new to
the group are requested to arrive early for a quick introduction
to the forms. For more information, e-mail lbrakeman@cox.net.
West
Shore UU also hosts another Soto sitting group, the Rocky
River Zen Group led by Rev. Wayne Arnuson. It meets on Friday
mornings at 8:00 a.m. E-mail
Rev. Arnuson for more information.
Regional
News
The
Living Lotus Sangha blooms in Mansfield
Congratulations
to the former Mansfield Zen Sangha which has rechristened
itself the Living Lotus Sangha. The group meets for zazen
every Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. at All Soul's Unitarian
Church, 25 Church St. in Bellefield. Twice a month, Dean
Williams of Cleveland's Jijuyu-ji Zen Group leads the sitting.
Living Lotus Sangha is an affiliate of the Udumbara
Zen Center in Chicago and four of its members obtained
lay ordination there from Sojun Diane Martin last month.
For more information, contact Jackie
Moore.
Claude
Anshin Thomas visits Port Huron this weekend; Ann Arbor,
Oct. 17
Claude
AnShin Thomas, a Zen priest in the lineages of Ven.
Thich Nhat Hanh and Bernard Glassman Roshi, will visit Port
Huron, MI, October 13-14. He is the founder of the Zaltho
Foundation in Concord, MA and the author of At
Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace.
On Friday,
Oct. 13, his public talk will be at St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, 3201 Gratiot Ave. on the north side of Port Huron.
The talk is cosponsored by the Bluewater Community of Mindful
Living and the Season for Non-Violence. Suggested donation
$5 plus a donation for the teacher's
On Sunday,
Oct. 15, the Bluewater Community of Mindful Living is sponsoring
a one-day meditation retreat with AnShin Thomas, at the
Lake Huron Retreat Center, 8794 Lakeshore Drive (M-25),
Lakeport, MI. Space is limited and advance registration
is required. Suggested donation $20 and a donation for the
teacher. For more information, and to register contact Sam
Ewalt, ewalt@glis.net.
Ewalt
writes that Claude AnShin Thomas will also speak at the
Zen
Buddhist Temple in Ann Arbor, MI, on Tuesday, Oct. 17
at 7:30 p.m. The temple is located at 1214 Packard Rd..
For more info email: annarbor@zenbuddhisttemple.org;
or call: 734/761-6520.
Columbus
Zen holds November sesshin with Daniel Terragno
Columbus
Zen's fall sesshin will be Tuesday, Nov. 7 through Sunday,
Nov. 12. Daniel
Terragno is the Dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of
the Pacific Zen Institute. Terragno started his spiritual
practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland
before taking up Zen. Terragno received authorization to
teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received Dharma transmission
from Tarrant Roshi. Unless otherwise noted,
Columbus
Zen
activities take place at the First Unitarian Universalist
Church, Room 8, 93 W. Weisheimer, Columbus, OH (Directions).
For more information, e-mail: flemingms@hotmail.com.
Pittsburgh's
Stillpoint Zen Community welcomes noted Dogen scholar Rev.
Shohaku Okumura, Nov. 10-12
The
Pittsburgh-based Stillpoint
Zen Community will host noted Soto Zen teacher Shohaku
Okumura Roshi for a three-day sesshin November 10-12
at the Franciscan Spirit and Life Center in the South Hills.
Okumura
Roshi founded the Sanshin
Zen Community and currently resides with his family
in Bloomington, IN. He has translated many important Zen
texts from Japanese into English, most recently Dogen's
Extensive Record : A Translation of the Eihei Koroku
with Taigen Dan Leighton. Okumura Roshi will also visit
Cleveland for a weekend event April 14-16.
The
fee for this year's retreat is $260 for all three days (four
nights). Space is limited to 22 students and November 1
is the registration deadline. The retreat information and
registration materials are available on the home page of
the Northeast
Ohio Soto Zen group. For more information, contact Stillpoint's
Don Orr, voice:
412/366-4268.
Buddhist
Women's Conference slated for Feb. 24, 2007 in Chicago
The
Buddhist Council of the Midwest will hold the 2007 Buddhist
Women's Conference on Feb. 24, 2007 at DePaul University
in Chicago. The keynote speaker will be Karma Leksay Tsomo,
President of Sakyadhita, the International Buddhist Women's
Organization.
The
council is also encouraging other groups in the region to
host "confluent events" between Feb. 17 and March 4, 2007.
If your sangha is interested in participating in this festival
contact info@dharmawomen.org.
International
News
Thich
Nhat Hahn challenges the world to adopt a Global No Car
Day
On October
7, the Ven. Thich Nhat Hahn, founder of the Plum Village
Lineage, challenged UNESCO to organize a Global No Car Day.
People would be encouraged to refrain from using their cars
except in emergencies. In September, the roshi sent out
an e-mail that said, in part:
"UNESCO
can promote this day around the world and use it as a means
to educate and inspire collective awakening concerning the
present environmental dangers facing all of us on planet
Earth. I will suggest that UNESCO itself, from the director
to ambassadors and other members, try to live in such a
way that the message becomes a true message; not just a
call for action, but action itself. In our daily lives,
we should each try to drive a car that doesn't pollute the
environment, or ride a bicycle more often, or use public
transportation."
There
is an online
form you can use to send a message to UNESCO in support
of the initiative. By October 5 they had gathered more than
3,000 signatures.
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