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CloudWater
Zendo plans two-day meditation intensive
CloudWater
Zendo will hold its fall meditation intensive Saturday,
September 8 (9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) to Sunday, September
9 (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.). The fee of $25 is due by Tuesday,
September 4. 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.
Buddhist
Peace Fellowship Cleveland plans Peace Show presence
For
the third year in a row, on Labor Day, BPF
Cleveland will participate in the Cleveland
Peace Show from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The Peace Show will
be at Willard Park (location of the FREE Stamp). The Peace
Show was created to be a counter to the Cleveland Air Show
that takes place at Burke Lakefront Airport that weekend.
Everyone is invited to join BPF members in sitting and walking
meditation, Buddhist coloring and a silent Peace Walk.
The
group's next meeting will be Sunday, September 16 at 1:00
p.m. E-mail Mark McDermott
for directions.
Peace
Action Cleveland holds Sept. 11 remembrance event
Peace
Action Cleveland is sponsoring an interfaith worship service
at Antioch Baptist Church on September 11 at 7:00 p.m. There
will be speakers from a number of different faith traditions,
including Dean Williams, a Soto Zen priest, who will represent
Buddhism. For more information, visit the event
page on Peace Action's site and download the flyer.
Cleveland
Zazen Group plans weekend sesshin with Sensei Amala Wrightson
in October
The
Cleveland Zazen Group will welcome Auckland
Zen Center's Sensei Amala Wrightson for a weekend sesshin
October 19 to 21 at the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation
Area’s Lipscomb Campus. Sensei Wrightson is the dharma heir
of Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede of the Rochester Zen Center.
Sesshin
applications can be requested from Susan
Rakow. The fee is $130 for Rochester Zen Center members
and $150 for nonmembers and includes food and lodging. For
more information, contact Rakow at 216/932-3084.
The
Cleveland
Zen Group is an affiliate of the Rochester
Zen Center (Rinzai), founded by Roshi Philip Kapleau,
author of The Three Pillars of Zen. CZG meets for
zazen every Tuesday evening and two Sundays a month at a
member's home in Cleveland Heights. For more information,
e-mail Susan Rakow
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland plans October Sesshin
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland recently launched it's new Web site:
www.imcleveland.org. The group announced it will hold a
weekend vipassana retreat October 19-21 at the Jesuit Retreat
House in Parma. Details and a registration form are available
on the site. 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.
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Insight
Meditation Cleveland announces format changes
Insight
Meditation Cleveland meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
7:00 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church on Shaker Blvd.
This summer, the Tuesday sangha changed its format slightly.
The group will rotate the moderator function among different
members of the group. The format will include meditation
and dharma talks.
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.
CloudWater
offers eight-class Basics of Buddhism course
CloudWater
Zendo will hold an eight-session course on the Basics of
Buddhism beginning Saturday, September 29 and ending on
Saturday, November 17. Classes will be 10:00 a.m. to noon.
The class will cover core teachings, the history and evolution
of Buddhism from ancient India to modern times, using "The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism" as a text.
The fee of $100 includes the cost of the textbook. The deadline
for registration is Wednesday, September 26. 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.
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. Currently,
the group is finishing up Being
Upright: Zen Meditation and the Buddhist Precepts by
Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. The next study dates are Saturday,
September 8, October 6, November 3. E-mail lbrakeman@cox.net
for details and directions. Everyone is welcome and anyone
who wants to join the study group can help the group identify
its next study book.
Regional
News
Michigan
groups hold five-day retreat over Labor Day weekend
The
Lansing
Buddhist Association and Dharma
Drum Michigan Chapter are cosponsoring a five-day Chan
Buddhist Meditation Retreat at Amitabha
Village Retreat Center in Perry, MI from August 31 to
September 4. The teacher will be Venerable Chi Chern, dharma
heir of the Chan Master Sheng Yen. The program will include
sitting and walking meditation, prostration, massage, yoga,
and dharma teachings in Chinese with English translation.
To register, please email Lina Wu, wulina@msu.edu
Michigan
Thich Nhat Hahn group holds Mindfulness Weekend
The
Bluewater
Community of Mindful Living (based in Port Huron, MI)
will hold its third annual Michigan Mindfulness Weekend
September 21, 22 and 23 at the Song
of the Morning Retreat Center in Vanderbilt, MI. The
weekend begins with dinner on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and ends
with a dinner on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Partial attendance
is acceptable. There will be vegetarian meals, clean and
modern accommodations, sitting and walking meditation, the
Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, early morning walks, yoga,
dharma discussions and other activities. The fee is $80.
Students receive a 35% discount and there is plenty of room
for tents and campers. Register for this weekend retreat
by e-mailingSam Ewalt,
San
Francisco Zen Center's Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi leads
five-day Pittsburgh sesshin
San
Francisco Zen Center's senior dharma teacher and former
Abbott, Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi, will visit Pittsburgh Friday October
5 to Wednesday, October 10 at the Kearns
Spirituality Center in Allison Park, a suburb in Pittsburgh's
North Hills. The registration deadline is September 3.
There
will be a free public talk on Friday from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.
at the Friends Meeting House in Pittsburgh. Saturday through
Wednesday Tenshin Roshi will lead a formal Soto Zen sesshin.
Dharma talks will be on the theme: "Transforming the
world in the light of Buddha's wisdom."
The
fee is $400 for the full sesshin. . For more information,
visit the home page of the Northeast
Ohio Soto Zen Group to download the retreat brochure.
Or contact Jean
Leathers of Green Mountains Walking.
Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi is a lineage-holder in the Soto Zen tradition.
Born in Mississippi, he grew up in Minnesota and left advanced
study in mathematics and Western psychology to come to the
San Francisco Zen Center
in 1967. He practiced with Suzuki Roshi, who ordained him
as a priest in 1970. He received Dharma transmission in
1983 and served as abbot of San Francisco Zen Center's three
training centers (City Center, Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara
Zen Mountain Center) from 1986 to 1995. Tenshin Roshi continues
to teach at Zen Center, living with his family at Green
Gulch Farm. He is author of Warm
Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation
and Being
Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts.
International
News
BBC
Reporter examines religious freedom in Tibet
The
BBC's Michael Bristow filed a report about religious freedom
in Tibet as part of a three-part series. "Squeezed
freedoms in Buddhist Tibet," published August 14, includes
photographs and the news that the Chinese government has
decreed that, starting September 1, all "living Buddhas"
(eminent monks) will have to be approved by the government.
HH
the Dalai Lama to spend October in North America
His
Holiness the Dalai Lama will be spending October 9 to October
30 in North America. He will visit Ithaca, NY, New York
City, Atlanta, Bloomington, IN, Purdue University in Lafayette,
IN, Ottawa and Toronto. Visit HH's "upcoming
schedule" page or more details and links to buy tickets.
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