Offerings

ShinJin Temple programs:

Wednesdays
6 pm to 8 pm, Zazen, Kinhin, Dharma Study

Sundays
8:30 am to 10:30 am, Zazen, Kinhin, Service, Dharma Talks

Zazenkai

A Zazenkai is a day of silent practice. It includes walking, sitting, chanting, dharma talk, interview and Zen Buddhist ritual service and eating a meal. The requested registration fee is $30. You are also invited to offer Teacher Dana (a Teaching Gift).

Sundays from 7 am to 4 pm

2012 Dates:

February 19

April 29

June 24

September 30

October 28

Winter Offering

Sanctuary group for ‘white’ people committed to examining ‘whiteness’ as a necessary first step in racial healing and spiritual awakening.

Sanctuary: a sacred place, a safe haven, a place of safety

(This group is still open. Please contact Anraku Sensei if you are interested in joining.)

Two Streams Zen will be offering a Sanctuary Group for White People beginning in February 2012. The group will be facilitated by Anraku Sensei and will meet monthly for three consecutive months. The intention being to create an ongoing group to support each other to honestly speak, compassionately listen and courageously act thereby unraveling the embodied web of white privilege and opening the grip this has on our relationships and communities.

Sundays, February 5^th, March 4^th, April 8^th, from 11 am to 12:30 pm.

Facilitated by Anraku Sensei

ShinJin Zen Temple,

78 Main Street, Suite 209

Northampton, MA 01060

As committed followers of the Way, we must look deeply and question widely the social dynamics being presently replicated in our spiritual communities. Despite good intentions of wanting to be welcoming, inclusive, and all accepting, we still fall short in changing the pervasive system of historical oppression.

The legacy of racism that we have inherited in this country impacts intimately and profoundly each one of us. We seek to institute change, yet these patterns are deeply rooted in our bodies. These embodied patterns, left unexamined, continue to imprison us.

By creating a sacred space for meditation, reflection, and conversation, we as white people, can begin to heal the personal trauma and social conditioning that affects our ability to effectively change oppressive systemic structures and institutional policies that impact relating honestly and compassionately with others cross culturally and racially.

Sanctuary for White People Examining Racism (word document)

Contact Anraku Sensei for further information (413) 977-1852