Half-Day Sitting (2025)
Upcoming Date: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Time: 9am-12pm PT (Hybrid)
Led By: Lucy Laoshi
Description:
The half-day sitting offers a great opportunity to deepen your meditation practice within the supportive presence of the community. It’s a time to settle both body and mind, allowing awareness to naturally arise and illuminate the present moment.
During the half-day, we engage in four 30-minute periods of zazen (sitting meditation), each alternating with 10 minutes of kinhin (walking meditation). The session concludes with a brief Zen service, including chanting and bowing practice. This sitting is offered both online and in-person at our home zendo.
If you are sick, please take care of yourself and stay home while you have symptoms.
If you have never attended our meditation before, please contact us first.
Fees: This event is offered by donation, with a suggested contribution of $30-50. You can send your donation via PayPal (giving@harmonyzen.org) or Venmo (@harmonyzen). If you prefer to offer cash or a check in person, please bring it in an envelope and leave it on the altar.
Registration: Please register below and select either the "online" or "in-person" option. The registration deadline is by the end of Friday, prior to the half-day sit on Sunday. Once registered, you will receive additional details before the sitting.
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To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.”
- from "Genjōkōan" by Zen Master Eihei Dogen