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DESCRIPTION: \n \nBeginner’s Mind Online Sesshin: A Winter Silent Retreat of Wholehearted Practice\nwith Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell, Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Sensei Dorothy Dai-En Friedman, and Sensei Jose Shinzan Palma\nWednesday, January 12th – Sunday, January 16th, 2022\n \nA cornerstone of Zen practice, the Japanese word for “sesshin” means “touching the heart-mind.” This is a rare opportunity for deepening our practice with a community of supportive practitioners. Our time together will highlight the teachings of the Wholehearted Way as we consider intimacy always within reach and the joy of living out the fresh reality of life. \nThrough sitting and walking meditation, dharma talks, and dokusan (one-on-one meetings) with the teachers, enter into Noble Silence as we practice together, right here, right now.\nIt is recommended that participants attend the entire retreat but we understand that people may have to occasionally step away from the retreat. With this in mind, we do allow partial participation although no discounts or reimbursements will be given for missed days.\n \nRETREAT SCHEDULE (all times listed are Eastern Time)\nWednesday, Jan. 12\n6:00 - 6:15 PM - Welcome, Heart Sutra\n6:15 - 7:30 PM - Zazen and Kinhin (seated and walking meditation)\n7:30 - 8:15 PM - Teisho (dharma talk)\n8:15 PM - Noble Silence begins\nThursday - Saturday, Jan. 13-15\n7:30 - 8:45 AM - Zazen / Kinhin / Verse of the Kesa / Morning service\n8:45 - 10:20 AM - Breakfast / Rest\n0:20 - 12:00 PM - Zazen / Kinhin / Teisho\n2:00 - 2:45 PM - Lunch / Rest / Physical practice\n2:45 - 5:30 PM - Zazen / Kinhin / Dokusan (private interview with a teacher)\n5:30 - 5:45 PM - Evening service\n5:45 - 7:00 PM - Dinner\n7:00 - 8:10 PM - Zazen / Kinhin/ Dokusan\n8:10 - 8:15 PM - Four Vows, Three Bows\nSunday, Jan. 16\n7:30 - 8:45 AM - Zazen / Kinhin / Verse of the Kesa / Morning service\n8:45 - 9:45 AM - Breakfast\n9:45 - 10:40 AM - Teisho / Zazen / Kinhin\n0:40 - 11:45 AM - Open Sozan (conversation with teachers) - End of Noble Silence\n:45 - 12:00 PM - Daikaijo and Nenju (ceremony of completion and gratitude)\n2:00 - 1:00 PM - Sangha celebration\n\nRefund Policy:\n\nMore than 1 week ahead of the retreat - 100% refund\n\nWithin the week before the start of the retreat - 50% refund\n\n48 hours before the start of the retreat and after the retreat has started - non-refundable\nRegistration will close at 4 pm ET on Tuesday, January 11, 2022\n\n\nPlease note that Dana (donations) is not included in Registration\n \nSesshin Teachers:\n \n\n\n\n\nSensei Chodo Robert Campbell.  In 2007, Sensei Chodo Robert Campbell GC-C, co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care — a non-profit organization that focuses on the teaching of Zen and Buddhist practice with the goal to make them more accessible to people all around the world. The center delivers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and meditation practice. To better expand the reach of the program, Chodo co-developed a carefully structured protocol: the Foundations in Contemplative Care Training Program. Today, New York Zen Center's methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.\n\nChodo is a dynamic, grounded, and visionary leader and teacher: he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S instructing in various institutions. He has also spent many hours dedicated to bearing witness to the suffering of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and South Africa.\n\nChodo's public programs have introduced thousands to the practices of mindful and compassionate care of the living and dying. Sixty-thousand people listen to his podcasts each year. His passion lies in bereavement counseling and advocating for change in the way our healthcare institutions work with the dying.\n\nChodo is widely recognized as a trailblazer and authority on contemplative care; His work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, Tricycle, Parabola and other media outlets. He is a recognized Soto Zen Teacher with the American Zen Teachers Association, White Plum Asanga, and Soto Zen Buddhist Association.\n\nAcademic Appointments\n\nChodo is part of the core faculty for the Buddhist Track in the Master in Pastoral Care and Counseling at NYZC's education partner, New York Theological Seminary. He is also on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine's Integrative Medicine Fellowship and the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine in San Diego.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSensei Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, DMIN, is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. After more than a decade as a chaplain and psychotherapist, Koshin co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. The non-profit center offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice. Today, New York Zen Center's methodologies are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.\nKoshin is a renowned thought leader in contemplative care; his work has been featured in the New York Times, PBS, Tricycle among other publications. He is the author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom Publications, 2019). And the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care (Wisdom Publications, 2016). \nKoshin began his formal Zen training in 1987, and he is a recognized Soto Zen Teacher by the American Zen Teachers Association, White Plum Asanga, and Soto Zen Buddhist Association. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care and Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.\nHe has completed six years of training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association as well as clinical contemplative training at both Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center and New York Presbyterian Medical Center. He is an ACPE Certified Educator, chaplain, and Jungian psychotherapist.\nAcademic Appointments\nKoshin has served as the co-director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine and as the chaplaincy supervisor for the Pain and Palliative Care Department at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, where he also served on the Medical Ethics Committee.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSensei Jose Shinzan Palma was born in Veracruz, Mexico. He is a Zen priest and Dharma Successor of Roshi Joan Halifax. He has been practicing Zen since 1996. Shinzan lived in the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple for 4 years. He was ordained in 2004 as a Zen Buddhist Priest by Ven. Samu Sunim. \n\nIn 2006, he became a resident and student of Roshi Joan Halifax. He lived and trained for over 8 years at Upaya. He received the Dharma transmission on Jan 2015 from Roshi Joan Halifax. \n\nShinzan co-teaches a teenagers retreat for the Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, and weekends retreats in several parts of the country. Currently, he lives in San Diego and teaches at the Carlsbad Zen Community and Sweetwater Zen Center. \nHis vision is to teach youth and create a Zen Hispanic community in the USA and Mexico.\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSensei Dorothy Dai-en Friedman’s spiritual journey began in the 60s when she was forced to seek help for a back injury. This event proved to be a wonderful preparation for her eventual immersion 20 years later in Buddhist Vipassana practice at Insight Meditation Center. \nAfter she established her Vipassana practice, she then began her journey into Zen practice. Her teachers include Peter Mathiessen, Joseph Goldstein, Matt Flickstein, and Maureen Stuart Roshi. \nDai-en is now a Sensei at Ocean Zendo, located on Eastern Long Island. She is honored to be invited to teach with Koshin and Chodo in the wonderful work at NYZC, for the benefit of all beings, as we live and die.\n\n\n\n\n\nFor details, click here: https://newyorkzencenterforcontemplativecare.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/component/events/event/229
SUMMARY:Beginner's Mind Online Sesshin: A Winter Silent Retreat of Wholehearted Practice
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