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a Zen Buddhist temple dedicated to teaching meditation to everyone
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10 a.m.
Meditation
Dharma Talk
Chanting
September
19 - Tâm Hu'o'ng Jizo 26 - Roshi October
3 - Roshi
10 - Thầy Minh Nhâ't
End of Sesshin
17 - Roshi
24 - Roshi
31 - Tâm Hu'o'ng
Everyday Ghosts
Service is followed by fellowship and light refreshments
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Can't make Sunday Service?
Visit the Dharma Talk Archive at DesertZenCenter.org
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Meditation & Dharma Class
"Thus have I heard."
Thursday Nights
7 p.m.
Every Thursday night, we gather in the Dharma Hall or Zendo for meditation, followed by fellowship & Dharma class in the community building. As we have entered the Rain Training Season at DZC, we will be adding chant and instrument study to our regular format. We are starting a new six-week session and, during the Dharma class of September 16th, we will be taking suggestions for study. Here's your chance to guide the discussion. Please join us.
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Desert Zen Center's
Retreat Schedule
Please RSVP for Retreats
October
Fri-Sun, the 8th, 9th & 10th
Weekend Retreat / Sesshin November Saturday, the 13th
Day at the Temple/Teaching Retreat"Meditation Techniques"
Fri-Sun, the 10th, 11th & 12th Weekend Retreat / Sesshin
Celebrating Bodhi Day / Buddha's Enlightenment Day (December 8) ____________________
Day at the Temple 9a.m-3p.m. Zazen (sitting) & kinhin (walking) meditation, dokusan (formal
individual interview), formal vegetarian lunch, Dharma talk & ending ceremony.
Sesshin: meditation retreats: zazen, kinhin, samu
(working meditation) and mindfulness throughout the day & night,
including chanting services. Opportunity for dokusan. Stay at DZC Friday and
Saturday nights; formal vegetarian meals are included. Sesshin ends Sunday after our regular Service.
Teaching Retreats are similar to Sesshin but replace several periods of zazen with Dharma teaching. This November, Roshi will focus on "Meditation Techniques." |
Vu Lan Celebration
Lunch entertainment by the book  |
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Introducing
Thương Tọa
Thích Minh Tinh
Thay Minh Tinh gives Dharma talk  | On August 29th, Steven Kozen Sampson Roshi was recognized as a Great Master and given Transmission of the Dharma Mind Seal by the Most Venerable
Thích
Ân Giáo
Roshi. By this recognition of his attainment, he was brought into the 83rd generation of the Vietnamese Lâm Tế (Rinzai) Zen lineage. Kozen Roshi received the Vietnamese name of
Thích Minh Tinh ("Bright Star" of the Sakyamuni clan).
Click the above photo to see our web page of photos from this event. For more information on Great Master Bright Star and the Mt. Adams Zen Center at Trout Lake, Washington, click the Quicklinks in the bottom left
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 Welcome, Reverend Thích Tậm Tri
On Saturday, August 28th, Denise Morrison took the Ten Precepts of a novice monk/nun in the Vietnamese Zen tradition at DZC, as the disciple of Venerable Kozen Roshi, Abbot of Mt. Adams Zen Center.
Thích
Ân Giáo Roshi presided over the private ceremony, which was witnessed by Soto Zen priests Ken Hogaku Sho McGuire Roshi and Fern Shin Getsu Myosen McGuire Roshi, as well as Sư
Cô
Thích
Tậm Hu'o'ng.
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Denise has been given the Vietnamese Dharma name of Thích
Tậm Tri, which means "Wisdom Heart" of the Sakyamuni clan.
enjoying the A/C & a laugh
 | Welcome to the Family, Wisdom Heart!
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Website: Photos, more photos & a slide show
Look for new pages at our website with photos & a slide show of recent events at DZC. In addition to Quicklinks, newsletter photos may be linked to the website photo pages, where many of the collages will contain clickable links to individual photos
(watch for the arrow to turn into a hand as you scroll across the page). Enjoy!
(and don't forget to send your photos to help us share)
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"All I teach is Loving Kindness."
-- Thây Thích Minh Nhât* (Metta is Sanskrit for Loving Kindness.) The perfection of Metta is the wish to provide for the welfare and happiness of others, accompanied by Compassion. In the Haliddavasana Sutta**, the Buddha said, "The liberation of mind through Loving Kindness
has beauty as the highest perfection."
This is because no one appears repulsive to someone who abides in Loving Kindness. Compassion and Metta are alike, in that in order to practice either there has to be a reaching out to others. There is a story in the Sufi tradition of a man who observed people passing by his house who were sick, poor, crippled in body and spirit, with nobody to care for them. The man prayed to God, asking why didn't He do something for them? God answered back, saying, "I did. That's why I created you." Metta and Compassion are not passive. We cannot provide for the welfare and happiness of others by simply wishing for it. Let us put forth effort to accomplish it. _________________________________________________ * The monk formerly known as Reverend Nagacitta/Thích Tâm Hue
**also known as the Mettasahagata Sutta or Accompanied by Loving Kindness Discourse
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Heat & Cactus Gardens
Gatha practice: These short chants may be recited during specific times and activities, bringing us into the moment and encouraging both attention and right mindfulness
During the Blistering Heat of the Day When the Heat Subsides & Begins to Cool
I wish that all beings I wish that all beings
Cast off myriad afflictions, Experience the highest truth
Putting an end to all of them. And be ultimately cool.
Why we do kinhin inside the Zendo...  | When Seeing Cactus
I wish that all beings May quickly cut away The thorns of the three poisons.* As you drive up to the Center, you will notice changes in the front cactus garden. Plantings have been relocated, pruned and generally spruced up, along with the addition of new and different varieties. The colors are brighter; everything is alert and welcoming!
Facelift thanks to the cactus master, Brian Ahimsa Goodrich, who has devoted months of planning and effort (enlisting others by example) in his personal mission to make DZC an oasis AND corner the market on Golden Barrels._______________________ (Note: for those worried about the sad cactus in the cartoon to the right by Mark Gleim from his website, "A Simple Apology" --
We find that watering makes cactus stand up and smile; cholla hugs are entirely unnecessary.) *The 3 poisons are anger, greed & ignorance
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Desert Zen Center www.DesertZenCenter.org Thích Ân Giáo Roshi
10989 Buena Vista Road (760) 985-4567
Lucerne Valley, CA 92356-7303 email: roshiDZC@hotmail.com
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