Desert Zen Center - Chùa Thiên Ân
a Zen Buddhist temple dedicated to teaching meditation to everyone

Urgent Update         
 December 2011         

Sunday Service

10 a.m.
 
Meditation
Dharma Talk
  Chanting   

December
     4 - Tâm Hu'o'ng
   11 -  Bodhi Day Celebration & Bell Tower Dedication
   18 - Tâm Hu'o'ng
   25 - Closed for Holiday

     a peek at 2012    

January 
    1 - Roshi
Renewing the Precepts
Lunch & Music
    8 - Tâm Hu'o'ngtba
  15 - tba
  22 - Chinese New Year's Eve / Tết Celebration
  29 - tba

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Service is followed by fellowship and light refreshments

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Can't make Sunday Service?

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Visit the Dharma Talk Archive at DesertZenCenter.org  

 
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Meditation & Dharma Class

Thursday Nights
7 p.m. 
Every Thursday night, we gather in the Zendo for meditation, followed by tea & Dharma class in the Sangha Hall. 
Please join us. 

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Plan Ahead    2011-2012 
Event Schedule


Life is uncertain...
Everything changes

December
 11 Bodhi Day Celebration & Bell Tower Dedication
25 Closed for Holiday
 
January
1 American New Year, Reaffirming the Precepts Ceremony
13-15 Winter Retreat/Sesshin 
22 Vietnamese New Year's Eve / Tết celebrated.

Note: DZC plans various events on the second Saturday of every month.
Rohatsu Sesshin **Cancelled**
Through circumstances beyond our control,   

(and what good practice that is!)  

 

we find it necessary to cancel the Rohatsu Retreat / Sesshin scheduled for the weekend after this   

 

(so, no retreat December 8th thru 11th).

 

As a consolation, plan to sit a Winter Retreat / Sesshin  

with us on 

January 13-15th, 2012. 

 

Last event of 2011:     

Bell Tower Dedication

December 11th  

10:00 a.m.   

 

As scheduled and more lavish than originally planned, please do mark your calendar and make sure to join us for service and lunch on Sunday the 11th, when we celebrate Bodhi Day by dedicating the Bell Tower, the newest building at the
Desert Zen Center.


 
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                      Winter Holidays

Closed Christmas.

Join us New Year's Day, Sunday, January 1st,
             to Renew the Precepts &
Vietnamese New Year's Eve/Day, Sunday, January 22nd,
             to celebrate the coming of the Year of the Dragon

At loose ends without the Rohatsu Sesshin?  Many opportunities (!!) available to help prepare for the Bell Tower Dedication on the 11th.  contact Su Co to volunteer... 818-535-7286
Desert Zen Center                                                              www.DesertZenCenter.org
Thích Ân Giáo Roshi                                                           email: roshiDZC@hotmail.com 

10989 Buena Vista Road                                                    (760) 985-4567

Lucerne Valley, CA 92356-7303

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