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Saturday 25 March 2013: Full Moon Ceremony

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fullfmoonFull Moon Ceremony Saturday, 25 March 2013. Click here for more details!

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Saturday 25 May 2013: Full Moon Ceremony

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fullfmoonWe’ll have the monthly Full-Moon Ceremony renewal of our Bodhisattva vows Saturday morning after the Dharma talk.

The ceremony takes about a half-hour and involves some thirty full prostrations, but simple standing bows are also all right if prostrations are too strenuous.

Everyone is welcome to take part in this celebration.

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4 May – Saturday Buddha’s Birthday! Vaiśākha or Hanamatsuri (花祭)

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Hanamatsuri (花祭)We’ll have a Dharma talk as usual at 10:15 a.m., and afterwards a ceremony celebrating the birth of the baby Buddha in which we circumambulate the zendo (meditation hall) while chanting the Heart of Great Perfect Wisdom Sutra. Subsequently we’ll repair to the dining room for the birthday party itself. Everyone is welcome!

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Saturday 30 March 2013: Full Moon Ceremony

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Moon-fullWe’ll have the monthly Full-Moon Ceremony renewal of our Bodhisattva vows Saturday morning after the dharma talk.

The ceremony takes about a half-hour and involves some thirty full prostrations, but simple standing bows are also all right if prostrations are too strenuous.

Everyone is welcome to take part in this celebration.

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8 March; A deep bow to Women including Mahapajapati

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Female-Buddhist-MonkToday is International Women’s day. We give a deep bow to women; the mothers, caregivers, creators of life. Women, fully equal to male gender on the gender spectrum in any life path they chose with what seems to be an extra innate quality or ability to love and support all beings are in our deepest gratitude and respect today and every day.

In honor of women  and the life of Mahapajapati, we will have a short ceremony after the 6:30am zazen & 7:10 chanting service on Saturday, March 9th.

 “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights” Gloria Steinem

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2 March 2013: Full Moon Ceremony

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fllmnWe’ll have the monthly Full-Moon Ceremony renewal of our Bodhisattva vows Saturday morning after the dharma talk.

The ceremony takes about a half-hour and involves some thirty full prostrations, but simple standing bows are also all right if prostrations are too strenuous.

Everyone is welcome to take part in this celebration.

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23 February 2013, 11:00AM; JUKAI – lay initiation

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pinestitch One of our dear and beloved Sangha members and former Hartford Street residents, Nicholas will have a Jukai (lay initiation) ceremony immediately following the Saturday morning Dharma talk and Saturday program. This public ceremony is to celebrate and formally mark a practitioner receiving the sixteen Bodhisattva precepts (3 refuges, 3 pure precepts, 10 essential precepts) and vowing to work to live their life in accordance with these precepts. Please join us for this wonderful event to celebrate Nicholas’ vows, renew our own and congratulate Nicholas and all on the Soto Zen path!

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Parinirvana Day – 15 February

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 candleout…the Tathagata has completely extinguished the fire of the mental afflictions that have been accumulated over countless aeons, the nature of the diamond Tathagata permanently endures -

not transforming and not diminishing.*

Please join us Saturday to commemorate this event.

*Nirvana Sutra – Fa-xian version, tr. by Stephen Hodge.
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Saturday, 16 February: Buddha’s Parinirvana

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buddhas-parinirvana This coming Saturday, we’ll have a brief ceremony commemorating the entry into Nirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha, following a short Dharma talk at the usual time of 10:15 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Sat. Jan 26.: Full Moon Ceremony

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full moon 2We’ll have the monthly Full-Moon Ceremony renewal of our Bodhisattva vows Saturday morning.

The ceremony takes about a half-hour and involves some thirty full prostrations, but simple standing bows are also all right if prostrations are too strenuous.

Everyone is welcome to take part in this celebration.

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