| As we navigate the ongoing pandemic, social and political change, within the Issan-ji temple walls the Hartford Street Zen Center Winter Light Retreat Sesshin will begin Friday, December 4th, including the Rohatsu celebration/ceremony; and concludes on Sunday, December 6th, mid-day. Thursday the 3rd of December evening there will be an orientation as well. We offer this schedule to join and are sharing the full routine schedule you’ve known in the past and some suggestions for creating your at home sacred Zendo and Buddha hall space. You can apply more retreat time, self directed, using our usual schedule, or follow our in-temple retreat schedule for 2020 and in both cases please join us online when Issan-ji resident students and priests log on. As always, the Hartford Street Zen Center relies on both your participation, but also your generous donations. We know we aren’t providing space and food this year to the community, but we still humbly request your generosity for this annual event. Please click here for the schedule and additional information. Suggested Virtual Attendance is $30 per day – or – an amount of your own choosing. Login links for virtual attendance: * Thursday night instruction 7:30pm through 8:30pm– click here * Friday, Saturday 6am through 7am Service/Chanting – click here * Friday, Saturday 10:15am through 11:50am Chanting – click here ***Talk will begin at 10:30am*** *Friday, Saturday 6pm through 8:30pm Refuges– click here * Sunday 6am through 12 noon (6am-7am service, 10:15am to 11:40am preparation and then Bodhi day ceremony, but zoom open whole entire 6am to noon time slot) – click here Chant book pages for Service/Chanting here (updated 12/5/2020 @noon) |