As we navigate the ongoing pandemic, within the Issan-ji temple walls the Hartford Street Zen Center Winter Light Retreat Sesshin will begin for fully vaccinated +2 weeks or online on Friday, December 3rd, including the Rohatsu celebration/ceremony; and concludes on Sunday, December 5th, mid-day. Thursday the 2nd 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 2021 and in both cases please join us online when Issan-ji resident students and priests log on. And for locals who are fully vaccinated in-person is an option.
As always, the Hartford Street Zen Center relies on both your participation, but also your generous donations. We know we aren’t providing food this year to the community, but we still humbly request your generosity for this annual event.
Suggested Virtual Attendance is $40 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 11:50 am Chanting – click here DHARMA TALKS 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