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Deepen Your Practice: Retreats
Designed in the formal Soto Zen tradition of Shasta Abbey, these retreats offer you the rare opportunity to let the world take care of itself while you absorb the silence and stillness of retreat. The daily schedule includes Morning, Mid-day, Evening and Meal-time Services with silent seated and walking meditations. Additionally, there are scheduled work periods, creating the opportunity to take the Mind of Meditation into daily activity. Often a Dharma theme develops during each retreat. Formal lectures present and elucidate the theme; Dharma discussions allow for deeper inquiry and comprehension. Retreats also include ceremonies and private interviews with the teacher when appropriate. Except for the above discussion, the retreat environment is one of silence. View our calendar to see scheduled Retreat Offerings in Asheville and in Sonora. November, 2011: Great Tree Zen Temple Retreat—North CarolinaGreat News! We have the opportunity to have our own Sangha retreat using the facilities of Great Tree Zen Temple on Lower Flat Creek Road in Alexander, NC. It has been some time now since we've had a retreat in which we could follow our own Soto Zen format—just our Services, just our meal-time practice, just our work periods. And, many of you—more recently participating with ASM—have not yet had the retreat experience our Sangha offers. So here is your invitation: Anattasati Magga Back to Basics Retreat: Nov 17-20, 2011. Basic cost is $180; dana for the Teacher is additional. There are plenty of residential spaces for both the women and men in our Sangha—Great Tree has access to a very near-by house in which men will stay; women will stay in the dorms at Great Tree. If some of you need to drive home at night, we can accommodate that—and will provide guidance for you about your stay away from the Temple during retreat, although we recommend that your drive home be no more than 20 minutes. As Teacher and Guide, I personally want to invite all ASM students to this retreat; I urge each and every one of you to arrange your life to make this retreat happen for you. Our retreats are special in a way that is hard to imagine: deep, quiet, Dharma, insight, soft, gentle, compassionate, enlightening. So please check your schedules and reserve these dates in the fall (click to register). Great Tree Temple RetreatsNancy will be at Great Tree Zen Temple in Fall 2012 with Teijo for their annual retreat. The Dharma title and exact dates will be released soon. To sign up for retreats at Great Tree Zen Temple, please go to their website: www.greattreetemple.org.
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