Zen monasteries and practice centres customarily set aside a week each month for silent meditating, eating, chanting, and working. In Japan such intensive practice periods are called sesshin 攝心 which means “to gather the heart and mind.”
The Mayne Island Meditation Group will be holding a mini-sesshin on Tuesday, May 13, from 8:45 am to 4:00 pm. Maintaining [...]
day retreat on mayne island
a heart’s desire
Make me sweet again,
fragrant and fresh and wild,
and thankful for any small event.
–Rumi
stephen & ondrea could use our help
You may have heard that Stephen and Ondrea Levine are facing significant financial difficulty. Ondrea has Leukemia and the costs of her insurance and treatment have depleted their savings. Stephen’s health is not the best and he is too frail to travel or teach. Good friends have set up a fund to assist them, and [...]
