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This event is sponsored by our Boundless Way Zen West<\/a> community\u00a0& the\u00a0<\/span>Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This meditation retreat\u00a0consists almost entirely of zazen in twenty-five minute sessions broken with five to seven minute kinhin (slow follow-the-leader walking meditation).\u00a0There will be a liturgy in the morning. There will be a dharma<\/a> talk in the afternoon. Also in both the morning and afternoon during meditation there will be opportunities to meet with a teacher in brief private interviews (dokusan). We will have\u00a0a one hour lunch break (brown bag or there are fast food restaurants in the area, although we discourage leaving campus during the break) We will end a few minutes ahead of five as we must clean up and be gone before six.<\/p>\n

Saturday the 19th of August
\nfrom 9am (promptly) to 5pm <\/strong>(with a one hour brown bag lunch break).<\/p>\n

Our retreat leaders are:<\/p>\n

James Ford, the guiding teacher of Blue Cliff Zen is an ordained Soto Zen priest and a founding teacher of\u00a0<\/span>Boundless Way Zen<\/span><\/a>. James is the author of four books on Zen. His fifth book\u00a0<\/span>Introduction to the Zen Koan: Learning the Language of Dragons<\/em>\u00a0is due out from Wisdom Publications in September of 2018.\u00a0James blogs as<\/span> Monkey Mind<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span>
\nGesshin Greenwood is an ordained Soto Zen priest and the author of the forthcoming book\u00a0Bow First, Ask Questions Later: Reluctant Wisdom on Ordination, Love, and Zen Training in Japan,<\/em>\u00a0due out from Wisdom Publications in May of 2018.
\nGesshin blogs as\u00a0<\/span>That\u2019s So Zen<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will also be assisted by Boundless Way senior Dharma teacher Jan Seymour-Ford.<\/p>\n

Our retreat will meet at the\u00a0Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church
\n845 Mesa Verde Drive E, Costa Mesa, CA 92626<\/p>\n

We will gratefully accept free-will donations to help defray the costs to the church.<\/p>\n

To register or for more information write us at bluecliffzensangha@gmail.com<\/p>\n

(and, for those concerned, despite what the picture implies, there will not be a kyosaku at this retreat\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"