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Description
This is a group discussion following the regular weekly sitting practice which takes place one Saturday each month. Our usual 2 hour meditation practice will be shorter to allow for the hour long discussion.
On Saturday, September 27, 2025, we resume our Dharma Dialogue series with Huang Po, a Chinese Chan (Zen) master of the Tang dynasty. He was a disciple of Baizhang Huaihai, and a teacher of Linji Yixuan—the founder of the Linji (Rinzai) school, one of the two great surviving Zen lineages, and the lineage from which our form of practice is derived. His teachings are simple, direct and immediate, and can cut through a preoccupied mind like a sharp knife through butter. He challenges his disciples to cease conceptual thought altogether in order understand Buddha Nature (i.e., The Absolute, The One Mind).
For September’s Dharma Dialogue, we will look at just one page of The Zen Teaching of Huang Po, in which he answers two questions from a student. This brief passage cuts to the core of his teaching, and gives us much to consider.
Find the reading here.
We will host the Dharma Dialogue this month on Saturday, September 27, following an hour of practice starting at 10am. Join us!
Adjusted practice schedule for this date:
10-11 AM: tea ceremony, chanting, sitting and walking meditation
11-12 AM: dharma dialogue
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Arrive 5 minutes before start to select your mediation seating. The Jiki will lead a practice of sitting and walking meditation in the Rinzai Zen format.
The practice opens with traditional Japanese tea service followed by chanting The Heart Sutra in both Japanese and English. Closing chant is The Eight Verses of Training the Mind. Candles and incense are used.
Please come early if you would like any instruction or assistance.
Contact: easternsunsangha@gmail.com
Date & Time
Sat, Sep 27, 2025 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Venue Details
Fellowship Hall @ Wesley United Church
101 Patrick StreetSt. John's, Newfoundland A1E 0A5
