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Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi
With Taigen Dan Leighton
The focus for the weekend will be Zen Master Dongshan's poem "Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi." The song begins by proclaiming the reality of suchness and how we each now already have this. Taking care of this reality is our Buddha work or our life work. What is this reality of suchness? How do we take care of it? Dongshan's song includes many evocative practice instructions such as using words beyond meaning, facing the jewel mirror, facing a tree for eons, vowing with affirming mind, and meeting the constant flow of reality. Taigen will also introduce Dongshan's Teaching of Five Positions, which is the understanding of the inter-being of universal reality and phenomenal reality. The one-day sitting will include sitting and walking meditation, two dharma talks, dokusan (optional one-on-one meeting with the teacher) and two meditative meals. Taigen Dan Leighton
 

Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi—One-Day Sitting
Saturday, April 1
8:00 am–8:00 pm
Suggested donation $70

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Public Talk
Friday, March 31
7:00–9:00 pm
Suggested donation $20

Sunday Dharma Talk
April 2
9:00–10:30 am
Suggested donation $20

Taigen Dan Leighton is a Zen priest and Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. Taigen has practiced extensively in Japan as well as America, is author of Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes, and is co-translator of several Zen texts including Dogen's Extensive Record, Cultivating the Empty Field, The Wholehearted Way, and Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community. Taigen currently is Dharma Teacher of the Mountain Source Sangha in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Ancient Dragon Zen Gate in Chicago. He also teaches at the Berkeley Graduate Theological Union.

Taigen is one of the candidates for the guiding teacher position at Clouds in Water Zen Center. Everyone is welcome to come to the weekend's events and hear his teaching.


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