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Affirmation of Welcome
Walking the path of liberation, we express our intimate connection with all beings.
Welcoming diversity, here at Berkeley Zen Center the practice of zazen
is available to people of every race, nationality, class, gender, sexual orientation,
age, and physical ability. May all beings realize their true nature.

Zazen (meditation)
Instruction and Orientation

is held in the Zendo on Saturdays
from 8:45 - 9:30 a.m.

Weekly Wednesday
Night Drop-In Group;
All are welcome.

Schedule:
7:20 p.m. Zazen
8:00 p.m. Service
8:10 - 9:00 p.m. Tea & Discussion

Sojun Roshi's 20's and 30's Dharma Group
March - May

Sojun Roshi invites students in their 20' and 30's to join him, usually once a month, for a short period of zazen and open discussion about Zen, Buddhism, meditation, ans/or your own practice. We may also discuss selected Buddhist texts. Meetings start at 11:30 am in the zendo on Saturdays following the morning schedule and lecture.People new to BZC are welcome along with continuing students.

Coming dates are March 30th, April 20th and May 25th. For more information, email Ron Nestor at rnestor1@yahoo.com.

No photography in the Zendo, please
We ask that all visitors and members turn off their cell phones in the zendo. If you are interested in capturing the beauty of our zendo on camera, please make arrangements with the Zendo Manager, Christy Calame, at ccalame@earthlink.net. Thank you.

BZC is a Scent Free Environment

Berkeley Zen Center Documentary
Old Plum Mountain: The Berkeley Zen Center, Life Inside the Gate tells the story of the Berkeley Zen Center, one of the oldest, self-sustaining, lay practice centers in the nation.
Click here view the trailer and purchase the DVD

NOTES

BZC's FUNdraising Bazaar
Save the Date: Saturday, September 28, 2013

Games * Music * Food * Merriment * Raffle Prizes and more...

Come together for some social time as a community as we raise money for our leadership fund. Stay tuned for how you can contribute your talent and energy to this unique BZC event.

The development committee is in the early planning stages, but if you have questions or would like more information, contact Jake Van Akkeren, 925.933.3486 or jvanakkeren@comcast.net.

Everything is Broken

Everything Is Broken: Songs About Things As They Are is Hozan Alan Senauke's brand new cd of "buddhistic music." Featuring songs by Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Bernice Reagon, and Alan, along with traditional songs rewritten to bring out their dharma direction, the album also includes Greg Fain's Lotus Sutra hit "Our Hero," about the Bodhisattva Never Disparaging. The album is available for purchase at Alan's website http://www.clearviewproject.org, and, as a whole album or individual songs, from Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby. Of course it is also available at the BZC Saturday book table. Don't miss it if you can.

Bird Haven Zendo

Longtime BZC members and priests Catherine Cascade and John Mogey have created an intimate home- style practice place in their new home in rural Oregon. It's called Bird Haven Zendo and is situated on five wooded acres in the foothills between the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range mountains.

The schedule there includes morning and evening zazen, along with a Wednesday evening sitting and discussion group during the winter months. And beginning this spring, they will lead one-day silent retreats on the second Saturday of the month. This is an opportunity to settle into a day of silent sitting and walking meditation, both indoors, in the zendo, and outdoors, where the natural world proclaims the Dharma in a thousand voices. Overnight accommodations are available.

On the website www.birdhavenzendo.org you'll find a calendar with retreat dates, along with more information about the retreats, daily zendo schedule, Winter Wednesday sitting group, and opportunities for solo retreats and dokusan.

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Sittings & Event
Listings

Half-day Sitting
Sunday, 5/5
8:00am - 12:00pm

Practice Period
Opens - One Day Sesshin

Saturday, 5/11

Kidzendo
Saturday, 5/18
9:30am

JUNE
Sittings & Event
Listings

Practice Period Dinner & Skit Night
Sunday, 6/1
6:00pm

Kidzendo
Saturday, 6/1
9:30am

Half-day Sitting
Sunday, 6/2
8:00am - 12:00pm

Shosan
Friday, 6/14, 5:40pm
Monday, 6/17, 5:40am

Lay Ordination/Zaike Tokudo
Saturday, 6/15, 3:00pm

Five-day Sesshin
Wednesday, 6/19 - Sunday, 6/23

Shuso Hossen
Wednesday, 6/23, 10:30am