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Rohatsu Sesshin 2024

With Zentatsu Baker Roshi.
11/30/2024
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12/8/2024

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Sesshin
Rohatsu Sesshin' ('Shakyamuni Enlightenment Day, Heart/Mind Practice') is the traditional December, 'Seven-day Meditation Intensive' of sitting and walking meditation, three-bowl (oryoki) meals, daily Dharma talks, and personal interviews (dokusan) with the teacher.
Sesshin is for experienced Zazen Practitioners. If you think you are ready to do our first seven-day Sesshin, please use our registration form- and we will contact you to arrange an interview.
We hope that returning in-person practitioners will bring their own oryoki set; but we are happy to loan sets to those who do not have them. Sesshin arrival is on November 30th, between 4-5 PM. There will be a welcoming dinner at 6 PM. Sesshin departure will be about 11AM, December 8th, after a festive brunch. Please feel free to contact us for more information.
" Seven Day Sesshins open the gates of Equanimity and Imperturbability!"
Baker Roshi
Sesshin Fee $721 for room and board (which includes a $21 zero carbon fee). It is customary to make an additional teaching donation, which you can arrange once you arrive.

You have questions about the program?

We are happy to help you. Take a look at our frequently asked questions (FAQs). Maybe you will find an answer to your question there. We are also happy to help you on the phone.

Teachers

Zentatsu Baker Roshi

Zentatsu Richard Baker is the Founder and Head Teacher of the Dharma Sangha centers in the United States and Europe. In the United States he lives at the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado; and in Germany, at the ‘Dharma Zentrum Quellenweg’ in the Black Forest. He is the Dharma Successor of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, the first Zen Master to establish residential and monastic practice for laypeople and monks in the West. In 1966, with and for Suzuki Roshi, Baker Roshi co-founded the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California, the first traditional Zen monastery outside of Asia. From 1968 to 1971, he studied in Japan at Antaiji, Eiheiji, and Daitokuji Zen monasteries. He became Suzuki Roshi’s Dharma Heir in 1969 and was installed by Suzuki Roshi as the second Abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971. Baker Roshi subsequently founded the Green Gulch Zen Practice Community and Farm in Marin County, California in 1972. During the ’70s, he pioneered a number of businesses related to Zen practice. In 1983, he founded the Dharma Sangha.

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