Upcoming Chuang Yen monastery visit, 4/30/06
Yoga friends,
On Sunday, April 30, we are taking our class to
Chuang Yen Monastery to join the morning
meditation service. We are meeting at 8:30 am
at 17 Main St, in Mt Kisco and plan a ride/share
arrangement for whomever wishes to come.
Bring a friend!
The monastery is located about 45 minutes away,
right on Route 301, two miles east of the exit off
the Taconic Parkway, in Kent, Putnam county.
The monastery is also open on weekends for the
general public to visit so there is the option to
walk around the naturally wooded setting, over
short trails, past ponds with bridges and tour the
Great Buddha Hall with the largest indoor Buddha
in the western hemisphere.
Meditation service consists of approx. 30 minutes
of sitting, either on benches along the wall or on tall
cushions on the carpeted floor, inside the second
large Buddha hall. Then there is a 5 - 10 minute
walking meditation, followed by another sitting
meditation. A bell chimes, meditation ends and the
host monk gives a short talk. Everyone is invited
and no prior experience is required. The Buddha
hall is unheated, dress accordingly with warm socks.
See the following blog for thoughts on what
to do in meditation.
For those who like to stay, afterwards is a good time
to visit the grounds or join the dharma talk held for
an hour following the meditation. At 12 noon, there
is a vegetarian lunch for $5, all you can eat, in the
large cafeteria building. There is no requirement to
stay this long.
Call )ohn at 589-0964 for other details or show up.
If this field trip meets with success we might try it
again as a summer picnic, including lake swimming
down the road at Fahnstock State Park.
)ohn
On Sunday, April 30, we are taking our class to
Chuang Yen Monastery to join the morning
meditation service. We are meeting at 8:30 am
at 17 Main St, in Mt Kisco and plan a ride/share
arrangement for whomever wishes to come.
Bring a friend!
The monastery is located about 45 minutes away,
right on Route 301, two miles east of the exit off
the Taconic Parkway, in Kent, Putnam county.
The monastery is also open on weekends for the
general public to visit so there is the option to
walk around the naturally wooded setting, over
short trails, past ponds with bridges and tour the
Great Buddha Hall with the largest indoor Buddha
in the western hemisphere.
Meditation service consists of approx. 30 minutes
of sitting, either on benches along the wall or on tall
cushions on the carpeted floor, inside the second
large Buddha hall. Then there is a 5 - 10 minute
walking meditation, followed by another sitting
meditation. A bell chimes, meditation ends and the
host monk gives a short talk. Everyone is invited
and no prior experience is required. The Buddha
hall is unheated, dress accordingly with warm socks.
See the following blog for thoughts on what
to do in meditation.
For those who like to stay, afterwards is a good time
to visit the grounds or join the dharma talk held for
an hour following the meditation. At 12 noon, there
is a vegetarian lunch for $5, all you can eat, in the
large cafeteria building. There is no requirement to
stay this long.
Call )ohn at 589-0964 for other details or show up.
If this field trip meets with success we might try it
again as a summer picnic, including lake swimming
down the road at Fahnstock State Park.
)ohn
posted by John at 8:45 PM
1 Comments:
one of the things that the host monk talked about immediately after last sunday's meditation was "think about what you are doing now". he kept saying this while explaining a method of meditating as well as when he was talking about what is significant and what is temporary.
(buddhists, it seems, are very aware of dying. they talk a lot about it and like to focus on what happens afterwards when the soul leaps hopefully unimpeded from the physical self on the wings of the last breath.)
in the last class, we included many twists from whichever position we're in, sitting, prone or standing, thinking about "what is happening now", while revolving along the different axis' of our alignment, observing the arrangement and
stimulation of our interior organs.
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