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Desert Rain Zen

Tucson, Arizona

 

 

photo by Lynda Zwinger

 

 

Desert Rain Zen
holds weekly sits
Sunday afternoons
3:30-5:00
at the Little Chapel of All Nations
on the University of Arizona campus
Our sits are free and open to the public
We welcome old and new meditators

Please try to arrive by 3:15 to get settled in.

If you'd like a quick introduction to Zen sitting, or to our group, please
try to arrive a few minutes earlier.

(We'll be sitting in the Library.)

Here's a Google Map for the Little Chapel

 

 

 

We're affiliated with
The Open Source
zen project
centered in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Our holding teacher is
Joan Sutherland, Roshi
founder of Open Source
and of its
Awakened Life zen group
in Santa Fe.

Our resident teacher is
Tenney Nathanson, Sensei

 

 

 

 

 

Our Sunday sits take place from 3:30-5:00 pm.
If you haven't sat with us before, please try to arrive early, around 3:15 or a bit before.

Our sits are free and open to the public.
We welcome old and new meditators.
Our practice aims to bring traditional forms inherited from China and Japan
into touch with our contemporary world and our actual lives.

 

typical monthly Schedule of Sits:

2nd, 4th, and 5th (if there is one) Sundays of the month:
25 minute sit, 5 minute walking meditation, 25 minute sit, 5 minute walking meditation, tea and talk
(2nd and 4th Sundays, Work in the Room is available following the sit)

1st Sunday:
Koan Seminar
we usually sit with a koan for 20 minutes and then talk about it together;
two koans is the typical number and we have tea while we talk about the second one

3rd Sunday:
Sutra Service
25 minute Sutra Service
5 minute walking meditation, 25 minute sit, 5 minute walking meditation, tea and talk

 

 

Open Source is part of the Pacific Zen school.

Please check back here
for information about
any one-time changes
to our schedule
(occasionally, we have to move our sits to morning hours to avoid conflicts
with UA athletic events
and related parking problems).

photo by Lynda Zwinger

 

 

 

You can get in touch with us at drz@desertrainzen.org or desertrainzen@gmail.com.
We'd be happy to send you email announcements about our Sunday sits
and any special Desert Rain events.

Desert Rain Zen was started by
Tenney Nathanson Sensei (tenneyn@comcast.net) and
Jennifer Sellers (jen@inspiredmastery.com), Meditation Instructor

Our Holding Teacher is Joan Sutherland Roshi

our Facebook page is here

photos in this frame by Michael Wilding

 

 

 

 

 

photo by Lynda Zwinger

 

 

This page last updated May 19, 2012