Tucson, Arizona
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"What is Zen?"
"The heart of the one who asks is Zen." |
Some Upcoming EventsSunday, March 19, 3:30-5:00:
Sunday Sit on Zoom Tuesday, March 14, 5:30-6:30: Tuesday evening study group we're working with Joan Sutherland's new book Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans Open Source Mahasangha Retreat in Tucson April 10-15 at Picture Rocks: the retreat is at maximum capacity; to inquire about being placed on a waiting list please email us for more upcoming events please visit our program page |
Desert Rain Zen
is part of the Open Source network an innovative Zen school whose work with koans aims to foster a deep individual engagement with practice, meditation and the koan tradition with an eye toward individual transformation and a lively commitment to the bodhisattva vow Desert Rain Zen on Zoom All are welcome! Here's an outline of our current program of events: Sunday Sit: We sit each Sunday on Zoom from 3:30-5:00 (one sitting period, then conversation about a koan, then a short sitting period, then closing activities) Tuesday Evening Study Group: meets on Zoom each week from 5:30-6:30 for links to our zoom events or to be added to our email mailing list please contact us at desertrainzen@gmail.com or nathanso@arizona.edu Our Resident Teacher is Tenney Nathanson Sensei Our Head of Practice is Jennifer Sellers. * some Open Source news: Joan Sutherland Roshi, the founding teacher of The Open Source, has a new book, Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans out from Shambala in June. It's available from Shambala (or from Amazon) the Desert Rain Tuesday Evening Study Group on Zoom is currently focusing on Through Forests of Every Color Joan also has an important new piece at Lion's Roar: "Everything Is Enlightenment." for related material about Through Forests of Every Color and some of Joan's other recent activities including a series of Zoom interviews about the book available online you can look at this page on our website or go to Cloud Dragon: The Joan Sutherland Dharmaworks the next Open Source Mahasangha retreat will be in Tucson! at Desert Rain's usual retreat venue The Redemptorist Renewal Center at Picture Rocks Monday April 10 to Saturday April 15 please stay tuned for details and registration information you can listen to dharma talks from our recent July Open Source retreat in Colorado by Megan Rundel and Tenney Nathanson here on our "talks" page (you can also download the files) * there are Open Source groups in Colorado and California as well as here in Tucson all Open Source groups and teachers are holding Zoom events open to everyone for contact information and some scheduling information, see our Open Source page. Dharma talks by Tenney and some other teachers are available for listening and download here on our Talks page & don't miss our page on Working with Koans. Desert Rain Zen is sustained entirely by individual contributions Please consider donating to DRZ. 
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Where to find us (when we're not on zoom . . . )
The Little Chapel is located at 1401 East First Street, on the University of Arizona campus:
For our weekend and evening events, you can park in any of the spaces in the Little Chapel parking lot (including the reserved spaces). For parking for our Monday Meditation, please see details at Monday Meditation, Questions? text or phone 520-235-1267 or 520-977-3983, or email desertrainzen@gmail.com.
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this page last modified March 13, 2023 |
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