Dana
Please Support DRZ
 
Desert Rain Zen welcomes and needs your support.

 
You can support DRZ through your gift of Dana. Dana is a Pali word usually translated as giving or generosity. It’s the first of the Paramitas (Perfections) and the foundation of all the others.
 
There are many ways to support Desert Rain Zen:

  • Your practice, presence, and participation. This is essential to the life of our group. Gathering together, we offer support and encouragement to others, turning the wheel of the dharma. DRZ offers several opportunities: weekly meditation, Tuesday study group, monthly all-day sit, and our annual retreat.
 
  • A work offering. There many opportunities: helping set up and restore the Little Chapel at weekly meditations, bringing flowers, preparing tea, serving tea or food, and cleaning up.
 
  • A service offering. You can offer to learn one or more of the various service positions needed to lead the weekly meditation services (such as timekeeper, cantor, or teacher’s liaison). You can attend our monthly business meetings, contributing your input to DRZ planning.
 
  • A monetary contribution. DRZ has financial needs, and it’s through the generosity of such contributions that we are able to subsidize retreat fees, making retreats more accessible for everyone; support our teacher in his generous offering of time and effort devoted to our group; and offer dana from DRZ to the Little Chapel, which generously allows us the use of their building free of charge. (You can participate in DRZ’s budgeting decisions by attending our monthly business meetings.) Your dana is DRZ’s sole financial resource. We are a federally recognized non-profit, making your contributions fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
  
However you choose to support DRZ, we welcome your offer of dana with gratitude.
 
The Desert Rain Zen Board of Directors

donate to Desert Rain Zen:

You can use the "Donate" button above to make a one-time donation to Desert Rain Zen or to set up a recurring donation.
DRZ is a federally-recognized 501c3 non-profit corporation: all donations to DRZ are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. (50% of all donations made to DRZ are given as dana to our teacher Tenney Nathanson Roshi.)

You can also donate directly to Tenney, though those donations are not tax deductible. To donate directly to Tenney, please use the paypal button below.

donate directly to Tenney:
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this page last modified January 6, 2024