This non-residential silent retreat is suitable for both beginners and experienced students. It will include periods of zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), chanting, and talks by the teacher. There will also be opportunities for individual (dokusan) meetings with the teacher. MRZC guiding teachers Myoshin Kate McCandless and Shinmon Michael Newton will also be available to offer dokusan, and group practice discussion.
Norman Fischer is a Zen priest, a husband, a father, and a poet: a teacher with wide-ranging interests and passions. During almost 30 years at San Francisco Zen Center, he served in many positions. Norman retired as the abbot of Zen Center in 2000 to take his teaching out into the world. He continues his involvement with the Zen Center as a senior Dharma teacher. Norman believes in the possibility of "engaged renunciation": living a fully committed religious life that does not exclude family, work, and a passionate interest in the world. He is founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org) and author of Taking Our Places, Sailing Home, Training in Compassion, When You Greet Me I Bow and The World Could be Otherwise.
Taking waitlist. Please email registrar HERE
Links for MRZC Chant Book and Retreat Schedule will be posted here:
Venue University of BC Asian Centre - 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC
Accessibility: UBC bus loop is about a 15 minute walk to Asian Centre. Click HERE for map.
The closest parkade is the Fraser River lot. See HERE for more options.While we are not putting together ride-share, we do encourage self-organized carpooling or biking together!
The Asian Centre is a sunken building surrounded by gravel paths and gardens. To get there in a wheelchair, take the concrete path from the West Mall (behind the Institute of Asian Research). Enter the Asian Centre through the heavy double doors. There are no accessible washrooms in the Asian Centre. The closest accessible washroom is in the C. K. Choi building.
