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Come join us for a day of zazen, fall cleaning, and volunteer service to the Temple!

Working together is part of our life and part of our practice. It allows us to honor and care for Fire Lotus Temple and the sacred space of practice that it provides in our city. Please join with the community for this morning beginning with zazen practice and then moving into a period of work service together. There will be work available for all skills and abilities.

Morning Schedule:
9:00 to 9:50   Morning zazen
10:00 to 12 noon   Work service
12 noon to 1:00   Tea & snacks

Info/Registration

If this will be your first zazenkai or sesshin, please call the Temple Office at (718) 875-8229 for a brief interview. Due to the intensive nature of this retreat, we ask that all participants complete a beginning instruction session with the MRO and establish a regular zazen practice prior to registration. 

Please join us for the 1st BIAPOC Zazenkai at Fire Lotus Temple. This retreat is open if you identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Persons of Color. The day includes, zazen, walking meditation, oryoki (simple meal received in meditation), liturgy, Seniors talk and face to face teaching with Hojin Sensei. Because of the intensive nature of an all day sit, please call the training office to speak with someone before registering so we may go over the day with you and see that you are well prepared. Limited overnight accommodations are available Friday and Saturday night – please contact the Temple office for more information.

Zazenkai is an important way for experienced students to further their practice and for newer students to take a preparatory step toward the practice of sesshin.

The Temple offers programs with sliding scale pricing so that finances are not an obstacle to practicing here.

Info/Registration

A three-hour practice of connecting with the still point, making space in which to find the heart-mind and body, and taking refuge. Let us sit deep into our well of sanity and show up from a place of love and courage—the two things that throughout history have been necessary to help humanity not only survive but thrive.

These short zazen intensives are popular with those new to Zen practice or meditation as well as more experienced students. The morning offers a time of silence and stillness and provides an excellent way to explore and deepen one’s zazen.

Your registration confirmation will include a link to the Zoom session.

More info/registration

If you have not previously attended a half-day sit, zazenkai, or sesshin in the Mountains and Rivers Order, please contact the Temple Office at 718-875-8229 or zcnyc@dharma.net prior to registration. 

A three-hour practice of connecting with the still point, making space in which to find the heart-mind and body, and taking refuge. Let us sit deep into our well of sanity and show up from a place of love and courage—the two things that throughout history have been necessary to help humanity not only survive but thrive.

These short zazen intensives are popular with those new to Zen practice or meditation as well as more experienced students. The morning offers a time of silence and stillness and provides an excellent way to explore and deepen one’s zazen.

More info