3rd Saturday – December 20, 2014

Dec 162014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, December 20 for our 3rd Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 am to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a brief tea break. After this, Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will give a dharma talk entitled, “Liberation: The Simplicity of Coming to Our Senses.”

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

1st Saturday – December 6, 2014

Nov 292014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, December 6th for our first Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a short tea break. After this, since Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will be in Rohatsu Sesshin at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, Mary Ellen will provide a reading and facilitate discussion on the topic of relationship and intimacy.

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Announcements are also now regularly posted on our sangha website <Upayatucson.org>.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

3rd Saturday – November 15, 2014

Nov 112014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, November 15th for our third Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a short tea break. After this, since Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will be at the Jack Kornfield program in Tucson, sangha member Tricia Dalby will lead a discussion of excerpts/teachings taken from two of Jack Kornfield’s books–A Lamp in The Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times (2011) and Buddah’s Little Instruction Book (1994).

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

3rd Saturday – October 18, 2014

Oct 122014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, October 18th, for our second Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a short tea break. After this, Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will be giving a dharma talk entitled: An Old Woman Burns Down a Hermitage: A Koan of Desire, Craving, and Intimacy.

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

1st Saturday – October 4, 2014

Sep 302014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, October 4 for our 1st Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from
10:00 am to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a brief tea break. After this, Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will give a dharma talk entitled, “May I Respectfully Remind You… Impermanence, Insubstantiality, and Engaged Wisdom.”

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

3rd Saturday – September 20, 2014

Sep 162014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, September 20th, for our second Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a short tea break. After this, as Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will be away from Tucson, sangha member Patricia Palmer will present a recorded dharma talk entitled “Working with Emotions through Meditation,” given at Upaya Zen Center in 2012 by Erika Rosenberg, with discussion to follow as time permits.

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

1st Saturday – August 6, 2014

Sep 022014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, September 6th, for our first Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a short tea break. After this, as Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will be away from Tucson, sangha member Andrew Lenards will share a dharma talk recorded last month at Upaya Zen Center, entitled “Goodness, Virtue, and Compassion, Medicine for a Troubled World.” The speaker is author, teacher, and activist Fleet Maull, who founded the Prison Dharma Network and the National Prison Hospice Association. He currently serves as senior faculty with the Upaya Institute’s Being with Dying program and co-directs its Chaplaincy Training Program.

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

3rd Saturday – August 16, 2014

Aug 122014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, August 16th for our 3rd Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 am to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a brief tea break. After this, Sensei Al Genkai Kaszniak will give a dharma talk entitled, “Imagining Ananda: An Homage to the Original Bodhisattva.” Ananda was the Buddha’s first cousin, his devoted personal attendant, and, due to his extraordinary memory, the person responsible for preserving the Buddha’s teachings. Ananda’s story provides us with the opportunity for reflection on a life of service to others in our own place and time.

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Also, we are pleased and grateful to announce that Upaya Sangha of Tucson now has a beautiful website with lots of information for those interested. A deep bow of gratitude to Bill Thompson and Guy Scharf for so generously creating this resource for us.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

1st Saturday – August 2, 2014

Jul 292014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, August 2nd for our 1st Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 am to noon, and our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a brief tea break. After this, since Sensai Al Genkai Kaszniak will be away from Tucson, Sangha member Christine Johnson will lead a discussion on a practice offered by Shinzen Young, reading a piece in which Shinzen begins “It’s very common for people on a meditative or spiritual path to develop a kind of sensitivity to the poison and pain of others”. Shinzen comments that the method he is teaching for engaging negativity differs from “therapeutic approaches [in which] the goal is to get the client to the point where they can distinguish ‘what’s me’ from ‘what’s them.’”

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far. Thanks!

3rd Saturday – July 19, 2014

Jul 152014
 

For those joining us this Saturday, July 19, for our 3rd Saturday of the month Upaya Sangha of Tucson meeting, we will meet from 10:00 am to noon. Our meeting will include brief sutra chanting, participant check-in, announcements, sitting meditation (Zazen), and a brief tea break. After this, since Sensai Al Genkai Kaszniak will be away from Tucson, sangha member Christine Johnson will lead a discussion on a section from Roshi Joan Halifax’s book Being With Dying. Christine notes that you should find the conversation engaging if: you are an even moderately accomplished control freak; you are, or expect to be, a loving companion to one who is dying; or you expect to die yourself!

If this is your first time to join us, we meet at Tucson Community Meditation Center (TCMC), 1231 East Edison St., one block south of Grant, just west of Mountain, on the north side of the street. We meet the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month. There are plenty of zafus (meditation cushions) and chairs.

Parking reminder: It’s important to the future of TCMC to observe mindful parking by not parking on the same block as the Center and by leaving an empty parking space in front of the homes on the neighboring blocks. Please reserve TCMC driveway parking for people who cannot walk far.

Thanks!

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