Guidelines
Paying attention to a few details, enables all to prepare themselves for right mind and action during meditation.
Health Precuation
To protect the safety of others, we ask that
- You be fully Covid vaccinated
- If you have been exposed to Covid, please stay home to protect others. You are welcome to participate online.
- If you are feeling feverish or chills, have a persistent cough or sneeze, have body aches, nausea, sore throat or any of the other symptoms of Covid, please stay home to protect others.
Currently we are not requiring masks, however you are welcome to use one.
Clothing
The zendo is cool to chilly. Dress in layers comfortable for meditation. Darker, muted colors are preferred. Avoiding distracting colors and patterns helps to focus.
Please Be Courteous to Others
- The zendo is an intentional space dedicated to the practice of awakening; please treat it as such.
- No casual speech. Minimize functional speech.
- Cell phones should be completely silent.
- No eating, drinking, or chewing.
- Please hold the hands in one of the classical mudras; watch senior students for the examples.
- Please enter or leave the zendo only during kinhin, not during zazen.
- If you arrive late, wait until the initial zazen bells complete, enter and bow the the Ino (the person to your left), and quietly take your seat.
- If you must leave early during zazen, bow to the Ino (the person to the right of the entrance), and quietly leave.
CHANTING
During Wednesday evening and Saturday morning services, we chant. To join us, please download our booklet.
In the Zendo
Participation Online
- The mental posture in the online zendo is the same as in the physical zendo.
- Use a separate space, clean and not too hot or cold, with adequate lighting.
- Consider adding incense, candles, and flowers
- During invocations and chanting please mute your microphone.
- During meditation, please un-mute the microphone.
