From 9am-12pm we will have a quiet, online 1/2day retreat-alternating sitting and walking meditation.
Please join for whatever portion works for your schedule.
Email: stonecreek@sonic.net for the link.
From 9am-12pm we will have a quiet, online 1/2day retreat-alternating sitting and walking meditation.
Please join for whatever portion works for your schedule.
Email: stonecreek@sonic.net for the link.
Teachers:
Crystal Johnson is a retired clinical psychologist and a Community Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center. She has taught and co-taught white awareness courses in a number of sanghas, including White and Awakening in Sangha at EBMC, Unpacking Whiteness: Reflection and Action at SFZC, White and Awakening Together at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership for Branching Streams.
Sarah Emerson is a Head Priest at the Stone Creek Zen Center in Graton, CA. With Chris Fortin, she co-leads a monthly Racial Literacy and Dharma Inquiry group and is part of the teaching team at East Bay Meditation Center for the White and Awakening in Sangha program.
Chris Fortin is a senior teacher at Everyday Zen Foundation and the guiding teacher of Dharma Heart Zen in Sonoma County, CA.
Tova Green is a resident priest at San Francisco Zen Center and liaison for Branching Streams, the network of Zen Centers in the Suzuki Roshi lineage. She co-leads a monthly Unpacking Whiteness affinity group at SFZC.
This program is a benefit for the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA.
In registering for this daylong workshop, we are inviting you to support the work of the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, CA. Founded and led by a majority of POC teachers and practitioners, EBMC opened its doors in 2007 to provide a dharma refuge for people of color, members of the LGBTQI community, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented communities.
Through conscious cultivation of practices of Radical Inclusivity, Shared Leadership and Gift Economics, EBMC seeks to foster liberation, personal and interpersonal healing, social action, and inclusive community building.
Through our writings and workshops such as this one for white people, we offer support to other dharma communities and practitioners who are seeking to more fully live their practice in the world.
Please give as generously as you can to support this important work.
Presented by Everyday Zen and the East Bay Meditation Center, co-sponsored by Branching Streams, Dharma Heart Zen, San Francisco Zen Center and Stone Creek Zen
1) Thursday 12/31- New Year’s Eve sitting from 3-6pm PST
To close out this momentous and challenging year, please join us for some quiet meditation together. We will alternate sitting and walking meditation.
Come and leave as you need.
On Stone Creek’s zoom- please email if you need the link: stonecreek@sonic.net
2) Saturday January 2nd- New Year’s ½ Day Renewal Retreat and Jizo Ceremony, 2-5pm
For this afternoon, we will come together to sit, reflect and make space for our personal and collective grief to honor and give closure to the challenges that we met in 2020, and make some room in our hearts and lives for renewal and continued healing in 2021.
We will sit zazen, share some teachings about Jizo Bodhisattva (the bodhisattva of fearlessness who supports us in feeling and expressing our grief and loss, and crossing over into realms of connection and healing), and meet with one another in small groups. We will then share together in a Jizo Ceremony where we make small offerings and entrust them to the care and tending of Jizo’s great capacity.
Led by Dojin
Please register by Thursday 12/31 by emailing: stonecreek@sonic.net
Suggested donation, sliding scale $30-$60, no one turned away for lack of funds.
9-945am
Our monthly introduction to Zen practice returns in an online format. Instruction in the basics of Zen meditation and learn a little bit about Stone Creek Zen Center and our sangha.
This will be held on Zoom from 9-945 before our weekly Sunday program which begins at 10 (please feel free to stay for the whole morning).
Please email to let us know you are interested and so we can send you the Zoom link:
stonecreek@sonic.net
Welcome to Stone Creek’s Online Silent Auction!
The auction will be online December 7-21, 2020.
To submit a bid, please choose your level from the preset bids for each item, and email stonecreek@sonic.net
Bids will be held in order received and updates will be posted daily (so your bid may not show up right away…not to worry).
Items will be available to bid on until the auction closes at 9pm on 12/21, or they are sold through the “Buy-It-Now” price. Because we have fewer items and bidders this year, the Buy-It-Now price is slightly higher than the original value.
If you choose a Buy-It-Now bid, we will make arrangements for you to pick up the item as soon as possible. Otherwise, items won will be available for pick up at the Stone Store 4-5pm on 12/22 and 12/23, or by appointment if needed.
Please note, Auction items are FOR PICK UP ONLY, we do not have the capacity to ship them.
If there are items that do not receive any bids, they may be available after the close of the auction, we will keep you posted about this.
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ONLINE: 17-weeks Class
TUESDAYS: January 26 – May 18, 2021 6 -8 pm PT
with Rev. Liên Shutt, Rev. Sarah Emerson, Rev. Charlie Pokorny, and Dalila Bothwell
If so, the teachings of the 8-Fold Path directly shows us how we can use our wisdom & heart-mind training to support our behaviors with these qualities:
Wisdom in:
Enacted through Heart-Mind trainings/meditations & practices in:
To foster behaviors of:
These 8 aspects are taught as ways to live an intentional life of non-harming. Each week you’ll be presented with traditional & social justice-oriented contemporary frames to understand & apply these aspects in real & every day ways. You’ll be able to learn & practice how they make sense for you in your life now & not just as theories & concepts.
Inquiring into, understanding, and responding to the causes & conditions that have brought about our collective suffering of racism, this course will offer a variety of instructional/guided meditations, reflective writings, and mindfulness practices along with interactive exercises to support grounding, settledness, & wise action. Connecting to how you have agency/power (in yourself & with your communities) in the midst of racial conditioning is the best “medicine” for these times. We’ll practice skills for staying in discomfort & resilience through cultivating an open-hearted intimacy with suffering, invoking anti-racism to have impact in the world.
Class format will alternate between class session of teachings & home practice assignment with small group session to discuss what came up for you in the home practice that week (small groups will be formed as BIPOC-only and white-identified-only to foster brave-space intimacy).
To apply, please submit information at Access to Zen’s website:
On Tuesday 12/8, we will gather virtually to sit in commemoration and celebration of Buddha’s Awakening.
The sitting will be 9am-12pm on the Stone Creek zoom link.
Schedule for the morning, please join at any time:
9-930 zazen
930-940 walking meditation
940-1010 zazen
1010-1030 short dharma talk
1030-1040 walking meditation
1040-1110 zazen
1110-1120 walking mediation
1120-1150 zazen
1150-12 brief celebratory service and end
Please email for the Zoom link if you need it: stonecreek@sonic.net
Crystal is a dharma practitioner and teacher who has co-created, and co-teaches programs for white dharma practitioners seeking to build awareness, knowledge and skills to challenge the dynamics of white privilege and race-based oppression, and to create truly diverse sangha. Programs include White and Awakening in Sangha , a six month program at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA, Interconnected: Challenging Racism and White Privilege with Mindfulness and Compassion, an 8 session course at the San Francisco Zen Center, Unpacking the Whiteness of Leadership, a 6 session course offered for the Branching Streams, a network of affiliate Dharma centers and Sanghas in the Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and White and Awakening Together, an 8 session class offered through the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. She also consults to (white-dominated) organizations seeking to identify and address barriers to racial equity embedded in organizational culture, policies and practices. She is currently on the Leadership Sangha (board) and is Treasurer of the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA.
While the zendo is closed, we will live stream our Sunday Dharma talk at 10:30am PST
Click here to access Sunday talks livestreamed on our Youtube “channel”.
We will also be streaming the talks through Zoom. Please send an email for the Zoom meeting room link.
Please be patient as we work with the various technical obstacles.
May all beings be healthy and well!
10 am
Konjin Gaelyn Godwin is abbot of Houston Zen Center and Director of the International Division of Soto Zen, North America (a department of Soto Zen Headquarters based in Japan). She received ordination as a Zen Priest in 1991, from Tenshin Reb Anderson, and Dharma Transmission in 2003. She is Dojin’s ordination and dharma transmission teacher.