All-Day Sitting
Saturday
February 29, 2020
Green Gulch Farm
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After a slight delay, the Green Gulch Farm website is ready for us to register. Additional seats have been released. Space fills up quickly so please register soon if you want to be sure of a place. Thank you for your patience!
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Please join us at our next All-Day Sitting
with Zoketsu Norman Fischer:
Saturday, February 29, 2020
9:00 — 5:00
Green Gulch Farm
Procedures for the All-Day Sitting have changed.
Please read this entire email.
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How to Register
Registration for the EDZ All-Day Sittings at Green Gulch Farm (GGF) are handled by the GGF Reservations Office and through their website, unless you are requesting an EDZ scholarship.
NOTE: To accommodate more EDZ sangha members, Green Gulch has implemented a change to their registration process starting with the Feb 29th All Day Sit. Advance registration, open to any one, is available on the Green Gulch website before this invitation goes out for the first 20 registrants. Once 20 people are registered, open registration temporarily closes.
Just before we send this invitation to the EDZ sangha, Green Gulch will release 40 additional seats along with 10 EDZ scholarship seats.
Please register as early as you can after receiving this invitation and no later than end of day Wednesday before the Saturday sit. Seating at GGF is limited to 70 and registration may close sooner if the list fills up.
To register without requesting an EDZ scholarship, visit the GGF event page by clicking the Register button below. That will take you to the event page on the GGF website where you can complete your registration and advance payment online. On that page you will also find instructions for completing your registration by phone.
Members of the EDZ sangha requesting EDZ scholarships, please register here: EDZ Scholarship Request and Registration.
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Guidelines
Registration Deadlines & Cancellations
For questions about registering at GGF including cancellations, last-minute registrations, and GGF scholarships, please see Registration, Scholarships, and Cancellations on the GGF website.
For EDZ scholarship deadlines and cancellations, please see EDZ Scholarship Request and Registration.
What to Bring
Zafus, a few sitting benches, support cushions, and zabutons will be provided by GGF. You may bring your own zafus, support cushions, and benches if you wish, but do not bring zabutons or chairs.
If you plan to sit on a chair, please note that on the registration form.
Fees and Dana
The registration fee at GGF is $80–$100 and is paid when registering by phone or through the website. This covers lunch, tea/coffee, and some Dana to Norman. It does not include gifts to the scholarship fund, additional Dana for Norman and EDZ, or Dana for senior teachers. Envelopes for these very welcome gifts will be on a table in Cloud Hall at GGF.
Please leave your donation in the form of cash or a check in the appropriate envelope.
Zendo Protocols
We will enter the zendo exclusively through the entrance in Cloud Hall.
Chairs will already be set up in the zendo (see above, under What to Bring, if you plan to sit on a chair). Please do not move chairs to different places in the zendo.
Shoes: No shoes on the wood floor in Cloud Hall, on the wood circling the zendo, and inside the zendo. Shoes are worn on the stone tile in the Cloud Hall entryways, in the basement of Cloud Hall, and in all other areas of Green Gulch. There are racks for shoes in the entryways of all three entrances into Cloud Hall, in Cloud Hall itself, and on the outside of the zendo.
Bags, coats, water bottles, etc. may not be put on any of the shoe racks, with the exception of those on walkways around the outside of the zendo. There is space for bags, coats, etc. in each of the entry areas of Cloud Hall. The two entrances with the indoor men’s and women’s bathrooms have coat racks and a rack that is on top of the shoe rack for these items. Additionally, inside and to the right of the entryway that is nearest to the outdoor bathrooms there is a small closet where coats may be hung and bags stored.
If necessary, you may neatly fold a jacket or extra layer of clothing to have in front of your sitting place. However, please keep this to a minimum. Bring as little as possible into the zendo!
Water bottles, food or liquid of any form is not permitted in the zendo.
Questions?
Please see the All-Day Sittings FAQ on the EDZ website for answers to common questions. Still have questions? Email the All-Day Sit registrar at alldaysit@everydayzen.org.
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Schedule
Upcoming All-Day Sits in 2020 will be held on Saturdays at Green Gulch Farm.
- March 28, 2020
- April 25, 2020
- May 30, 2020
- June 27, 2020
- July 25, 2020
- August 29, 2020
- September 26, 2020
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Header image: Five court painters under the Qianlong Emperor, “Along the River During Qingming Festival ,” reproduction: 1736, original: 12th century. Courtesy National Palace Museum in Taiwan via traditionaleastasia.
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