The Melbourne Zen Group is based in Brunswick East, Melbourne, Australia. Our weekly meditation meetings are open to both members and non-members.
Autumn Sesshin with
Susan Murphy Roshi
and Kirk Fisher Roshi
Friday 14 March to Friday 21 March
Kallara Conference Centre (near Euroa, Strahbogie Ranges)
Bookings and further information
Wherever you are, just try being the Host,
and you will always be at home.
~ Linji
Far from being a retreat from life, traditional Zen sesshin is the rare chance to go in deep, together with trees and clouds and stars, and dedicated companions of the Way.
Right now, practice matters intensely. The times are deeply uncertain. AI and digital distraction swamp us with a poor facsimile of lived life, while violence is normalised and our trusted norms and common ground are being torn away. What we have trusted in wears thin, and what once felt like solid ground before our feet seems to be melting into air, even as everyday life continues just as if unchanged.
What does Zen offer as medicine for these unhomely and uncanny times, when so much that dearly matters feels placed in jeopardy?
Sesshin is the place where it is safe to take refuge in uncertainty itself, and to face directly into the challenging wind that is now blowing. When we just try being the Host of all that appears, our true home is found and re-established again and again – right in the midst of turbulent times.
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