Orlando Zen Circle: Retreats
Half day retreats and longer retreats
Usually we offer a half day retreat once a month (on the third Saturday of the month) in Orlando. Join us at a regular Sunday evening practice to find out more.
Yong Maeng Jong Jin (YMJJ) means “to leap like a tiger while sitting” a Korean term traditionally used to describe intensive Zen meditation.
We join others for YMJJ (3 day retreats) in Gainesville or South Florida.
The Southflorida-YMJJ by
the will be January 20-23 (Thursday evening arrival
for early Friday morning start, ending Sunday at 10am.). Zen
Master Bon Haeng (Mark Houghton) will be the retreat teacher. Please see http://www.southfloridazen.
The following weekend,
January 28-30, a YMJJ in Tallahassee, with the Cypress Tree Zen
Group is from Friday evening to Sunday. The retreat teacher will be ken Kessel,
JDPSN.More information can be found here: http://webdharma.com/ctzg/PDF/
March 4-6 will be the YMJJ in Gainesville with more information to follow soon.
Retreat is a time to look inside and investigate our life.
It is an opportunity to clear our mind of habitual thinking and access our wisdom and compassion.
It points to the state of clarity and wisdom we experience that is both relaxed and wide like space, and clear and meticulous as the tip of a needle, so that we can use our experience to help ourselves and this world, moment to moment.