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SPRING 2020 PRACTICE COMMITMENT PERIOD 
Sounds of Valley Streams, Forms of Mountains
April 5–May 31, 2020

Registration is now open! Our non-residential practice commitment period is an opportunity to integrate and develop sustainable practice in our everyday lives and echo the ancient Buddhist tradition of intentional community practice.  To support deepening practice, participants design individualized programs including three key aspects of Zen training: meditation, study, and community life.  Please see Taigen to register and for more detailed information, click here.

RENEW & RECONNECT QIGONG & MEDITATION RETREAT – Saturday, February 29, 2020 @ 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

Retreat is a combination of Qigong and Sitting & Walking Meditation. No technology. There are scheduled breaks. Email info@ancientdragon.org to register.

TALK BY GUEST SPEAKER BROOK ZIPORYN – Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Brook Ziporyn is a scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, expositor and translator of the most complex philosophical texts and concepts of the Chinese religious traditions, and a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Topic of the talk to be announced.

ZEN MEDITATION AND DHARMA TALK BY REIRIN GUMBEL – Monday, March 16, 2020 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM 

Dharma Talk by Guest Teacher Reirin Gumbel, resident priest at Milwaukee Zen Center, on “Awakened Action in a Disturbing World.” Reirin received Dharma Transmission from Taigen’s Dharma sister Furyu Schroeder, Abbess of Green Gulch Zen Center.

ORIGAMI PEACE CRANE FOLDING  – March 2020 Dates

Thurs 3/26/20    5:45p-6:45p (before zazen)
Mon 3/30/20      6-7pm (before zazen)

All our welcome to fold a crane for peace!

We are supporting the memory of the 120,000 Japanese American Buddhists who were interned during WWII and addressing the current suffering of migrants and refugees in our country through participating in a national peace crane folding project,   We are meeting monthly in the kitchen at ADZG to work together folding origami cranes to support efforts of Japanese-American Buddhists and American Buddhists to bear witness to the current internment of migrant and refugee children and families and promote humane and fair treatment of migrants crossing at our southern border. Our hope is to fold 10,000 paper cranes and create crane banners that will travel to an action in Washington DC in June 2020.

DHARMA TRANSMISSION

On Saturday August 3rd, 2019, Ancient Dragon Dharma Teacher Taigen Shizan Leighton completed Dharma transmission ceremonies for his heirs, Nyozan Eric Shutt and Eishin Nancy Easton, and authorized them as Dharma teachers. Shosan Victoria Austin from San Francisco Zen Center served as Preceptor for the ceremony.  As part of the ceremony, Eishin and Nyozan received new brown okesas and ceremonial implements.