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Summer Sesshin

August 19, 2025 @ 9:00 pm - August 24, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

Summer Sesshin

August 19 – August 24, 2025

 

Typical Sesshin Schedule
The daily schedule includes zazen, chanting, cleaning, teisho (a talk on Zen practice), rest periods, and dokusan (private interview with the teacher).AM
4:30 Wake Up
5:00 Sutra Recitation
5:40 Tea and bathroom break
6:00 Zazen
7:30 Bathroom break
7:40 Zazen
8:00 Breakfast and Cleaning
10:00 Zazen
11:00 Teisho (talk on Zen practice)
12:00 Bathroom break
PM
12:10 Zazen
12:30 Lunch
2:30 Zazen
3:30 Showers (optional zazen)
4:30 Afternoon sutra recitation
5:00 Zazen
5:30 Kinhin (walking meditation)
5:40 Zazen
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Optional zazen
8:00 Zazen and Dokusan (private interviews with sensei)
9:00 Kinhin
9:15 Tea and bathrom break
9:30 Zazen and Dokusan
10:30 End of day

To register, please write coldmountainsangha@gmail.com

Details

Start:
August 19, 2025 @ 9:00 pm
End:
August 24, 2025 @ 6:00 pm
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Venue

Murray Grove Retreat Center
431 US Highway 9 at Church Lane
Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734 United States