Open Heart Zen Sangha

Weekly Meditation Practice, Wednesday 7 pm to 8:30 pm (via zoom)

1/1/2024

Open Heart now offers a weekly Meditation practice and monthly group discussion (Wednesday 7:oo pm to 8:30 pm) via zoom.
You may register for the online meditation practice by sending an e-mail with the following information to openheartzen@gmail.com
Your first and last name, Member status - New or previous member.

Saturday Half Day Retreat on Zoom - May 20, 2023, 9 am to noon

4/23/2023

To register for the retreat, please send an e-mail to openheartzen@gmail.com
containing the following information: First name, Last Name,
Part time or Full time, (Part time participants - please specify the time frame).
Looking forward to seeing you at the retreat.

Monthly Group Discussion Wednesday, April 26, 2023, @ 7 PM

4/18/2023

The power of vulnerability by Brené Brown (click to view)
Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

Monthly Group Discussion March 29, 2023, @ 7 PM

3/21/2023

Master Shi Heng Yi – 5 hindrances to self-mastery by Shi Heng Yi | TEDxVitosha (Click to view)
For more than 30 years, Master Shi Heng Yi has been studying and practicing the interaction between mind and body. He has an academic background but he prefers to live at the Shaolin Temple Europe monastery located in Otterberg, Germany. Since 2010 he has been taking care of the settlement, and he personifies the sustainable development and spreading the Shaolin culture and philosophy.

Saturday Retreat March 18, 2023, from 9 am to noon (via zoom)

2/21/2023

Monthly Group Discussion February 22, 2023 @ 7 PM

2/21/2023

The February discussion focuses on "Thoughts". The practice starts with a short period of meditation, followed by viewing this 15 minutes video and group discussion.
How to stop your thoughts from controlling your life | Albert Hobohm (Click to view)
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Albert Hobohm shares life-altering, personal and professional ideas on how to take charge of your reality.
Through alarming statistics and hands-on solutions, Hobohm shows us our critical situation as a species and how to start taking control over our mental operating systems.

Albert Hobohm is a lecturer and professional operating at the crossing between psychology and business. He has an academic background from The Royal Institute of Technology as well as Stanford University. He has also built an orphanage and lived with Buddhist monks.
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Monthly Group Discussion January 25, 2023, @ 7 PM

1/15/2023

We will have a short period of meditation before viewing this 13 minutes video and group discussion.
The benefit of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself by Dan Harris (Click to view)
Dan Harris
After more than two decades as an anchor for ABC News, an on-air panic attack sent Dan Harris's life in a new direction: he became a dedicated meditator and, to some, even a guru. But then an anonymous survey of his family, friends and colleagues turned up some brutal feedback -- he was still kind of a jerk. In a wise, funny talk, he shares his years-long quest to improve his relationships with everyone (starting with himself) and explains the science behind loving-kindness meditation, and how it can boost your resiliency, quiet your inner critic and simply make you more pleasant to be around.

Saturday Retreat via Zoom - January 21, 2023, from 9 am to noon

12/22/2022

To register for the retreat, please send an e-mail to openheartzen@gmail.com
containing the following information:
First name, Last Name, Part time or Full time,
(Part time participants - please specify the time frame)
This is a great opportunity to have moments of peace and quiet before beginning of the busy holiday season.
Looking forward to seeing you at the retreat.

Monthly Group Discussion December 28, 2022, @ 7 PM

12/22/2022

This month's group discussion is focusing on Chapter 7 Right Concentration and Chapter 8 The Development of Wisdom of the book "The Way to the End of Suffering" by Bhikkhu Bodhi.
Before the discussion, the group will view these two videos.
The Noble Eightfold Path - Right Concentration by Ajahn Sona (18 minutes)
The tenfold path -Right Knowledge and Liberation by Ajahn Sona (12 minutes)
Ajahn Sona is a first wave Western Theravāda ordained practitioner. He took full monastic ordination at the first Theravāda monastery in the United States in 1989. His pre-monastic education is in philosophy, humanities, and specifically classical Western music. These have been an aid in understanding the Western psyche and trying to establish paradigm bridges between East and West.

Saturday Half Day Retreat - November 19, 2022, from 9 am to noon

11/19/2022

To register for the retreat, please send an e-mail to openheartzen@gmail.com
containing the following information:
First name, Last Name, Part time or Full time,
(Part time participants - please specify the time frame)
This is a great opportunity to have moments of peace and quiet before beginning of the busy holiday season. Looking forward to seeing you at the retreat.

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