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Dear Friends,
As the days get colder and shorter, I tend to want to hibernate. The rain comes down, and I think about a cup of tea and a comforter on the couch with a book or a movie. Maybe I’m thinking about that couch while I’m sitting on my cushion in the Zen Center. Maybe I’m a little tired, and I nod off a couple of times.
But over and over, I bring myself back from the sleepy cloud to the present moment. I feel the energies of the people meditating around me. Then the chugpi strikes, and together we rise and walk around the room, bringing our minds to the fall of our heels, the placement of our feet, the movement of our muscles after the stillness of sitting. As the chugpi strikes again, we arrange our seats and sit together once more, our minds swimming back to the boundless present moment.
On Sunday, January 26, we will start our intensive practice period, Kyol Che. Over the next three months, our sangha family will broaden and deepen our together practice: chanting, sitting, walking, and working. We will do these things together, resting in openness to the totality of experience.
Yours in the dharma,
Meg Guilland
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