Work Day

Saturday, May 17, 2025

9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Join this day of sangha work-practice at Ashland Zen Center. There will be work for every ability. Bring a bag lunch and a little something to share with everyone at lunch. Morning tea and refreshment are provided.

Come for all or part of the day – indicate your hours when you RSVP to the shisui, work leader: shisui@ashlandzencenter.org or when you sign up on the bulletin board in the zendo.

Work-practice is truly taking care of relationships. To be alive is to be in relationship…. with people, belongings, plants, food, animals, insects, microbes, oxygen, soil…. How careful are we? How generous? Work-practice teaches us how to live ethically, fully and joyfully in every arena of life.

Zen practice is practical. We also learn how to plant a flat of seed, how to paint a house, how to bake a crisp, how to repair a fence, how to sew a setsu. In the Buddha-Dharma, go together, appreciate together, realize together, and actualize together.

Show up and see what there is to learn!

Contact the Shisui with any work day related questions via this link

Schedule:

9:00 am:   work circle

10:30 am: tea

12:00 pm: bag lunch + something to share

12:50 pm: work

3:00 pm:   bow out

In the Buddha-Dharma, go together, appreciate together, realize together, and actualize together.