All meals are provided and are vegetarian. Full payment is due 10 days before the sesshin. Sesshin includes 9-10 hours of sitting meditation each day, walking meditation, mindful meals, daily work period, daily teisho or dharma talk by the teacher, and opportunity for dokusan or private interview with the teacher. Everyone is required to participate fully in the daily cycle. We practice sesshin together, but we do not interact socially.
Silence is observed throughout the sesshin with the exception of interviews with the teacher.
About the Teacher Fr. Pat Hawk Roshi has formally practiced Zen since 1978 as a student of Robert Aitken Roshi, and since 1981 as a student of Fr. Hawk received Dharma Transmission from Robert Aitken Roshi and was confirmed as a Zen Master of the Diamond Sangha in May of 1989. It's clear to me that there are some of Pat's students who've been left out of the communications loop, and without your help, there's no way for me to find them and let them know about the Email Tree and the Pathless Path Newsletter. Empty Sky Amarillo Empty Sky will be moving their Monday and Friday evening sittings back to St. Andrew s Church.