Vow Sesshin
January 7 - 12, 2025
Tuesday, January 7th, 2024 to Sunday January 12th
From emptiness springs forth our deepest potential. When we are able to drop our ideas about who and what we are, we can recognize the infinite realm of possibility that has always been our playground.
Reality before interpretation, before we start applying labels and identities, is vast and unbounded. From this space, we access the wisdom and compassion that is the source material of our life.
With wisdom and compassion as our foundation, we recognize that we are the totality. Nothing separate and always in relationship. We come to see our personality and our personal particularities as part of the giddy cosmic unfolding of this mysterious universe. These particularities can be celebrated and manifest as means for the greater good.
With the guidance from our sangha and teachers, we embark on a journey of intention and presence. How do we live our vows in the moment to moment unfolding of a life? How do we carry vow, how does it carry us, through our darkest and brightest moments?
The Bodhisattva Vow lives through us, it is the current of energy that has sustained our human hearts, generation to generation. We are the culmination of this timeless vow.
 | Hogen Bays, Roshi |
 | Patrick Bansho Green |