Larry Fuho Trussell

City Refuge Retreat
November 5, 2026

Please join us at Heart of Wisdom Zen Temple for an in-city meditation retreat, a chance to experience the flavors of a multi-day Zen sesshin. This three-day non-residential retreat will include many of the elements you’ll find in sesshin at Great Vow. The schedule will be similar to our one-day zazenkai, but also include oryoki meals. (If you have an oryoki set, please bring it. Otherwise, we have sets you can borrow.) This retreat will be held in silence. Part time participation is allowed, but you are strongly encouraged to commit to attend at least either morning or afternoon sessions on…

December Sesshin - Rohatsu
December 6, 2026

  The light of the Buddha’s awakening has not dimmed. This very moment, alive, awake and luminous. Each year people from all over the world gather to celebrate, to sit in stillness and to be nourished by this truth. All over the world people join in the ritual of Rohatsu sesshin. This sesshin is the culmination of a year of practice and is also the culmination of our fall Ango practice period. At many centers and monasteries, this is the most valued sesshin of the year, and may be the only one that many people are able to attend. We…