Category: Northern Light Zen Center Retreats

Greetings Everyone!

Northern Light Zen Center is hosting a One-Day Sitting Meditation Retreat on Saturday, May 30th lead by Terrance Cronin, JDPSN.  This ought to be a great day.  A good time to help deepen your practice with a wonderful springtime retreat day!

Arrival and registration for new participants will begin at 6:50am. For experienced participants arrival and registration begins at 7:50. Retreat ends at 4:30pm. FMI or to register, email, nlzc@gwi.net or call 729-6013.

Let’s do this.  As they say, do just do something, sit there!

Greetings Everyone!

Nancy Hedgpeth, JDPSN will be coming to Maine to lead a 2-day retreat on Saturday & Sunday, March 21-22. Nancy has been a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn since 1979 and received inka in July 1994. She is a guiding teacher of the Providence Zen Center and has held many positions in the New Haven, Providence and Cambridge Zen Centers.  This is an excellent opportunity to sit with a really great teacher and help deepen your practice.  Hey, would you rather be shoveling snow?!  Come sit with us.  We would love it if you did.

FMI, please contact nlzc@gwi.net.  You can register for just one of the days if your schedule doesn’t permit otherwise.

And we had a great group.  Terry Cronin JDPSN let the retreat and all had good strong practice.  Of course finishing up with Ice Cream caps off a good day.    Below is a photo of our group.  Gerald Seminatore took the photo.  He came a long way to sit with us and I wanted to mention him.

From left to right; Colin, Jay, Bill, Vera-Ellen, Clarisa, Terry, Robert, Ryan.

Please join us for a day of practice with two wonderful teachers!

202 Meadow Road
Topsham, Maine
Sunday, November 23,
7:50 am* – 4:30 pm

*1st time participants arrive at 6:50

Barry Briggs JDPSN began training in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1990 and took Bodhisattva Teacher precepts in 2001. In 2005 he retired from a career as a senior manager in the software and Internet industries. He received inka from Zen Master Soeng Hyang in 2013 and travels widely to lead retreats around the world

 

Terry Cronin, JDPSN started practicing Zen and Christian contemplation in 1980 while a student at Yale Divinity School. Since 1986, he has trained in the Kwan Um School of Zen. He is head dharma teacher at the Northern Light Zen Center in Topsham, Maine, and received inka from Zen Master Soeng Hyang in April 2014. For the past 21 years he has worked in a variety of roles for hospice programs, currently serving as a hospice chaplain. He and his wife live in Maine and have one adult son.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For further information :

www.nlzc.org

Please RSVP: (207) 729-6013

or

Email : nlzc@gwi.net

I was on a rather warm day in June, the 28th to be exact.  11 of us gathered at the Northern Light Zen Center to sit and practice all day long.  It got a little hot.  Colin likened it to a North African heat wave.  I have to admit I would likely agree.  But in the end when we were eating pie and ice cream it was well worth what little discomfort there was.  I burned off some Karma that day.  As we sat in strong practice, one by one, when the bell sounded we went to the interview room.  On this day we had a two-fer!  Terry who had received Inka this last Buddha’s Birthday joined Jose in the interview room and all the interviewees were treated to two teachers!  It was great. Check out our group picture below, and join us on our next retreat.

 

Greetings to you all!

Summer is here! It’s a great time for a one day retreat!  Take a break from all your summer activities and attend a retreat at the Northern Light Zen Center.  It would be fun and strengthen your practice. We are having a one day retreat on June the 28th being lead by the excellent Jose Ramirez JDPSN.  If you have not sat with Jose think about doing so.  It is a treat.  Please join us on the 28th of June!  Email NLZC@gwi.net to register and/or for more info.

Jose is a excellent teacher and the Guiding Teacher and abbot of the Delaware Valley Zen Center, which he helped found in the Spring of 1999. He has been practicing in the Kwan Um School of Zen since 1994, and received Inka in April 2009. He has a degree in mathematics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and a Master and Ph.D in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his role as an industrial statistician he works closely with engineers and scientists to help them make sense of data. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emails will be going out to members and friends but we would love it if anyone joined us.  Feel free to email us NLZC@GWI.NET for more info.  Please join us it should be a GREAT day!

Greetings Everyone!

 

We have a very exciting retreat coming up at the end of the summer from August 30 to Sept 1!  A canoeing -kayaking retreat on Knubble Bay here in Maine.  Check out the details below.  This should prove to be a great weekend.  Email us at nlzc@gwi.net to reserve a spot.  They are filling up quickly!

	Maine Coastal Retreat Led by ZM Soeng Hyang Saturday Aug 30 – Monday Sept 1 KNUBBLE BAY MAINE THREE DAYS OF MIXED RECREATION AND MEDITATION IN A REMOTE COASTAL CAMP. BOATING, HIKING, COOKING, RELAXATION
Knubble Bay Camp has no electricity or running water is available. However, solar and wind energy power lights and a wood stove provide warmth and ambiance. A hand pump is available for potable, fresh water. There are two in-door composting toilets . Communal cooking facilities and bunkbeds complete the facility. See www.amckbc.org/kbc.htm
Zen Master Soeng Hyang (Barbara Rhodes) is the Kwan Um Zen School Zen Master and Guiding Dharma Teacher. She was one of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s first American students and studied with him starting in 1972. She was given inka in 1977 and received dharma transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn on October 1992. $100 for three nights plus meals. 15 participants maximum. Canoe/ kayak rentals extra.
Please RSVP: Call (207) 729-6013 or email nlzc@gwi.net

 

Greetings to you all!

Spring will soon be upon us.  I know, I know, it doesn’t feel like it right now but soon we will be griping about the heat.  But it is still winter and what a better time to take a break from shovel and salt and just sit.  As the saying goes; don’t just do something, sit there!  To this end (get it? end? I kill me.)  we are having a one day retreat on March the 29th being lead by the excellent Jose Ramirez JDPSN.  If you have not sat with Jose think about doing so.  It is a treat.  Please join us on the 29th of March!  Email NLZC@gwi.net to register and/or for more info.

Jose is a excellent teacher and the Guiding Teacher and abbot of the Delaware Valley Zen Center, which he helped found in the Spring of 1999. He has been practicing in the Kwan Um School of Zen since 1994, and received Inka in April 2009. He has a degree in mathematics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and a Master and Ph.D in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his role as an industrial statistician he works closely with engineers and scientists to help them make sense of data. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emails will be going out to members and friends but we would love it if anyone joined us.  Feel free to email us NLZC@GWI.NET for more info.  Please join us it should be a GREAT day!

Greetings Everyone!

Nancy Brown Hedgpeth, JDPSN will be coming to Maine to lead a 2-day retreat on Saturday & Sunday, February 22-23. Nancy has been a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn since 1979 and received inka in July 1994. She is a guiding teacher of the Providence Zen Center and has held many positions in the New Haven, Providence and Cambridge Zen Centers.

FMI, please contact nlzc@gwi.net.  You can register for just one of the days if your schedule doesnt permit otherwise.

Join us!  It should be fun and will definitely help your practice.

 

Greetings to you all!

It’s been a while since I have put up a post.  And what a better time to do so than to announce a one day retreat at Northern Light led by Jose Ramirez JDPSN!  It is taking place on Saturday the 16th of November.  Come join us to practice.  Enjoy one another’s company.  Interviews will be given by Jose.

Jose is a excellent teacher and the Guiding Teacher and abbot of the Delaware Valley Zen Center, which he helped found in the Spring of 1999. He has been practicing in the Kwan Um School of Zen since 1994, and received Inka in April 2009. He has a degree in mathematics from the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and a Master and Ph.D in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his role as an industrial statistician he works closely with engineers and scientists to help them make sense of data. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife and daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emails will be going out to members and friends but we would love it if anyone joined us.  Feel free to email us NLZC@GWI.NET for more info.  Please join us it should be a GREAT day!