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Volunteers Needed

May 1 - Community Work Day

9:00 zazen
9:20 Breaking of Ground Ceremony
10:00 Community Work*
12:30 Lunch (provided)
1:40 Community Work*

*We are beginning construction on the Zendo, but first we have to destroy the existing garage. On May 1 we are preparing it for the backhoe to take out the concrete foundation, hoping to reuse the wood in the construction of the new Zendo. We need help. If you can come, bring a claw hammer. Please let me know if you are coming so I can plan for the lunch.
Kuya 250-428-3390

Zen Writing

Zenword Zen Centre

Creston, British Columbia

The flame of compassion is an inexhaustible lamp and it burns in each one of us. Peaceful relations rise out of compassion like wild flowers rise out of wind-scattered seeds. Zen training fuses compassion with skillful means.

At ZenWords Zen Centre we do this in three ways: we offer traditional Zen practice at Creston Zendo, we operate Maitri House, a nonsectarian social service centre and we teach Zen Writing Practice through face to-face and online workshops.

Upcoming Event

Writing Home: Kootenay Lake Writing Retreat: Writing Workshop with Luanne Armstrong and Kuya Minogue.

A weekend of writing, camping by Kootenay Lake and farm grown, vegetarian food at the Armstrong Farm on Kootenay Lake.

Start and end the day with Zen Writing Practice and attend two morning workshops with Luanne Armstrong. Afternoons will be free for beach time, hiking, canoeing, reading etc. Private beach, kayaks, canoes, available. Wireless also available. Accommodations: Tenting spaces with picnic tables and fireplaces are available for participants. Also available, small trailers, or beds in the main house. Campsites are level, beside the lake and accessible by car. The Armstrong farm is a working heritage organic family farm that has been in existence for 80 years. The family welcome visitors. Food from the farm will form a large part of the menu.

When: Starts Friday September 10 at 7:00 pm and ends Sunday Sept 12 after lunch.

Where: The Armstrong Farm and ZenWords Zen Centre Lakeside hermitage. The farm is 31 kms. north of Creston BC. The fire number is 9941. Phone No. is 250-223-8203.

Cost: $210 (includes land fee, food and instructor fees) Spaces are limited and filling fast.

Zen Writing Practice: The primary tool of a writer is the writing mind. In Zen Writing Practice we alternate between sitting meditation, mindful walking and writing meditation. By combining Zen practice with writing, we can reach deep into our creative minds and then, write from the source. Learn to link a meditation practice with your writing process.

Writing Workshops: Instruction in actualizing your writing dreams. Intensive support, freefall writing, editing and revising, and one on one consultations with each student.

Luanne Armstrong is an award winning writer of fourteen books and a creative writing instructor at the University of British Columbia.

Kuya Minogue is a Zen monk and the Canadian Dharma heir for Natalie Goldberg's Zen Writing Practice lineage. She will teach Zen meditation and Zen writing.