In need of cushions!

Hi everyone,
We are getting to that point where we have more people than zabutons and zafus (meditation cushions, that is)!  Which is very exciting of course... And it means it is time to get more.

If you would like to donate to this cause, please click on the "donate" button right here on our blog; it leads to a safe paypal account.

Or, if you have extra zabutons or zafus that are shabby and in need of a little repair, feel free to send those to us.
Thank you!

love,
mid city zen

Thursday night event- Jan. 26

As things are changing here at Mid City Zen, I find myself strewn about by that swinging pendulum of excitement, loss, clinging, aversion, future and past.  How do we embrace all these shifts with equanimity? 

In a few shorts weeks, Lauren and Austin will move out to California, to Green Gulch Zen temple, and practice the communal Zen life.  My gratitude for them is boundless, as they have spent the last 2 years setting up this space, opening their home and sharing their practice with us...

On Thursday, we invite the whole sangha to come over for a dinner-visioning-goodbye-hello party.
We will send off our dear friends, and think about where we have been, where we are now and where we are headed as a community.  Bring your input and ideas!  (We will have food, but feel free to share a dish)

january 26
6:30pm
3156 Toulouse Street

hope to see you there...
michaela

Check Out Our New Schedule

By popular demand we have added three new periods of zazen to our weekly schedule.  See the schedule in the column to the right.  We added a second period on Tuesdays, a period before the Dharma talk on Thursday and a second period on Sundays.

Great Teaching on Cause and Effect

This is Ven. Robina Courtin of the Tibetan Gelug school explaining karma and cause and effect which is, according to her, "Buddha's whole deal." She is one of my favorite teachers to listen to, and this is a two hour teaching split into 13 parts, all watchable on youtube. Once you've seen part one, simply look in the margin on the right for part two, and so on. Definitely worth seeing.
-Koji