This coming Wednesday, May 20, Treetop Zen Center will begin a new practice called Sangha Meeting.

Here is a note from Stef, explaining the new practice:

Sangha Meeting is a time when the sangha will meet together to express what people want to talk about with one another. This will be a time when the Sangha will hear what people are doing, will hear from the people that are engaged in various sangha activities, like the Shuso, the upcoming poetry and writing workshops, the deep ecology trips, the publicity activities, a brief statement of the state of sangha finances from the treasurer, and whatever else is going on that people would like to share or that people would like to hear about. It will also be a time when someone may express a special concern that touches their heart and share that concern with the sangha.

The way it will work is like this. The Sangha Meeting will take place on the third Wednesday evening of every month (that means it will take place this Wednesday, the 20th). The first period will be zazen and probably daisan. The second period will begin Sangha Meeting. There will be tea and cookies for the meetings, and I hope maybe even pizza sometime! There will be a chairperson (who I hope will be rotating from month to month). The first thing that will happen is that the chair will ask the gathered sangha for items for the agenda that will be talked about. Then the chair will lead the sangha in discussions of these items. I will chair the first meeting.

So let’s see what happens and if Sangha Meeting will meet a need.

Be well,

Stef