Cloud Mountain Autumn Zazenkai, Saturday June 29, 2024
Sat, 29 June
|Cloud Mountain
Join us, if you’re close enough by to get to Cloud Mountain on the last Saturday of June for a winter Zazenkai.
time & place
29 June 2024, 10:30 am – 4:00 pm AEST
Cloud Mountain, 36 Wattamolla Rd, Woodhill NSW 2535, Australia
About
Perhaps we’ll find a theme in the words of Yunmen (whose name means Cloud Gate, by the way). A monk asked him “When the leaves wither and fall away, what is that?”. Yunmen replied “.”Golden Wind is manifesting herself
Golden Wind is the female deity of late autumn, early winter, as the last leaves fall to the ground and leave the trees bare against the empty sky. Another translation of Yunmen’s words, is “”.The body exposed in the autumn wind
What is this that is so utterly exposed by all things dropping away? What is this Golden Wind when there is little or nothing left ‘sticking’?bodymanifesting herself
Full day attendance is, of course, strongly encouraged -- but you can also attend for just the morning if necessary, and the entire day is offered on a Dana-only basis, to help support the teaching and the temple.
Cloud Mountain is at Wattamolla Rd, Woodhill. Train times can be…