Spring Sesshin

Teacher: Gillian Coote Category: ,

Saturday October 5 to Saturday October 12 (including Labor Day October 7)

SZC Spring sesshin will be led by Gillian Coote, roshi

“Over the silent peaceful days, breath by breath, as the ochre cliffs, eucalyptus forests, brilliant starry skies and the songs of frogs, crickets and birds advance and confirm the self, birds and trees and stars and we ourselves come forth in perfect harmony.” Our founding teacher, Robert Aitken, Dawn Cloud, 1917-2017.

Sesshin is an invitation to leave the tumbling, noisy, incessant world behind. At Kodoji, in the valley of beauty and wilderness, practising in deep silence and letting go of ideas and preoccupations creates opportunities to wake up moment by moment – to come home to the lyrebird’s song, the starry heavens and the vastness of this universe. To come home to your true self.

Contact: Janet Selby janetselby@bigpond.com

Application form here

 

SZC will hold other sesshins during the year:

Rohatsu sesshin at Annandale, led by Jane Andino
Wednesday December 4 to Sunday December 8   Contact: Diana Levy diana.r.levy@gmail.com

Timetable

  Open Time Close Time Teacher Address
05/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
05/10/2019 12:00 PM 9:00 PM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley
06/10/2019 6:00 AM 9:00 PM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
07/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
08/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
09/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
10/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
11/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
12/10/2019 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Gillian Coote Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
05/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
05/10/2019
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley
06/10/2019
6:00 AM - 9:00 PM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
07/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
08/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
09/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
10/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
11/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW
12/10/2019
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - with Gillian Coote - at Kodoji, Upper MacDonald Valley, NSW

Gillian Coote, a senior resident teacher of the Sydney Zen Centre, met Robert Aitken Roshi in 1980, regularly attending his annual sesshin in Sydney as well as training periods and sesshin in Hawai'i. She also studied with John Tarrant and Subhana Barzaghi, from whom she received dharma transmission in June 2004 at Kodoji, Temple of the Ancient Ground. Gillian has been involved with developing sangha at Sydney Zen Centre since the early '80's - organising sesshins, editing SZC's journal, Mind Moon Circle and being involved in sangha ceremonies and activities. Inspired by their experience of sangha building at the Ring of Bone Zendo in California in 1982, Gilly and her architect/builder husband Tony, have built and maintained, with the help of the sangha, our bush zendo Kodoji at Gorricks Run. She trained with environmental activist and Buddhist scholar, Joanna Macy, and for fifteen years was the co-ordinator of the Sydney branch of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. She has practised with Thich Nhat Hanh, attending his artists' retreat in Ojai, California and joined his pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India and Nepal. She directed and produced 'The Awakening Bell', a documentary film made during his visit to Sydney. Gillian is a social documentary filmmaker, writer, grandmother and bush regenerator.