This year’s Kannon Do Fall Weekend Retreat will run from 6pm on Friday 28th September until 3pm on Sunday 30th September. The venue is the Jikoji Zen Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains; a peaceful forest setting for a weekend in nature. The weekend will consist of meditation, samu (work periods), walking and ceremony.

Please join us on Saturday September 29th for a garden work day. There is pruning, weeding and general neatening-up to be done as we head towards the rainy season. We'll meet in the courtyard at 10:30, and tools and gloves will be provided. Everyone is welcome to join in, and to bring friends along.

Please join us on Saturday, October 6th at 10:30 a.m. for a Dharma Talk and workshop titled “Pen to Paper Sutra Copying” led by long-term Buddhist practitioner and artist Marcia Lieberman. Using brush and ink is one of the key temple arts practiced by Buddhist monks.

If you plan on attending Sesshin on October 13th please join Victor Legge for Oryoki training on Friday, October 12th at 6 p.m.  Oryoki is the traditional way that Japanese monks eat their food in monasteries.

Kannon Do will host a one-day meditation retreat, or Sesshin on Saturday, October 13th. This day of mindfulness offers a rare opportunity to turn our awareness to the simple activities that sustain our lives, and that we normally take for granted: breathing, walking, eating, being attentive to the workings of our mind.

Please join us on Tuesday, October 16th at 6:00 p.m. for a screening of the 1989 movie Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Running time: 145 minutes) It is an award-winning South Korean film written, produced and directed by Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Please join us for the Sangha meeting held in the Sangha house at 10: 30 a.m. on October 20th.  Everyone is welcome.

Please join us at 10:30 AM for an Introduction to Zen on Saturday, October 27th.  This orientation is intended primarily for individuals  new to Zen practice,  as well as experienced practitioners who have  questions about their contemplative practice.  This informal get together takes place on the first Saturday of the month,  lasting  about 90 minutes.

Please join us on Saturday, November 3rd at 10:30 a.m. for a Dharma talk and a sound and chanting workshop by long-term Buddhist practitioner and artist Marcia Lieberman. During the “Sound in Zen Practice” workshop Marcia will explore sound in the zendo and lead participants in a session of group chanting.

Please join us for Mike Diamond's Lay Ordination (Jukai) ceremony on Saturday, November 10th at 11 a.m.