Please join us on Saturday, September 8th at 10:30am for a Dharma Talk and workshop titled “How to Create Sacred Spaces and Altars at Home”. This will be the first of three events to be held at Kannon Do this fall by long-term Buddhist practitioner and artist Marcia Lieberman.

Please join us on Tuesday, September 11th at 6:00 p.m.

Please join us for Misha Merrill's Dharma talk after zazen (at 7: 10 p.m.) on Wednesday, September 12th .  Misha was one of the first Zen students at Kannon Do, several years before it was established at Rock Street.  Today she is the teacher at Zen Heart Sangha in Menlo Park.

Please join us for the Sangha meeting held in the Sangha house at 10: 30 a.m. on September 15th.  Everyone is welcome.

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.