Uji and Time-Being, Online 3/6–3/20
Description
The Zoom link to participate in this event will be provided at least 24 hours before it begins. Please call 415-354-0360 if you have any questions.
Three Saturdays, March 6–20, 9:00–11:00 am PT
Time can feel fleeting, relentless, or surprisingly spacious. Our conventional sense that nothing lasts shapes our relationship with time, sometimes bringing a sense of urgency or unease. We interpret impermanence as change, and we resist it.
In Uji, Dogen encourages us to see time from a radically unique perspective. To Dogen, impermanence is not change, rather it refers to the momentary existence of everything. While we have to live in accordance with time conventionally, we can come to realize that time is not a real thing. The only real thing is this moment.
We will explore how Dogen’s Uji can help us heal the painful separation we feel far too often between ourselves, time, and our very lives. When we realize that we are time, time no longer flies by.
“Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is.” — Dogen
Please join Cynthia and Diane in what promises to be a radical yet liberating exploration of time and how Dogen’s insights might help us find more ease in our lives.
Recordings:
All course sessions will be recorded, and registered participants will receive temporary access to the recordings for later viewing.
Fee Information
- Benefactor Ticket Price: $210 — supports others’ participation
- Standard ticket price: $168 — covers full program costs
- Member (Become an SFZC Member): $151 — for current SFZC members
- Supported: $101 — community supported rate
- Deeply Supported: $42 — for broadest accessibility
- Current SFZC residents and qualified SFZC retirees may attend this course for free. To register, please email onlineprograms@sfzc.org at least 72 hours before the program begins.
Or call 415-354-0360.
Ryotan Cynthia Kear
Cynthia is Guiding Teacher of Great Spirit Sangha and Women of the Way Sangha. She is also a senior teacher of Meditation in Recovery. Receiving Jukai with Paul Haller in 2004, Cynthia was subsequently ordained in 2008 and then Dharma Transmitted in 2010 by her heart teacher, Darlene Cohen.
Diane Shoshin Fitzgerald
Diane was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in 2013 and received full Dharma transmission in 2017 in the combined lineage that derives from Rev Master Jiyu-Kennett, the first western female Soto Zen priest, and the koan teaching Sanbo Kyodan Zen Community through Robert Aitken, Roshi. Diane formed the Zen DownEast Maine sangha in 2012 and serves as its Spiritual Director/Guiding Teacher.