Our usual Wednesday evening meditation session will take a break this week, and instead we’ll have a Full Moon Gathering, which will be open to all, both new and experienced meditators.

Bodhivajra will lead an evening of Zen poems interspersed with meditation, and the evening will conclude with a puja (Buddhist devotional practice) inspired by the life and poetry of Ryōkan, one of Japan’s best-loved wandering Buddhist poets.

“Clear and clearer with the moon

the heart swells widening out toward

what distant end I know not.” (Saigyō)