London zen groups meet regularly to practice zazen - the core practice in the Soto Zen tradition.
Zazen
is a form of meditation - it is wholehearted upright sitting. We sit as
the Buddha sat, silent and still in the calm posture of awakening.
Introductions to our zazen practice are held weekly at both
locations for the london zen groups. Everybody is welcome to attend
please come at the specified time.
The introduction is not
meant to be a 'course' on buddhism, on meditation, or even on zen. It
is simply an introduction to our practice of zazen, and to the various
forms and etiquette we use. Once you have attended an introduction, you
are welcome to come and practice with us, or indeed with any affiliated
group, whenever you like.
Introductions take aproximately 20
minutes and afterwards there will be a period of zazen that will be
about an hour long, with a 5 or 10 minute interval of Kinhin (slow,
concentrated walking) in the middle.
After zazen, we will chant a few short sutras, you will be given a sheet with the words so you can join in.
There
is no need to book a space for an introduction. All our introductions
as well as all our periods of zazen, are entirely drop-in - if for some
reason we need to cancel an introduction or zazen, a notice will be
posted on this website, on the front page under "announcements".
