ANNOUCEMENT: The Board of Ordinary Mind Zen-Brownsville has decided to change the day and time of our meetings. Beginning this week, the fourth week in October of 2007, we will hold our meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month. The time will change to 6 pm. Beginners seeking instruction should arrive at 5:45 pm.
At 6pm we will begin with sitting meditation, followed by kinhin at 6:30, and discussion ending at or around 7:15pm.

For additional information please contact:
Ed Miller at (956)621-1767
James or Suzie Lovegren at (956)399-9548

Ordinary Mind Zen-Austin Intensive

James and I attended a weekend Intensive at our sister sangha, Ordinary Mind Zen-Austin, on September 21-23. It was led by Peg Syverson, Zen priest and founder of Ordinary Mind Zen-Austin and Flint Sparks, Zen priest, psychotherapist, and founder of Austin Zen Center. I would like to invite you to view Peg's Ordinary Mind blog and go to "Reflections from the Intensive" on September 27th 2007

http://ordinarymindaustin.blogspot.com/

Peg asked, "What is possible in a weekend?" Listening to Flint Sparks make the esoteric teaching of the masters sound so available, so ready to use and doing it in such a wonderfully humorous and poetic way; Sitting with serious students in silence, eating with them and feeling their support of this practice; Feeling Peg's caring guidance at each moment -during zazen, working at preparing meals, attending practice interviews, and listening to her wondrous commentary on the artistry of each of our lives. So what is possible in a weekend is this: To fully recommit to the heart of this strange and mysterious practice that we call zazen.