Welcome to Ordinary Mind Umeå's sesshin
27/9-4/10
By the lake Tavelsjön
With Zenmaster Karen Terzano
“The purpose of meditation is seeing our lives as they really are”
Norman Fischer in “Taking our Places”
“All practice aims to increase our ability to be attentive, not just in
zazen but in every moment of our life”
Joko Beck in “Everyday Zen”
Dates
Friday, September 27th at 5:00 PM – Saturday, October 4th at approximately 4:00 PM.
Application link: here
About sesshin
Sesshin is a retreat in the Zen Buddhist tradition where we get the opportunity to train ourselves to be present in what is, and is happening right now. In ourselves, in encounters with others, in our actions, thoughts and feelings. Sesshin provides training in meeting others with an open heart, without evaluative and judgmental filters.
Sesshin can be a help on the way to realize that we, and all living beings, matter, the cosmos belong together, where each individual part affects the whole, and that everything has equal value.
Our teacher Karen Terzano often says:
“EVERYTHING BELONGS”
The main activities are zazen (seated meditation) and kinhin (walking meditation). In addition, the program includes dokusan (voluntary conversation with the teacher), dharma talk/teisho (talks given by the teacher), ceremony (recitation of sutras), body practice for example,l yoga (optional), and rest periods. And samu (work period), one hour each day.
Sesshin is conducted in complete silence. If anything needs to be communicated, the teacher and the jikido (meditation leader) are available to answer questions. It is an advantage if you have some experience of meditating before coming to sesshin. You can contact the jikido (see contact below) if you want tips on where to go to try out meditation, or if you have other questions about sesshin.
If you want to know more about meditation practice and Ordinary Mind, click here
Read more about Karen Terzano, Zenmaster here
Location and accommodation
The sesshin is held at Lyckebo Sommargård, located by the lake Tavelsjön, 25 km outside of Umeå. Accommodation is in shared rooms. You may notify personal preferenses & needs in your registration. Toilets and showers are located 100 meters from the dormitories in a separate building. There are 7 steps stairs into main building and 8 steps into dormatories. For anyone traveling far, we will try to help arrange accommodation before and after thesesshin.
We serve vegan diet. Please notify any allergies/special diets in your registration.
Travel to Lyckebo
You are responsible for getting to and from the sesshin. You can get to Lyckebo either by bus or car.
Buses leave from Umeå Bus station or Vasaplan, which are located 100 meters and 500 meters from Umeå Central train station, respectively. From the bus stop where you get off, it is about 1.5 km to Lyckebo.Detailed information about the buses can be found in the welcome letter closer to the sesshin. If you are driving a car and have extra space in it, please write in the registration form when and where you are driving from and if you are also driving from Lyckebo after sesshin.
We will provide a document with which cars are available, so that anyone who wants, can contact a driver for a ride to Lyckebo.
Participation fees
We offer our members a lower price. If you choose to become a member of Ordinary Mind Umeå, you will also become a member of Ordinary Mind Sweden. The membership fee is 150 SEK.
Full time: Friday evening - Saturday evening: Member 2400 SEK. Non-member 2700 SEK
Part time: Monday - Saturday evening: Member 2150 SEK. Non-member 2400 SEK
Part time: Wednesday - Saturday evening: Member 1900 SEK. Non-member 2100 SEK
If you are in need of a special payment arrangement or if we can otherwise facilitate your participation, please contact us (see contact at the bottom).
Last day for payment and cancellation is September 17th. If you cancel later, SEK 500 willbe charged.
Payment is made to:
Swish: 123 216 14 04, or to
Bank Account Swedbank: 8327-9, 734227890-5.
If the payment is made from abroad, the following payment information is also needed,
IBAN: SE35 8000 0832 7973 4227 8905, BIC: SWEDSESS.
Mark the payment with: sesshin + your name.
To apply & register for sesshin, go here
To become a member of OM Umeå, find more info here.
Contact
If you have questions about the sesshin structure, payment, food, accommodation, transportation/carpooling, or anything else that may facilitate your participation, please contact us via email umea@ordinarymind.se . We will then contact you via email or phone. We will email you about 2 weeks before the sesshin with more detailed information and contact details for the organizers.
YOU ARE WARMLY WELCOME