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Summer, 2010

Every summer we have a group book study at ZCOC.  The purpose is to read and discuss a book together, after our regular sitting schedule, with emphasis upon its relationship to our own lives and practice.

While it is helpful to attend all of the sessions, to read the chapters in advance, and to be prepared to contribute to discussion, it is not required to participate.

This summer the book we have selected is:  How To Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo by Francis Dojun Cook.

The book study will begin on Tuesday, July 6, 2010.  This year the study will take place on six consecutive Tuesday evenings. 

Schedule:

July 6      Chap. 1 “Introduction” & Chap. 2 “Importance of Faith” (p.1—32)

July 13    Chap. 3 “Arousing the Thought of Enlightenment” (p. 33—48)

July 20    Chap. 4 “The Problem of Karma” (p. 49—62)

July 27    Chap. 6 “Giving Life to Our Lives” (p. 73—84)

Aug. 3     “The Sounds of Valley Streams, the Forms of the Mountain” & “Arousing the Supreme

               Thought" (p. 101—125)

Aug. 10   “Continuous Practice” & “Everyday Life” (p. 175—210)

Book Study in Recent Years: