April 23, 2020

HAPPY EARTH WEEK!

Our ZHS on-line schedule 
(for more information: zenheartsangha.org)  

• Mondays: 7-8:30pm - zazen, short service, lecture/discussion
• Tuesdays-Fridays: 5:30-6:10pm - zazen, offering of merit/bows
• Saturdays: 8:00-10:15am - zazen, short service, tea, discussion/study

Special bows for today:  

• Please offer bows for Donald Kennedy, former president of Stanford University, who died from COVID-19
• Please offer bows for Nick Battaglia, Camille Spar's father, who died Aprill 13th at the age of 104
• Please continue to offer bows for the family of Alison Templeton, a Peninsula School parent, who died on April 1st after a long struggle with cancer
• Please offer bows for Lucille Dacanay's stepson, Mario Dacanay, who has tested positive for COVID-19
• Please offer bows for all those in residence at Gordon Manor diagnosed with COVID-19
• Please continue to offer bows of well-being for:   
• Rev. Les Kaye, Misha’s Zen teacher, who is recovering at home while undergoing chemotherapy
• Brendan, Kate Haimson’s son, who is recovering at home from surgery 
• Michael Tieri Ricaud, Dainuri Rott’s brother, who is suffering from MS

Wonderful links shared by sangha and friends:

• New tab on Zen Heart Sangha website with resources about COVID-19 (zenheartsangha.org)
• From our dharma sister, Jill: Poet and essayist, Wendell Berry, being interviewed by Krista Tippet and reading aloud his poetry: podcast can be found at onbeing.org, show #827. 
• From our dharma friend, Mary Hofstedt:  Earthday 72 hour live stream (performances, panels, trainings, conversations with elected officials) a massive live stream and online mobilization event, Earth Day Live
• From our dharma sister, Sylvia: a relaxing afternoon with sheep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKkchVOOAs    
• From our dharma friend, Mary Hofstedt: UNESCO virtual tours of world heritage sites (Pompeii, the Taj Majal, Stonehenge, Great Pyramids, etc)  Unesco is providing virtual tours of world heritage sites 

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Contributed by our dharma brother, Rick Moss:  

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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