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About the White Wind
Zen Community
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The
White Wind Zen Community is the Sangha of students of Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi.
The Community was founded in 1985 and has several aspects: the Northern
Mountain Order, which is the monastic core of the community and the
community of formal, general, associate and public students.
In 1985, when Zen Master Anzan Hoshin was asked to name the
Sangha of students who had gathered around him, he named this community
White Wind Zazenkai - Hakukaze Zazenkai, after the monastery that
his own teacher had founded, Hakukaze-ji, and the name of the stream
of Dogen's Lineage of Zen that he had inherited and has now passed
on. Zazenkai means "gathering together for zazen."
The Zazenkai was renamed White Wind Zen Community in 1989 and is now
based in the Zen
Centre of Ottawa. It now also has branch centres in Wolfville,
Nova Scotia and Harrow,
England and students practising individually around the world.
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Programs
The Community provides an ongoing environment of study and training
for monastics and students. This includes morning and evening sittings,
four 7-day O-sesshin (intensive training periods), seven 2-day sesshin
and one yaza (all-night sitting) each year, retreats, Dharma Assemblies,
residential training, and study of the vast body of traditional
Dharma. A variety of classes and tutorials are also available to
students.
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As
well as the extensive teisho (presentations of the Teachings) by Zen
Master Anzan Hoshin, and
his Dharma successors Ven. Shikai Zuiko osho and Ven.
Jinmyo Renge osho also present
Dharma Talks.
The Zen Centre of Ottawa also hosts frequent tours and makes available speakers to grade
schools and high schools throughout the region.
Several programs are conducted each year that create new opportunities for the public to
contact the Dharma. These include:
(Notices
about upcoming Naikan contemplation intensives and mindfulness days
and retreats are posted on the "Resources"
page)
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Enrolment
Enrolment
in the Zen Community as a student of the Roshi takes seven
basic forms: associate student, general student, probationary
formal student, formal student, monastic, branch student,
or public student.
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Associate
Students may attend the Thursday evening associate
sittings, arrange for daisan (private meetings with a Dharma Teacher)
or practice interviews (private meetings with a practice advisor)
and have access to recorded teisho and Dharma Talks. In addition
they may attend Dharma Assemblies, schedule retreats or engage in a period of residential
training.
General Students attend one or more of the general
sittings and may arrange to attend all scheduled formal sittings
except for sittings and intensives such as sesshin that are specifically
designated for formal students or monastics.
Probationary
Formal Students and Formal Students
Study and practice intimately with the Roshi, or Shikai osho or
Jinmyo osho and attend scheduled formal sittings and monthly sesshin.
Monastic
Training
Formal students committed to deepening their own practice and becoming
a resource for the practice of their fellow students may enter the
rigor of monastic training as a laymonk or monk.
Branch Members practise at centres or groups established
under the direction of the Roshi. Residential training at Dainen-ji
is available.
Public
Students
There are also public students practising and studying at home in
Canada, the United States, Europe, India, China, Japan, the Middle
East, and West Africa. These students receive regular guidance and
instruction by email, telephone and letter. They may also download teisho, Dharma Talks and classes in MP3 format from our Media Site. For more information
concerning the resources available to public students, please read
the information on the "Long
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