New Year's Eve at Windhorse

These ceremonies and celebrations are a great way to end one year and begin the new! Here's what's happening at Windhorse:

On Saturday, Dec. 31, the Center will open at 7:00pm.  Tea will be available as people congregate, with a fire in the hearth if it’s cold enough outside.  Formal zazen begins at 7:30, followed by all the ceremonies—quiet and noisy—that will help us enter 2012 feeling renewed, with cleansed minds and open hearts. We end with a candlelit circle, everyone reading a few lines of the New Year's Prayer (see below), together beaming out many wishes for peace and happiness for all on the planet.

To Sangha and Other Friends of Windhorse

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This evening we begin the week of Rohatsu, Buddha’s Enlightenment Sesshin -- our last retreat of the year. Before diving in, we’re sending out this letter with photos to show what’s happening at Windhorse, and to ask for your support in completing the new residential space. 

Once we finish the building – and we’re not so far from our fundraising goal -- we can begin to use this beautiful place in the woods! It will provide much-needed rooming for more residents, sesshin participants and visitors, and will make possible a greater range of Zen-related workshops. Such programs should help us reach more people and be more financially resilient in the years to come.