Weekly meditation and Retreats


Weekly Meditation Program 

The Adelaide Zen Group offers weekly meditation practice sessions (including sitting and walking meditation, chanting and private teacher interviews) on the following days:

Check the calendar for more details: Use this LINK to access our online calendar including details such as: which teacher will be present and any changes to the schedule (sometimes practice sessions are cancelled due to retreats and occassionally the start/finish times are also modified).  

Attending for the first time? If attending for the first time we ask that you please contact us using azg@azg.org.au so that a short orientation can be arranged (20 minutes or so) before the group practice session commences.

Help AZG cover ongoing costs including rent: We ask people to please consider a contribution of between $5 and $10 per practice session to help cover ongoing costs associated with maintaining our weekly practice sessions including rent, teacher stipends, insurance and equipment. This is not a compulsory contribution, please offer what you can within your means. 

Payments can be made either in cash on the day you attend or using online direct debit (People’s Choice): BSB805-050 Account No.102688007 If you could please identify your payment as either "Hutt St" for the Sunday practice session donations or "St Chads" for the Thursday evening practice session donations. 


Retreat Program for 2024 

Online registration now open for December online Rohatsu sesshin


Online registration 

Please use this LINK to register online by Friday, 29 November, with full payment required by Wednesday, 4 December. Please contact Julian Di Bez (dibez@bigpond.com) with any inquiries regarding the Sesshin.


December Online Rohatsu Sesshin

 

"Together with all beings, sentient or insentient, with grasses and trees, together with the great earth, I attain the Buddha Way," uttered Shakyamuni Buddha. With his great enlightenment, Shakyamuni, the World-Honoured One, attained perfect liberation. He came to life, to true life, to liberation—which is our birthright, our essence. (Harada Tangen Roshi). 


In our Rohatsu sesshin we commemorate and engage deeply with the great matter of the Buddha's awakening. Awakening is the point of Zen. The liberation it brings is available to us all. It is our birthright.


Our Rohatsu begins at 7.00pm, Thursday 12 December and concludes at 5 pm, on Sunday 15 December. Please note: all times are Australian Central Standard (Adelaide). Participants from other time zones will need to adjust accordingly.  "Rohatsu" (Japanese for "eighth day of the twelfth month") is the day Zen Buddhists throughout the world observe the Buddha's enlightenment. 


This Sesshin will be provided in an at-home, online format and will be led by Allan Marett Roshi and Peter Bursky Sensei. Allan is a teacher of the Adelaide Zen Group. He was appointed as a Diamond Sangha teacher in 2012, and received transmission from Subhana Barzaghi Roshi in 2018. Peter is an apprentice teacher in the Diamond Sangha tradition and teaches at the Sydney Zen Centre.

The format of this sesshin is highly flexible. Applicants can sign up for full time or part time. While attendance at the opening evening is compulsory, participants can attend for as many or as few blocks as possible.

Program Outline 

Thursday Evening

7.00-9.00 pm Self Introductions and sesshin roles, zazen, sesshin cautions, teachers’ opening words, sutras.

Friday-Saturday 

Block 1 (6.00-8.00 am) Tea, morning ceremony, zazen and kinhin, dokusan.

Block 2 (9.30 am-12.00 noon) Sutras, zazen and kinhin.

Block 3 (2.00-4.30 pm) Zazen and kinhin, teisho, dokusan, reading.

Block 4 (7.00-9.00 pm) Zazen and kinhin, dokusan, evening ceremony.

Sunday morning

Block 1 (6.00-8.00 am) Tea, morning ceremony, zazen and kinhin, dokusan.

Block 2 (9.30 am -12.00 noon) Sutras, zazen and kinhin 

Block 3 (2.00-5.00 pm) Zazen and kinhin, teisho, dokusan, closing ceremony 

Fees 

The fees are as follows:

Concessions are available 

Please don’t let financial issues prevent you from attending sesshin. If the program fee presents a barrier for attending, concessions are available on request.


The preferred mode of payment is electronic funds transfer to the Adelaide Zen Group (People's Choice) BSB: 805 050 Account No: 102688007 Please identify online payments with your name and the notation "Sesshin". 


Please note that payment by instalments and/or payment using an alternative method is available on request to Julian Di Bez (dibez@bigpond.com). 


Online registration 

Please use this LINK to register online by Friday, 29 November, with full payment required by Wednesday, 4 December.


Please contact Julian Di Bez (dibez@bigpond.com) with any inquiries regarding the Sesshin.


Retreat Program for 2025

Save the dates 

More details, including online registration will be provided closer to the dates. If you would like any further information please contact the Secretary: David Edwards: davidedwards1811@gmail.com

March 15 (Saturday): One-day zazenkai

The teacher for this program will be Allan Marett. It will be offered at St Chad's Anglican Church in Fullarton from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

April/May: 5 day residential sesshin. 

The teachers for this program will be Imelda Carson and Steve Wigg. More dtails will be provided as soon as they become available. 

July: 2-day Intensive 

The teachers for this program will be Imelda Carson and Steve Wigg. More details will be provided as soon as they are available. 

August/September: four day non-residential sesshin

The teachers for this program will be Allan Marett. It will be offered from Friday afternoon 29 August to Monday 1 September at the Sophia Centre in Cumberland Park. 

October/November: 2-day intensive. 

The teachers for this program will be Imelda Carson and Steve Wigg. More detalis will be provided as soon as they are available. 

December 13. One-day Rohatsu zazenkai

The teacher for this program will be Allan Marett. It will be offered at St Chad's Anglican Church in Fullarton.