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DECEMBER 2017 & JANUARY 2018 EVENTS

DEC: 2nd Rohatsu Sesshin ends

3rd Fujinkai Meeting 10 am

Jodo-E & Monthly Service & Memorial 11 am

10th Garden Cleaning/Omigaki 9 am

Goeika Osame 1 pm

12th Directors’ Meeting 7:30 pm

16th Mochigome Washing 8 am

17th Mochitsuki 7 am

25th Christmas Day - Temple closed

31st Year End Service 4 pm

JAN: 1st Shusho-E (new year’s service) 10 am

2nd - 4th Temple closed

7th Zen Aerobics restarts

9th Board Meeting 7:30 pm

15th ML King Jr.’s Day - Temple closed

21st Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in Japanese 11 am

27th Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in English 11 am

28th Fujinkai Meeting 1 pm

Monthly Service & Memorial 2 pm

Annual Temple Members’ General Meeting 3 pm

New Year’s Party 5 pm

AMAZON SMILE & ZENSHUJI

Now you can shop at Amazon and donate to Zenshuji at the same

time! Here is the link to Zenshuji Amazon smile page;

http://smile.amazon.com/ch/95-1782838

Please follow their instruction there on how to do it.

ROHATSU SESSHIN - NOV 26th to DEC 2nd

You are all invited to attend Rohatsu Sesshin, our one and only

sesshin of the year at Zenshuji. (A sesshin is a week-long retreat

in which people devote themselves to zazen.) This year, Rohatsu

Sesshin will begin on Sunday, Nov. 26th, and conclude at

midnight on Sat. Dec. 2nd.

Three meals will be served each day. For those who plan to join us for meals, it would be good to know if you are planning to eat with us. If you are planning to sit for quite a bit of the sesshin, please send an email to webmaster@zenshuji.org to register. We often get more people sitting with us on Sunday and particularly on Saturday, the last day. There is a suggested donation of $50- 150, on a sliding scale depending on your situation. Please come and join us, even if you can only sit for an hour or two.

MOCHITSUKI & MOCHI ORDER

We will have the annual end-of-the-year Mochitsuki (mochi pounding) at Zenshuji on Sunday December 17th from 7am to 4pm. We need a lot of muscle power to pound a lot of mochi rice. Please help us whenever you can. If you are ordering mochi, please mail/hand in the mochi order form below by the 12th. Every year we have people asking to buy but they did not order. Remember, we order the mochigome (mochi rice) by the order form counts. Please help us to be more accurate. Order As Soon As Possible.

One pound of small mochi = $5; Okasane-Mochi 1 set = $8

We also have Mochigome washing on Saturday,

December 16th from 8am.

Here is the mochi order form of this year. Please order by 12/12.

END THE YEAR WITH YEAR-END SERVICE

Our Year-End service will be at 4 pm on December 31st. Please join us to end the year calmly and spiritually.