Sitting Groups

White Plum Sangha logo Centres, temples, groups, meeting places and
affiliates of the White Plum Sangha in the UK

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LIVERPOOL

StoneWater Zen Liverpool
(Formerly the Liverpool Zen Group)
The Dojo, Top Floor, 13 Hope Street
Liverpool L1 9BH
Wednesday: Evening sitting and service - arrive 6.45pm or earlier, and finish around 9.00pm. We sit two periods, then hold a service and then break for tea and a chat. We conclude with a talk or a reading from a Zen text.
Thursday: Evening sitting - arrive 6.45 and finish around 9.00pm. Two periods of sitting, tea and a talk afterwards.
Tues, Thurs & Fri mornings: 7.00 to 8.10am. Arrive by 6.50am.
Evening sittings include an opportunity for interviews with the teacher, Keizan Scott Sensei. Suggested donation is £5.00 for any single session, although regular attendees are encouraged to contribute a regular monthly amount by standing order to the StoneWater Zen Centre Trust.
Beginners: Monthly introductions are held for first-timer visitors - we ask that you attend one of these before joining our other regular sittings. More details on our website.
Contact: StoneWater Zen Sangha
Website: www.StoneWaterZen.org

BILSBORROW, nr PRESTON, LANCS.

Kannon-ji Zen Temple
Wednesdays: Evening sitting 6:30pm – 8:00pm with Genshin Sensei.
Daracombe, Church Lane, Bilsborrow PR3 0RL
Tel: (01995) 640 346 or Cyrus Gabrysch (07838) 173 172
Email: kannonji@xs4all.nl
Web: Genshin Sensei's Myspace page

NORTH LONDON (N1)
StoneWater Zen London

Stonewater London meets monthly in north London on a Saturday from 10.00am until 1.00 pm - see the StoneWater site for details. We offer introductory guidance on zazen and zendo procedures followed by three 30 minute periods of zazen, interspersed with kinhin (slow walking practice) and conclude with a short service. There is time to go for coffee and a bite to eat afterwards. We hire space at the North London Buddhist Centre on the Holloway Road and ask for a contribution to the cost (£5.00 waged; £3.00 unwaged).
Contact: Dorinda Talbot (dorindatalbot@googlemail.com) or Tony Doubleday (tony@doublton.wanadoo.co.uk)
Web: http://www.stonewaterzen.org/groups/london

NORTH LONDON (NW3)

Thursday Weekly Meditation Group in London NW3
Nearest Tube: Belsize Park
7pm-9pm
Zazen, open sharing, tea, reading from a Dharma text
Friendly, encouraging, informal. Open to all.
Hosted by Sarita Doveton and Manu Bazzano
Donation: £3

Last Saturday of each month:
ONE DAY OF ZEN lunch included 10am-4pm donation: £15-£25 depending on income.
No one will be turned away for lack of money.

Call 020 7267 6147 or for more information...
email: hazymoon@onetel.com

SOUTH EAST LONDON (SE15)

Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. sharp - zazen sitting and discussion in George Jisho Robertson's small zendo. George has practiced with Genpo Roshi for 26 years, and recently returned from residence at Roshi's center in Salt Lake City - see his entry on the Home page. You are welcome to come for sitting, but please get in touch first.
Contact details:
9 Troy Town Flats, Peckham Rye, London SE15 4NS
Email: georgejisho@gmail.com
Phone: 0207 358 8549 and 07949 730 509
Note: George is organizing a series of Big Mind Western Zen practice days in London – we have held two and they were wonderful experiences for new and well-seasoned ones alike. If you would like to be on that mailing list, please contact him.

CALDERDALE

Meets weekly in the Halifax / Hebden Bridge area on Thursday evenings. Also occasional full day Saturdays. Informal, beginners welcome.
Contact: Ian (01422) 824260 or e-mail jupiterandapollo@yahoo.co.uk.
Web: www.stonewaterzen.org/index.php/calderdale-sitting-group

HARLOW, ESSEX

Monthly sitting Group held the evening of the third Friday of each month (unless rescheduled). Starts at 6.30pm.
Call: Shelley Osman on 07919 371 852
Website: http://www.ashtangahealing.co.uk/zen.html

HARROGATE, YORKSHIRE

Sittings on Tuesday at 7.30. For details and to join us, please call Stephen Prosser on 01423 884000, or email hilaryandstephen@googlemail.com.

HOVE, EAST SUSSEX

Hove Zen & Mindfulness group
Weekly meetings: Mondays 6.15 - 7.45pm
Venue: Westwerks, 41-43 Portland Road, Hove. Last Monday of the month we do Genpo Roshi's Big Mind process.
Call Dheeresh Turnbull if interested on 07917772659.

HULL

John Oldham, 32 Baxter Gate, Hedon, Hull HU12 8JN
Telephone 01482 898382, or email johngold@johngold.karoo.co.uk.
Most Thursdays at 7.15 pm (please ring to check)

LAKE DISTRICT
StoneWater Zen Lake District

The zendo at Butterwick, nr Shap, in the Lake District is used mainly for weekend sesshins from Friday evening to Sunday lunchtime, which are advertised on the StoneWater Zen Sangha website. The retreats are held in silence and vegetarian meals are provided. The daily schedule includes several meditation periods, samu, dharma talks and interviews with Sensei, informal meals, and usually a chance to go out for walks in the countryside on Saturday afternoons.
Web: www.stonewaterzen.org/index.php/stonewater-lake-district

MAIDSTONE, KENT

Weekly sittings on Wednesdays + one Sunday every month.
Call Barbara Hussong on 01622 670587 for more details.

OKEHAMPTON, DEVON
Okehampton Zen Meditation Group

We are a small group which meets weekly on Thursday evenings, 7:30pm to 9:30pm in the Hound Room at the Ockment Community Centre in Okehampton, Devon (see calendar on website). Each meeting consists of two 25 minute periods of silent meditation, separated by walking meditation. This is followed by a short recorded talk or reading. The evening ends with tea and a chat.
The group welcomes anyone who would like to learn and practise zen meditation (japanese: zazen). Beginners are welcome and basic instruction will be given.
Contact details: For further details please contact David Childs by e-mail or call 01837 55805 (evenings and weekends).
Website: www.okehamptonzen.org

SHEFFIELD

Sheffield Zen Group
Zazen, sutras, study and tea. Beginners very welcome.
Every Tuesday (please note new day of meeting) 7.30-9.30pm, Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, Sheffield S1. We usually do zazen sitting meditation, kinhin walking meditation, chanting sutras, tea and discussion of a Buddhist text.
Further details: Bob Bowles 0114 258 2729 or email enquiries@whiteplumzensheffield.org.uk
Website: www.whiteplumzensheffield.org.uk

WILTSHIRE
Wild Goose Sangha

These are meetings of the Wild Goose Sangha under the direction of Father Patrick Eastman, a Dharma Holder in the White Plum Asanga. Contact him at Eastman, 30 North Wall, Cricklade, Wiltshire SN6 6DU.
Web: www.wildgoosesangha.org.uk

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