Shohaku Okumura-Roshi will be in Pennsylvania in November to once again lead our annual Fall Stillpoint retreat.
Okumura-Roshi has a busy schedule this year, but he has graciously committed to leading our fall retreat on November 15-18, 2018.
Villa Maria is located about fifty miles north of Pittsburgh. We encourage you to arrive on the evening of Thursday November 15th.
We will maintain silence in the middle of a perhaps not so silent environment. This year we will be housed in Potier Center at Villa Maria. The rooms in Potier Center have either one twin bed, two twin beds or a single queen sized bed. Each of the rooms has a private bath and shower.
Vegetarian meals will be provided.
Okumura-Roshi is the Abbott and head teacher at Sanshin-ji in Bloomington, Indiana (
http://www.sanshinji.org), a Zen community which he founded over a decade ago. He has travelled widely throughout Asia, Europe and South America, as well as various retreat centers in the USA sharing the Dharma, and is one of the world’s foremost scholars of Dogen Zenji’s teachings, as well as being a dedicated life-long practitioner of those teachings.
Okumura-Roshi has led numerous Stillpoint retreats here in Pittsburgh since 1996 and has provided inspirational spiritual guidance to our community for many years. He has a very special connection with our sangha, and we are very fortunate that he wishes to continue his annual retreats with us despite the many competing demands on his time.
UPDATE - Registration has been extended until November 1, 2018.
