Celebrate the New Year with dharma reflections, meditation, and refreshments. Sunday morning, January 1, we will open the New Year with the regular Sunday events: 8:20 chanting, 9:45 dharma talk, and discussion, followed at 11:30 by offerings to bring in the New Year. Refreshments follow.

Everyone is welcome.

8:15am	Doors open
8:20am	Morning service/chanting
8:50am	Zazen/meditation
9:20am	Soji/community tasks
9:45am	Dharma Talk
10:30am	Questions & Discussion
11:10am	New Year's Celebration

Esperanza (Hope) outside the Hojo.

The altar: You may want to bring something to place on the altar during the gathering - something you will take home at the end of the morning to keep with you during the coming year. 

Farewell to the Old Year: As we bid farewell to the old year and all its karma, we ceremonially burn things that are no longer needed. We have a very small and safe fire to burn old incense pieces and small pieces of paper with new intentions. You may wish to write down a list of hindrances that you would like to add to the fire, things that you are ready to leave behind.

New Year's Toast: Our final activity is a celebratory toast to the New Year and to all the possibilities it offers.

May everyone enjoy a peaceful New Year.

Sunrise at Auspicious Cloud Retreat Center in October.