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It’s GARDEN CLEANING Time Again!
Once again we will be taking a day to spruce up the temple and we need your help! This will be our last chance before the Obon Carnival to make sure our grounds look good. No skills necessary! All are welcome and we will even feed you lunch! So even if you only have a little bit of time to spare please come by. It’s on SUNDAY, JUNE 28th starting 9am.
June & July Events 2009
JUNE 6th Rummage Sale 8am -1pm
Karaoke Night 7:30pm
9th Board Meeting 7:30pm
14th Zoukin making Meeting 10am
Carnival Committee/Volunteer Meeting 11am
21st Monthly Service & Memorial 11am
Fujinkai Meeting 10am
Daruma Club 12 Noon
Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in Japanese 10am
28th Garden Cleaning 9am
30th Movie ’ZEN’ Screening 7:30pm
JULY 4th Independence Day / Temple Closed
5th CHOCHIN Hanging 9am
7th Board Meeting 7:30pm
9th Carnival Booth Construction 5pm
10th Carnival Final Preparations
11th & 12th OBON CARNIVAL 11am-8pm
OBON Service 1:30pm
14th Carnival Clean-Up 5pm
26th Dr. Kato’s Buddhism Lecture in Japanese 10am
51st Annual OBON CARNIVAL
Zenshuji will have the 51st annual Obon Carnival on July 11th and 12th. The Carnival will run from 11am to 8pm. The Obon Service will be at 1:30pm on both days. Tell your neighbours and friends and bring the whole family! There will be plenty to do and see and of course EAT!!! This yearly fundraiser needs everyone’s help to put on so if you have time please come by:
June 14th, Sun Carnival Committee/Volunteer Meeting 11am
28th, Sun Garden Cleaning 9am
July 5th, Sun CHOCHIN Hanging 9am
9th, Thu Carnival Booth Construction 5pm
10th, Fri Carnival Final Preparations
11th, Sat & 12th, Sun OBON CARNIVAL 11am-8pm
OBON Service 1:30pm
14th, Tue Carnival Clean-Up 5pm
LABBCC SUMMER CAMP 2009
Registration forms are now available in the office for the 2009 LABCC summer camp at Camp Morning Star. The deadline for camp registration is June 30th. Last year’s camp was full and it looks like this year will be the same so register early to make sure your child can attend. Do not wait, resister as soon as possible!
ZOUKIN Making Meeting
We will be holding a Zazen-kai group event to hand-make traditional *zoukin's to be used for souji (cleaning, a samu) of our zendo on June 14th, Sunday at 10:00am, at Social Hall, Zenshuji. This event is purely for fun and a get-together for Zazen-kai participants. Please bring used cotton towels and/or T-shirts, and a hand sewing kit if you have one. We will be providing sewing needles, threads and fabric for those who don’t have. Rev. Kojima will give us an introductory talk at the event.
*A Zoukin is a traditional Japanese cleaning cloth. It is commonly handmade from recycled cloth or fabric, folded several times and then sewn together in order to hold its fold, shape and thickness. We are thinking to make two types of zoukin for the Zendo souji, blue or any colored ones to be used for cleaning the floor and white zoukin’s for cleaning the tatami and above. Any questions, please contact <webmaster@zenshuji.org>.
Zenshuji welcomes you to join us at our Obon Carnival. We are trying to get the word out and hard copies of this flyer are available at the temple for you to pick up and distribute. (to family, friends, neighbourhood, local businesses....etc)
Call us at 213-624-8658. Or you can download (1.2mb) the flyer to print out.
Click on the image to enlarge.
Movie “ZEN” - The Life of Dōgen - Screening
We are very excited to announce that on Tuesday, June 30th, 7:30pm at the Zenshuji main hall, the Zazenkai will be screening the movie *ZEN*. This is a full length feature film (Japanese with English subtitles) dramatizing the life of Dōgen Zenji, the founder of Sōtō school of Zen. As far as we know this is the Los Angeles premier and everyone is invited. Free admission.
Here is the link to the official web site of the movie. http://www.zen.sh/