2023 Empty Bowl Zen Community
End of Year Letter
Dear Sangha,
I was thinking the other day, how wonderful it is to be a part of our Empty Bowl Community.
To see so many of you wanting to practice the Way and support each other in the process of awakening to this life. Our world is uncertain and changeable, so it is a valuable thing for us to dedicate ourselves to awakening both our hearts and minds.
Especially in these challenging times (personal & global) our Empty Bowl community is most important. Here at EBZ, we respond to these challenges, by providing a refuge and space to practice. What we offer here is so valuable and rare. We offer weekly dharma talks and a regular opportunity for private interviews to deepen our insights with experienced teachers. Monthly zazenkai, seasonal householder retreats and our annual ango intensive. Not to forget our online interviews with Zen inspired artists like author, poet and Zen teacher Peter Levitt at Art in the Empty Bowl.
In the new year, Alice Potz, sensei will be holding our first koan workshop and we will be having ceremonies to install two dharma holders (Henry & Jacky) as sensei’s.
Of course, none of this happens without your generous donations. We do have expenses, like rent, teacher stipends, insurance payments, maintaining our website and the small but ongoing cost of supplies.
We depend on your generosity, so a place like EBZ, is where people can reliably go regardless of their circumstances and practice the dharma teachings.
We are lucky to have you all with us and your giving makes it possible to continue to do what we do.
I’m grateful we are doing this work together. I look forward to another wonderful year of practice and offerings at EBZ.
Ray Ruzan Cicetti
Please send your tax deductible checks to:
Empty Bowl Zendo
60 Independence Way, Morristown, New Jersey 07960
Anyone wishing a donation receipt for their contributions to the Zendo, contact Gerard Kammerer