WEEKLY SCHEDULE

                                  Wednesday at 6:00-7:30 PM in the style of Thich Nhat Hanh
                                  (Please call if you wish instruction during the pre-sit at 5:30)  
                                  Beginners’ Class is held every fourth Wednesday of the month.

                                  The third Sunday of each month at 8:00 AM:  Monthly Sunday
                                  morning services in the Japanese Zen style, led by lay minister
                                   Philip Toy.  Tea will follow at 9:00.

We also offer:   
-Days of mindfulness and retreats
-E-Newsletter: “cloud water,” with monthly teachings
-Dharma interviews with Judith and Philip by appointment
-Immersion courses in Zen
-Zen lending library

So as not to distract others at weekly meditation gatherings or other Sangha activities, it is best to cover your arms
and legs and minimize jewelry, scents and loud fabric patterns.

                                   Thank you for your inquiry! May you be peaceful. May you be peace.

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                                                                                           Dana

Cloud Cottage gratefully accepts your dana.  Dana is a Sanskrit word meaning gift, alms, donation.   This is the
voluntary giving of material, energy or wisdom to others, which, remarkably, does not distinguish between giving and
receiving.  The practice of dana in the form of almsgiving to mendicant monks is still very widespread in many
Theravadan Buddhist countries.  The lay follower gives food and clothing to the monk as well as money to the
monastery; the monk, for her part, gives instruction and other spiritual help.  This interchange can bring great
happiness to both student and teacher.  

Suggested (but not required) donation for meditation $5 per visit. This helps defray the cost of running the Zendo,
and keeps this space dedicated to our practice and related activities.  If donations exceed expenses, (a rare
occurence indeed,) the rest go to our teachers, Judith and Philip Toy, who share the teachings freely and are not
supported by their order.

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                                                               Celebration!!!   Special Tea Ceremony!!!
                                                                                  November 14   

  We are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the founding of Cloud Cottage and the opening of our just completed tea-
room on November 14. The event will also honor our three recent Order of Interbeing ordinees. Open house hours for
the event are 2:00 to 6:00 PM.

    Emiko Nishiwaki, Sensei, tea master, will demonstrate the traditional Japanese tea ceremony at 3:00 PM.  Nishiwaki
began studying Omote-senke tea ceremony in 1986, with Master Fujii in Aichi, Japan. She is also a professor of Ikenobo
Ikebana -- flower arranging -- headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. Since 2007, she has lived in Cullowee, NC, on loan to
Western Carolina University as Japan Outreach Coordinator supported by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

      If you are able, on the 14th, park at the bottom and walk up the drive. The big grassy area on your right just after
you make the turn onto Old Toll Road is a great parking area. We'll let the police know. Bring a snack to share if you
wish.

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                                                            Weekend Retreat- December 4th through 6th

 Cloud Cottage's annual Evergreen Sesshin, a weekend residential retreat will begin with a light supper on Friday,
December 4.  The weekend ends after the midday meal on Sunday, December 6.

 The retreat will be led by Roger Hawkins, newly arrived from Ft. Lauderdale to Western North Carolina.  Hawkins began
practicing Zen Buddhism at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971, at the age of 22. He spent ten years as a student, with
three years at Tassajara Monastery and Green Gulch Farm as well as the City Center in San Francisco.  His teachers
were Richard Baker Roshi and Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi, one of the most widely known and respected Zen teachers
in America.

 Leaving the Zen Center in 1981, Hawkins earned both his masters and doctoral degrees in psychology. After further
practice with Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1993, until his death in 1995, he and his family moved to Florida where he
continued his practice by helping the Southern Palm Zen Group in Boca.  There he met Sensei Lou Mitsunen Nordstrom,
with whom he continued his studies, receiving certification as a Zen teacher in 2004, with the title Shikan Sensei.

 "My psychology training has not only been invaluable in Buddhist teaching," said Hawkins," but also for honing my own
spiritual insight.  This provides a larger framework for investigating the minds of American Buddhist students, and how
they tend to get stuck in holding patterns quite different from their Asian counterparts, where Buddhism originated."

 Although it is a residential retreat, Evergreen Sesshin is available to commuters and part-time retreatants.  A non-
refundable registration deposit of $50 is required. Tuition for the retreat is $100, plus dana (donations) for the teacher and
for Cloud Cottage.  Meals will be catered by Didier Lazange of Changing Seasons macrobiotic takeout in Asheville.

    Contact Philip Toy at 828-669-0920 for registration, or email cloudcottage@bellsouth.net.

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