
Connecting Through Virtual Sitting
As we navigate through this uncertain and challenging time, our ongoing Virtual Sitting has given us a place of refuge where we are able to inspire and uplift each other through our sitting, connecting us all in loving support for one another. One thing is clear, not a single one of us is going through these tough times alone.
Ever since we started Virtual Sitting through various Viber groups created for this purpose, we have been practicing everyday, at various times of the day, with different people of like-minded persuasion. Everyone has been meditating and praying, not only with members of Zen Center Philippines sangha, but with other groups such as the Sangha in Barcelona, Spain and the Single Stone Sangha and the Zendo West Sangha of Canada. We are indeed one Universal Sangha.
Our Zazen is sheltered in the Universal Zendo. And this Zendo is none other than in front of a wall, a nook in your bedroom, a space in your garden, under the clear blue sky, or just about anywhere you are. How long do we sit? For as long as we want and are able to, whether 10 minutes, 25 minutes, or more. The Universal Sangha has no walls, no limits, no boundaries, no form to follow. It is free flowing.
Virtual sitting is THIS, right HERE and NOW.
If you wish to do zazen meditation and join our Virtual Sitting, please send an email to virtual.sitting@gmail.com and accomplish the following information:
First Name:
Family Name:
Nickname
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Virtual Sitting Schedule
The schedule of Virtual Zazenkai is outlined below. You may participate in the sits on a part-time basis. Even if you can sit with us virtually for only one or two sits, the time you spend sitting with us will be priceless and we would be deeply grateful for each of those minutes that you sit with us. As with other Zen Center of the Philippines activities, participation is free of charge.
VIRTUAL DAILY SITTING SCHEDULE
Prayers / Invocations
Sangha:
Teisho
Teisho Archive
Articles and Write ups
Quarantine Zen: How to relieve your cabin fever
Zazen—sitting meditation practice—could offer ‘prisoners’ a way to experience freedom of the mind despite physical confinement - By Eric S. Caruncho

The role of Zen in the time of COVID-19, or how to find calm so worry won’t eat you up
This time of social distancing is an opportune time to reconnect with our selves—but without completely shutting out the reality in our midst. Two Zen practitioners show us how it’s done. By DAHL BENNETT
Now, Time to Sit - Business World
THE various details that were once mere facts of life become major decisions when you’ve been forcibly locked inside the house by a virus. New developments everyday force us ever more to retreat inwards, but inside a space filled with dread. Maybe a touch of true silence will make that place a little better. - By Joseph L. Garcia, Reporter
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