Upaya
Zen Center - Path Of Service
A Life of Spiritual Practice and Selfless Service
If you’ve
been looking to deepen your practice of Zen - and to be of service
to others - consider our Path of Service residential training program.
Path of Service residents stay at Upaya for a minimum of three months
and participate in three daily zazen periods, seminars, practice
periods and sesshins. Explore your practice of the Buddha’s
teachings with Roshi Joan Halifax, Sensei Beate Stolte and some
of the most respected Dharma teachers from around the world.
At Upaya Zen Center, our daily work and practice become a way for
us to serve many beings. Every day, we meet many people who need
presence and attention. Our retreat center is a refuge for so many,
and the daily work and practice of our residents are essential for
keeping its doors open well into the future. Together, we explore
what it means to meet this world and one another with an open, resilient
heart.
Residents
offer thirty hours of work practice each week, which includes work
in areas such as kitchen, garden, housekeeping, maintenance and
office support. In return, residents receive food and lodging, as
well as participation in our practice schedule.
Guidelines and Requirements
* Meditation experience or a commitment to learn.
* The willingness to commit to an established daily schedule.
* The commitment to practicing the 16 precepts of our order.
* Physical, mental and emotional stability and robustness.
* The ability to take direction; a flexible work attitude.
* Adaptability to changing work situations and environments.
* The ability to manage the stress of daily living in a busy environment.
* Comfortable with working, living and practicing in close living.
proximity with a large community of diverse individuals with limited
privacy and space.
* The ability to make a minimum commitment of three (3) months after
try-out approval
* The financial resources to sustain personal needs (medical,
transportation, clothing, and visa costs if coming from another
country)
for a minimum of three months.
* A good sense of humor and communication skills.
If you’d
like to be considered for residency at Upaya, please visit our website
at http://www.upaya.org/about/path-of-service.phpfor
more information and application instructions. Inquiries can also
be emailed to the Path of Service Coordinator at pos@upaya.org
posted: 20/6/10
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PRO-BONO
LAWYER AND ACCOUNTANT WANTED
Endless Mountain
Zendo is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist practice center is the northeast
Pennsylvania countryside, USA, established in 1998. We are looking
for a pro-bono lawyer and accountant to help with non-profit organizational
matters. We have a small residency and offer Zen practice programs
to the greater sangha and public including introductories, intensive
sesshin, beginner classes, and daily sitting. Our abbot is Rev.
Genro Lee Milton, Sensei.
IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED
AND INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT YAYOI AT endless@epix.net
www.endlessmountainzendo.org
Endless Mountain Zendo
104 Hollow Road
Stillwater, Pennsylvania 17878, USA
posted: 23/4/10
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Volunteer
Opportunity - Junior to Intermediate Web Developer
Organization: Alliance for Bhikkhunis
Position: Intermediate Web Developer
Location: Work from home
Context: The Alliance for Bhikkhunis (www.bhikkhuni.net)
is entering into an exciting period of change. Positive development
and increased volunteer involvement is helping us to move towards
growth and expansion. But we need the help and expertise of a willing
volunteer web developer to assist us in the critical area of our
improving out website. This will enable us to reach out and keep
the fourfold sangha up to date, attract new interest, and continue
to develop our overall brand.
Position
Abstract: The Alliance or Bhikkhunis is a non-profit agency
that serves the worldwide Theravada Bhikkhuni Sangha and aims to
educate the worldwide Fourfold Sangha. We are seeking a volunteer
that can assist us in the development and maintenance of a new website
for the AfB and for "Present", our bi-annual publication.
The
Web Developer:
Design and develop web pages and web sites. You don't need a large
portfolio (we know a lot of you are looking to build your portfolio),
but basic familiarity and experience with web development is expected.
We can support and mentor you as you learn, but we cannot train
you from scratch.
Develop
innovative solutions to improve the organization and delivery of
online information to our readers, members, and partners.
Have
knowledge of creating online forms and accessibility issues, or
a willingness to learn (quickly...it's not that hard).
Must
be able to work with non-tech individuals and monastics to understand
their needs and requirements and translate them to the online world.
Spell-check,
grammar-check, and consitency-check the website.
Represent
the publication at events as required.
Have
access to their own design and coding tools. As long as you have
access to your preferred set of tools, we're flexible on how you
get the job done (we use Dreamweaver CS4 for basic site management).
Skills:
HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, databases (min. 2 yrs)
Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop (min. 2 yrs)
Knowledge of graphic design
Excellent people and communication skills
Project management experience
Ability to work independently from home but interact as part of
a team
Excellent time management skills
Flexibility and ability to respond effectively in time-pressured
situations
ASP/VB Script, ASP.NET/VB.NET, and C# (nice to have)
Winform, Reddot, and XML/XSLT (nice to have)
To Apply:
Mail your cover letter and resume (and a link to your portfolio
or other website, if applicable) to jobs@bhikkhuni.net
posted: 13/4/10
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Theravada practitioners
wanted to live a monastic lifestyle at a personal home in Huntington,
West Virginia, USA. Also, head monk wanted to operated a new Dhamma
Center at the same location--project management experience preferred.
Please contact
Eddie Bowles, (614) 787-2068.
Email address: ebowles@columbus.rr.com
posted: 25/2/10
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Name: Mark Jones
Email address:
thubtentenzin100000@yahoo.com
Tibetan Layperson looking to do caretaking of property in exchange
for food,lodging, small stiepend.
Very dedicated.Can provide references. Excellent for Dharma Centers.
posted:
2/11/09
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Name: Brother
Bob
Buddhist monk
living in Southern California looking for house sitting position
or helping an elderly person in their home (volunteering is practice).
Not interested in money. I have excellent references, BA degree
and also speak Spanish. Flexible, trusted, open, considerate, easy
to get along with and team player.
Thank you for
your consideration.
Please respond
to email:buddhasmilingus@yahoo.com
posted: 2/11/09
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Buddhist Centre
London Requires:
Residential Volunteer Opportunities, 2009-10: Join
the Team!
Volunteers needed at Kagyu Samye Dzong!Come and join our growing
team of volunteers who will be starting to renovate our new building
from July 2009. Subject to contract, we will be buying a grade 2
listed building which will become our permanent London centre. The
building is substantially bigger than our current Manor Place centre
and will require considerable renovation.
We are looking
for volunteers who can commit for a length of time and we are especially
keen to recruit those skilled in general building skills, painting
and decorating, electrical work, plumbing, plastering, and cooking
for large numbers. That said, anyone with time and enthusiasm is
welcome to help us for periods long and short.
We will have
a limited amount of residential accommodation available, free-of-charge,
for volunteers and we will, of course, provide three substantial
meals a day to keep you going (not to mention limitless cups of
tea)! If you are interested please contact the Kagyu Samye Dzong
office for more details and to discuss these opportunities informally.
Kagyu Samye
Dzong London
33 Manor Place
London
SE17 3BD
tel: +44 (0)20
7708 8969
email: manorplace@samye.org
posted: 19/3/09
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Volunteers
needed
Vairocana Int'
l Buddhist Meditation Center is located in center of Seoul.
(South Korea)
We are looking for both experienced and non-experienced volunteers
who would like to know about Korean Buddhism and love play with
Kids in Summer English Dharma Camp.
If you are interested in Korean culture, temple stay in Magoksa(Temple)
Please contact us.
Please email to jawoo7777@hanmail.net
or call ven. Jawoo on +82-2-6012-1731
Blog: http://
blog.naver.com/jawoo7777
posted: 24/5/09
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Vegetarian
Cooking Position:
Bhavana Society Forest Monastery and Meditation Retreat Center
Dharma/Dhamma Retreat Center Kitchen Manager
We are seeking
a kitchen manager/cook position to manage the kitchen and perform
the majority of main meal preparation. This is a salaried job. This
job will become vacant in the next few months. We are interested
in receiving applications from persons with previous professional
cooking experience.
This is a very unique employment opportunity serving a Buddhist
community. We are a Theravada Buddhist monastery and meditation
center. The community is made up of monks and nuns as well as lay
people.
If interested please contact: info@bhavanasociety.org
Phone: 304-856-3241
or submit your resume to us at:
Bhavana Society
Kitchen Manager Position
Rte. 1, Box 218-3
High View, WV 26808
posted: 19/3/09
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Residential
Zen Training Opportunity
Treetop Zen
Cultural Center of Maine is now taking applications for anyone interested
in residential Zen training.
Treetop is excited to begin a residential training program which
will include deep ecology explorations, the arts, and right livelihood
activities geared to help others, all based in personal and communal
meditation, liturgy, and study.
We are also in need of a web/computer skills person.
For
further information,
please contact jukentreetop@earthlink.net
Phone: 207-465-7563 Web: www.treetopzencenter.org
posted:
21/8/08
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Enthusiastic
Volunteer needed to help with Sakyadhita's website!
Sakyadhita, the international association of buddhist women need
help with the upkeeping of our website. Do you have webskills and
want to help?
Please email me: e.lohuis@home.nl e.lohuis@home.nl
posted:
12/2/08
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Information
Technology Professionals Required
Buddhanet requires
IT professionals to assist with the general administration of the
Buddhanet website as well as several exciting new online Buddhist
projects.
Specifically
we are looking for volunteers with experience in the areas of programming,
database management, graphic artists, website administration and/or
online security.
Some of the
immediate new projects include the new Buddhist
Elibrary project which is a collection of Buddhist content in
a searchable content management system, adding new features to the
World Buddhist
Directory such as statistics and required fields, converting
our exisiting Noticeboard
data into database format for easy online updates and searching,
as well as general website/server administration and security.
Other longer
term projects include Forums and Chat, news, RSS, Podcasting and
online Radio/TV.
Ideally, volunteers
would have some sort of understanding or affiliation with Buddhism,
have experience in their related IT field, be enthusiastic about
supporting the Dharma online and willing to generously give of their
time on a volunteer basis.
For further
information contact the webmaster
or phone Buddhanet within Australia on 02.6628.2426 or from outside
Australia (UTC/GMT +10 hours) +612.6628.2426.
General
Volunteers, Researchers and Content Contributors Required.
Buddhanet requires
general volunteers, researchers and content contributors to assist
with the online content on the Buddhanet website.
General volunteers
could assist with the checking and updating of details for exisiting
Dharma centers as well as adding any new Dharma centres in their
local area to our World
Buddhist Directory. This could be done by calling or emailing
centers to verify their details are correct - all updates and additions
can now be made online. In addition, finding events and Dharma centre
prgrams for our exisiting Noticeboard
section
For content
contributors, when the new Buddhist
Elibrary project is completed mid 2007 we will need people to
contribute Dharma content in the areas of video, audio, artwork,
graphics and photos, text and PDFs as well as interactive material
such as flash. We are looking for all types of content from your
Dharma teachers and groups to share with the world wide Sangha.
More specifically
we are looking for volunteers with experience in the areas of; desktop
publishing, preferably PDF files, any experience with pali or sanskrit
fonts would be helpful, digital content conversion - scanning books,
articles and artwork, converting audio and video tapes to digital,
writing Dharma articles.
Researchers
and students could assist with Dharma articles on any subject from
history to current affairs affecting Dharma to be included in the
Buddhist
Elibrary or online Magazine.
Buddhanet is
based near Lismore NSW Australia - any local volunteers wishing
to assist us are welcome to come out to the monastery to work with
the monks, nuns and other like minded Buddhanet volunteers - as
well as share a meal and practise Dharma in a quiet and peaceful
forest setting.
For further
information contact the webmaster
or phone Buddhanet within Australia on 02.6628.2426 or from outside
Australia (UTC/GMT +10 hours) +612.6628.2426.
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Seeking to establish
an eclectic Sangha in Granville County North Carolina.
Buddhists of all traditions and lineages welcome. Please help develop
community of seekers.
Email johnmikeyc@yahoo.com
or call 919-529-1756
Namaste, Om mani Padme Hum...Michael
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The Waikato
Buddhist Temple in Hamilton, New Zealand is looking for an individual
or corporate sponsor to help us continue our very valuable and popular
weekly Meditation programme conducted in English. Our previous sponsors
from Malaysia decided to move out of New Zealand in June 2006.
The programmes are conducted by our resident monk, and a visiting
monk of the Tibetan tradition from Auckland.
We are looking
for a sponsor from New Zealand or overseas to cover the shortfall
in renting our current temple property.
Anyone willing
to help us continue this very valuable Dhamma activity will be truly
blessed.
Waikato Buddhist
Temple
Hamilton
New Zealand
Resident Monk
Ven Dunuvila Metteyya Thero
E-mail - wcmc@slingshot.co.nz
Phone - 64 7 859 2180
Web - http://buddhistvihara.100webspace.net/index.shtml
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I am Dharmachari
Saddhavira first Sri Lankan origin Order member of the FWBO (Friends
of the WesternBuddhist Order). I am also a naturalized citizen of
New Zealand. I spend usually 9 months in Sri Lanka and 3 months
in NZ every year.
I own a Vegetarian
Restaurant and Lodge House in Unawatuna beach in Sri Lanka. Also
I have built a retreat centre where 20 people can be accommodated.
I plan to conduct short/light retreats. Also Buddhist study courses
in English.
I am inviting anyone to visit us. If you want to work with me longer
period , I can provide accommodation and food.
Contact:
goonas@sltnet.lk or globalbuddhist@gamil.com
Phone or text 0064211419519 (NZ) mobile or 0094 777105449 Sri Lanka
mobile
POSTED:
14/04/007
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People
with buidling skills wanted for a project in southern France
We are a non-profit Dharma organisation in the south of France who
run courses in permaculture and meditation.We are renovating an
old french ruin on the edge of Languedoc country park in southern
France. As we have no resident experts in this field we are looking
for volunteers with building skills to help advise and lead the
installation. In return we can offer you a place on one of our courses
plus food and board for your duration. We can not however afford
to pay travel expenses.
We are based in a most beautiful country park where you would have
ample time to explore. We work on average 6 hours per day with sundays
free.
Please see our website at www.thedharmahouse.com
and contact us if you are interested.
POSTED: 16/04/007
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Work
Exchange in the Rocky Mountains!
Shambhala Mountain
Center is a mountain valley retreat located on 600 acres in northern
Colorado. Since 1971 the Center has offered hundreds of programs
on Buddhist meditation, yoga and other contemplative disciplines.
Every summer
we create and take down a tent village, and host up to 500 people
for various conferences and programs. Between April 29 and October
15, we need work exchange staff to setup and take down the tents,
and to support the following departments: guest services/registration,
kitchen, environment/housekeeping, gift store, audio/visual support,
facilities/building maintenance, human resources, EMT/First aid,
program coordination, automotive maintenance, IT/phone system support,
fundraising/development, and land steward internship.
We are looking
for people inclined towards meditation and contemplative practices,
who have a desire to experience community life and service. There
is flexibility on when you arrive and how long you stay.
We offer you
shared, rustic lodging three excellent meals daily, daily meditation
opportunities, a beautiful environment, 8000 ft. up in the Rockies;
small stipends or program credit, depending on position; participation
in a community of dedicated practitioners; opportunities to attend
programs, as allowed by work schedules, and more.
Go to www.shambhalamountain.org/staff.php
to learn more and download an application.
POSTED: 15/03/007
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