Location: Upaya Zen Center Santa Fe, NM
Instructor(s): Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD; Sensei Kaz Tanahashi; Natalie Goldberg; Clark Strand
Matsuo Bashō has inspired the world of Haiku for over 300 years. In l689, Bashō walked Japan’s Northern Interior, recording the essential and transient nature of what he encountered. This path was also a metaphoric trail into the strong desire to wander and the eternal question of human and divine. Like Bashō, we will bring his practice of awareness into our present day through walking, meditation, and haiku-writing.
いざさらば雪見にころぶ所迄 iza saraba / yukimi ni korobu / tokoromade
now then, let’s go out / to enjoy the snow … until / I slip and fall! [1688]
Bashō’s view of the world has reached far and wide—from Hiroshige’s prints in the late 1800s, to the Beat poets of the 1950s, to the online Haiku journals of today. Take the journey into the deep north with poets, Zen Buddhists, and writers to guide you: Natalie Goldberg, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi, Clark Strand, and Roshi Joan Halifax.
Required Reading:
In preparation for the retreat and in order to enrich our time at Upaya, please read Basho’s, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, by Matsuo Bashō and translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, (Penguin Classic), a journal in the haibun style, linking prose and poetry.
Recommended Reading:
*Basho: The Complete Haiku by Matsuo Bashō (Author), Shiro Tsujimura (Illustrator), Jane Reichhold (Translator). It’s a hardcover, but there are used copies on line for the price of a paperback).
*Basho and his Interpreters: Selected Hokku with Commentary by Bashō Matsuo (Author), Makoto Ueda (Editor/Translator). It’s a hardcover, but there are used copies on line for the price of a paperback).
Maximum Participants: 70
Tuition (Members): $370.00
Tuition (Non-Members): $410.00
More details: Plus Lodging. Dana to teachers and residents.
Lodging: Your tuition does not include lodging. Your first choice of lodging may not be available. Please check for availability by calling 505-986-8518 ext. 112 or email registrar@upaya.org.
If you wish to stay on the Upaya campus, the following options are available:
Dorm $70 per night
Double $95 per night