Fall Practice Period 2026
Right Mindfulness
with Nanda Nina Lynch
Sunday, November 22nd, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm ET (New York)
About this retreat:
This retreat will focus on the seventh part of the Eightfold Path, Right Mindfulness. Right Mindfulness refers not only to mindfulness-based meditation practices, familiar to many through both Buddhist and secular culture, but more generally to how one maintains awareness of Buddhist teachings. Traditionally, Right Mindfulness, Right Effort and Right Meditation form the third division of the Eightfold Path, focusing on mind training.
During this retreat, Nanda will guide practitioners through contemplative practices and facilitate a deeper understanding of how to cultivate awareness and how to use that awareness to improve our lives on and off the cushion.
Registration:
For this retreat, we will be offering the choice to attend for a half-day or the full day. Half-day participants can choose to attend the morning or afternoon session:
We don’t cultivate attention so much in the way of focus or concentration; instead, we liberate attention so that we can pay attention in a 360-degree kind of way… The expansion of attention liberates our wisdom, promotes flexibility, and introduces us to the compassion in the whole of our life moment after moment.
~ Koshin Paley Ellison Sensei
Nanda Nina Lynch
Nanda Nina Lynch was ordained by Fugen Roshi. She leads Hon Shin Zen in southern Portugal and hosts regular in-person zazen and online sessions. She is a Certified Mondo Zen facilitator and offers daisan and zen life coaching.
“If you are unable to find the truth right here where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Schedule
All times in EST (New York)
8:45 – 9:00 am Zendo Opens
9:00 – 9:15 am Check In
9:15 – 9:30 am Orientation
9:30 – 10:00 am Meditation
10:00 – 10:20 am Morning Service
10:20 –10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:00 pm Meditation
11:00 - 11:30 pm Discussion
11;30 - 12:00 pm Meditation - Morning Close
12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 2:30 pm Afternoon check-in and orientation
2:30 - 3:00 pm Meditation
3:00 – 3:15 pm Discussion
3:15 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 – 4:00 pm Meditation
4:00 - 4:15 pm Kinhin
4:15 - 4:45 pm Meditation and closing service
4:45 – 5:00 pm Closing Check-in