9:00-10:30 Zazen (Three twenty-five minutes sitting sessions with 5 minutes of kinhin after each sit)

Traditional Soto Zen Service 10:30 AM

Dharma Dialog with Rick McDaniel on his ninth book

Rescheduled to this weekend!  

Rick McDaniel was raised in Indiana and moved to Canada in 1967, where he earned an MA and Ph. D. in the Literature of the Developing World. He taught at the University of New Brunswick and Saint Thomas University for twelve years before beginning a 27 year career in International Development and Fair Trade with the YMCA. He worked with projects in the Dominican Republic, Belize, Cuba, Mexico, and Honduras.

He is the creator of the YMCA Peace Medallion and founded Cultures Boutique, the first fair trade store in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Rick is the author and narrator of several video series examining the relationship between developed and developing nations, including the five part 80/20 – A Developing World – distributed by the Canadian Learning Company. He is also the co-author, along with Jim Petrie, of A Two Way Approach to Understanding: Issues in Global Education – published by the New Brunswick Teachers’ Association.

Rick became interested in Zen practice in 1971 and eventually studied with Albert Low of the Montreal Zen Center. He is the author of many books on the subject. His most recent, an oral history of the Zen pioneers in America tentatively entitled "Original Face" - will be released this spring/summer by Monkfish.

He and his wife, Joan, live in Island View, New Brunswick. They have three children, nine grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. At the request of Albert Low, Rick started the Fredericton Zen Sitting Group which meets weekly in Fredericton, New Brunswick.