SOTOZEN-NET > Soto Zen Temples > Organization and temples outside Japan > The Stella del Mattino Community, Fano Zazen Group
The Group is based in a green area not far from Fano, a small tourist town on the Adriatic Sea shore in central Italy. The house, a perfectly restored old peasant house called “Casa Cecchi”, is owned by the town of Fano which gives us free use of a room for zazen and of a place where we can have meals for day-long zazen sessions.
It is a classic town-zazen-group: people gather twice a week to sit zazen together for a couple of hours after their daily activities. Once a month, usually towards the end of the month, we sit from morning till late afternoon, with a short stop for a simple meal at noon. After weekly zazen, there is usually time for members to talk about their daily lives. Occasionally, there is a doctrinal or an academic speech from someone with more experience in trying to live a real life on the basis of Buddhism. This happens only when there is a feeling that the few words usually spoken after zazen are not sufficient to satisfy the need to understand what we are really doing with our lives.
Read more about the Stella del Mattino community and about our cultural activities. The person responsible for Stella del Mattino is now Mauricio Yūshin Marassi.
Read more about the Fano Zazen Group. Please contact us at: yushin at lastelladelmattino.org
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