🎑 Join us for a Zen Community Talk this Saturday with Roshi, Followed by Jukai Ceremony This Saturday 🎑

 

THIS WEEK: Saturday Community Talk by Roshi

Dharma talk will be given by Jakusho Kwong-roshi, following 10:30-11:00 am zazen. Open to the public.   For those who are new to Zen or need a refresher, please register for meditation instruction from 9:00 to 10:00 am (8:50 am check-in at the Sangha House). If you live within driving distance, please register to attend on site! Informal vegetarian lunch will be provided afterwards in the Sangha House. Zen Dust Store will be open from 12:30 to 1:30 pm.   About Speaker

Jakusho Kwong-roshi is the founder of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center - Genjoji temple, authorized by the Sotoshu in Japan. He is a successor of the late Shunryu Suzuki-roshi’s lineage. Kwong-roshi travelled and taught throughout America and Asia as well as Poland and Iceland where Zen practice places have been established. Also he has deep connections with the Theravadin, Shambhala/Drala Mountain Center, Rinzaiji, Soen-Korean Zen with Christian Carmelite and Benedictine traditons. He had the good karma to meet all the great Asian teachers who came West. His publications include Mind Sky: Zen Teaching on Living and Dying, No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen, and Breath Sweeps Mind. Jakusho continues to deepen his insight prior to the present to share with many international sincere people.

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$15 admission per person (Members: Please log in first to receive your discount.)

THIS SATURDAY: Jukai Ceremony

Jukai literally means "to receive the precepts." Abbot Nyoze Kwong-roshi will offer the precepts to the following students in the traditional Buddhist Refuge Ceremony: Carol Adams, Keiko Ohnuma, Richard Sparks, Anondo (Binji) Mukherjee, Alex Perrotti, Satoko (Coco) Mellinger, and Richard Johnson. Jukai is the ceremony of formally becoming a Buddhist and of taking the 16 Bodhisattva precepts as guidelines for life. Reception to follow at 2:45 pm. All are welcome: Invite family and friends to witness this special ceremony!   Please bring celebratory snacks/finger food (e.g., cake, pie, cookies, crackers/cheese, fruit and drinks) for potluck reception.

Free admission. Open to the public. Donations are appreciated.

NEXT FRIDAY: November Fusatsu Ceremony

Be present for & experience the Fusatsu At-one-ment Ceremony Atonement Ceremony is a Buddhadharma training—blessing from the teacher and a ritual of chanting, bowing, purification, and renewal of vows/direction. Traditionally practiced on the full moon, Fusatsu is one of the most beautiful and profound ceremonies in the Zen tradition. Together, we acknowledge our karmic entanglements and hindrances, at-one for the beginningless greed, anger, and ignorance—restoring harmony and happiness.   7:30–8:00pm Zazen / 8:00–9:00pm Ceremony

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Donations are appreciated. Open to YOU!

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