* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
Genzo-e Sesshin
Tuesday, august 15th - Sunday, august 20th
Led by visiting teacher Kokyo Henkel, Genzo-e (Eyeball-Treasury Assembly) is a meditation retreat combining silent zazen with a study of Dogen Zenji's "True Dharma Eyeball-Treasury." Sesshin includes morning and afternoon talks, dokusan (meeting with the teacher), and oryoki meals. This sesshin will include a thorough investigation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Jisho Zammai (Self-Verification Samadhi), exploring how verification of reality by sutras and by teachers is actually self-verification - yet sutras and teachers are still essential.
Here are the study pages:
Self-Realization (Self-Verification) Samadhi and Jisho Zammai Bielefeldt translation
Sesshin includes morning and afternoon talks, dokusan (meeting with the teacher), and oryoki meals.
All Oryoki meals provided!
Cost:
The cost of attending the sesshin is $500 or $100 per night. Camping is $300 or $60 per night. Day only (no overnight accommodation is $200 or $40 per day. Online participation is $200 or $40 per day.
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Questions?
Please feel free to call Jikoji 408-741-9562 or email us at info@jikoji.org.
SESSHIN LEADER
Kōkyō Henkel has been practicing Zen Buddhism since 1990 in residence at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and No Abode Hermitage - all in the Sōtō Zen lineage of Shunryū Suzuki Rōshi - and a year at Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan (with Harada Tangen Rōshi). After living in these monastic communities for almost two decades, Kōkyō was then teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center from 2010-2020, and will be studying and practicing with no fixed abode along with his wife, Rev. Shōhō Kuebast, beginning in 2020.
Kōkyō was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994 by Tenshin Reb Anderson Rōshi, receiving the Dharma name Kōkyō Yakai (Luminous Owl, Midnight Liberation 光梟夜解). He received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Rōshi in 2010, becoming a 92nd generation lineage-holder authorized to guide others on the path. Kōkyō has also been practicing with the Tibetan Dzogchen (“Great Perfection”) Teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche since 2003, in California, Colorado, and Kathmandu.
ONLINE ZENDO ETIQUETTE
To help maintain as best we can the intimacy and integrity of an in-person gathering, we ask all who join us online to please observe the following practices.
- Sign in using real name.
- Keep microphone muted unless speaking during discussion periods.
- Maintain zendo silence during meditation periods and while waiting for discussion period to begin.
- Keep camera on and maintain visibility during discussion periods.
- Anonymous participation online is not allowed, as it would not be in person.