* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
Kobun Memorial Sesshin 2021
Thursday, July 22 - Sunday, July 25, 2021
Join us as we spend an extended weekend honoring the memory of Jikoji's founder Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi. This year, our Kobun memorial will be held at Jikoji and will also be available over Zoom.
We begin Thursday evening, July 22, with a social dinner, followed by some periods of sitting and opening remarks.
Our formal program starts Friday, July 23, with a full day of sesshin-style sitting.
The Saturday schedule continues our sesshin format through the lunch period. After lunch, at 2pm, our traditional afternoon Kobun Readings will again be led by Judy Cosgrove, with a discussion of selections from the Thursday-Mornings.org Kobun Archive.
You can download the selected readings here (pdf.)
Our special Kobun weekend continues into Sunday morning, when during our regular 11:40am Dharma Talk period we will instead have our traditional Memorial Service and Procession to the Kobun memorial site, and offer incense while chanting the Daihi Shin Dharani. Following that, our traditional community lunch.
Overnight accommodations can be
booked on our Reservations page.
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OUR SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, JULY 22
4 - 6 pm Registration, dinner prep
6:00 Dinner and clean up
7:30 Zazen
8:10 opening remarks
8:30 3 Refuges and 9 bows
FRIDAY, JULY 23
5:30 wake-up bell
6:00 Zazen
6:40 Robe Chant and kinhin
6:50 Zazen
7:20 service (Heart Sutra)
7:35 BREAKFAST
8:05 Soji
8:20 Break
9:00 Zazen
9:40 Kinhin
9:50 Zazen
10:30 kinhin
10:40 zazen
11:20 kinhin
11:30 Zazen
12:00 LUNCH
12:30 Break
2:20 Zazen
3:00 Kinhin
3:10 Zazen
3:50 Kinhin
4:00 Zazen
4:40 Kinhin
4:50 Zazen
5:30 SUPPER
7:00 Zazen
7:30 Walk to Ridge for Full Moon Ceremony
8:00 Return to Jikoji
SATURDAY, JULY 24
5:30 wake-up bell
6:00 Zazen
6:40 Robe Chant and kinhin
6:50 Zazen
7:20 service (Heart Sutra)
7:35 BREAKFAST
8:05 Soji
8:20 Break
9:00 Zazen
9:40 Kinhin
9:50 Zazen
10:30 Kinhin
10:40 Zazen
11:20 Kinhin
11:30 Zazen
12:00 LUNCH
12:30 Break
2:00 Kobun Readings - Judy Cosgrove
4:30 Closing
5:30 Community SUPPER
6:30 Cleanup and hiking
SUNDAY, JULY 25
7:35 BREAKFAST
8:30 wash dishes
9:00 Break
Sunday Program
10:00 Zazen
10:40 Kinhin
10:50 Zazen
11:20 Service
11:40 Memorial Procession and Chanting
12:30 COMMUNITY LUNCH
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 facial visibility during discussion period.
- Anonymous participation online will not be permitted, as it would not be permitted in person.