* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
SUNDAY PROGRAM
This Sunday:
Poetry & Zen
with Paula Jones
Sunday, December 25, 2021 - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk
Our Dharma Talk this week will be by Paula Jones, one of Jikoji’s Guiding Teachers, and founder of Floating Zendo San Diego.
THOSE WHO SEE LIGHTNING
AND THINK NOTHING
HOW PRECIOUS THEY ARE!
Basho
Please bring in one or two poems and a spare to read to our group. If you would like to go on with the prompt “I am always close to this” that is fine. Here is another poem that may inspire you in your own work:
Only be willing to search for poetry, and there will be poetry.
My soul, a tiny speck, is my tutor.
Evening sun and fragrant grass are common things,But, with understanding, they can become glorious verse.
Yuan Mei
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
PauPaula Jones became a student of Kobun Chino the first night she attended Santa Cruz Zendo. In the same year, with her young daughter, she became a practicing resident. She also began attending sesshins at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills, where she first met Angie Boissevain. They were to meet many years later at Jikoji on the occasion of Kobun's funeral. Since receiving transmission from Angie, she has served as teacher or shared that post at earlier Jikoji sesshins.
Like Kobun and Angie, she is a poet, though no comparisons are being made here. Luckily, she was able to earn a living teaching English as well as poetry at two community colleges and also teach, as adjunct instructor at a university. Poetry has always been included in her curriculum.
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.