* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
SUNDAY PROGRAM
This Sunday:
Poetry & Zen
with Paula Jones
Sunday, February 20, 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.
For this week, you are invited to bring a poem or two to share with the group. The January prompt was to bring a poem that feels close to you. Those poems are always welcome. This time, let's also bring in poems of discovery, at least one new poem which has reached out to you, personally in the last month, for its impact as well as subject matter. Poems of your own are welcomed, but we will need to limit those to only 2 or 3 readers of short to medium-length poems for each sesshin I will write down the names of those of you who were not able to read and they will be able to read next time.
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder Kobun Chino when she attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. A year or two later she, with her young daughter, moved into the residence with a changing group of caretakers and friends, one of whom she later married. During and after that time she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa with Kobun's students from Los Altos, including Angie Boissevain, who some years later became her teacher.
In the years that followed, she finished her MA in Creative Writing and began teaching poetry, literature and writing in colleges and private workshops in Santa Cruz, the Mojave Dessert and San Diego, where she and Balin now live. She received ordination and transmission from Angie and has since taught at several Jikoji sesshins. She was a co-founder of Floating Zendo San Diego and is one of the teachers at Floating Zendo in San Jose, and recently became one of the Guiding Teachers at Jikoji.
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.