SUNDAY PROGRAM
* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
Sunday, January 7th - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma talk
Please join us for this special Sunday Program Jukai Ceremony!
Jikoji Zen Center is pleased to announce that Zen practitioners from Jikoji Zen Center, No Barriers Zen, and Santa Barbara Zen Center, will receive lay ordination at a Jukai Ceremony January 7th, 2024 at Jikoji. Sensei Ōshin Jennings and Sensei Nenzen Brown will serve as Preceptors.
Jukai is the formal Zen Buddhist ceremony of lay ordination, in which Zen practitioners commit to the Buddhist path. The term Jukai is made up of the Japanese characters 受 “ju”, which means “receiving/granting,” and 戒 “kai”, which means “the precepts.” In the Jukai ceremony, practitioners openly receive the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts as an ongoing path in their lives.
Taking the precepts at the Jukai ceremony formally commences a commitment to a lifelong practice of mindful inquiry into the motivations and consequences of one’s own actions.
To prepare for this ancient ceremony, each student has intensively studied the precepts with their teacher, as well as other central teachings of the Buddha. Each ordainee has also hand-sewn a rakusu, a miniature Buddhist robe. On the back of each rakusu, the preceptor will write the ordainee’s Dharma name, which will be presented to them during the ceremony. This new name serves both as a recognition of the qualities they are already deeply exploring, as well as being a commitment to a life-long practice of embodiment of those qualities.
Each participant will also receive their Oryoki bowls as well as their kechimyaku, or blood lineage chart, which begins with Shakyamuni Buddha’s name and continues through the lineage ancestors down to the present day preceptors and their students.
This ceremony has been coordinated and prepared with the support of each of the three sanghas. The ceremony will be followed by a luncheon in celebration. Please join us for this happy day and in support of our sangha!
OUR SCHEDULE
9:45 a.m. meditation instruction (optional)
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
PLEASE LEAVE PHONES & BOTTLES OUTSIDE OF THE ZENDO
Registration ensures we have the capacity and accommodations available for your visit. The requested donation to support this event (including staffing, facilities, guidance, meditation, a dharma talk, social lunch and access to our facility and open space trails) is $20 per person.
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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.