SUNDAY PROGRAM
* At Jikoji & On Zoom *
Sunday, December 11, 2022 - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk
Our Dharma Talk this week will be by Hollis DeLancy, long-time student and friend of our founding teacher Kobun Chino Otogawa.
Hollis is a visual and conceptual artist. She studied at a graduate level with Roy Kiyooka and Moritaka Matsumoto, and holds an MFA degree in visual arts. She travelled in Asia with Kobun Chino, the founder of Jikoji, and collaborated with him on her research on the history of Japanese Buddhist painting as well as Zen and Kegon Buddhist thinking. Hollis founded Jikoji and several independent schools with Kobun. She was the president of the Jikoji Board of Directors for ten years and Acting Chief Priest of Jikoji after Kobun’s death. She also studied at a graduate level with Edward Conze’s student Lewis Lancaster as well as Noritoshi Aramaki and a number of other Japanese scholars at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, working in Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan and Sanskrit. Her graduate studies in Berkeley were interrupted by Kobun’s death and the resulting needs of his family and sangha. After Kobun’s death Hollis assisted Noritoshi Aramaki and Gary Young, her long time colleague, in translating a book of Kobun’s calligraphy, Precious Jewel, published by White Pine Press. Hollis lives off the grid in a traditional Japanese farm house in the middle of the UC Santa Cruz campus, where Kobun lived the last five years of his life.
OUR SCHEDULE
9:45 meditation instruction (optional)
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
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.