Zazen - Service - Dharma talk • LuNCH
• At Jikoji ZEN Center & ONLINE (ZOOM) •
Kusho Jesse Dow is a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain, a father, a restorative circle keeper, a local farmer, and a carpenter. He worked In the Boulder Valley School District for 12 years as a Family Literacy Site Manager and another 3 years as a preschool community liaison. He has been practicing meditation for 31 years in the Soto Zen tradition, first as a student of Kobun Shino Roshi, and then as a student of Sensei Michael Newhall, with whom he was ordained as a lay practitioner. Most recently, over the last four years, Jesse has also practiced in the Theravada tradition, primarily with Kittisaro and Thanissara, and Gil Fronsdal.
At a young age, Jesse lived briefly and attended school in San Cristobal De Las Casas, in South Mexico. As an adult, Jesse lived for a short while in Managua, Nicaragua, doing political reconciliation work between liberal and conservative parties that had fought against each other in the Nicaraguan Revolution and in the Contra War. Jesse is a fluent Spanish speaker, and much of his heart resides with the hispanic culture.
Jesse is a 4th generation Coloradan, and loves these mountains and these plains as family. It is his sacred lifelong duty to protect and support all of our beloved human and non-human relatives.
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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
Lunch
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ONLINE ETIQUETTE
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Keep the microphone muted unless speaking during discussion periods.
Maintain zendo silence during meditation while waiting for the discussion period.
Keep the camera on and maintain facial visibility during the discussion period.