SUNDAY PROGRAM ONLINE
* On Zoom *
Sunday, April 25, 2021 - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk
Jikoji remains closed for now, but our Sunday Program is going online. Join us from wherever you are, in our virtual zendo, for a morning of meditation, service, and a Dharma Talk.
Our Dharma Talk this week will be by Cynthia Kear from Great Spirit Sangha
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
Ryotan Cynthia Kear (Horyu Ryotan - Dharma Stream Completely Overflowing) has been practicing Soto Zen Buddhism for over 34 years. She received lay ordination from Zen Center Abbot Paul Haller in 2004, and was priest ordained (2008) and given Dharma Transmission (2010) by Darlene Cohen.
In 2009 Cynthia graduated from the Shogaku Zen Institute, a three-year Zen seminary training program. Cynthia has taught Mindfulness and Multi-tasking at the University of Washington as part of a National Science Foundation-funded research project. She is guiding teacher for the Great Spirit Sangha (Glen Park, San Francisco) and is the senior teacher for SFZC’s affinity group, Meditation in Recovery. Cynthia leads workshops and gives Dharma talks throughout the Bay Area.
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.