SUNDAY PROGRAM
* At Jikoji & on Zoom *
Sunday, June 18th - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk
Our Dharma Talk will be by Carolyn Dille, one of Jikoji’s Guiding Teachers & Allison Draper at the culmination of the Jizo Workshop to Integrate Grief.
We ask for a suggested donation of $20 for the Sunday Program.
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Please leave all cellphones & water bottles outside of the zendo.
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
Carolyn Jikai Dille has been a dedicated student of Buddhist practices for 30 years in the Soto Zen and the Early Buddhist Insight traditions. She began teaching in dharma communities in 1998 and has studied with a variety of teachers in the United States and Asia. She holds dharma transmission from Angie Enji Boissevain in the Phoenix Cloud lineage and graduated from Spirit Rock’s CDL program.
Carolyn is a poet, writer, and founding editor of Leaping Clear, www.leapingclear.org, a digital magazine of the arts featuring artists with meditative and contemplative practices. On occasion, she offers retreats and workshops that integrate meditation and artistic expression.
Rev. Allison Yusho Draper was priest-ordained in 2016 in the Suzuki Roshi lineage and continues an established meditation practice of many years. She has practiced and trained at Shogaku Zen Institute, Upaya Zen Center, San Francisco Zen Center, Berkeley Zen Center, and with Mt Source Sangha and Everyday Zen in Marin county. Allison leads the Spiritual Care team of 10 professional chaplains at Stanford Children’s Hospital. Her clinical spiritual care focus is supporting women and their partners through perinatal and neonatal loss. In this role, Allison is able to integrate her priestly vows with engaged Buddhist intention to be of service in the world. Allison professionally credentialed as a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and advance-practice board certified in hospice and palliative care. She is a graduate of Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy program and holds a Master’s in Divinity from Shogaku Zen Institute. She completed Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) residency at Stanford Health Care. And a year long trans disciplinary Palliative Care program at UCSF School of Medicine. Allison lives in nearby Campbell with her husband Jeff and enjoys playing tennis, baking pies and spending time with her three adult children when they return home to visit.
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.