SUNDAY PROGRAM
* In-Person and On Zoom *
Sunday, March 20 - 10am-12:30pm
Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk
Our Dharma Talk this week will be given by Pamela Chōbun Nenzen Brown, shuso for Jikoji’s winter practice period.
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
Pamela Chōbun Nenzen Brown was introduced to sitting meditation practice in 1976. Forty years later, as her father was declining with a neurodegenerative disease, she decided to stay seated. In 2017, Pamela met Sensei Gary Koan Janka and has been sitting with Santa Barbara Zen Center ever since. Koan Sensei introduced Pamela and SBZC to Jikoji; Pamela was ordained in Kobun Chino Ottogawa Roshi's lineage by Shoho Michael Newhall in 2020.
Pamela practiced law before beginning a 15-year adventure homeschooling her two sons. They are still teaching her the art of listening deeply. Off the zafu, Pamela writes poetry, plays shakuhachi, loves to read, hike and see the world through a camera lens. She makes and teaches the craft of sourdough bread, which happens to be a wonderful metaphor for life.
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.