SUNDAY PROGRAM ONLINE
* On Zoom *
Sunday, September 27 - 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 Pamela Nenzen Brown, titled: “Way-Seeking Mind: Relationship Is Everything”
OUR SCHEDULE
10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)
10:40 kinhin (walking meditation)
10:50 zazen
11:20 service
11:40 talk
Pamela 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 his student and sitting with Santa Barbara Zen Center ever since. She finds herself very happy now to be a student of Shoho Michael Newhall and Kaizan Doug Jacobson. Pamela practiced law for 10 years before beginning a 15-year adventure homeschooling her two sons. Now, young adults, they are still teaching her the art of listening deeply. Off the zafu, Pamela practices blowing shakuhachi, writing, reading, hiking and seeing the world through a camera lens. She appreciates making and teaching the craft of sourdough bread, which happens to be a wonderful metaphor for life. Pamela lives with her husband of 35 years in Los Olivos, California, along with their dog and chickens and honeybees. More.
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.