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Nick Chikudo Howells

SUNDAY PROGRAM

* At Jikoji & on Zoom *

Sunday, September 17th, 2023 - 10am-12:30pm

Zazen - Service - Dharma Talk

Nick Chikudo Howells will be giving a Way Seeking Mind Talk this Sunday!

PLEASE LEAVE PHONES & BOTTLES OUTSIDE OF THE ZENDO

Registration ensures we have the capacity and accommodations available for your visit. The requested donation to support this event (including staffing, facilities, guidance, meditation, a dharma talk, social lunch and access to our facility and open space trails) is $20 per person. Zoom attendees are welcome to leave a donation if they wish. Thank you for your support!

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Zoom meeting (starts Zoom)

OUR SCHEDULE

  • 10:00 a.m. zazen (sitting meditation)   

  • 10:40 kinhin  (walking meditation)

  • 10:50 zazen

  • 11:20 service

  • 11:40 talk

This week's Dharma Talk will be by Nick Chikudo Howells on the "way-seeking mind.”

Hailing from Chico, CA, Nick Chikudo Howells is an SF Bay Area resident who began spiritual practice studying the martial art Aikido and Japanese culture at the Davis Aikikai. He first began Zen practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 2006. He has lived at SFZC City Center, Tassajara, and Jikoji and has also practiced with the Sanshinji Sangha in Bloomington, IN.

Nick received the Buddhist precepts in 2020 with Ryushin Paul Haller, receiving the Dharma name 竹道 祖機, Chikudo Soki, Bamboo Way, Ancestral Function.

In addition to practicing Zen, Nick also enjoys walking the Red Road, and participating in Lakota-style Inipi Sweatlodges and Hanbleceya Vision Quests.

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.

  1. Sign in using real name.
  2. Keep microphone muted unless speaking during discussion periods.
  3. Maintain zendo silence during meditation periods and while waiting for discussion period to begin.
  4. Keep camera on and maintain facial visibility during discussion period.
  5. Anonymous participation online will not be permitted, as it would not be permitted in person.
Earlier Event: September 15
Calligraphy with Gerow Reece
Later Event: September 24
Poetry & Zen