
Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 12/19
Five people received the precepts in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on December 19.
Five people received the precepts in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on December 19.
This was the first jukai ceremony at City Center since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and a joyful event for participants and guests.
It’s a beautiful thing to feel the gift of what is unfolding for participants. It’s a container in which people—and we facilitators—can show up.
Thay, as he was affectionately known, was one of the world’s great Bodhisattvas, bringing Buddhism to the West with his compassionate teachings.
“We have completed sesshin. This will become more meaningful if you extend this practice from today to tomorrow, and from sitting to everyday life.”