 
							
					
															Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 12/21
Abiding Abbess Furyu Schroeder offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on December 21.
 
							
					
															Abiding Abbess Furyu Schroeder offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on December 21.
 
							
					
															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.