Katy and Jordan received the precepts surrounded by mountains, ocean, and the good earth among their parents and sangha friends.
Jukai Ceremony on Mt. Tamalpais
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Zen Practice
City Center Priests Visit Sokoji
Our July visit occurred in the middle of Obon, a time to remember and honor those who have died.
Not Sticking To Enlightenment: Awakening the Archive, Tape 26
“Just as you accepted your painful legs [during sesshin], you accept difficult everyday life.”
Lay Ordination: Awakening the Archive, Tape 25
The important thing is to say “Hai!” or “Yes, I will!” In this way, without having ideas about helping, “Just to be with people will be enough.”
Nancy Petrin on Becoming a Lay Teacher
“I found my path by continuing to cultivate the tender growing edge of my practice.”
Becoming a Land Steward: An Interview with Sukey Parmelee
Sukey loves the land at Green Gulch Farm and feels lucky to have known this piece of land for so long—how it changes, and how it changes her.
Shosan Ceremony: Awakening the Archive, Tape 23
“Dharma is the thing to which every one of us have been striving for, and will strive for. It is not only you, but all the patriarch and sages.”
Jukai Ceremony at Green Gulch Farm 6/5
Jiryu Rutschman-Byler offered the precepts to two people in a jukai/lay initiation ceremony at Green Gulch Farm on June 5.
Bodhidharma: Awakening the Archive, Tape 22
“[T]he first principle is, you know, the principle which is—which you cannot talk about. And which we transmit … from master to master.”