Photo by Masumi Y.
Announcements
Please mark your calendar for an upcoming New Years Celebration at Elisa & Joe Atwill’s home.
We welcome Carolyn Dille as a guest speaker via Zoom in SB Hospice on Sunday, November 24
"Within the hearts of sentient beings all Buddhas are manifest"
-Sengai Gibon
Jukai Ceremony & Sesshin at Jikoji
Zen practitioners from Jikoji Zen Center, No Barriers Zen, and Santa Barbara Zen Center, will receive lay ordination at a Jukai Ceremony January 6th, 2024 at Jikoji. Sensei Ōshin Jennings and Sensei Nenzen Brown will serve as Preceptors.
Ben Connelly at SBZC in Los Olivos
Santa Barbara Zen Center is happy to welcome back Ben Connelly as our guest teacher.
Ben will share teachings from his new book, Vasubandhu's "Three Natures": A Practitioner's Guide for Liberation, which shows the power of integrating early Buddhist psychology with the Mahayana emphasis on collective liberation.
Ross Blum at SBZC
Seishi Tetsudo Ross Blum will be joining us for a Dharma Talk during our meeting on Sunday via Zoom.
SBZC Reads
The Final Group Discussion
You are welcome to participate even if you did not attend the previous discussions.
Program
Welcome & Shakuhachi
Meditation
Book Study, Nancy Hilyard, discussion leader
Announcements
SBZC Sits
Please arrive a few minutes early and enable your video.
Program
Welcome & Shakuhachi
Meditation for 30 minutes
Three Refuges in Pali
Group Check-in
Goodnight
SBZC Service
Essence of Purity — Remembering Sojun Roshi
Dharma Talk by Joel Kyoshin Feigin
Joel Feigin is a long-time Zen practitioner: in 2017 he was ordained a Zen priest by Sojun Mel Weitsman Roshi at Berkeley Zen Center and given the dharma name Kyoshin Jokyo. Joel began Zen practice with John Daido Loori Roshi in 1987 and has also studied with Maezumi Roshi at ZCLA and Josho Pat Phelan Roshi at the Chapel Hill Zen Center; his studies with Sojun Roshi began in the mid-1990’s. Joel has been practicing at Berkeley Zen Center since the 1992. He is also an emeritus professor recently retired from UCSB, where he taught composition in the Music Department.
SBZC Sits
Please arrive a few minutes early and enable your video.
Program
Welcome & Shakuhachi
Meditation for 30 minutes
Three Refuges in Pali
Group Check-in
Goodnight
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Meeting ID: 209 633 7951