Audio & Video - Jikoji Zen Center episodes:

• January 09, 2022January 9, 2022 – Voices of Women in Zen

  This week Jikoji offers a special Sunday program featuring the Voices of

  Women in Zen, who will speak about the Soto Zen ritual and ceremony they

  have been creating and nurturing with the guidance of Paula Arai, author of

  Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals and Women

  Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns. Speakers will include Carolyn

  Hoshin Jikai Dille, Judy Gyokuho Reyes, Monica Darsana Reede, and Pamela

  Chōbun Nenzen Brown.

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• January 03, 2022January 2, 2022 – Carolyn Dille

  Carolyn Jikai Dille has been a dedicated student of Buddhist practices for

  30 years in the Soto Zen and the Early Buddhist Insight traditions. She

  began teaching in dharma communities in 1998 and has studied with a variety

  of teachers in the United States and Asia. Carolyn is a poet, writer, and

  founding editor of Leaping Clear, www.leapingclear.org, a digital magazine

  of the arts featuring artists with meditative and contemplative practices.

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• December 27, 2021December 26, 2021 – Michael Newhall

  Shoho Michael Newhall began practicing and studying with Kobun Chino

  Otogawa Roshi in the early seventies, and was ordained by Kobun in the

  mid-eighties. In the early nineties he was director at Jikoji Zen Center.

  Throughout this time he taught visual arts at various schools and

  universities, including Naropa University, where he also taught meditation

  and Buddhism. Since that time, Mike has been the Resident Teacher and chief

  priest at Jikoji

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• December 19, 2021Robert Yanasak — December 19, 2021

  This week’s talk is by Robert Yanasak. Robert (Seiko Taikan) is retired as

  a Mechanical Design Draftsman/Supervisor at Perkin-Elmer, Leica and other

  Bay Area companies. He writes: “My attraction to Buddhism wasn’t to be a

  Buddhist but rather to follow the Buddha’s advice that if I wanted to know

  what was going on around me I needed to turn my attention inwards and look

  there. The rest evolved circumstantially. I love my practice more then

  anything and I know I’ve never been a very good buddhist based on the

  standards of what that might look like.”

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• December 13, 2021Dec. 12, 2021 – Dan Zigmond

  Dan Zigmond is a Zen priest ordained by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi in 1998.

  He is also a writer, father, and data scientist. He has practiced at San

  Francisco Zen Center and Jikoji Zen Center, and studied a range of Dharma

  traditions.

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• December 06, 2021Chuck Hutchcraft – December 5, 2021

  Chuck Hutchcraft teaches from the confluence of Buddhist and Western

  psychologies. He is particularly interested in the impact trauma has on

  dharma practice. A licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist,

  Chuck was trained and certified as a mindfulness teacher by Jack Kornfield

  and Tara Brach.

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• November 29, 2021Doug Jacobson – November 28, 2021

  Doug Jacobson began practicing Zen in Minneapolis in 1974 with Dainin

  Katagiri Roshi, and had Jukai in 1977. He was a householder, father,

  contractor, and civil engineer in Southern California for 25 years. Doug

  came to Jikoji in 2008, and received priest ordination in 2010, and

  transmission in 2015, from Shoho Michael Newhall. He currently serves as

  one of Jikoji’s Guiding Teachers.

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• November 07, 2021Nov 7, 2021 - Eric Remington

  Eric Remington was an early student of Kobun, Jikoji's Founder, in the

  early 1970s. After years spent studying with Kobun and founding a school

  for children, Eric was ordained and subsequently trained at Tassajara

  Monastery for a year. He became a biologist and naturalist before living

  for several years in the desert, and for several years was a Jikoji

  resident.

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• October 31, 2021Oct 31, 2021 – Allison Draper

  Allison was priest-ordained in 2016 in the Suzuki Roshi lineage, by Myoan

  Grace Schireson, and continues an established meditation practice of many

  years. She lives in Campbell with her husband Jeff and enjoys playing

  tennis, baking pies and spending time with her three young adult children

  when they return home to visit.

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• October 24, 2021Oct 24, 2021 – Dan Zigmond

  Dan Zigmond is a Zen priest ordained by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi in 1998.

  He is also a writer, father, and data scientist. He has practiced at San

  Francisco Zen Center and Jikoji Zen Center, and studied a range of Dharma

  traditions.

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