Jikoji Zen Center

Hello dear Sangha,

Jikoji Zen Center is looking for a housekeeper to join us on site, living with sangha, and helping out with programming and our wonderful events. If you are interested in living in community longer term, please reach out to us for more information! Room & partial board is included plus the incredible opportunity to deepen practice. Please email [email protected] to inquire!

Happy Holidays From Jikoji Zen Center!

From our wonderful Guiding Teacher Installation Ceremony 12/10. Endlessly grateful for the Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha. May the guiding light of our teachers shine brightly upon Compassion Light Temple! We are happy to welcome Pamela Nenzen Brown and Oshin Jennings to our Guiding Teacher team!

Liberation! 🙏🙏🙏

Fundraising Outreach
"Nothing is permanent, except change.”

After 17 years of dedicated service to our temple, our hot water boiler has reached the end of practice at Jikoji. It is now on its way to rebirth at a local recycling center (with help from Ross Smith, Chuck Bombelyn, Ben Berman, Michael Schnee, and Gerow Reese guiding the "old guys brigade").

We humbly request your generous assistance in helping us fund urgent infrastructure upgrades needed to provide for the next 15-20 years. These funds will be used for a new boiler and the follow-on addition of a solar hot water circulation tank that will reduce Jikoji’s use of fossil fuels in the future.

Our goal is $10,000. Any donations you can afford will be completely tax deductible, and they will extend our ability to continue to offer a place of respite, teaching and introspection for many years to come.

We are coordinating with the resident artists and sanga members to make some of their wonderful artwork, including calligraphy scrolls, photography, painting, mixed-media pieces and more available to be given in gratitude for your generosity. Details are still being worked out as to specific items and pricing, which will be posted on our dedicated fundraising page as soon as possible.

Please consider donating here:

https://www.jikoji.org/fundraiser202308

Hello dear Sangha!

Jikoji is in need of residents and student caretakers to live at Jikoji full time, participating in daily practice, and maintaining our buildings and grounds. If you are interested in donating your time and energy to a worthy cause, living with sangha, and deepening your practice please email us at [email protected]

We look forward to practicing with you!

We had a wonderful Jizo Workshop led by Carolyn Dille & Allison Draper. Connecting with the Earth, connecting with grief, & our emotional body. What a joy to practice with sangha, to share with sangha, to be with sangha..🥰🙏

A wonderful Yogacara Sesshin led by Ben Connelly ended last Sunday!

We have a bunch of new sangha members at Jikoji! Picked up our first bee package and they are busy building up their hive!

A wonderful Tanjo-e Sesshin culminating with our Sunday Program celebrating Buddha's Birthday! 🥰

So many shoes outside the door of the Zendo for the Sunday Program today 🥰🙏❤️

Jikoji is truly a winter wonderland right now!

The Sunday Program is cancelled tomorrow due to snow pack and hazardous road conditions. We look forward to welcoming you to Jikoji next Sunday March 5th for our Dharma Talk by Paula Arai!

Jikoji has turned into a Winter Wonderland! ❄️🤍🙏

Oryoki = Love ❤️🙏

Please join us for our Sangha Meeting live at Jikoji and via zoom this Saturday, November 12th from 2-5pm

https://www.jikoji.org/jikoji-events/4efbwytk65khyf23lzx7blcf54fpf8

Sangha Meeting — Jikoji Zen Center The Jikoji Board of Directors invite all who are interested to an open Sangha Meeting at Jikoji on Saturday November 12th beginning at 2pm. The meeting will be held live at Jikoji and will be broadcast via Zoom. The meeting will be facilitated by Rick Longinotti, one of the founders of NVCSantaCru

“When you understand yourself fully, there is not one thing.” Ryōnen

Nourishing rain is falling upon Jikoji. What a blessing 🙏

Bodhi was Doshi the other day 🥰

Smile, breathe and go slowly. ― Thích Nhất Hạnh

https://www.jikoji.org

Jikoji Zen Center Join us in our virtual zendo, from wherever you are, for a morning of meditation, service, and a Dharma Talk. Our Dharma Talk this week will be by Dean Williams of Crooked River Zen Center in Cleveland, OH.

Thank you for your patience. We are following state guidelines, if you would like to stay connected please check our website for links to our online programs and the most current information.

Jikoji Zen Center Jikoji is closed, but we’ll be going online for our June 28, Science & Buddhism discussion, around ideas found in “The Story of More” by Hope Jahren. Or discussion will be led by Connie Ralls. Join us via Zoom at 2pm. More.

Another good reason to meditate daily.

Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain's Gray Matter In 8 Weeks Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team's MRI scans doc...

Sunday Program Starts every Sunday at 10 am. If you would like meditation instruction it will be offered in the small zendo at 10am. Give yourself a little extra time if you’re a first time visitor and bring some comfortable shoes for a gentle walk after lunch & clean up.

Rohatsu sesshin begins December 1, you can attend the whole sesshin or drop in for a day or two. Please call or sign up online so that we may be sure to have an accurate count for meals. This silent sesshin ends with the Sunday program on December 8th.

Jikoji Zen Center Sunday, December 1 - Sunday, December 8.Rohatsu Sesshin is the traditional, week-long winter sesshin commemorating Buddha's enlightenment of all beings extending to this very moment. From Sunday through Sunday, Rohatsu will be conducted in silence – just zazen and kinhin, without chants, talks, se...

A little zen humor to brighten your day 🙏

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