Jikoji Retreat Center, 12100 Skyline Blvd, Los Gatos, CA 95030, phone: (408) 741-9562
Jikoji Retreat Center, 12100 Skyline Blvd, Los Gatos, CA 95030, phone: (408) 741-9562
If there is enough interest, we may include early morning practice with
an oryoki breakfast at some future time.
Please invite your family and friends to join us.
Those not inclined to practice are welcome to rest at Jikoji or
enjoy the Open Space Trails in the area.
Hollis Meyer-deLancey traveled extensively and participated in ceremonies with Kobun all over the world, including Japan and Europe. She was authorized to teach by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi almost 20 years ago. Hollis is a visual and conceptual artist and Buddhist scholar, specializing in the visual transmission of Buddhism from India through Asia. In addition, she has been a core member of the support structure for Kobun and Jikoji for many years.
Many years ago, Peter Szydlowski was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi at Jikoji. Peter emphasizes zazen and outdoor kinhin rather than talking, ritual, and ceremony. Yet there will be some discussion when he is guest teacher at a Sunday program or sesshin. He is a retired National Park ranger, “grampa” of five, Pastor for Peace, and past Jikoji board president.
Dan Zigmond is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest ordained at Jikoji by Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi in 1998. He is also a father, software engineer, writer, and contributing editor at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Currently, Dan is a Jikoji board member, and is teaching and training at Jikoji.
Angie Boissevain served as Jikoji ‘s first director and, later, as a teacher. While raising three sons, and being a wife and poet, she began her study with Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi at Haiku Zendo. Kobun called her the enlightened housewife and she was formally ordained as a teacher by Vanja Palmers after Kobun’s death. She has over forty years of practice, is the Floating Zendo’s teacher, and leads sesshins for her students in many parts of California, New Mexico, Colorado, Austria, and Switzerland.
Donnalynn Chase is a life coach and workshop facilitator in private practice. She also is a Floating Zendo sangha member, corporate refugee, artist, Jikoji board member, and haiku poet. Donnalynn is a senior student of Angie Boissevain Sensei and was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest by her in a ceremony at Jikoji last spring.
Haiku Workshop at Jikoji Zen Retreat Center with Donnalynn Chase
"The great pleasure, the great accomplishment
of your way-seeking is in the realization of sitting.
This form of sitting, this place to sit on this earth,
this time to sit, the twenty-first century, all have lots of problems.
The shikantaza way is giving birth to the Buddha seed.
It is not a person becoming a better person
it is the actualization of what we are."
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
February 1, 1938 – July 29, 2002
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