Jukai Ceremony

November 11 · · dharma names, Jukai, precepts

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Roshi

Zen Mountain Monastery, 11/11/2018

Shugen Roshi officiates a ceremony in which Nancy Meyer-Emerick (Eisho, “eternal bloom”), Constanza Ontaneda (Sokyo, “everyday sutra”), Steve Miron (Seigan, “sacred eye”), Achong Chen (Jusan, “pearl mountain”), Jonathan Rosenthal (Seiko, “boundless peace”), and Polly Horn (Kiho, “radiant dharma”) receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts and are given their new dharma names.

To Be Cultivated and Not To Be Cultivated

November 11 · · practicing good, precepts, Thich Nhat Hanh, zazen

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Senior Monastic

Zen Center of New York City, 11/11/2018

Drawing on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, Chan Master Sheng-Yen, and IMS Teacher Joseph Goldstein, Gokan offers insight into how we stop creating evil, practice good, and actualize good for others. How does zazen help us to do that, to stay in our own experience? And how do zazen and the precepts give each other life?