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SUMMARY:Online Study Group - Living By Vow: Studying our relationship to Liturgy
DESCRIPTION:The liturgy used in any spiritual practice can often become wearisome or flat\, a recitation of memorized words or phrases that leave us wondering\, “What’s the point? How is this connected to my practice? How does it help to nourish life?” In this autumn online study group\, using excerpts from Shohaku Okumura’s “Living by Vow”\, we’ll take time to reflect on how the chants used in Zen liturgy are there to help uplift our practice rather than being obligatory passages to recite. \n\n\n\nJoin us as we explore how chanting offers us the opportunity to redirect our habit minds\, deepen our understanding of them\, and to engage more fully with the present moment\, connecting with why we have taken up this spiritual practice to transform the suffering of the world. \n\n\n\nHokyoji’s Associate teacher Onryu Kennedy\, along with Darin Musho Podulke-Smith\, Adam Isshin Kokotovich\, and Dan JunKan Mattimiro will be facilitators for this four week study group. We will meet via Zoom for four Mondays: October 5\, 12\, 19\, 26 @ 6:30 – 8:00PM Central Time \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Onryu Kennedy has received transmission in both the Katagiri and Uchiyama Roshi lineages. She was shuso in 2020 and completed zuise in 2023. She was approved as Kokusaifukuyoshi in 2024 by Soto-shu. Throughout her life she has valued social justice work as an expression of her vow. She is currently an Associate teacher at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community.  She experiences great joy in the opportunity to learn and teach Buddhist practices. \n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Musho Podulke-Smith completed the Upaya Buddhist Chaplaincy Program in March of 2023. He took Tokudo under Rev. Onryu Kennedy later that year. He works with inmates at the Federal Medical Prison in Rochester and leads a sitting and study group in Rochester. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Isshin Kokotovich began practicing Soto Zen in 2014 and received jukai from Byakuren Judith Ragir in 2017. He currently studies with Rev. Onryu Kennedy and manifests his practice in his work\, family\, parenting\, and involvement with the Hokyoji community. \n\n\n\n\n\nJun’kan Dan Mattimiro began his practice at Clouds in Water in 2016\, receiving jukai from Keiyu Ken Ford in 2017. There he served on the tenzo ryo and board of directors. At Hokyoji\, he has been tenzo for Practicing the Ways and has co-facilitated online study groups at Hokyoji\, the most recent being Dogen’s Uji/Time-Being. When not running with his dog or enjoying time with his ever-expanding family\, he continues to teach high school biology and must remind himself that the students aren’t getting older\, he is.
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/online-study-group-living-by-vow-studying-our-relationship-to-liturgy/
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SUMMARY:Just Sitting Retreat - Fall
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in a retreat of mindful meditation within an environment of deep silence and community. A sitting schedule and silence are the bones of the retreat. The principles guiding the retreat are tranquility\, respect\, care and harmony. There are no services\, lectures\, interviews with a teacher or work periods. Meals\, silence\, sitting and sleeping are the support for our individual and collective practice. That said\, participants are free to practice as they see fit\, augmenting their day with walks\, naps\, bird watching\, botanizing\, looking…meeting one’s needs mindfully as retreat activity. \n\n\n\nAll participants must have experience sitting multi-day mindfulness retreats or sesshins. First time participants will receive a phone call further explaining the nature of the retreat. \n\n\n\nVegetarian meals. Single occupancy. Double occupancy available on request. \n\n\n\nMaximum participants: 13±
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/just-sitting-retreat-fall-2/
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SUMMARY:Caring for the Land - Fall
DESCRIPTION:TBD
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/caring-for-the-land-fall/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261112T150000
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SUMMARY:Practicing the Ways Retreat
DESCRIPTION:This retreat co-led by Patrice Koelsch and Onryu Kennedy will continue to integrate and connect the ways of Buddhist practice in Vipassana and Zen. \n\n\n\nIn this retreat\, we will explore ancient and contemporary Buddhist teachings on how practitioners can skillfully relate to the polycrises of today’s world. \n\n\n\nSuggested readings will be posted later. \n\n\n\nAll levels are welcome! \n\n\n\nRetreat Leaders \n\n\n\n\nFormally trained with a Ph.D. in Philosophy\, Patrice Koelsch began sitting at Common Ground Meditation Center in 1995. Patrice is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders Program\, and completed a year-long Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies. She has practiced meditation at monasteries in Thailand and Myanmar. Patrice has provided hands-on care for persons in the last stages of HIV/AIDS\, and worked for many years in HIV education and client support services. For more than 2 decades she has been facilitating meditation groups in correctional facilities. She is on the Board of the Minnesota Multifaith Network\, and volunteers with ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota to bring about a multicultural democracy\, a caring economy\, and a just climate future. \n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Onryu Kennedy has received transmission in both the Katagiri and Uchiyama Roshi lineages. In 2019 and 2020\, she attended three month practice periods at Toshoji International Zen Center (Japan) and in 2017 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (California).  In the Spring 2020 practice period at Toshoji she was Shuso\, head monk for the practice period. She completed zuise in January 2023. And in February 2024 her application for Kokusaifukuyoshi was approved by the Japanese Sotochu. \n\n\n\nThroughout her life she has valued social justice work as an expression of her vow. She is currently an Associate teacher at Hokyoji Zen Practice Community.  She experiences great joy in the opportunity to learn and teach Buddhist practices. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration fees cover lodging and food. Hokyoji compensates teachers through the dana system. If you would like to contribute\, you may do so before\, at\, or after the retreat. If you would like to donate online\, please click here.
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/practicing-the-ways-retreat/
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SUMMARY:Shukke Tokudo of Adam Kokotovich & Katsusui Willis
DESCRIPTION:We would like to welcome your presence at the  Shukke Tokudo ceremony of Katsusui Willis and Adam Isshin Kokotovich. They will be ordained by Rev. Onryu Kennedy\, Associate Teacher at Hokyoji.  This ceremony will be held on November 15\, 2026\, 2-5pm. (CT) \n\n\n\nShukke Tokudo is an auspicious ceremony\, it means Leaving Home and Attaining the Way. Although the renunciation is the result of inner work\, the ordained come to this moment with the understanding that only through the support of family\, friends and teachers have these conditions manifested in time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe ceremony marks the formal entry into priest training: ordainees shave their head\, and receive the robes and bowls of a Buddhist priest. During the ceremony ordainees will also renew the precepts and receive papers which trace the lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha to the present.  \n\n\n\nThe ceremony will take place following the Practicing the Ways Retreat. For those attending as guests\, accommodations are not available at Hokyoji for Saturday night.  However\, accommodations are available in La Crosse\, Wisconsin (about 39 miles from Hokyoji). If you would like to stay Sunday night\, limited accommodations may be available at Hokyoji; however\, we won’t know until the date draws near. Otherwise\, accommodations can be booked nearby. \n\n\n\nIf you plan to attend in person\, please use this link to RSVP. \n\n\n\nIf you plan to attend by Zoom\, please use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81845447207?pwd=4DE0bTSfKHnOtTCTvj1wXHDx6WhPrq.1 \n\n\n\nWe look forward to your presence in honor of the ordainees and this sacred lineage. And we are humbled by the innumerable beings seen and unseen who have supported the ordainees stepping forward in this ancient path.
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/shukke-tokudo-of-adam-kokotovich-katsusui-willis/
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SUMMARY:Rohatsu Sesshin 2026
DESCRIPTION:TBD
URL:https://hokyoji.org/event/rohatsu-sesshin-2026/
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