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Please join Hokyoji each Sunday morning for a talk and discussion on Zoom featuring guest speakers from the Hokyoji community. All are welcome! LINK to join the live talk. Videos of past talks from Hokyoji are available here.
8:30 a.m. CST – Zazen
8:55 – Walking Meditation (Kinhin)
9:00 – Zazen
9:30 to 10:30 – Dharma Talk and Discussion
Feel free to join the program at any point in the schedule. We hope to see you there!
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February 2 & 9, 2025 - Rev. Onryu Kennedy, Associate Teacher
Rev. 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.
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.
February 16, 2025 - Rev. Dokai Georgesen, Guiding Teacher
Rev. Dokai Georgesen started practicing Zen with Dainin Katagiri Roshi in 1974 and was ordained in 1984. He received transmission from Katagiri Roshi in 1989 He is the Guiding Teacher at Hokyoji and has resided there since 2003.
February 23, 2025 - Ryushin Jan Freier
Ryushin Jan Freier is a long-time practitioner who started practicing at MZMC in 1985. He received jukai there in 1988, and worked as tenzo and other mostly kitchen-related jobs until 1994. He attended Clouds-in-Water Zen Center for a couple of years starting in 2002. In 2016 he became a member of the Hokyoji practice community. He volunteers regularly at Open Arms and Second Harvest Heartland to feed those in need.
March 2, 2025 - Rev. Jushin Stephyn Butcher
Rev. Jushin Stephyn Butcher started his Buddhist journey nearly 30 years ago in the Tibetan tradition. He found his way to Hokyoji, where he became a student of Rev. Dokai Georgesen. Jushin received jukai in 2013 and ordination in 2017. He hosts a sitting group on the banks of the Choptank River in Cambridge, Maryland, where he resides with his husband, dog, chickens, and garden. He is currently Hokyoji’s Board President.
March 9, 2025 - Shodo Spring
Shodo Spring first met the Dharma through Katagiri Roshi, and later received transmission from Shohaku Okumura. Her practice focuses on our relationship with all sentient beings. She’s working on her second book.
March 16, 2025 - Rev. Kikan Michael Howard
Rev. Kikan Michael Howard started practicing at Clouds in Water Zen Center in the late 1990s. He was ordained there in 2018, and led the Youth Practice program for five years. His interests include Buddhist psychology, emotion dynamics, and data visualization. He produces the website katagiritranscripts.net, where he carefully transcribes the dharma talks of Dainin Katagiri Roshi as an aid to Buddhist study. He is also an independent app developer.
March 23, 2025 - Dozen Alex Lawrence
Alex Lawrence (Dōzen) is a Zen cook, a Nationally Registered Advanced EMT, and a sporadic mustache enthusiast among other things, and currently lives and works at Hokyoji ZPC. His interests lie in finding rest and being at home in the in-between places, and the processes of self-discovery, expression, and connection. His spirit animal is a turtle, and he enjoys weightlifting and walking barefoot on the Midwestern prairie grass.
