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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May 4, 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.
May 11, 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 Treasurer.
May 18, 2025 - Rev. Myo-O Habermas-Scher, Associate Teacher
Rev. Myo-O Habermas-Scher practiced with Katagiri Roshi from 1975 until his death in 1990; she also trained for twelve years in the Vipassana tradition. She received Dharma transmission in 2012 from Dokai at Hokyoji. Myo-O is a master movement teacher and teaches somatically based vocal training. In 2021 she retired after fourteen years as an interfaith staff chaplain at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, MHealth Fairview. She is also a mom and a grandmother to two little grandsons.
May 27, 2025 - Shodo Spring
Shodo Spring has practiced with Dainin Katagiri Roshi, Tenshin Reb Anderson, and received ordination and transmission from Shohaku Okumura. She has trained at Hokyoji, Tassajara, and Sanshinji.
Shodo’s new book, Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings, will be published this fall.
June 1, 2025 - Rev. Musho Podulke-Smith
Rev. 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.
