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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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January 5, 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.
January 12, 2025 - Rev. Jushin Stephyn Butcher
Rev. Jushin Stephyn Butcher started his Buddhist journey over 25 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 is currently Hokyoji’s Board President. 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.
January 19, 2025 - Rev. Doan Rossler
Rev. Doan Roessler is a Zen priest, musician, student of dogs and Alexander Technique. He began practicing and studying Zen Buddhism with Shohaku Okumura Roshi in 1994 at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center.
Doan is a longtime student of bassist, composer and pedagogue François Rabbath and holds both the teaching and performance diplomas from the International Rabbath Institute. He has performed throughout the U.S. and France at festivals, bars, theaters, coffee shops, and churches. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, dogs, and a tortoise.
January 26, 2025 - Rev. Kyoku Tracey Walen, Associate Teacher
Rev. Kyoku Tracey Walen began practicing Buddhism in 1998, was ordained in 2008, and given Dharma transmission by Byakuren Judith Ragir in 2015. She trained from 2008-2010 at Great Vow Zen Monastery. Currently she resides at and supports Hokyoji and also serves as a Zen teacher at Clouds in Waters Zen Center in St. Paul, MN.
February 2nd & 9th, 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 - Rev. Dozen Alex Lawrence
Alex Lawrence (Dōzen) is an ordained 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.
