Sunday Morning Public Program at Lincoln Square Zendo and in our online Zendo via ZOOM.
8:45 am: Arrivals/doors open
9:15 am: Han begins
9:30 am: Zazen (sitting meditation)
10:05 am: Kinhin (walking meditation)
10:00 am: Dharma talk with special guest Rob Lyons
(discussion ends @ 11:00am; 4 vows, announcements)
11:15 am: Temple cleaning/soji
11:30 am: Social tea
*8:30 am (Zazen instruction in practice room on 2nd Sunday)
Rob Lyons was introduced to Soto Zen in 1996 and studied for 25 years at the Berkeley Zen Center with Sojun Mel Weitsman. He received lay ordination in 2001. He has done practice periods at Green Gulch in 2001, and Tassajara and City Center in 2016. He has served in several positions at BZC, including project manager, sesshin director, and Board member. He was active with the Buddhist Peace Fellowship during the run-up to the Iraq War, and since 2004 he has been a regular participant and organizer in the Buddhist Election Retreat project, which was created by fellow BZC members. He has three grown children and three grandchildren, and is an amateur practitioner of jazz guitar and calligraphy.