Description
Paula Jones first became a student of Jikoji founder Kobun Chino when she
attended the Santa Cruz Zendo in the mid-seventies. A year or two later
she, with her young daughter, moved into the residence with a changing
group of caretakers and friends, one of whom she later married. During and
after that time she attended sesshins at Hidden Villa with Kobun's students
from Los Altos, including Angie Boissevain, who some years later became her
teacher.
In the years that followed, she finished her MA in Creative Writing and
began teaching poetry, literature and writing in colleges and private
workshops in Santa Cruz, the Mojave Dessert and San Diego, where she and
Balin now live. She received ordination and transmission from Angie and has
since taught at several Jikoji sesshins. She is a teacher at Floating Zendo
San Diego and is now one of the teachers at Floating Zendo San Jose.
This week Jikoji offers a special Sunday program featuring the Voices of
Women in Zen, who will speak about the Soto Zen ritual and ceremony they
have been creating and nurturing with the guidance of Paula Arai, author of
Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals and...
Published 01/09/22
Carolyn Jikai Dille has been a dedicated student of Buddhist practices for
30 years in the Soto Zen and the Early Buddhist Insight traditions. She
began teaching in dharma communities in 1998 and has studied with a variety
of teachers in the United States and Asia. Carolyn is a poet, writer,...
Published 01/03/22