Our dear friend and fellow student, TOM TOLAN, will receive the precepts and be invited into the Soto Zen Lineage by his teacher Shoho Michael Newhall.

Members of his family and personal friends will be in the zendo, and everybody else can watch on zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3499053117?pwd=RWlleFJLM0NoTGRLY1JkWlN6QUllZz09

The ceremony, shukke tokudo, is a serious step in a practitioner’s life, formally giving up all attachments and joyously entering into the service for all beings. Tom has prepared himself for a long time, sewing his own robe and studying texts from his teacher’s lineage. He has been a valuable member of our community for countless years.

We congratulate him on this auspicious occasion!